Had Mike G, Brian M, Doc, Jason, and Dan aboard with Kenny and I this morning.. Ran up north, hoping to find something to jig, but only stopped on some readings between the church and the rocks.. Some boats trolling were picking away a bit..
Got a call that there was a little more life S of Manasquan Inlet, so off we went at 24 Kts and got there just shy of 10AM.. Bite at first was slow, just a few bluefish and a nice bass taken by Mike, but as we started south we saw some bird life in closer to the beach and once we arrived, we found chunky bass and bluefish rolling right on top feeding on rainfish and bunker.
We put the storm shads on, and it was GAME ON. 2-3-4, even 5 fish on at a time the bite was pretty ridiculous from 10:30-12:30. During that period of time, we had roughly 85% keeper bass with the other 15% being bluefish and just 3 short bass. We had fish rolling right around the boat all morning long, and we also had multiple fish following the shads right up to the boat.
By 2PM the bite slowed when the S wind started blowing, but we were still picking away pretty good at the bass but with more bluefish in the mix. It seemed after 1PM 5-7 oz. krocs were starting to work better as opposed to the 4-6" shads.
Great day, we boated easily 60 keeper bass, if not more, plus around 2 dozen bluefish, and of course a few short bass. We easily boxed our limit, we actually had it by around 11AM. Of course we only kept our limit, top fish was roughly 18-19#, and the rest of the 40-50 bass we released were all in good shape and lived to fight another day - today was THEIR lucky day Again, great day, great crew, I really don't know who had high hook or anything like that... Whatever the case it was another one for the books
(I will post pics on my site and here tomorrow afternoon)
