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Delmarva Fishin' Reports - November 2023

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8 mins ago, ReeferRob said:

Are there still fleas on the beach? I'm thinking about coming down to get some more and I don't wanna waste a trip if they're gone.

Oh yeah. If you look at my 3rd picture down, that's where my son was digging for them.

You can see where there's more disturbed sand, there's more fleas.

Leave the rake home and bring a shovel. They're down about a foot. 

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We're gonna hit the OC inlet tomorrow and maybe over to AI on Saturday to get more bait for the winter.

"The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before,
the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat."
Jacques Cousteau

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I had an awesome 2 day trip to Kiptopeke. First time there and it exceeded expectations. 10 Keeper sized fish between two days with 3 fish over 20" released, including my new PB at 21"! I've been trying to crack the 20" mark for years so to do it three times in one day was awesome. Day 1 was pretty slow with just one short in the morning and a couple small keepers towards the end of the day. Day 2 was great though with 8 keeper sized fish including my new PB and 2 more 20.5" fish. I kept my limit of 16"-20" fish and released all the fish over 20" plus one barely legal female.

 

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Keepers from the trip two from day 1 four from day 2. Put my new vacuum sealer to good use. Gonna be some good chowdah!

 

 

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21" PB. This was my third fish of the day and I released it before I had my limit for the good karma, and it paid off because right after I caught a 20.5" and 19.5" out of the same hole.

 

 

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20.5" also released

 

 

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Got nothing at the OC inlet. Lots of throwbacks up to 15", but no keeper Tog and the Sheepies are out til spring I think. It was absolutely beautiful on the water yesterday. Some days you're the windshield and some days you're the bug.

"The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before,
the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat."
Jacques Cousteau

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I fished the Ocean Princess on Friday.  Limits for me & my son. My 12lb Bluefish took the pool.

Tons of shorts. We got a couple pushing 3 lbs. Also, as many 2-3 lb bluefish as you wanted. I fileted a couple for bait.

 

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3 hours ago, Joe said:

I fished the Ocean Princess on Friday.  Limits for me & my son. My 12lb Bluefish took the pool.

Tons of shorts. We got a couple pushing 3 lbs. Also, as many 2-3 lb bluefish as you wanted. I fileted a couple for bait.

smart move ..the surf action sucks...i may try some of that seabassin' on black fri if anybody goes out.

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On 11/17/2023 at 11:36 AM, SneakyWeakie said:

I had an awesome 2 day trip to Kiptopeke.

We used to drift The Concrete Ships for Grey trout. Simple Stingsilver jigged vertically murdered them back in the late 90s.

"The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before,
the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat."
Jacques Cousteau

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8 hours ago, ReeferRob said:

We used to drift The Concrete Ships for Grey trout. Simple Stingsilver jigged vertically murdered them back in the late 90s.

That's awesome I'd love to get on a good grey trout bite but I've only caught a few here and there. I lost a nice one by the kayak in OC inlet in June I'm still sad about, looked to be about 23". I tried jigging a cripple herring some at the ships when I saw marks but didn't get any bites.

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1 hour ago, SneakyWeakie said:

That's awesome I'd love to get on a good grey trout bite but I've only caught a few here and there. I lost a nice one by the kayak in OC inlet in June I'm still sad about, looked to be about 23". I tried jigging a cripple herring some at the ships when I saw marks but didn't get any bites.

When I was stationed in NC, I'd stop by the Rte 50 bridge on my way home and pick up 5 nice Grey trout. I mean trout that would hang out of a 5 gallon bucket. I'd take 5 and head on home and cook them.

There was a little guy there once, he might have been 10 years old, I don't think his folks had 2 nickels to rub together much less spend money on a new rod and reel. I showed him how to catch them and he landed one that was just shy of 29" as I recall. His mom showed up, I don't think either of them had anything to eat that day. I asked her if she had a way to clean and keep them and she said yes so I filled their bucket with trout, got my 5 and headed out. Back then I think the limit was 8 and I knew those were going to be eaten and not wasted. The next week through they were both out there sharing the rod he had that sounded like it was grinding grain. I had a rod and reel that I never used and gave it to them.

 

I'll see if I have one of the rigs I used to use, as I recall it had 2 teasers on the top with no hooks and the Stingsilver on the bottom. I used to catch Bunker and grind them at Chris' place and I'd dip my Stingsilver in it. Dunno if it made much difference, but we'd always hit our limit when everyone else wouldn't. Some netters showed up there around 1997 and the trout fishing was never the same.

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"The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before,
the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat."
Jacques Cousteau

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On 11/21/2023 at 3:13 PM, Joe said:

I booked on the Ocean Princess again for Friday. Another pile  of Biscuits will hold me over for quite a while

I'll be on the TDV out of lewes..12 hr ...we can compare notes/catches -tomorrow...

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