Last weekend was our first shot at lobsters and we had a good friend Ted join Robin and I down in Port Pine Heights for the weekend. We attended a family reunion in Kentucky during mini-season, so we were absolutely itching to get after them. I was blown away with the amount of bugs we had been seeing leading up to the mini-season, so excitement levels were high!
We got a chance to sneak out for a couple hours on Friday night and caught a half dozen bugs, and paired them up nicely with a couple steaks. Great way to start!
Saturday, we loaded down the skiff and did a pretty good backcountry tour. We did pretty good and ended up 1 short of our 3 person limit. Tons of shorts everywhere we went, so we had to really work at it to get our numbers. I bet that we made 25 – 30 stops through the course of the day, absolutely wore me out!
The water and weather was awesome. Winds were almost non-existent and the water was like a mirror and gin clear. I have to pinch myself every-time I run around in these waters, we are some lucky people to be able to experience this place! The tides made it tough to get into some of the places I wanted to check out. The tides were high early and drained really hard through the day, really big swings.
On Sunday, we took a break from the lobsters and ran offshore. Again the water was flat, too flat unfortunately. The water was green and hot out there and the surface temperature rose all day from 85 degrees to over 87.5 by the afternoon. We saw birds and some scattered weeds at 650 in an area that was loaded with schoolies. We pulled out of them and ran on out to 850 where we picked up some strong rips and upwellings and decent weed and debris. We had several decent knockdowns that never came tight, and I ended up keeping one pitiful dolphin so we would at least have dinner.
Ended up being the slowest day that we have had on the Woodytoo this year, but again that water was flat and beautiful!
beautiful.
Gorham Fishing Team 
nice
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