6/26:  Had Chris Scully charter the boat today for his buddy Elliot's bachelor party. The guys had no experience in saltwater fishing so they wanted to try a little variety of things to get a little taste of what we have down our way.

Broke the inlet @ 730 and ran up the beach, first drop was off LB in the rocks where we had some short fluke and seabass. A couple of more wiggles in that area produced more shorts but the drift slowed and the catching stopped. We then ran further north, made a few drops, then out to the deep. We made a couple of drifts out there before the current started ripping, and caught a few shorts. By our 3rd drift the current was ROARING out of the N, and we couldn't get anything to hold bottom.

We then ran back inshore, and fished the shallow stuff, only to find more shorts as we bounced around different depths and rockpiles. Back out off the beach again, the current slacked off slightly and we were able to pick up a handful of nicer fish on bait rigs - 8 oz. bucktails were getting bites as well.

Back south we got into some seabass on a rockpile, and picked away at more fluke in on the beach but they were all shorts. By 3PM it was time to switch over to bass so we found a pod of bunker S of SRI, got a few baits for the well, and went to work. Started out in the deep 2.5 miles off, no shakes - then ran back in on the pods and had 3 runoffs, and boated 1 fish @ 615PM which was a beautiful fish in the mid 30#'s taken by Chris.

LONG day, we put in almost 12 hours and got the guys some meat to take home. S swell and current certainly tempered the fluke bite, but the fish are there and when conditions improve we should get back into em good. Great group of guys, and congrats to Elliot on his upcoming wedding!