11 28 2017 Today we had my longtime friend and mentor Douglas Ruppel and his minions,Bobby,Renato and Antonio out for striped bass. We quickly put our under limit on ice and then landed a beautiful plump 44 bass that was just under 40 .

Made two drops and managed a nice pick of keepers to 8 lbs mainly on jigs with plenty of short life throughout the day.

11-28-17 Nice day today,fishing in the morning was sluggish,few nice fish here or there,some shorts. looks like a nice west wind for tomorrow so the ocean will be very nice.

A much better day today then yesterday. We caught some keepers today along with bonus fish and shorts.

After catching a few shorts casting 5-inch Tsunami Shads to birds in the middle of the bay to get things started, we moved over to the N. Y. side and put the live bunkers to good use before running out of them while releasing keeper bass up to almost 20 pounds on the same drift producing steady action with the shads for small bass which certainly dominated our fishing. At Atlantic Highlands, the Sea Hunter reported a very good first drift with a mix of shorts, slots and keepers.