Had Jimmy Fells and his boys Kenny G, Kenny C, Shades, Ralphy, and Cubby on board today for another shot at the bass. Broke the inlet early and found the pea soup, but it quickly broke and we were able to get some live bunkers in the well - it wasn't easy but we got roughly 2 dozen baits. First snagged bunker actually yielded a couple of monster bluefish on the snags - the guys sent down live baits quickly thereafter and the bites started immediately.
Bites were real weird today, fish were picking the bunker up, playing with it, then dropping it. After we got a call (Thanks Dan!) that there was some more life a little bit to our south, we finally got into the fish. I was able to get up to the bow and nail a nice 25# fish on a live bait, and the bites continued at a slowish pace. We picked one bass, another, dropped a few, had a few bites, etc.
Around noon, I decided to take a ride S and found a few fish busting on top, and as I was slowing the boat, the ocean erupted as about 3 acres of bass were BLOWING UP off the bow; cannon balls falling from the sky, bunker flying out of the water, etc. We got the boat right on the edge, got 5 or 6 baits in, and got 5 or 6 real quick bites. At this point we had a few livies, but chunks, heads, and dead bunkers all drew bites. This wide-open bite lasted at best 5 minutes, but we made the most of it!
We got every one of those fish to the boat as well, topped off by the last one, a nice 48"/40# slob taken by Jimmy which only had a couple of bunker in its gullet, if that fish was a "fat" 48" it would've pushed 50#.
After that, we went up on the troll, and didn't even get a knockdown. We went back to chunks later on, and again just had a few small bluefish for our efforts.
Overall a terrific day - we wound up with 8 nice bass and a few bluefish, most were in that cookie cutter 20-30# range, but Jimmy had the big fish (pic is below, and it doesn't do him justice as Jimmy is a big dude @ 6'4"!). Everybody got fish to the boat today, including Shades, which made it even better!
