Sunday 11/6:  Finally got a break from the weather today. Had part of Gary B's charter (from a recent blow-out) on and PA Pete filled in the last slot. Game plan was to mix up bottom fishing w/ jigging bass & bluefish.  The guys wanted to get an early start and wanted to try bottom fishing first, so we did just that on a couple of pieces in 70' to the E of our inlet. Found a very slow seabass bite but boxed a couple. By 7:30 the phone started ringing about the bass bite, and after talking it over with the crew we made the move to go south and get into the bass action while it was good.

Once we got down there we found miles of birds with fish working under them, and a couple of small fleets working. We had immediate action with gator sized blues as well as a nice mix of 28-32" bass with a couple shorts thrown in. 47's w/ green, red, black, or yellow tails took all the fish adn we had 3 drifts where we had constant action where we beat on the bass and blues - the bite was at times the lock and load variety. We had our 6 man limit in 45 minutes, and played catch and release for a bit thereafter. Biggest bass was 34"/15#. Bass & blues were feeding on sandeels - sandeels were thick from Bay Head down to the park anywhere from 40-75'.

At 10 we headed back north to do some bottom fishing. Once we got set up we found a strong northerly current and an ok pick of mixed sized seabass along with some tog of mixed sizes ranging from shorts to 5#. We made 4 drops, 3 on rockpiles one on a wreck and 2 of them produced pretty well while the 2 others yielded little life. Also had some dogfish in the mix as well as some jumbo bergalls.

By 3 we were headed back to the dock with a 6 man limit of bass up to 15#, a handful of blues we kept, our 6 tog to 5# as well as 8-10 seabass (didn't get an exact count on them) and 1 real clean codfish. Kudo's to Marty "Mr Eggroll" for fishing a HANDLINE all day and catchign a few nice tog and seabass!! We had an EXCELLENT day of fall fishing and the bass bite was ridiculous. We even saw a few bluefins blowing up the sandeels off Ortley-Lava-SSH!! Great crew, great day - we'll see these guys in the spring again!!!

Weds 11/2:  Busman's holiday #2(We had ANOTHER snow day at school) as my deckhand Mike, his dad Sal and I did a seabass trip.  Fishing was ridiculous, got our 3 man limit to 2.5#  plus our 3 tog to 5#... 

Mon 10/31:  Snow day @ Work following this weekend's wild October Noreaster and 8" of snow up north.  Surf fished early and found nothing going on.  Heard of a little bass bite up north so I got Mike to come down and Joey from the Fintastic jumped on and we headed out for a few hours.  We missed the morning bite, and then missed the afternoon bite LOL.  No fish for us, but we tried out the new AVETS and they did real well!!