9/1:  Reel Class is back in its slip at Clark's Landing and we are finally ready to start fishing again following Hurricane Irene.  Luckily we suffered no damage and the boat fared perfectly well!  Out of good faith, I cancelled the bottom trip on 8/30 and the FTYP trip on 8/31 due to the dirty water and unsettled conditions following the hurricane.  I couldn't take my fares out for a glorified boat ride to catch (hopefully) a few fish - so, we will be back at it shortly.  I start the other job tomorrow but we will be back at it next weekend fluking and hopefully getting one more shot at the seabass before it closes!!

8/26:  Today's FTYP was cancelled - Clark's Landing ordered all boats to be removed from the marina due to Hurricane Irene so we had the guys at the marina haul the boat out and block it until the storm passes - the boat was hauled around noon time on Friday. 

8/25: Kenny and I had Bob Schmidt charter the boat with pops Kenny, Charlie, and Bob's kids Bobby, Nick, and Billy. These guys fished with me last year and did some major damage to the seabass population. They were limited to their days to fish since they rent a house in Lavalette so 8/25 was the only day they could fish - I gave them the options (reschedule or fish the river) and they chose the latter.

Our first move would be to run up to the N end of Barnegat Bay early in the morning to do a little worming for weakfish, kingfish, etc. but all we found up there was 1 lonely sea robin. We then ran back through the canal and fished upriver near the 70 bridge, and caught a few small white perch and croakers on sandworms, as well as a "just miss" fluke taken by Bobby which got him "big" fish honors and a new reel class t-shirt. We also caught what looked to me like a cross between a croaker and white perch - it turns out the fish was a SILVER PERCH (thanks to our friends @ NJFishing.com) aka sea or sand perch which are supposedly quite populous in areas just to our south, and are quite delicious.

We then switched over to fluking for the remainder of the day, and fished every nook and cranny in the river but only boated about 15 shorts. Gulp, live killies, whatever - the fish just didn't bite. Water was filthy, and the current was screaming. Nevertheless the guys had a GREAT time and already have their trip in the book for next summer.  (Pics are in the gallery!)