I waited for my neighbor to get up- but he didn't so I went fishing for 80 minutes before my girlfriend Angelica and I went to Sandprit Park to the Paddleboard Festival to see lucky Dogs Band. It was Memorial Day so I figured Walton would be heavily fished.
Fishing Report 5-25-15, 9:50am, Low tide, outgoing. Air temp around 88, water temp in low 80s, very windy from SE at 20 mph. Heavy boating and lots of people wading.
There were four people wading in my area went I got in. There were two different people fishing shallow and two people fishing together deep, with live bait. I headed South. There were three more waders fishing South but they were far pretty far away and going South. I stopped at the first pier-- no one was around. It was almost too shallow to fish. Nothing at that pier, went to the third pier- nothing.
Headed out deep. I had been catching trout there consistently but the wind was completely wrong and the tide was wrong too. The wind was very strong and there were breakers everywhere. I couldn't fish my spot from where I was, I tried deep and had to fish into the wind. I got a tap and lost a fish. I cast across the best spot but the wind bowed my line. I got a strike but couldn't feel the jig and when I pulled it in the tail was bit off my paddletail.
Finally I decided I'd need to cast into the wind and back across the spot. I cast deep as I could- fish on! The trout came up and I pulled it across the water and unhooked it- small, maybe 11". It's a start. I slowly worked my way North. I got a tap and just let the jig stay in place- nothing. I moved it slowly, felt some weight and lifted the rod tip- I hooked another small trout who came all the way in and flipped off when it jumped as I pulled it to me. "That's 2," I thought.
I worked my way to the 4 white posts. I cast out and when I pulled my lure out of the water I saw a trout following it. I tossed the lure out about 10 feet- as soon as it hit the trout took it. This one was bigger and splashed around then jumped twice as I pulled it in front of me. On the second jump, it got off. I questioned whether I should count it but if I had a net I might have got it since it was so near me- "That's 3," I thought. I fished my way North until I got to the two waders who were fishing with shrimp and weights. One of them caught a catfish while I watched and they threw it back. They showed me a nice flounder they caught and I moved around them and continued fishing North- with no luck at all.
When I got the my best spot on the second weed-bed, I noticed a tap, then another tap- I didn't set the hook. Just reeled in and threw back in the same spot. Tap, tap - hook set, trout on. A cast later I pulled in another small trout maybe 12" and unhooked it and let swim free. Both trout were fairly shallow, only 25 feet from me. Two casts later I got a strike deep, and set the hook. Fish on- bigger this time. It jumped but I couldn't see it and I reeled it in and pulled it around me- bluefish! It jumped again and pulled out some line. I grabbed my camera from my back pack and took a shot of it jumping a third time. Then I pulled in and released it. I was about 2 lbs and was the smallest bluefish I've caught in the Lagoon. The largest was about 3 1/2lbs. I've only caught 6 of them so far.
I caught one more small trout in the 2nd weedbed. I had to go soon and went over the sandbar to the shallow water. I made two more casts, didn't get bit, then headed off the water.
My totals: 6 trout (lost one trout on top of the water), 1 bluefish in 80 minutes. A great day on the water!!!
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