Yesterday I had Tony,Carman, and Steve out for their 3 rd annual combo trip. Just like everybody else that fished yesterday we set off in pea soup fog and zero viz. Safety is paramount on all trips so even through I have radar and have run many trips on electronics only we eased our way down the bay at a cautious speed. Our main concern aways being the boats running on GPS only at high speeds. This trip was no different as 3 CLOWNS in small center console showed up as an over taking vessel on my radar screen. Its nice to be within 100 yards of Barnegat Light house in zero viz and have a boat come up your stern at 25 knots with no singals or horns. I even ran up over the bar to try and put some distance between my vessel and these reckless morons. I am not sure if they were following my prop wash but they still came way to close before heading into the mist at a high rate of speed. Once we cleared the inlet and good a little room from any targets we set our sites on some seabass. The guys enjoyed great action but seemed to have a major problem with empty hooks
. LOTS of fat fish for the next trip
.. After boxing 2 dozen keeper seabass to 2.6lbs and a fat ling we headed back to the bay for some light tackle fluking. Big disappoint on the fluke. The best we could mangage was a slow pick with a few here and there. The 3 anglers finish with 14 shorts released and a couple of searobins before we called it a day. I would have to say that yesterday was the largest area of dense fog I have ever run in before. From the time I left Seaside at 630 until I came back into the bay at 11am it was pea soup.
