Thanks to a couple of warm water eddies that have spun off the Gulfstream, Virginia has enjoyed some outstanding late season blue water action. The headliner is the large number of wahoo, very large wahoo, with several fish topping the 100 pound mark. In addition to the Wahoo, lots yellowfin tuna, some albacore tuna, dolphin and a few billfish are being caught. Speckled trout fishing … [Read more...]
Texas Roadhouse – Amazing
We had tried the Texas Roadhouse before. It was really loud and noisy, but I thought their food and prices were good. Nancy had a problem when our server didn’t clean off the table after we finished and we hadn’t been back. Last week, in the mood for a steak but not a fancy restaurant, my bride of 51 years said, “Let’s try that loud place again.” And so we did, and I will say right … [Read more...]
A VSGA Card For Christmas
Guess what? Christmas is right around the corner and here’s a suggestion for that hard to buy for golfer on your list. Give him or her a 2020 VSGA VIP Card. The VIP cards are $65 and allow the card holder to play at any of over 200 courses in Virginia and even West Virginia for basically the cost of a golf cart rental. My Golf Amigos and I have the cards and I bet I personally … [Read more...]
My Happy Place
My happy place? It’s on a dock, any dock or pier with water nearby. I can spend hours and hours on a dock and it’s as if time stand still. I suppose it all goes back to my early experiences as a ten-year-old boy on Uncle’s Sidney’s pier on Bogue Sound, across from Atlantic Beach. Uncle Sidney had built the pier by himself, no easy task for a man with a wooden leg. He had lost his … [Read more...]
Green Light Special
I had heard about the ability of underwater lights to attract fish at night, but I was skeptical. Nonetheless, I ordered one from Berkley last year before the Oyster Festival. We dropped the neon green light at the base of the dock and it drew lots of bait, but not any gamefish. They simply weren’t around. This year, I tried again, this time with much success. The first night drew … [Read more...]
Harry The Heron
Tim and I were fishing on a pier in Urbanna Creek. Nothing was biting, but we continued casting, hoping a striper or trout would pass by. Suddenly, a Great Blue Heron flew towards us and landed on the pier about 10 feet away. I figured he hadn’t seen me, and would soon fly off, but I was wrong. He did see me and walked close enough that I could have patted him on the … [Read more...]
Buy a Calendar – Win a Great Gun
The annual Christmas Raffle and DU Calendar Sale is underway. Simply buy a great DU calendar for $50 (all proceeds go towards wetland conservation) and be eligible for a gun give-away sponsored by Greentop each day in December. Only 1000 calendars will be sold, so your odds are infinitely better than the state lottery. Daily winners will be drawn every day from Dec. 1 through Dec. … [Read more...]
Diggs Seafood
Coming back from Urbanna and the Oyster Festival last Monday, we passed by Diggs Seafood in West Point and didn’t stop. Nancy and I had to get back to work and were pressed for time and it broke my heart. I have an unwritten rule: If I ever pass through West Point, I simply must stop and pick up some Deviled Crabs to see if they were as delectable as I remember and they always … [Read more...]
Oyster Cups
A tradition our group celebrates each Oyster Festival while staying in an Urbanna cottage is the partaking of what we call Oyster Cups. Each year, we order 10 or 12 quarts of fresh oysters from a local Urbanna waterman and we eat them fried, raw, and baked as Oyster Cups. They are amazingly good and amazingly easy. Here’s how. In a small aluminum cupcake tin, put 1 or 2 oysters … [Read more...]
State Record Albacore
A 70-pound, 11-ounce Albacore Tuna, sometimes referred to as a “True” Albacore or Longfin Tuna, caught on September 22, 2019 by Wendy Brockenbrough of Virginia Beach, VA, has been certified as a Virginia State Record by the Virginia Saltwater Fishing Tournament. Brockenbrough caught the record tuna while deep dropping for swordfish at the Washington Canyon aboard the private boat Sea … [Read more...]
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