Jones's Fishing Success!

Early cat fish and croaker fishing on the Rappahannock River!  Some good eating there!!

Big Croaker Tournament

A little wet but winners!!  Congrats to all who entered and supported Tappahannock Rotary.

The 2016 Tappahannock Rotary Big Croaker Tournament summary:
- An impressive 55+ boats (out of more than 80 registered) participated despite today's rain, wind, and seas. TRC thanks everyone who registered and participated from several states - including folks who drove all the way from PA and NJ!  
- Here is the list of this year's winners by Adult and Youth categories:

Adult:
1st Place - Son Nguyen, 1.1 pound Croaker, $2,000 prize (including a $500 bonus for registration before May 1st). Boat # 6
2nd Place - Leonardo Garcia, $1,000 prize. Boat # 36
3rd Place - Casey Taylor, $500 prize. Boat # 47
4th Place - Ba Nguyen, $250 prize. Boat # 5
5th Place - Matt Selak, $150 prize. Boat # 14

Youth:
1st Place - Hung Nguyen, $300 prize. Boat # 6
2nd Place - Luan Nguyen, $200 prize. Boat # 7
3rd Place - Kyle Selak, $100 prize. Boat # 14

Congratulations to all of these winners - and thanks again to everyone who participated!

The gun raffle was won by Bock Sanders

The early entry fee refund was won by Boat #3, Philip Donnelly

Croaker Tournament May 21st

Sign up at www.bigcroaker.com

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Croakers & Catfish

The Jones display a nice catch of croakers and catfish today caught in the Bowlers Wharf area ! These are the first fish we have seen for 2016!!

Thanksgiving Bounty at Garrett's Marina

>The Bowie's proudly displaying some nice stripers aboard their new
>pre owned boat purchased from Garrett's Marina!

Miss Twiford's Puppy Drum catch

Caught aboard a 2320 Parker ……… one of my
daughters with a 32" puppy drum. She looks happy I think

Some Sunday Fishing

Unfortunately striper season is not in so practiced catch and release on these!!

Garrett's Marina Day Out on the Water!

Garrett's Marina has the stuff you need for a day on the water! Ice,
Bait, fuel, and tubes ! Come check us out!!!

Catching Fish

Sam Muse of Mechanicsville enjoying some light tackle action !! From
the river to the pan dinner was good as you can see! That's fresh!!

Garrett's Marina under ice

Garrett's Marina and the Rappahannock River got more than its fair
share of ice today!

Rowe Robinson

For those of you who do not know this man he is Rowe Robinson of Harborside Storage ! One of the hardest working guys we know ! Rowe was busy clearing snow on one of the coldest mornings so far. Burt it's cold !

Nice speck near Bowlers.

Red Drum caught near Marina jetties

Here is the picture of the 20" red drum caught by my brother in law
Mark Brown on my boat August 31 on squid. He caught it just outside
of the mouth of the marina to the right where the shell bed is. We
fish that bed quite a bit and it produces. We are still debating on
the boatel and it is always a pleasure speaking with you. Jay

Black drum citation!

David Shearwood with a citation 62.1 lb. black drum. David is
pictured with his two grand children!

Rock Fish

Get ready they are out there !

Andy Andrews and Freddie Garrett with one of four red drum caught at Bowlers Wharf on curly tale grubs.

Matt Hamilton' Parker 2300 DV

Matt dropped in for his 20 hour service with his new 2300 DV Parker
he recently purchased from Garrett's Marina. Also showing off his
new custom T-Top with a hard top ! Matt loves fly fishing on the
Eastern Shore of Virginia.... Congrats Matt !

Parker Boat plant visit!

Sent from my iPhoneResidents of Tappahannock along with local Parker dealer Louis Muse,
owner of Garrett's Marina visit Parker Boat Company while vacationing
in Beaufort NC.

Nice red drum

The big news again this summer around Garrett's Marina is red drum fishing. Anglers as far up the Rappahannock as Tappahannock are hauling in fish in the 18" to 26" range in abundance. Bottom rigs with squid or casting Gulp shrimp seem to be the most popular programs. Pictured here is Jr. captain Thompson holding two 20" reds.

Fishing update from Wes Blow

Striper season was less than great but I did catch my personal best.
A 52 pounder eeling at the CBBT at night of December 23rd. The next
day I took my wife Amy speck fishing and she caught her first ever
citation fish of any species a 25.5 release citation. I had some
really good speck days in December and January catching over 50 fish
several days. One day, a friend and I had about 60 fish and 25 were
over 21 inches. Many were speck citations all but one released this
season - one friend was just short of a release citation but a few
ounces over weight citation. Recently I have been tog fishing on a
friends bigger boat, I have not been able to get to the fish because
of the wind with my boat. I have caught a 13 pound tog and released a
25 incher for a citation that weighed 10 pounds on the boat scale.
Hoping to get out this Wednesday on my boat. I have about 356 hours
on it now..... Wes Blow