Went down with a friend to the Northern Neck on Monday afternoon to do a little Stripper fishing Tuesday. My place was closed for the season so I stayed at his place and went out with another friend on his boat. They all have places near mine and actually I was the one who introduced them to the Northern Neck. Lower Potomac River near where it enters the bay.
Tuesday morning was beautiful..
On the way out the creek we came upon all these work boats all bunched up. I realized they were tonging oysters. The area they were allowed to work was only about 5 acres. The area was marked by flags on poles and a marine resources officer was there to make sure they didn't go outside the flagged area. In 8 days they got 5000 bushels out of there. I know one of the watermen working it and talked to him yesterday afternoon about it.
Water was calm but with overcast skies.
Found birds working and started catching bang..bang..bang... This is the ones we kept.
In the afternoon the fog set in so bad we couldn't see 50 feet.. Unfortunately my friends gps was on the blink so we ran the 30 miles back by compass and charts.
All and all a good day and was going to do it Wednesday also but the wind came up in the night and small craft advisories we posted so we didn't go out.
Hope to do it again after XMas...