Fished with my sister Gail and brother-in-law Roger (Witches Bru) on "Get the Net" 18ft CC Seaswirl out of Forked River. A little bit of chop coming through the bay and turned to real slop in Barnegat Inlet. Dragged a few lines through the inlet to catch a few very small seabass as we watched plenty of rock jockeys hurling lead to the suds. After a fair amount of deliberation, Roger decided to break the inlet and headed off about 2 miles out Northeast. SLOW motoring allowed us to make way with little water coming over the bow. Seas settled down quite a bit to make for a decent day. Skies clear, warm sun with intermitent cloud cover. We had plenty of action for the next four hours drifting approximately .5 mile from the original spot, reproducing that drift consistently. Wide variety of bottom fish boated thursday. Seabass (no keepers), Croakers (nice 15"ers), Weakies (12-14"), Fluke (shorties and none of size to torment you), Robins (two small ones), Skates (1 that raised suspicion of a doormat fluke), sand shark. Plenty of top action cocktail blues to two pounds rounded out the day. Overall, a good day to be out and reflect about the ones that we lost at ground zero near our waters of Raritan Bay.
