Finally got mine! EEL DEAL part 4.

Fished today with my friends John Helton and Chris Bishop. They were heading down from Salisbuury Md. and asked me to jump on board for one last try in the Bay. John is an excellent eel guy and he and Chris have been doing the day time drift thing for years with great succes including winning the big striper tourny. out of Chrisfield Md. last month so I was in good company.
We fished between Cape Charles and the Plantation light early on in the DEEP water with good luck on fish up to 44 inches. Chris released a 44 inch for a citation. John has a nice open aray radar that he uses to find birds working fish and he happened to see some about 3 miles west of where we were fishingso we headed over and found a nice beehive of gannets and marked lots of fish & bait. We spent the remainder of the day there and we caught small, medium, & large fish there all day but no monsters. Around 2 pm John announced we were going to move and make on last drift before we headed in. We got set up and the smallest spinning rod we had in the water started to pour off line in the bait runner mode. John told me to grab it and when I put it in gear the fish dumped half the spool before I got it turned. Long story short after a fairly long fight she was 46 inches and hit the scales at 44 pounds. The picture does not do the fish justice but here it is. A BIG thanks to Marty Bull at the lunch box in Parklsey who I called at home this evening to get my fish weighed. Marty came and opened his place long enough to weigh my fish for me.. Thanks Marty. And THANK YOU John!