My mate Michael shot me a text yesterday afternoon that they had gotten into some tog along the sod banks down south, so with both of us having today off we decided to make a go of it this morning. I've been tempted to try this fishery for years (going back to the BillM days!!) and decided to take the ride.
Got in Michael's 18' skiff early on, and with a small cooler full of blue claws, him, myself, and his brother Jason made our way down to the sod banks. With the current roaring early on we started the day by fluking along some channel edges catching a few shorts here and there.
By 9 the current was slacking off so off we went to the spot and double anchored. It only took about 3 minutes and Jason had swung the first tog in the boat, a nice 16" keeper, I followed with another 16" fish. As the current slowed, a slow but steady pick developed of mostly nice tog along with a few real nice triggerfish. Once we got close to slack, the triggers slowed, and the bigger tog put the feedbags on as we boated a few in the 5-7# class, with Jason nailing a beautiful 23" fish which pulled drag and went absolutely nuts, and then I boated a nice 20"er just after. We had to make a wiggle as the tide was turning, and did just that. We put a couple more in the boat, and Mike added a nice 22" fluke, adding more meat to the box...
We wound up boating around 15-20 tog, with most being keepers, we only had a few shorts, as well as 3 triggerfish and the 1 nice keeper fluke. We also had a few seabass.
This wound up being a terrific trip, and a great way to spend the morning!! Thanks to Mike for having me down - this is a great fishery and those fish are MEAN in that current!!!
