Well guys, it has been a while since I have posted on here. Fishing my home waters of the James, Pamunkey, and Mattaponi have been nonexistent due to all the rain we have had before last week. So we took our family vacation the week of the 4th at Lake Gaston. We where there for 10 days and I must say I needed to come home, due to no sleep, eating to much, and having to much fun.
When we got there it was HHHOOOTTTTT!!!!! So I only fished about 4-5 hours in the first 3 days or so. The fishing was very slow. One here one there, no size, some on crankbaits, some on worms. Then comes the front. The day before the front I went out by myself and decided to through a frog in the grass from great creek to the 85 bridge on points. I caught quite a few and mostly what I consider good fish in the 2-3 pound range. So the next morning One of my kids, my brother and myself head out to throw a frog. All I can say is wow!!! We probably caught 15-20 fish in about 3 hours and most all were in the 2-3 lb range. Then that evening we did the same thing. The next day we did the same thing. Then it slowly faded away the next couple of days. The only thing I could have asked for was 1 really good fish, but I nor anyone else could muster one up.
I am not a big frog fisherman, but damn that was fun. Most fish had the entire frog down their throat. All the kids caught some as well. I prefer to use the Ish Phat Daddy poppin frog, and only had 1 in black. I used it for about 4 days and it is destroyed. I super glued it 3 time and it has about 50 tiny holes on each side from the hook puncturing the sides. I had never imagined getting bit that many time on a frog.
Some other highlights of the week were my twins (12 yoa) both went wakeboarding for the first time and both got up and were able to learn a little. Did a little tubing. Had some friends and family stop by for the 4th as we had a cook out with homemade BBQ, Smoke chicken wings, Striper dip and so much more. Also we went to the point for the fireworks show. I love the show and the atmosphere of being on the water.
I hope everyone is doing well as we are getting to the dog days of summer. I hope to spend a little time at my home waters in the next couple weeks.
Happy fishing!!!