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Had Steve Magyari, John Toth, Ron Wong, and Jim Zimmer aboard for a bottom trip today.
Initially we fished around 2 wrecks to the NE of our inlet. Since there was zero wind or current, we drifted over the pieces. The first 2 drops were painfully slow, just a few short seabass with a keeper or two and a couple of nice porgies, but that was it. We scratched around a bit, then found a good pick on some rubble/debris just N of where we started.
Got a very good pick going, and stayed with this general area throughout the rest of the day. At times, we all 4 guys with fish on, lots of double headers, and a nice mix of fish - porgies, and seabass. The bite only slowed for a short period of time, and then when the SE breeze came up we sat on the hook for awhile, but that produced only a few bites and no more fish for the box; so we went back on the drift and started catching again.
An incredible amount of life around. We blew through a 4 gal bucket of bellies, and must've easily boated 200 seabass if not more with the vast majority of them being over 12". Only problem was even more were in that 12-12.5" range. With that said though, we put somewhere between 65-70 in the box, along with a dozen NICE porgies up to 3#, and one 4# triggerfish. Biggest seabass was only about 2#.
Great day, not quite a slaughter but we put a nice mess of fish in the box and the guys went home with bags full of meat! Great trip, great company
And Steve, no I didn't go to Shoprite LOL
