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A flat calm, moonlit night made for a wonderful dinner cruise across the Potomac to a seafood restaurant on Saturday night. This is an annual event for these friends from the Tappahannock area and I really enjoy having them onboard and appreciate their business.
Charter bookings were slow this week but when I did go we caught a lot of fish, as well as, some other surprises. Catches included bluefish, croaker, stripers, spot, seagulls, oyster toads and hard crabs! Today on the Open Boat Day we had a great time and everyone had lots of fish to take home. Friday, October 1, will be another Open Boat Day and if the requests keep coming in for these I will set aside some more days. The $100/person with the mixed groups seems to be very popular. If you have a particular time when only a couple of you can go shoot me an email or call and I’ll see if I can get some fill-ins to make the day. Dave
I’m down to 2 days left for the Cobia–Wednesday, Sept. 1 and Friday, Sept. 3. Cost is $600 for 6 people and if you have additional people it’s $75 for each extra person. I’ll be picking up the charters from Horn Harbor Marina in Port Haywood in Mathews County. Directions to marina can be found on this website under the Directions tab. See photos from last weekend below. Let me know if you can get your group together to go after these trophy fish as soon as possible via email or call 804-529-6725.
I have a friend, Don Bowers, who has gone down fishing for Cobia the past couple of weekends and they have had unbelievable catches of huge fish some up to 70+ pounds. Here’s a couple photos from this past weekend. If I can get a few charters together I’ll take the boat down to Horn Harbor Marina to go for them August 30 – Sept. 3. If you’re interested I’ll need to know as soon as possible. 804-529-6725. Capt Dave
Plenty of bluefish, some spanish mackerel and even some stripers. I still have some open slots available on Saturday, August 28th’s Open Boat Day for the $100 per person. I can see the changes coming almost daily now for fall fishing. It won’t be long and we’ll be gearing up for the fall large Stripers.
I wanted to share long time customer, Dave Creel’s, YouTube video. He and his group are a lot of fun and I think you will enjoy watching the video plus you’ll get a good recipe for cocktail sauce and how to fry rockfish. Thanks, Dave. You and your group are good fishermen so it makes my job easy.
http://www.facebook.com/l/180b56GH2DpYjcAbPdB7isnz-Lg;www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBdmaXbdho0
Still catching Bluefish & Red Drum – also the Spanish Mackerel have arrived. Haven’t been bottom fishing lately but know there are plenty of croaker around also. I still have openings for the Open Boat Day on Saturday, August 28, I need to fill in order to make it a GO, as well as, plenty other days throughout the year.
Next Open Boat Day is Saturday, August 28th leaving from Coan River Marina in Lottsburg at 6:30 a.m. The cost is $100 per person and includes the mate’s tip. Limited to 10 persons and must make reservation and prepay. Contact me if you would like to get in on this day. 804-529-6725
Thanks and hope everyone is well.
Capt. Dave
All you anglers out there looking for action on BIG fish you better get a group together within the nex tmonth while the Red Drum bite is on. We had a lot of citations this week as you can see from the photos from the last 2 days of fishing. This has been the best I have ever seen it. After catching and releasing the Drum, we’ve gone after the blues and had good numbers there also. I have August days still available and this action will only be around for a few weeks. If you can only go on a weekend I have open Aug 7, 22 ,28, 29, Sept. 4, 5 & 6.
Capt. Dave with a hand full of fish
Three Generations of Askews enjoy the day fishing
We have had to troll to keep moving to get some relief from the heat. Been catching plenty of Bluefish with some keeper Stripers. Cooler temps are on the way but hot fishing is here to stay!
