| Written by Capt.Allen   |
| Wednesday, 10 August 2011 18:43 |
 8/10: Had a FTYP trip today with Bill H, Tony (who hasn't fished with me since we were in Chadwick!), and newcomers Emil, Bruce, Bill T, and Chris. Ran out to the NE today a few miles to our reef and found virtually NO life where we had it the last few weeks, just a few shorts. Decided to make a move and do a little change of scenery so we ran a bit north to fish the Asbury-Elberon Stretch.We set up on some #'s we had fluke on a few weeks on an afternoon trip around a lump and had instantaneous action with shorts and a keeper here and there coming in the boat. We re-drifted the same area until 2PM picking a couple of keepers a drift as well as a good amount of shorts, and a sprinkling of seabass and the biggest spotted hake I've ever seen.At 2 the wind really started honking so we ran in on the beach to finish up the day, and still had some action in there picking at shorts and 1 more nice keeper. When all was said and done we boated ~75 fluke, with 22 going in the box to ~5# taken by Bill T who was also high hook with 5. Emil had 4 nice ones, and the other guys all put keepers in the boat as well. 4 of the fish were in that 4-5# range, while the others were in that 18"-20" bracket. The guys also boated 2 keeper seabass as well as the 1 "ling" and a half dozen cocktail blues. We had a very productive day as the guys all went home with a nice sack of fillets, and it was great having some new faces on the boat! Thanks for coming down today!! |
