Got a lot of catching up to do with reports from the last 6 days.  We've been busy and it's been hard to keep up! **ALL PICS ARE IN THE GALLERY** Reports are below:

8/23: Had Andy's charter on today for a bluefish-albacore trip. Broke the inlet nice n early as the sun was coming up and ran out to our east to where the fleet has been fishing and were one of the first boats on the scence.  Got the hook in, had a nice little southerly current so we were able to get set up quickly on an otherwise flat-calm ocean and got the chum and chunks in the water. We got the rods in, and 45 seconds later, we had 3 alligator sized bluefish on and it was that way the next half hour or so.

We backed off the slick a bit, and then the albies started darting through the slick - small soft plastics and whole sardines were the ticket with the albies as we were 10-11 on the speedsters.  Bluefish were in the slick all morning. The water was so blue n clear that we were able to see the fish taking our baits 30' down.

At 10:30, the crew had had enough, and were waving the white flag. The bluefish bite was wild as we could've caught fish all day long and had every rod hooked up at all times. The albies were a bit tougher, but still were plentiful.

After they had enough of the chum/chunk bite, we went looking around the lobster pots in the hole for mahi - came up empty. One quick drop on a wreck in 90' on the way home yielded 3 keeper seabass.  Great trip - the crew is probably popping advil and sitting in a sauna right now b/c those fish whooped them. We boated a load of bluefish, kept 8 for the table while releasing the rest and the 10 albies.

8/22:  Ran out east in the dark 35 or do miles to a wreck found some bait n chicks and set up on the drift w 2 sharking sticks while chunking n jigging. Zero life.

Onto pot hopping - went 4-6 on mahi in the 3-8# range - even that was slow as 1 in every 10 pots had a mahi. Did one more shark/tuna drift, nada but a few nice king That came off the wreck.

So, we finished the day inshore w the fleet and crushed the slammer bluefish- no Albies for us though.  Long day, but a good one w a great crew!!!

8/21:  FTYP trip today.  Ran south again to the snags we've been fishing, and CRUSHED them although we had just a pick at times.  Easily boated 100+ fluke, wound up boxing up a boat limit of 35 keepers to just under 7# taken by Fred who also had 12 keepers himself.  Great day!!!!!!!!!!

8/20:  Had Bob n Charlie's crew on for their yearly charter.  Decided to fluke fish since its been so good.  Well, the N current and the light N breeze made for a real fast drift and we only caught a few fluke and 1 bluefish.  Very slow day for us!

8/18:  Larry, Fred, Brian, Kenny and I fished the FSOS fluke tournament.  Ran out in the dark and started fishing in the dark.  Hard NNE breeze started quickly kicking in and seas grew to 4-6' - had to power drift to put a catch together.  Had between 14-16 keepers only keeping 13 of the biggest ones as we had a few right @ 17.5" as we were looking for a slob.  Our best fish was Larry's whose was 5.2# - we finished in the top 10 but not good enough!