8/24:  Had some of my friends from work, all teachers on board today. Tony, Sonia, Ani, Merin, Danielle and Colleen along with Michael and I. With the S coming on in the afternoon we fished the local stuff to our S for seabass and tog.

Made a total of 5 drops in 4 hours, and each produced some keeper seabass, LOADS of shorts, and a few tog. Most of the keeper seabass were real nice fish, over 14" with just a few "just" keepers topped by a 3#er and a few 2.5#ers.

At the end of the trip we boated ~75 seabass, with 20-25 keepers going in the box as well as 6 tog, 4 of which were keepers topped by a nice 3#er and one 4' long silver eel. Not a lot of bergalls, but lots of 8-12" seabass. Rods were bent all day, and everyone went home with some fish! Good trip!!

8/23:  Had Rich Comly charter the boat with his wife Toni, nephew Scott and his wife Becky for their annual summer charter. This year the crew opted to do some bottom fishing, so we shot out to the deep to fish in the 100-150' range targeting cod, ling, and seabass. A little sloppy early on, and we sat in the trough on anchor, but we picked away slowly at a mixed bag of keeper and throwback cod, mostly keeper seabass, and jumbo ling. We made a few shifts, tried a few other pieces, and continued to pick away. We also had a couple of short pollock and 3 short tog while sitting at anchor.

By noon time the wind let up and we went up on the drift, picking more at everything else including more keeper cod and a double header taken by Toni. Becky was on fire catching a few nice keeper cod, topped by the biggest of the day @ 11# with the assistance of Scott. Toni also "snagged" a 10# bluefish while reeling in her rig.  We tried a few other wrecks that had some life on them a week or so ago, but we only had a few more short cod to show for our efforts.

At day's end we had a real nice mess of fish, all quality: 18 keeper seabass to 3.5# (smallest 14"), 12 ling to 4#, and 10 keeper cod to 11# (taken by Becky) as well as one 10# bluefish. We also had about 20 short cod, 2 short pollock (both @ 14") and 3 short tog and 2 sea ravens one of which was big enough to make it to the fillet table. Great day, and the crew was wonderful and went home with huge sacks of fish!!!

8/22:  FTYP trip with Brian, Terry, Tom, Bill H, and Rich D. Started out locally, picked a few, then went north and had a very slow pick of mostly shorts w/ a keeper mixed in here and there as well as some seabass and taylor sized blues, as well as dogfish, birds, and a huge stargazer... Very tough day for us, just couldn't find em', too much current + wind in on the beach, and not enough bites off the beach... The guys all had some fillets to take home today but it was not nearly enough - only had 8 fish in the box all day long and had to cut the trip due to one of the guys not feeling so well... Biggest went to Brian witha 22"er taken early in the trip...