Colleen and Kelly show off their double header of keepers caught on Manolin Charters
Been a long time since my last post, but doesn't mean fishing is slow! I have just been super busy and booked solid. Since my last post, we were entering a little bit of a lull on the striper fishing. It wasn't bad by any means, but it was like "where is the bio mass of keepers?" Manolin Charters was still doing well catching about a dozen schoolies with 1-3 keepers in the mix per trip. We experimented with some new areas both far and near with some great success. My clients have enjoyed the change of scenery and the catching.
Karl and his crew put a hurting on some stripers! Separate blog later on this post about Dave's "Fishing with Dave" blog!
The Donahue clan crushing it again!
Sweet picture of a nice striper for Kevin!
Lately, the bite as been outstanding. We are catching some both quality and excellent quantity of both sides of the tide! Also, we are getting fish throughout the entire tide instead of just a specific hour or two. This past week has felt like June from years' past. It's been so, so good.
My memory is a little foggy on specific details at the moment from the past month, but we have had days doing some really cool and successful fishing towards the middle/end of June. Plenty of fish and making people happy.
Since last Monday things have really taken off. We have had days with 50 fish/30ish keepers, 40 fish/8 keepers, 100 fish/too many keepers to count, 18 Fish/6 keepers. Also included in that were 5 fish 40" + and another bunch in the 34" - 39" range.
Chris with a 38" and a 35" amongst 30 or so keepers for him and Arioch!
I have days open this week due to cancellations on Wednesday and Friday with perfect morning tides! Even though the incoming has been fishing very well too, nothing is better than an AM outgoing. I even have the weekend open before I'm on a tear with a bunch of scheduled trips. Come fishing this upcoming week while the hot bite continues!
Dan all the way from Michigan with a nice keeper amongst some that just missed the cut!
Kris was all smiles after his big day of 8 fish and 2 beautiful keepers!
Tight Lines,
Capt. Chris
Krysta with a real nice keeper here!
Collin crushing a slob 35"!
Maria does it again! Nice 35" on the last drift. If anyone finds a cell phone on Joppa Flats, it has plenty of pictures from this trip! Sorry Maria, I had too!
Bryan with his first ever striper! One of a bunch more!
Nick and Krysta show off their catch!
Caroline caught this nice schoolie, her first striper, literally one second into our trip and setting the tone for the day!
Mike here with a nice good 34" before the bio mass of keepers showed up!
I don't know how Tim here is holding this striper up like this, especially since it was 22#!