Had a full boat today with Mike, Gene, Bill P, Dale, Mark, and Dom aboard. We got down to the boat by 6 and found a good NE breeze blowing and a real nasty chop when we took a look up on the beach. I made the call that we would start in the river, wait it out, then head outside for seabassin' if things subsided - I gave the guys the option to come along or to reschedule; so, 2 rescheduled for next week and we sailed with 4.
Started in the back, picked a load of shorts and 1 keeper by Mark. Went up E of the train bridge, found a load more shorts, no more keepers. By 945 we decided to give it a look out front and it seemed OK so we shot out to a snag about 5 miles outside our inlet in 4-5' confused washer-machine type sets, and set up on a the piece in 70' of water. Had to put out a good amount of scope but initially we set up real nice on the piece. As soon as we got the rigs down we had lock and load seabass yet again for about a half our; but we got a real big swing going and we would repeatedly get knocked off the piece -- once we got back on it we got into them but the bite slowly waned to a very slow pick.
By 12 we had had enough, and with the outgoing @ the inlet starting soon we ran back inside to finish up the day. Again we loaded up on shorts E of the train bridge, and got 1 more keeper right there taken by Bill. We finished up the day W of 35 and had more action along with the biggest keeper of the day of 20" taken by Dom.
Many of the fluke in the river were in that 16.5"-17.75" range, its a shame tossing back so many nice fish. We also had a load of postage stamps as well.
We finished the day with 15 seabass in the box to 1.5#, 3 fluke to 20", and 1 nice ling. We boated probably 75 or so fluke in total, and around 30 seabass. With the crappy conditions I think we fared OK - of course we could've did better but that's how it goes
