Man, some days you get them, some days they get you. Today was the latter of the two.
Had George Wilson, Jim Mulvey, Jule Raichle, and Paul Lukas aboard for an open combo trip. Ran north out of the inlet, and was greeted with a very pleasant, June-like 49 degree water temperature at the crack. Got a call from a buddy who had a few knockdowns pulling spoons off Spring Lake/Belmar, so we went there, and trolled that stretch with chartreuse and white spoons, and didn't have no more then a sniff in 2 hours.
Made A LOT of calls for intel, no one was catching. So we stayed in that area, found some jiggable marks, jigged, and caught nothing.
Switched over to fluking in tight to 50 feet, and George nailed 2 real nice snails on a spearing/squid combo (LMAO!) ... NOT EVEN A SKATE!
Ran inside at around 11:45 to catch the last of the tide at the canal, broke out the spinning rods and some small jigs, and first drifted and caught more of a skunk. BUT, alas, after putting the hook in right in front of the old hospital we began to pick away at taylor and cocktail sized blues until the tide sputtered out, and again on the way in had a few good drifts from the 11 to Clark's with some "bigger" 3-4# bluefish. Those fish again saved the day for us today, and shook off the skunk, and provided great sport on relatively light tackle.
For the day we had maybe 15-20 1-4# blues, but that was it! Overall it was a VERY tough day, but its days like today that make the good days that much better!
