A good day of fishing with keeper bass over 28 , slot sized bass, short bass, big bluefish, boston mackerel and herring. Lots of baitfish around and they jigged a few mackerel and even used a few for live baits to land a couple of big, cow bass.
Lots of birds around and some decent marks on the fish finder but hard to catch. We did get some slot fish, a few over 28 and a couple big blues but it was hardly enough for the nice crowd that we had aboard.
The Gambler will be headed offshore tonight for one more canyon run, so we will not be striper fishing tomorrow (Tuesday November 17th). On Thanksgiving day, the Gambler will run a half day striper trip, leaving at 7 30 and returning by 12 30.
The Gambler has been fishing for fluke out to the Southeast a few miles this past week. On our fluke drifts we are also catching some small blues, mackerel, sea bass, sea robins, sand sharks and skates.
I am confident that the fluke fishing will get better --just a lull in the action. Our night wreck trip last Thursday produced good action on 1 to 3lb ling along with a few cod. And our night blue trips on Thursday and Friday nights were good on 1 to 3lb blues and 1lb mackerel --plenty fun-- and at times were taken 2 at a time.
But we need to cover some ground to put a catch together. We had pretty good drifts on Sunday but the Gambler was drifting about 1knot to make that catch.
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