Delaware & an October Nor'Easter

So this weekend was supposed to be a perfectly timed trip to Delaware for some striper action. Well Mother Nature had other plans for the Eastern seaboard. If you ever go fishing with me or plan a trip with me, please note the following:

1) Have excellent fowl weather gear & expect to use it while fishing. Trips are not cancelled due to weather!
2) Be flexible...Whatever can go wrong, usually does!
3) Always going to give it some sort of effort, regardless of how hopeless things look!

Back to the weekend. This Nor'Easter was suppose to huff, puff & blow SNOW all over! Thats right SNOW! Well at least back at home in PA, where they received about 4" of the white junk. In DE, nothing but cold rain and strong winds. We again gave it our best at the Seawitch festival, or what was left of it. We jumped from building to building with our one year old. It was an adventure, but we made the best of it. We ended the day with some light food and some Dogfish Head. We spent the evening visiting family for dinner & drinks.


Sunday morning brought about a whole different picture. Cold, not as windy, sunny & clear skies. Basically a picture perfect post-frontal condition. We all know post-frontal puts the lockjaw on fish! Oh well, we headed to IRI anyway. We where greeted with not so nice conditions.


My first cast landed me a 15" striper that hit my storm lure right at the rocks. Very nice young schoolie. I was hoping the sloppy conditions & drop in water temps. would have these fish on the feed bag. Wrong-o! That was it for the rest of our brief three hour trip. The tog fisherman were out in full force. I only saw two small tog caught. I just don't understand how some people can have the patience for that style of fishing. It just seems so random to me. Basically all luck, no skill or technique involved. Then again, rather be lucky then good.

My only photo opt came from a nice size starfish that I snagged off a rock. Biggest starfish I have ever caught.