Cape Charles Fishing Report, 10-12 November: More of the Same, And That's a Good Thing

 Three days of some phenomenal fishing:

Sunday: I wade-fished our go-to spot near the mouth of Plantation Creek.  Temps in the high 60s, sunny skies, water temps in the low 60s.  A bit windy, but only a 6-inch chop.  Caught the incoming tide.  Not a fan, but with shorter days, you get what you get.  Which turned out to be just fine.  Got on the water around 11:30 AM.  Caught ten Reds over the next hour and a half.  All on a popping cork suspending  Z-Man Electric Chicken and Slam Shady soft plastics.  Most under the 18" slot, but picked up a couple that were 20" or better.  Stopped at 10 fish to beat feet back home to watch a great Steelers' victory.

Monday: Capt. DiPaola rolled in around 12:30 PM.  We quickly rigged up and got to the same spot around 1:30. Again an incoming tide.  Weather a bit warmer and calmer.  Turned out to be one of those days when everything worked.  Caught fish on popping corks and Dine XLs.  Fished the last of our three hours on the water with gold spoons (Johnson and Clark).  Never moved from one spot, casting to a school of Reds who wished us a happy Veteran's Day by hanging around and eating our lures.   Mostly smaller fish, but again a few within the slot.  We decided to quit at 30 fish, but could have kept catching for a while longer.

Tuesday's weather was not optimal.  Sunny, temps in the upper 50s, but winds in the 20-plus mph, with gusts well above 25.  Seas were choppy at about a foot, but still fishable.  The popping corks were obviously out.  So we started throwing the usual variety of subsurface stuff, with a few fish here and there.  Joe switched to a Strike King spinner bait, with good success.  But the Reds just did not seem to be schooled up, and the takes were more subtle than normal.  That is until around 2:30. We happened on a school near the mouth of the creek, and it was game on for about an hour.  Our casts were no more than a few feet apart, and again we got multiple hookups.  This school, however, seemed to be comprised of big fish.  We brought a couple out of the school that were below the slot.  But the rest, probably 8 fish, were all above twenty, with a "doublee" of a 24 incher, and the other easily above the 26" limit.

Still no trout, but if you check the Mikey D Fishing archive, the next week or so could be the time that the Specks move in.  

Tight Lines,

Mikey D Fishing