hengstthomas
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FYI 
IRI = Indian River Inlet
CHP = Cape Henlopen Pier at CHSP
chsp = Cape Henlopen State Park
RI = Roosevelt Inlet
Arrived at IRI at Midnight and found quite a few people out front by the CG station so I moved around back .. No one there but Herons .. Had 3 boats out on the corner picking off Stripers quite regulalry but I didnt see any keepers . Water was clear and winds from the SE at about 5MPH .. Tide was low and almost slack .
The Snapper Blues were pissing me off because they were so small I couldnt get a hook in them .. I tried all throughout the water colum with a strike using a 4" Panther Martin .. I saw a few Mullet and Spot and even got a glimpse of s few Striped ones but none wanted to play . I switched to a 6" BA and got hooked up to a nice fish .. fought it for about 10 minutes and got her close .. She went nuts and threw the BA .. I tried for another 30 minutes but no luck ..
I switched to a tandem rig with 3" Chartruese Twisters and picked off Shad after Shad ..
The tide finally slacked at about 2:30am so I switched back to the PM Swimbait thinking I could work it nice and slow since the current had slowed up considerably .. 2nd cast I get hooked up but doesnt last more than 30 seconds before it popped off .. 2 cast later I hook up again and finally land a fish and to my surprise its a keeper Flounder
Just shy of 23" and my first on a Panther Martin .. The Herons started coming close and feeding on Speckled crabs ..
I decided to hit CHP at 3am for some Mullet but when I got there I found I had left my castnet at home .. I walked the pier and saw Stripers , Trout , Bluefish , Flounder and Spot as well as Mullet . I made the run home at 4am and was back at 5am .. by 6:30am I got 60 Nice BIG Cobbs and 2 Spot ..
The sun was starting to rise so I took off for RI in hopes of a Trout but caught 1 Bluefish at about 16" and lost about a pack of BA's to Snapper Blues .. I gave in and called it quits at 7:30am ..
Another shot of the Flat fish
There were A LOT of Needlefish at CHP and quite a few big Jellyfish .. Temperatures need to drop a tad still for the Stripers to start feeding hard but on a good note ... The Trout are still at CHP
IRI = Indian River Inlet
CHP = Cape Henlopen Pier at CHSP
chsp = Cape Henlopen State Park
RI = Roosevelt Inlet
Arrived at IRI at Midnight and found quite a few people out front by the CG station so I moved around back .. No one there but Herons .. Had 3 boats out on the corner picking off Stripers quite regulalry but I didnt see any keepers . Water was clear and winds from the SE at about 5MPH .. Tide was low and almost slack .
The Snapper Blues were pissing me off because they were so small I couldnt get a hook in them .. I tried all throughout the water colum with a strike using a 4" Panther Martin .. I saw a few Mullet and Spot and even got a glimpse of s few Striped ones but none wanted to play . I switched to a 6" BA and got hooked up to a nice fish .. fought it for about 10 minutes and got her close .. She went nuts and threw the BA .. I tried for another 30 minutes but no luck ..
I switched to a tandem rig with 3" Chartruese Twisters and picked off Shad after Shad ..
The tide finally slacked at about 2:30am so I switched back to the PM Swimbait thinking I could work it nice and slow since the current had slowed up considerably .. 2nd cast I get hooked up but doesnt last more than 30 seconds before it popped off .. 2 cast later I hook up again and finally land a fish and to my surprise its a keeper Flounder
Just shy of 23" and my first on a Panther Martin .. The Herons started coming close and feeding on Speckled crabs ..
I decided to hit CHP at 3am for some Mullet but when I got there I found I had left my castnet at home .. I walked the pier and saw Stripers , Trout , Bluefish , Flounder and Spot as well as Mullet . I made the run home at 4am and was back at 5am .. by 6:30am I got 60 Nice BIG Cobbs and 2 Spot ..
The sun was starting to rise so I took off for RI in hopes of a Trout but caught 1 Bluefish at about 16" and lost about a pack of BA's to Snapper Blues .. I gave in and called it quits at 7:30am ..
Another shot of the Flat fish
There were A LOT of Needlefish at CHP and quite a few big Jellyfish .. Temperatures need to drop a tad still for the Stripers to start feeding hard but on a good note ... The Trout are still at CHP
