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Post by riverviewsteve on Mar 4, 2011 22:41:17 GMT -5
Well I'm looking good for Monday morning on the
NSP. Weather is looking pretty good so far. A little
chillier than last Wednesday morning but that's ok.
Hope to get there around 4:30 like last time. At the
moment it don't look to be quite as windy either. White
F150 4door. Navy plate. I'll be wearing blue Navy ball
cap. Say hello if your there.
riverviewsteve USN RETIRED and loving it.
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Post by riverviewsteve on Mar 6, 2011 16:04:16 GMT -5
It's almost time. Only 12 more hours.
Got everything on my checklist in the
truck. All except my cooler and ice and
my coffee cup. Lately I been filling my
coffee cup only half full. I go past a
rest stop on my way to NSP and they got
some great coffee. When I add it to mine
it tastes great. I got a large cup that's why
I can do that. Look out NSP here I come.
Save me some macks. I'll give a report later.
Bad or good. Hopefully good. Wouldn't mind
catching some more silvers though. Wife likes
them better anyway. OK that's it for now. If
anyones out there. Look me up. I'm looking for
you David from NC. Hope you can make it.
riverviewsteve USN RETIRED and loving it.
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Post by onelegangler on Mar 6, 2011 16:09:13 GMT -5
Good luck on your trip. Im sitting here now wishing I was at the NSP with a fishing pole in my hands instead of a laptop. Gotta get another trip scheduled soon. Enjoy!
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Post by dadflyer on Mar 7, 2011 16:44:47 GMT -5
I hope all is going well ; in your last report you didnt indicate what time you were comming off the pier .
Keep the coffee warm ..it's chilloy out there !
Dadflyer
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Post by riverviewsteve on Mar 7, 2011 21:39:59 GMT -5
Well it was just a little chilly when I first got there
around 4:30am but by 9:am it was nice and then
we had a beautiful day. I did not see much caught
today worthwhile. The bait/greenbacks were there.
The netters were able to get a few. I caught 3 or 4
on the bottom. Those greenbacks today were some
of the biggest I have seen. I have seen one bigger
occasionally but today they were all bigger. One guy
even told me they are to big. I didn't go home till
around 3:30pm I paid for that too. I put sun tan
lotion on my face this morning. Guess I should have
added more later. Anyway here's the score.
(1) 12 1/2" mackerel
(1) 16" mackerel
(1) 18 1/2" mackerel
(1) very small lizard fish.
(1) little tiny puffer about the size of a golf ball.
By the time I got that little sucker off the hook it
was the size of a tennis ball.
Maybe 10 total pins and greenbacks.
I seen a couple of silvers caught but didn't
get any myself today.
Got company coming so probably won't get back
out to NSP till early April. At least I hope I make it
by then.
riverviewsteve USN RETIRED and loving it.
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Post by onelegangler on Mar 8, 2011 1:16:26 GMT -5
I'm not quite sure how weather fronts and barometric pressure come into play there at the NSP, but when I was there last Friday, it was after a front passed, high pressure, and a nice 4 tide day. Conditions are shaping up to be very similar with a clod front passing through this Thursday. My buddy and I are considering another trip this Friday. Sorry you didn't clean up, but it's still better than work right?  |
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Post by David from NC on Mar 8, 2011 6:56:59 GMT -5
Steve, thanks for the report. You had a couple of nice size mackerel in your catch. Give me a heads up when things shape up again for you to go. Blessings.
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Post by dadflyer on Mar 8, 2011 9:14:06 GMT -5
riverviewsteve
I went on Thursday to the NSP with no expectations. Nothing on the clark spoon or "shorty" Hopkins spoon ; and nothing on the artificials except while retrieving on top , I got several 'followers' , rather than any 'takers'. I went on Thursday as the weekend tends to get crowded.
Used a sabiki rig and had plenty of 14-16 inch 'takers', and only 1 spanish at 20 inches, which I gave to my neighbor on the pier. Next time I will have to go with an ' iced cooler' as the spanish need to go immediately on ice, or they spoil. All were released except for that 20 incher.
Got cold last night (52 ยบ), so it'll be interesting to see what the effects will be by the passing fronts.
My pier 'neighbor' stated that these are the smaller spanish which will be pushed out by bigger spanish later this month , as the bigger spanish will eat the juvenilles unless they move out. Is that true ? Are they as cannibalistic as 'bluefish" ?
Dadflyer
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Post by riverviewsteve on Mar 8, 2011 23:24:04 GMT -5
Dadflyer that is a good question. I would say probably so. I haven't
seen any really large bluefish down here but when I was stationed/living
in Virginia we used to catch some really large bluefish and they were vicious.
I remember one year the wife and I went out on a charter boat and she had
caught two large croakers on a double bottom rig and she says that bottom
one is two short. Something had taken that second fish right behind the gills.
We didn't see it so could also have been a shark I guess. But I tend to think
it was a bluefish.
riverviewsteve USN RETIRED and loving it.
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