Memories forever!!!!!!
by John Keeler
Note: I had the pleasure of guiding John Keeler and his son Scott on the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel on January 5th and 6th, 2005. John was nice enough to write this report.
Had Hill Billy Boater and Rattletrap drop me off at the Days Inn in VA Beach
last Sunday on our return from OI.
Mon AM I went out with Capt. Tom Hughes, Capt. Frank and Reds.
There was not much action happening around Rudee Inlet area, so we headed north
to CBBT and immediately got into large schools of VA DINKS. it was constant
steady pullage for several hours.
Tue. AM we left Rudee and Tom wanted to head South. Capt Frank, Reds and I took
a vote and said we wanted to head to CBBT. Tom pleaded his case and said that he
only wanted to head a short distance south. As we were passing in front of the
Golf Ball we marked some nice schools of bait and fish. There were no birds. We
dropped our jigs on them and Capt. Frank offered them Streamers with his fly rod
and had instantaneous action for about two hours. I managed to catch my personal
best, a 41" fish that weighed 30#.
When we got back on Tuesday to the Days Inn, I was met by my son
Scott who had driven 10 hours from Lake Luzerne, NY to join me and Tom to fish
Wed. and Thu.
On Wed. morning Tom took Scott and I out in front of the Golf Ball where we
cleaned house the day before. The bait schools had broke up and the fish had
moved on. The reports from the South were sparse, so we headed to the CBBT.
Again we got into huge schools of fish. I even managed to hook into a huge fish
that eventually pulled the hook. On Thursday Scott said that he enjoyed catching
those 20" to 26" fish so much that he wanted to do it again. For those two days
, Scott and I managed to catch several hundred fish . A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY
GOOD FRIEND CAPTAIN TOM HUGHES FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE
On Friday morning, Scott and I made the long drive back to Mechanicsburg. All he
could talk about was how we could do this next November.
This morning Scott left Mechanicsburg for his 6 1/2 hour drive home to Lake
Luzerne. I just got a call from him that he arrived home safely.
What a week!!!!!!
John Keeler
"Reel Pleasure"
Mechanicsburg, PA
"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. But, teach a man to fish and he'll
learn to call in sick."
"Never argue with an idiot. People watching may have trouble telling the
difference."