This past Saturday afternoon I fished with U.S. Army Sergeants First class Frederick Harriel and Marcus Taylor. Frederick’s wife, Lakeshia, presented him with a fishing gift certificate earlier this year, and Frederick contacted me several weeks ago looking to cash it in.
From left: Fredrick Harriel and Marcus Taylor with the first and largest hybrid striper we boated on this trip. Both fellows are big college football fans, so much so that during our entire trip each had apps running on their cell phones giving audible alerts as to when their teams made progress.
Here Marcus holds one of the larger white bass we caught. “Keeper” sized fish have been the exception instead of the rule all summer as lots of small fish have made up the majority of the catch.
Frederick had some fresh- and saltwater fishing experience prior to this trip, as his dad runs a boat on the St. Johns River, near its mouth on the Atlantic coast of Florida. Neither had freshwater fishing experience with downriggers nor with the vertical tactics that we used during the mid part of this evening’s trip. As has been the case nearly all summer on afternoon trips, we began fishing with downriggers in order to search for bottom-oriented fish.
TALLY = 102 FISH, all caught and released
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TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:
Start Time: 4:00p
End Time: 7:45p
Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 91F
Water Surface Temp: 84.6F
Wind Speed & Direction: NNE6-8
Sky Conditions: Fair and cloudless following a mild front’s arrival last night
Other: GT= 0
AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:
**Area 1608-1401 downrigging for scattered schools of suspended fish — no bottom-oriented fish found; boated 20 and looked elsewhere
**Area 16011-1612 downrigging leading to slabbing
**Area 1610 & 1611 smoking
**Area 478 light bottom-oriented white bass action
**Area 811 mild end of evening blitz on topwater
Bob Maindelle
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