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Had the Dave Nathanson charter aboard today for Dave's son Matt's birthday trip. Along with Dave and Matt were Shane and Brian.
Ran north from the get go and got into a little life up off SRI. Just a couple of shorts, so we went further north and wound up off Asbury/Deal. Great life all around us, only thing was there was zero bird life but the screen lit up like a christmas tree. Got the jigs in - and it was game on - we stayed in this same vicinity all day just working the marks.
Very good action at times with 2-4 fish on, we did have several lulls but had plenty of mixed sized bass and bluefish. Dogfish were entirely too pesky, at times they were incredibly thick and we had trouble keeping them off the jigs no matter how fast we worked them
We wound up with about 25 bass, and about 50 bluefish. Bass were 24-35", bluefish ranged from 3-15#. Out of those 2 dozen or so bass we were able to scratch out a 4 man limit - 2 fish were right on the borderline, one was about 28.5", the rest were 30-35" topped by Brian's sandeel choked 35"/17#er.
Happy Birthday to Matt! Great day with a great crew - PERFECT November Day (NW winds 10-15, cool temps, enough sun to keep ya warm). This very well could've been the very last trip for the Seaswirl - that boat was great to me and everyone who fished on her and today's trip was a great way to end her career under that name!!
