I have a couple pics that I'll put on later. We didn't catch many decent trout- probably three around 20" but we caught more trout than I've ever caught. Jim said he caught 111 trout and I caught by my best guess 101- I was more into the catching than counting. It was a day so active there wasn't enough time to drink water or eat. I also caught two fish at one time- more on that later. Trout, trout and more trout!!!
That 's 212 trout in about 6 hours woah!!!
Fishing Report 6-4-16; on water at 7:30 am Round Island (West Side) Water temp around 83, air temp about 78 then around 90 by 1pm, light wind from the east - later blowing about 12-15mph. Water clear to murky. Tide incoming then outgoing. Topwater early then Cal jigs with different plastic baits.
When Jim texted me to go with him I knew my only good rel was in the shop being repaired. My second reel worked but it has a small spool. I put on new line that was way too heavy and so when we started fishing I got snarls and couldn't cast far.
We put in at a Marina off Dixie Hwy and as we went out Jim gave me a topwater to tie on. There was some bait 50 yards off shore spanning a long flat. We started casting out topwaters. Jim told me to slow it down and I did. My third cast a trout hit my plug and knocked it in the air!! Then it hit again and wham trout on!! I reeled in a nice slot unhooked it, and cast again. There were trout feeding everywhere. Jim caught a couple on top and I was getting a strike on almost every cast. They'd hit it three or four times before one would attack it and get hooked.
In thirty minutes I caught about 12 trout topwater and had 40 strikes. It was awesome. I was still fishing topwater when Jim switched to a jig. Finally my line got snarled for the 5th times so bad I had to cut it. Jim caught 3 or 4 trout while I was messing with my line. Finally he tried to help me but decided to give me another rod and reel to use instead. Then I really started catching trout!!!
We had been following bait with the trolling motor across the flat in about 4 feet of water. The tide was almost high and the bait had gone under the surface. Jim stopped and we fished a spot next to a white buoy. I cast deep and got a hit- missed pulled it up got another hit- trout on-- it came in near the boat- then flipped off and I caught another trout following that one 15 feet from the boat which I released!!! Crazy!!!
We had double trout on probably 25 times and once I caught two and released them while he caught and released on. In that spot and another spot just 50 feet South we caught over 150 of our 212 trout.
I also caught two fish at one time!!! I caught a small trout and when it splashed near the boat a bluefish came up and grabbed it. The trout was to o big to swallow so the bluefish grabbed it's tail- but it wouldn't let go!! So I pulled both out of the water and when I swung them over to the boat the bluefish came off.
We tried some other spots in the area and still caught trout but not at the trout for every two casts rate. Here's a pic of Jim with a nice trout he caught in the morning on topwater:
Eventually we went back to the same area we fished in the morning and caught a few here and there at a steady rate. Finally I caught one nice trout in the afternoon,
So it started getting windy and it was hot and we were tired- tired of releasing trout, so we headed in. What a day.
Our totals: Jim caught 111 trout and I guessed 101 plus we also caught 4 jacks, one around 4 pounds, 2 bluefish and 1 puffer fish. A beautiful day on the water.
