On Sunday my day started on the XPlor the Outdoors Radio Show with Mr. Jim and Mrs. Patty Solomon. I was on the part called Xplor the Outdoorz Kidz. I was the last kid they talked to and we talked about fishing in Virginia. We spent a lot of time talking about Black Drum and what makes fishing fun. Thank you Dr. Ball for hooking me up on this, it was a lot of fun.

After the show was over, me and my dad went down to the boat. We thought it would be a good spot day, but we did not find any on Hampton Bar so we decided to cast at the rocks. I was using a Gulp shrimp on a jig and I got a 29 in Red Drum. He was a lot of fun on light spinning tackle. I also got a 14 in Speck on the same jig. Next my dad hooked up with what we thought was a puppy drum, but it turned out to be a 24 in release citation speckled trout. He caught the speck on a white bucktail with a Gulp shrimp.

Next I decided to try my fly rod. I was using a 6wt sinking line with a bendback fly that kind of looks like a shrimp. On my third cast I got my first saltwater fish on a fly, it was a 15in flounder. We didn’t catch a lot of fish, but it was a cool day.

Your friend Drew

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