Good fishing today, although not as good as the 2 days prior.
Started off fishing just north of the inlet in about 60'. Capt. Allen was the first to hook up with a medium sized bluefish that fell for a blue/white butterfly jig (good thing I spoke with Capt. Allen yesterday and he informed to pickup 1 or 2 of these jigs).
I started off using a tubeless AVA047 but didn't get a touch on the first drift and soon tied on a 3 ounce ProFish blue/white butterfly jig. Since this was my baptism (under fire you might say) using this jig it took me a few minutes to get the feel for it. Once I did, I took my first bluefish soon followed by a spiney dogfish 9yuch and then a short bass (I would later add a herring to the species of fish I caught on this jig). We stayed in this area and picked away at bluefish with some going double digits, all had fat bellies. It didn't take long be I took a nice 36" #17 bass. I lost two more nice fish before we motored south over to the Axel Carson Reef. Had a nice steady pick of bass in the 24-26" class and alot of medium-to large bluefish. I added a second keeper bass of 35.5"s. We had another keeper bass was lost at boatside Once this action died we made a short fishless attempt at pulling shad rigs. With Capt. Allen keeping steady tabs on the areas action via his network of friends, we headed inshore off Ortley and were immediately greeted with a quadrupole hookup of large bluefish. I added another 35" bass before we started working our wway back north along the beach stopping & catching bluefish along the way. Headed back out to deeper water but nothing doing on jigs. Decided to pull the shad rigs again where we added a few more schoolie bass to our total. On the way in we came across a few scale bluefish blitz outside the inlet and drop and reel bluefish. Didn't matter at this point what you were throwing. Left them biting. Lost count of the total number of fish caught but safe to say it was 50+. Most on the aforementioned butterfly jigs, some on megabaits.
