9JUN13 POL/TKAA Charity Tournament for the Boston Marathon.

Was a late start getting up at sunny 0600 to make the 0700 captain's meeting. Was another meeting of putting faces with names from the internet. After filling out the forms and grabbing an identifier I paddled out onto Lynnhaven Inlet just as the tide was coming in. I started out fishing the grass, hopin to find a redfish hiding. I used gulp shrimp(natural) on a white jig head. I managed 3 croaker right off on the first 3 casts, none over 10 inches so I decided to paddle over to the channel to see what was happening. 3 boats were vertical jigging with cutbait and squid and were catching small throwback flounder. I made a few drift pasts to see if I could come up with anything and struck out. I paddled around and talked to a few people who said they were havin about the same luck, small croakers. I started getting the tails taken off my shrimp so I switched to a chartreuse swimming mullet and sped up my retrieve. I managed a few more croaker but no red fish or flounder. Then BB called and said she was having trouble unloading at the boat ramp so I went back to assist her. Once I found her we paddled back straight out from the ramp and ran into Tom VanderHeiden who said they were catchin flounder at the tennis court. So me and BB paddled over that way hopin to bring one in ourselves. It must have been a good fish because it got crowded pretty quick once we got over there. We drifted a few passes and then continued on. I started fishin the drop off from the sandbar across from the tennis court with a 3/8 oz hand tied bucktail/white grub and hooked up on 'somthing' that felt like a flounder, dead weight which then started peeling line/moving once I set the hook hard. A few tense seconds and drag noise and then nothing. Reeling in a looped end of braid where there was suppose to be a leader not and 24 inches of flouro leader is very discouraging. The only real bite of the day, the rest of the day we spent fishing the sand bars reeling in small croaker. Biggest going 10 inches but was unable to get him to hold still on the hawg trough for a photo. The real fun didnt start until we got to Salty C's for the weigh in. Great specials on food and drinks and tellin stories with people who ive gotten advice from on the forums. It was pretty surprising to learn of some of the catches people had throughout the day. 20+ inch flounders, rays, and 15 inch croakers. Guess its a good thing they were released so I can catch them next time! Having some technical difficulties with the camera so pics are below, I may get around to editing so it flows better at a later date.