Flounder Ceviche Recipe

Petit diced jalapeño

Petit diced red onion

Petit diced flesh of cucumber

Finely chopped green onion

Finely chopped cilantro

Add above ingredients to

.25 lb fresh flounder cut into a large dice

Then add:

Juice of half a lime

Juice of a quarter lemon

2 dashes of lite soy (or ponzu sauce)

Dash of old bay

Salt and pepper to taste 

Stir lightly and place in covered in glass bowl in refrigerator for 15-30 minutes.

Enjoy!

Labor Day Fishing Fun

Got to do some fun, family fishing Labor Day weekend. Mom-Mom and Noah got a couple of keeper croakers and I got the lone flounder, just above the legal limit. I also got to meet Captain Scott Walker from the TV show, Into the Blue.  He was a very nice guy, just what I expected. I hope to get back down to the Keys and fish with him next time I'm there.

Mom-Mom's Double Header

One thing was made clear in early July, when Mom-Mom gets quiet, you might want to get the net. Mom caught two keepers in late June and early July. One was caught on the Get Sum and one on the Happy Ours. 

Going Pro in OC

Going to Ocean City with just the guys can mean only one thing: non stop hardcore fishing. At the end we had fished 14 hours in one day, hitting each tide as it came and went. Truly, if we hadn't fished so hard we might not have caught much at all. It was persistence and more advanced techniques that paid off. We started at 5 AM by the Rt. 50 but without much luck we moved to the inlet's south jetty. We spent much of the day and evening there as flounder were hard to come by (2 shorts) with seaweed everywhere we tried to drift.  The evening at sunset is when it really turned on. We ended the day with 20 Striped Bass and a nice sized keeper blue.  The Stripers were mostly over 18 inches with many over 20 up to Seth's 27 incher, one inch short of a keeper in Ocean City. Most were caught on white bucktails with curly tails. A few were caught on a fly and eel rig with one also came aboard from a rattletrap. Here's some of the action from the new Go Pro camera.

Captain Nick and the Great Buildup

 Is he a pirate? Does he have a mustache? Is he nice? Is he a big guy with a blue hat? All were questions from the new four year old, Tyler, when he was told we were going on a boat with a Captain.  Captain Nick didn't have on a hat but he was very nice with the kids as he put us on the fish. We took the trip hoping to pick up some new styles of fishing. Captain Nick had us using spec rigs and bucktails to get into some Blues and Shad. We ended the night with 5 nice sized Bluefish, over a dozen Hickory Shad, a Cownose Ray and 2 small Stripers. Working under birds in the inlet, south of the 50 bridge was the ticket. It was a great family night with everyone catching at least one fish.

My Biggest Fish

After a full afternoon evening of fishing we were starting to doubt our abilities. "Five more minutes," someone said as the sun was just about set. It wasn't but a moment later and Greg yelled,"we're on, we're on, we're on," as dragged ripped out of the back reel. It was finally my turn and I slow played the fish as I waited for the lines to get cleared since the fish was staying down and moving laterally. After we got the fish in it was clearly my biggest, weighing over 15 pounds and 36 inches. The striped bass was caught on a white umbrella roughly 22 feet deep just outside of the Magothy.

Holy Cow

We finally ran into a big fish this spring, after a few unsuccessful days. Our excitement turned to concern after seeing the fishes big belly. We worried that perhaps it was a female filled with eggs but realized it was too late to send the fish back. We were very excited to find out that the 35 inch fish was gorging itself with lots of baitfish. It looked to be almost a dozen 6-12 inch Menhaden that came from its full belly. The fish was caught deep on a white umbrella/tandem with a 6 inch shad.