Very quick update - the last few bottom fishing trips have been pretty good with lots of seabass, cod and ling coming up as well as a stray fluke or two.

Saturday: Had a full 6 man open boat crew on yesterday for a bottom fishing trip. Ocean was gorgeous early although there was a smallish swell from the SE.Basically went out to where we had a good bite last weekend and still found some life, however it was mostly short seabass along with 2 nice keeper cod caught by Tommy. Bounced around, picked a few everywhere in this area but in general it was very slow.

Made a move offshore to fish a few large wrecks. First one was fair with a few nice seabass coming up as well as shorts, but that was short lived. The next one was NG, the third one was VERY good with drop and reel fishing for the entire time we were on it. An even mix of keepers and shorts, the bite was excellent as we also added a few ling to the box.

Finished up trying a couple more wrecks in the area, and the fishing was only so-so. Also tried our reef - it as VERY slow as we only had bergalls.To finish the day we did 2 fluke drifts to the E of our inlet and had 1 nice fish come up by Larry Flukemaster (Lingmaster?) on one of his hooked on bucktails - a nice 3# fish.

Good day overall with 80 keeper seabass, 10 ling, 2 cod and the fluke - we also had another 3-4 VERY luck tog that went back alive - the ones we had today were all in the 15-17" range. We were just short of the crew's limit but they still had a load to bring home for a fish fry. Overall a great day with a great crew!!

Sunday: Yesterday we had Les and the Members of the Fish-On Fishing Club from Maryland on board. The 4 members (Les, Nicole, Chief, and Jarvis) drove up to Pt. Pleasant overnight from North Carolina from a redfish/speckled trout trip - they are beasts!!

Started out on a wreck and had decent life, picked up some shorts and keepers, as well as a couple ling, but it was tough going. Hit a few more wrecks and picked a few everywhere, but no great shakes. We eventually worked our way back to the south to another piece and we had some decent fishing for a bit with some nice knuckleheads coming up, as well as a beautiful shimano calcutta 400 and terramar rod as well as a beautiful 2# seabass (this is NOT a lie!) - an angler on another boat fishing this piece dropped it in the water on the hookset, saw us get the rod up, and shouted over to us. Our agreement was he keeps the rod, we keep the fish

Around noon time it seemed the inshore bite dried up so we shot off to one of my favorite ling/cod wrecks out to the east in 120'. Surprisingly life there was very slow - lots of bergalls and ocean pout, but Les picked a double header keeper cod, a nice 12#, and Nicole added a nice keeper while Chief put a few ling in the box. Overall though, even that offshore stuff seemed slow.

Called it a day at 2 - had 45 seabass, an even dozen ling, and 4 cod in the box as well as one sea raven. Nice day with a great crew - fishing was only fair but we were able to get some fish in the cooler!