Well, Mother's Day and her birthday are only a day apart, so I decided to use up some more lobster.

Connecticut Style Lobster Roles!  (This is warm and buttery style, while the NE Lobster roll is usually served cold and tossed in a mayo baste.

I really should have pulled more lobster out to make a few more.  I can't get enough of these things.

We are trying to save money, so we didn't go out.  Instead, I said I'll cook us up some Surf-N-Turf.



It came out awesome!



Even though my daughter didn't try the lobster, she loved the steak!

3 of these suckers bigger than my head on this plant...









This was from 3 days ago... It's already bigger!  Holy smokes... Go Lobster Shells!

On Friday night I kept going back and forth about what I wanted to do Saturday morning. The forecast looked pretty rough, so I just kicked back in my chair, trying to relax and see if any inspiration would hit me.

Somewhere in that little snooze, I had a dream of sticking a giant WSB right from the surf. Well damn, if that's not a premonition, I don't know what is.

I armed my surf gear and was ready to go.

I get to TP and the traffic was horrendous at o' dark thirty!  Then I realized, there was a marathon going on and all of the parking was taken up.  I must have watched a thousand runners go by, so I hit the beach through the back entrance.

The tides were looking good, but the beach was warning me this was going to be that type of trip.



I worked my way all the way to Delmar and only found a few spots to actually cast.  Most of the good holes were already taken up by perch guys.



The waves were also getting bigger.  I switched to a 5" weedless swimbait and still managed to get weeds, albeit nowhere as bad as the double grappling hooks on my YoZuri.

I had two bites which removed the paddle from the body.  I'm thinking it might be a sand bass, but that was the extent of my success.  Otherwise, it just felt good to get back out in the sand, but this is back-to-back skunks for me and a little worrying....

Until next tide!

Went out Friday afternoon and got 4 more, just with different lures than the day before. Used dropshot some more and they liked that. Broke off 2 fish on pilings immediately with 8#. Wanted limper line for 3" flukes but I guess I gotta take what bites I can get on 15#, which was a few still.





All my underspin keeps catching are dinky turds, 3/3 now on the last 3 trips.



From about 50 yards across the channel, a ~30' express boat was idling by with half a dozen older women and maybe a guy or two. One of the ladies called out, "Catch anything?" I just gave a thumbs up. Then, "Are you single?" I smiled and gave a little aw-shucks hand wave. Now I can't help but think that the Dave Scadden Slash is making me look more attractive on the water.


Reorganized my 3600 trays some more today and added a tray. I'd like to try some small flat falls, rattle traps, new swimbait colors, and spinnerbaits. Dropping a couple oversized or otherwise useless plastics. I bought a Plano 3700 Weekender Bag which holds 3 3700 trays but I don't see how I'm going to secure it to the tube so it might just do boat bag duties. I do love my organizing...

Any day with fish on the board is a plus

A variety of lures and colors in the quiver is always a good plan, sometimes your favorite isn't what they want

Man, I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little jealous reading this. Sounds like a solid after-work session, especially once you dialed in the nuclear chicken bite. Love when they finally tell you what they want... even if it takes a few lure changes to figure it out.

Honestly, 8 bites and 4 fish isn't bad at all, but I get what you mean with a big tide, you expect it to just be wide open. Funny how it never quite lines up the way you think it should.
Meanwhile I'm over here having not fished in at least a month, so I'd happily take a "slow" session like that right now. You've got me itching to get back out there but the boats not fixed for the ocean yet.  Potentially take it for bonefish this weekend in the back bay (5mph zone) or maybe just cast big plugs in the surf for stripers, butts and WSB.

I need to get my fix in before I start to lose it over here.

Relatively quick after work session. 1630-1930 or so. Light wind, warm.

Switched out lures a couple times before the fish decided they wanted nuclear chicken for dinner.



This one stuck me on a piling but I won the war.



A few more bites on that then it shut off. Switched to a pearl swimbait on an underspin and got a dink sandy, then zero bites on that.

Another carousel of lures, an hour goes by before I got another on the fluke.



~8 bites and 4 fish. Surprised it wasn't more consistent with the big tide I had going for me. May go slashin' around after work again tomorrow, not sure if I wanna do Newport or Huntington. I'm sure I will decide on the freeway home.

Corn needs lots of Nitrogen, I use 15-15-15  it seems to help