Had the Paul Treaster charter aboard today. The charter consisted of Paul and his wife Darla who own a cabin complex out in PA, and they brought along 4 of their clients, Matt, Carrie, Jay, and Jason, all of which were from the great state of Oklahoma. For a couple of them, this was the first time they had ever seen the ocean!!
Nice stiff breeze out of the NNW all day long, so we fished local snags in 55-70' of water. First drop was lock and load, all nice seabass in the 13-15" range. We had 20 keepers in roughly the first 10 minutes, and it slowly waned to a pick in an hour. Made a few shifts on the anchor, and continued to catch. Paul nailed our only cod on this drop, which was 20" and was released unharmed after a quick picture. By the time we moved to our second drop we already had 60+ keepers in the box.
Second drop was equally as good. Very few throwbacks, and some real nice knuckleheads. Matt nailed a bonafide 5#er (certified on the digital!) at this drop. Had many double headers here, as well as a couple of blackfish that went back and a nice ling.
We made two more productive drops, picking away at some nice fish. By 1:30, a hard N current kicked in and the fishing shut off.
When all was said and done we had 115 keeper seabass in the box, as well as one ling. We released a couple of blackfish, as well as the one short cod, and what seemed like another load of short seabass.
This was the best seabass fishing we had so far this season, without a doubt!!! The crew wanted to head back to PA with a load of fillets, and that's exactly what they got!! Great day, with a great crew!!
