Had the Tom Hill charter aboard today, consisting of Tom, his boys Justin and TJ, his brother Scott and his son Greg, and Mark...
With yesterday's slow fluking, and zero wind for a drift we opted to seabass/bottom fish to at least start the day then switch over to fluking later..
So, we fished some snags to the S and E of the inlet in 55-75' of water.. With zero wind and little current, we were able to drift over the pieces... Every piece we fished held some seabass, with roughly a 5:1 keeper ratio throughout the day...
First 2 drops were also loaded with smaller tog in the 12-15" range - they were so thick we were catching them on the drift...
We pretty much bounced around until we found a good concentration, and then worked the pieces to load the box up... 2 Drops were lock and load fishing, with the last being lights out fishing -- we actually went up on the anchor when the wind picked up a bit and beat on em' good...
By noon time the boys had enough of the seabass as the 125 qt cooler was almost full, so we switched over to fluking on a few drops N of the inlet... The bite was extremely slow, and we only picked a few shorts...
At the end of the day we wound up with 80 something seabass in the box, 2 ling, and released roughly 10 tog as well as a half dozen short fluke... Biggest bass was around 3#. A nice meat trip for a great group of guys!!!
