5/20 HRBT

Well I finally got a chance to put together my report from Friday night.  The weather cleared up nice and the wind dropped to 4mph so I decided to hit up the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel for the first time.  I wanted to fish the Norflok side so I put my yak in at Willoughby Bay boat ramp.  Its a free boat ramp which is awesome.  When I got to the ramp there was another person gettin' his yak all rigged up.  He ended up waiting for me so we could paddle out to the bridge together.  We ended up fishing together most of the night.  The weather was absolutely gorgeous.  We started paddling out at 7:30 pm. 

Started fishing close to the shore and the croaker were eatin up my gulps.

I also had a few flounder on but they all came off before getting them into the boat.  We then trolled close to the norfolk side island.  My main mission here was to get a striper and get more comfortable in the yak.  Plus if I could I wanted to Learn to spot them in the light line. 

Once it got dark it was pretty much constant bluefish.  I did however get to see some stripers.  I did get one hooked up but it instantly ran for the pilon and broke me off.  So now this week I am going to try to find a MH rod for fishing the light line.  It is definately not a spot for light rods and 8lb test line.

One of the many blues,  I wasn't keeping any blues though.  Size of them ranged from 10 inches up to prolly 22 inches.

I decided to head back in at 12:15am.  I never really saw a lot of stripers but did see some paired up. 
It was my longest trip as of yet and when i finally got back to the ramp and stood up it took 10 mins to get the blood moving again, hehe.  There were prolly 7 of us all packing up our stuff at the same time.  The Kayak fishing community is fantastic...  A few of us stood there til about 2am just shootin the breeze and tellin' fishin lies...  Hope to get to fish with some of you guys again!  I have off Monday to thursday this week so expect some more reports.   Have a good week everyone.

Jarred