I’m fortunate to have a wife who stated: “I don’t want to go near a restaurant on Mother’s Day. I want to be on the water”
Fished the Upper Wando starting a couple hours after high tide. Started well, with a few strikes on a MirroLure and landing a decent trout on a mud minnow carolina rig. I cast the rod, wife reeled in the trout, son manned the net, a true family catch!
Started losing minnows to crabs, and something big was splashing and feeding by the grass. Didn’t see if flipper or something else.
Question:If there is a lot of surface activity (jumping mullet and other small fish) but getting no bites, should you stay in that spot or move?
With the bite slow at midday, decided to hunt for sharks teeth with better results.
Interesting sighting: Fish about 3 feet long, long nose, big scales glided by the boat about 8 feet away. Wife thought it looked like a sturgeon, I thought maybe a Gar, but not sure. Any thoughts?
I agree…most likely a gar for sure.
If baits busting and active I have a hard time leaving even if no bites for a while. I figure the predators will show up eventually. Others on here may do differently.
Been trying to land a gar but no luck yet. Something is targeting those fish. Usually it is either a flounder or trout/Red. If it is shallow and keeps happening in the same spot it is a flounder. If the attack site moves around then it is trout or reds
