Written by Capt.Allen   |
Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:31 |
7/20: FTYP trip today with Bill P, Bob C, Jeff, and Coach Dave. We were greeted by the thickest fog I've probably ever seen on the way out. It took us a solid 25 minutes from Clark's to clear the inlet - I aged 5 years on that ride. We had intentions of fishing further north but settled in on the rough stuff 4-7 miles NE of our inlet. First drift produced a quick 2 keepers and shorts, second drift we had more shorts and a nice seabass, the it dried up. We went on to check a couple more areas - and found some fish a couple miles N of where we started. More shorts here, but still picked a few keepers as well as a ling. We also spotted a "chicken" mahi swimming around the boat - didn't get that one. 7/21: Had John M charter the boat today with his son Brian and nephew Phil for a half-day shot at bluefish and fluke. Ran north, ocean was nice and visibility was almost 3 miles all the way up to the rocks... Started out jigging on some marks, and we hooked 2 quick bluefish, but lost both. The next 2 hours we were in search mode, dropping jigs on ridiculous marks but the fish weren't responding. Tried shads, krocs, tail-less ava's, etc. just couldn't get it going... Ran in on the beach to finish up the morning fluke fishing, and had very good action with short fluke topped by 1 right @ 18" and a beautiful 3# seabass both taken by Phil. We finished up trying to chase down some more bluefish but it wasn't meant to be so we headed for the barn @ 1230. |