Adam LaRosa took his friends out for a weekend of fishing and fun to celebrate Mike Elton’s pending nuptials to a lovely ‘ex Baltimore Ravens Cheerleader – Tara. On Friday it was just Adam, Mike, Brad Burgess, John Timken and Chris Hempstead and we had all the baits we needed in the livewell within minutes and ran off to 60 feet of water and put her on the drift. It didn’t take long to tease the bass up behind the boat and our first drift had 8 fish to the boat. We followed that up with 2 more quick drifts and had 18 fish to our credit to 33 pounds before 11am. We handed off the rest of our baits to the 48’ Canyon Runner and headed home to be back at the dock by noon so the drinks could start flowing.

On Saturday Adam LaRosa had a bunch more of Mike Elton friends on the boat who came up for Baltimore and were slightly beat up from a night of partying. We decided to at least give the Sea Bass a shot on opening day but fishing the 60’ Ritchie proved difficult to anchor on a wreck without a pulpit and still get us right over the piece with very little wind. We did hang over one wreck for an hour and caught about 50 sea bass with 20 keepers before running inshore for Stripers. We quickly caught a ton of bunker and went back to 60 feet of water just north of Manasquan but did not find the fish. A call from Capt. Paul on the Bounty Hunter had us run up by Belmar and we immediately had fish on before the boat came to a stop. In fact, we had five big stripers on at once. In a quick hour we had 20 bass to the boat up to 35 pounds and picked a few more in the next hour before calling it a day.