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Had Steve Magyari, Brian Arrabito, Shane, and Matt aboard today for a 6:45-12:45 trip. Our intentions were to jig along the beach and then do some seabassin'.
Initially we were socked in with pea soup fog, but we left the slip at 645 with the fog lifting. Started out S of the inlet, in close, and had some good readings and got into a few spike weakfish. A move a little further south got into the motherlode, at least for a drift. Wild readings, top to bottom, and we had double and triple header weakfish on MACKEREL rigs. Only problem, out of the 40 or so we caught by 8:30, we only had 2 keepers.
So, I polled the crew, asked them if they were against seabassin', and off we went. Fished mainly rubble in 60-75' of water, and we were able to drift all morning long. We had a very good pick on the first drop, with a healthy mix of keepers and shorts, and then a little slower pick at the next 5 drops.
In the 3 1/2 hours we seabass fished, we boated easily 250+, boxing 70 to 2.5# -- mixed in were 8 porgies, all nice 12-14"ers as well as one cocktail bluefish. Great action, its a damn shame its closing tomorrow
We also chased around some albacore which were porpoising around us a bit - didn't even get a look by the speedsters...
We finished the day in the last 45 or so minutes in on the beach, jigging the weakfish again with a couple more keepers going in the box. Lots of nice seabass today in the 14-16" range, Shane got the biggest at about 2.5# Great short trip, lots of meat
