Sunday 10/31:  Open boat trip today with Bill P, Ryan, Zeb, John, and Joey A. Started out right outside with some birds working - nothin'.. Went offshore a bit where we had them yesterday - more nothin'...

Ran further south, finally got into some bird life between the T-Bird and seaside... Immediately got into some bluefish - as the wind swung west, the birds started coming up - EVERYWHERE. We had birds with fish under them to the south of us, to the north, and to the east - they were as far as the eye could see. Mostly bluefish slirping down the rainfish, but we did have bass mixed in. The action was WILD at times, where we had all 5 guys hooked up, banging into each other, weaving around rods - it was nuts!!! Reads at times were TOP TO BOTTOM.

I was lucky enough to nail a beautiful 9.6# bonito as well on a 5 oz jersey jay kroc just as the bite got going. Then We had a few good cracks at the bass - but they seemed to disappear after 10 AM. Bluefish were everywhere - big, mean and hungry! The blues were in the 7-14# range, Bill got one that looked an honest 15#!!! We blew up a few diamond jigs, straightened a few hooks, including 2 trebles!!! I also nailed a nice 32" bass on a popper in the middle of the wild surface action. Ryan also had a load of blues on topwater.

We ran around this area until around noon when it just got too snotty, and looked inshore for some life, but we found nothing. We called it a day around 2 with 7 keeper bass in the box, most were in the 29-31" range, and the 1 bonito. We also released upwards of 75 bluefish. This was one of the best days of fall jig fishing we've had in a few years - it was wild!!

Saturday 10/30:  Had the Jim Fells charter aboard today, consisting of Jim, his brother Corey, and "Shades," Chris, Ralph and Kenny.  Started out down south jigging on some birds and marks, with some fish busting right on top with the sandeels - only had a few jumbo bluefish to show for our efforts. Got a bit further south, and again only got more bluefish. Ran S towards seaside, again more bluefish, then back to the north -- more bluefish!

Got a call around 11:15 that there were a few bass being caught up near our inlet, so off we went. Once we got there we found a lot of birds working over a large area again on sandeels and some other unidentified bait, and we got into a real good bite of bluefish again - but finally we were able to get a good shot of bass; first fish was 28" by ralph, the other 2 were nice 15# twins taken by Jimmy and Kenny, and we had a 4th right at the net when the hook pulled.

By 1:30 the jigging action dried up, so we made a drop on our local reef targeting tog. First drop was slowish with short tog, some seabass, and a copule of porgies coming in the boat. We made a wiggle, and got a decent bite going with all blackfish and a few seabass which would've been "Monday keepers" topped by a 2# taken by Ralph. Most of the tog we pulled were just under 14", but we were able to squeak out 6 keepers; Jimmy got one about 4# and Chris got one in the 6# class.

Very good day action wise, we wound up with a load of blues, the 3 bass, and the tog as well as a couple of porgies and the seabass which are swimming safely till Monday. Jimmy and crew were great as always - thanks for coming down guys!