Just got back from my 5th "honeymoon" cruise with my wife - today was the first trip since my return over the weekend.
Had a FTYP trip today with Scott A, Dave, Darren, Eric, and Pete. I wanted to check out some spots that I heard had some fish while I was away, so we started out real close to home and picked up a couple of shorts, a couple of skates, and a small ling.
Went further north, and tried some spots we had fish on last week and with no wind or current, we had no movement whatsoever. Power drifting over a few spots yielded zero bites. So, we went further north, and finally got into a little bite just as the SE wind started blowing enough to get us going. We had a nice pick of some keeper seabass, short fluke, and a few keeper fluke. A move out offshore to some deeper water yielded a few more keepers, as well as a few shorts.
By 130, we made another move back inshore and added some more shorts, another keeper, and a nice seabass. We then started making our way back south, trying a few lumps and high spots between LB and Spring Lake, as wel as down off Squan all yielding just a few bites.
Very slow day for us, just wasn't our day. We did have some nice seabass in the box, and our top fluke of the day was 22". We wound up with a dozen fish in the cooler, so it wasn't a complete loss. Back out Wednesday!!
