Fished a six hour charter today with the Levy family up from Atlanta. We found heavy fog early on and had to delay the trip for one hour. We decided to work a rip in the bay until the fog burned off and caught so many short fluke on the out going tide fluke that I had to go back to the dock to grab another pack of peanut bunker. After about an hour and a half of pulling in shorts, the crew wanted to try their fly fishing gear on some blues so we headed over to grassy channel and found some small blues working the area. We managed to land of few until the green heads started swarming around the boat like a mad beehive. By this time the fog had burned off and we decided to try our luck in the ocean and headed to the OPT buoys. Along the way we played around with the bunker schools and had no luck with any predators underneath. We continued on to OPT buoys and made three drifts and again continued to have steady action of short fluke and sharks. The family had a great day and we managed to put three keepers in the cooler for dinner and released around 35-40 flatties. High hook was Joey who landed eleven fluke by himself. All fluke were caught on peanut bunker and gulp minnows.
The ocean was beautiful today and I had sea temperatures of around 68 degrees. The water looked much bluer and cleaner today. I would say it was the best looking water I have seen all year. Maybe an offshore eddy worked its way in but I am hoping that things might have finally turned for the better. There was bunker pods for as far as your eyes could see.
