Yesterday was a double half day. Slick calm, too calm had us bouncing around looking for a drift and fish. Some spots sea robins and sharks. Some with shorts and a few with quality keepers. We pieced together a good haul for Brian and his group that came from far and wide.
Trip two was windy. Almost too much. The fish from morning moved and we had to start fresh. We got into a solid bite of 17 1/2 “ fish. We did manage keepers but it was hard and frustrating. Added shark and robins to supplement the meat stack... Orlando and his boy can’t wait to do it again ?
Today for most of it,was far calmer and fish freindly than yesterday.Our group came with food and drinks for a small army and with game faces on we slid to the abyss.Ding ding.The bass didn't disappoint.They got their limit of nice fish with a lot of 14-17" fish in the mix.Great group!
Early start got is to the sea bass grounds pretty quick in front of steadily building wind.Fish were more sluggish than usual.I'm guessing maybe 120 to150 fish came to the boat to produce 21 keepers sea bass 2 bluefish for shark bait and a dandy fluke of about 4-5 pounds.Great guests and looking forward to their return!
Yesterday was an all day sea bass run. The fish were there in numbers! They need to be 12 1/2 inches to keep and about 9 out of ten were a quarter inch short. Still we pieced together our limit of 50 out of i'm guessing 500 we caught.Our youngest caught a dandy tog which he proudly released.Our lady angler got two of three "dinner plate" porgies that we added.We kept a couple shark bait bluefish from a blitz we found on the way home.Most of our sea bass trips are half day but they had so much fun we stretched to all day.Gotta love sea bass!
We were supposed to be done with striped bass but had to stretch it a day to make up for a weather cancellation. That always makes me nervous. Our last trip was outstanding and would have been a great finish to the season. Fish had been giving lots of signs the run might be near its end. Some had dropped their eggs and some about to. Full moon. Warm water. Heavy weather last night then stiff wind this morning had me worried. The guests arrived and could see they could take a little chop.
We scored quick with a 29” keeper. That was followed by two 36” studs. Things got quiet. A pair of 32” rounded out our limit. I poked around some then the mother load showed up! It was on fire! We went at it hard and released 28 fish to 44 inches during the next two hours! All that worry in the night for nothing. ?