Delaware Bay was fishable a couple days at the end of the week. However, the Bay remained dirty, even through several tide changes, after weeks of constant northeast wind and days of rain. Water temperature had fallen to 64 degrees, and tautog started to be more active around the Outer Breakwater. Captain Brent on Katydid tried the rocks Thursday and Friday, and returned with 7 keeper tog one trip, and 9 on the other. Jackson Aeo boated a 7.9 pound sheepshead Friday aboard Katydid. Captain Pete Haines, Rainer Haines and Dave Schellenger fished the Wall Friday aboard Top Fin, and put nine keepers in their box. Rainer was top hook with his 5.21 pounder. Charlie Breitenbach was on the LHM Tog Tournment board for awhile with blackfish weighing 5.38 and 5.35 pounds, that were part of his five tog limit from the Wall in Saturday morning's wind. The Lewes Harbour Tautog Tournament runs through October 31st. Interested anglers must sign up at Lewes Harbour Marina prior to fishing. Sea conditions were much better Sunday morning, and despite murky water, tog bit good at the Wall first thing, during the end of flood tide. Randy Jensen and his friends did well on blackfish, limiting out with 30 keepers, including a 6.23 pounder that put Charlie Breitenbach back on the Tourney Leader Board, in Third Place. Rich Ressler reeled in a 6.43 pounder at the Wall that placed him in Second. Robert Karpovich captured a 6.55 pound tog at the Wall Sunday that made him the current Tournament leader. Robert, Dave Walker and Tony Vansant had a limit of tog at the Wall, with the best bite early in the morning. Captain Pete and his crew on Top Fin limited out with 20 tog to 6 pounds at the Wall Sunday. Captain Brent's Sunday gang on Katydid kept 22 tautog while anchored at the Wall. Saad Soliman, Josh Boucher, Joe Mcneal and Fred Robinson toggled in at the Wall Sunday to score 18 quality keeper blackfish. Geoff McCloskey muscled in a citation tog weighing 7.47 pounds at the Wall Sunday. There were a handful of legal tog pulled from Bay Reef Sites, but the catching was better along the Breakwater. Dave Hazzard had a 7.5 pound sheepshead at Site 6 Sunday aboard Thelma Dale IV. Ocean wrecks are starting to show signs of life. Captain Don's patrons on the Angler caught several short tog on some snags outside the Bay Sunday, but took home only a handful of keepers. Matt Baker and his buddies did land 11 keeper tautog from an Ocean wreck Sunday. Stripers have been feeding in Lewes Canal. Casting artificials around the drawbridge and train bridge produced strikes, and rock responded to cut baits and clams on the bottom as well. Most bass were between 18 and 25 inches, but some above the 28 inch minimum were hooked. Gene Laskowski landed a 30 inch Canal striper Sunday. Surf casters at Herring Point reported spotty catches of snapper blues, puppy black drum, kingfish and blowfish. Folks on the Pier at Cape Henlopen still had a few flounder at night under the lights, while working jigs tipped with Gulp or shiners. The offshore bite was still going on in Washington Canyon. Captain Shawn Gallagher and his guys on Free Spool overnighted there Thursday for a swordfish, a 30 pound wahoo, a yellowfin and three dolphin.
Good Tog Action At The Wall
Lewes Harbour Marina - 10/12/2015 12:00:00 AM