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I had the pleasure of fishing with my Uncle, girlfriend, and cousin Saturday morning. My uncle just purchased a kayak and wanted to go out and try to catch some rockfish. Unfortunately, the trip conflicted with the M&G at Mattawoman and in hind sight I wish I would have just taken the gang there. Oh well we found a few fish and had a nice time till it got smoking hot.

We fished a lump (#1) in the middle of the river while the current was running, it stopped almost as soon as we got there and all we caught were some micro croaker and a few catfish. We saw some schools of peanut bunker getting harassed and tried chasing them around for a little bit. I think it may have been perch or something small attacking them because we never had a hit. Saw tons of rays, but no hookups. We paddled back to the bridge to fish the incoming current around the pilings. I got one 22" rock on a chrome/blueback rattle trap and then a bunch of smaller rock and perch on a 5" BA. I do not know what the perch were thinking trying to eat something that big but it was pretty entertaining. Everyone caught fish at the bridge and my uncle caught a few rockfish to slime his boat for the first time. My girlfriend has been working on her casting and setting the hook and it showed. Now we just need to work on the next part of fighting the fish!

All in all it was a great morning and we got some ribs on the way back from a place on the side of 301. Texas something? They were absolutely incredible. I can't wait to go back!

No pictures of the perch or rock, she was busy catching and I gave her the camera.

Last edited by Redfish12 (Jul-16-12 8:48AM)