| Written by Capt.Allen   |
| Sunday, 18 September 2011 19:04 |
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With the hard NE wind and a serious case of EARLY cabin fever setting in, I polled the crew yesterday to see if they wanted to go down Barnegat Bay to target blowfish and other bay "bottom" fish because of the hard NE wind that was a blowing and the 5-7'ers that awaited at the inlet - 4 of the 6 crew members obliged and we picked up 1 more and headed out at 7AM with all-stars such as Flukemaster Larry and Fred M onboard. It took awhile to get down the bay, but after ~16 miles and over an hour riding time due to the no wakes in the upper bay we got to our destination behind Barnegat Inlet. We got anchored up, got the chum going and started catching some small blowfish right away as well as some snapper blues and too many 8-10" seabass and 1 small sheepshead taken by Fred. This spot dried up quickly so we headed to a bit deeper water (9') and got the hooks in. This drop was much more productive as the blowfish were mostly in the "large" to "jumbo" size as well as a couple of kingfish and taylor sized blues. We stayed with that drop till we called it quits after 1PM. We easily boated over 100 blowfish, if not more, and kept 47 of the biggest ones with only a few smaller ones going in because they were hooked deep. We also had about a dozen small bluefish mostly "taylor" sized , 2 nice kingfish, a load of small seabass and the one sheepshead. Most of the blowfish we kept were in the 8-12" range, with the biggest around 14" (we had about 10 that size) We had a productive day despite the hard NE wind, and the crew came home with nice bags of blowfish "drumsticks" for the fryer!! |
