I fished Friday night/Saturday morning for the PUOSU and caught 29 trout 12-17.5". Most were caught on live shrimp freelined through dock lights but they also would bite live mullet and live mud minnows. Got 1 on a gummy minnow fly and 1 on a gulp shrimp. Another guy was on the third light I was planning to hit and he was throwing DOAs, beetlespins, and big ass white grubs and he caught 6 over the few hours he was on it. When he got done, I drifted some live mullet through that light for the last little bit of the productive part of the tide and picked up 3 fish. Outgoing tide, dirtyish water, 1-4:30 AM
Saturday, I went in search of the elusive flounder and got 3, none larger than 11". I caught all on finger mullet either on a jig head or knocker rig. High incoming tide and when it got to be high tide, I got tired of seeing all the sheepshead so I gathered some barnacles and caught 7 or 8 sheepshead, only one larger than 14". Sheeps were high outgoing tide in the midday/afternoon.
I felt pretty confident about my trout for the PUSOSU but when I saw Stretch walk up with his, I knew he beat me by a couple inches. First time anyone’s ever said that…
Showed up to work Sunday and they were full up of people so I went fishing instead! I fished from 10-3 and caught the last of the incoming and first of the outgoing tides. Got about 2 dozen sheepshead, most were 10-13" and 1 4lb fish for eats. I had a variety of baits including barnacles, oysters, mussels, fiddlers and Simon’s perriwinkles. I had the best luck with fiddlers but they hit everything but the snails. The snails were convenient for chumming in between barnacle scrapes. I must have gotten a dozen blowfish, too bad they’re not big enough to be worth eating!
The mullet are thick as whale snot right now. I’ve been throwing the net every day a few times and putting up bags of 1-2 dozen mullet at a time for use over the winter. If you’ve got a free day, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to run around catching bait to freeze for winter if yo