Had John Hrichak charter the boat today to put some meat in the cooler. We left the inlet at 715 and headed south to fish some snags that were productive on Tuesday. With an easterly wind and 2-3' seas early we couldn't drift, so we had to sit on the anchor all day.
First drop was where we did well on Tuesday. Today we found a LOAD of short seabass as well as a few tog to 14" on this piece. We were able to pick a few keepers out of it through what seemed like a zillion shorts.
We then made a few wiggles, picked a few more keepers, and loads of shorts again. For the rest of the day, we made about 8 more drops, each produced a few keepers, amidst even more short seabass. One of the drops, we pulled another August cod in 62' of water which was 20".
For the final drop we finished up where we started, and had our best pick of the day with many more shorts but a solid 20 keepers coming out to 3#. John and his buddy Zach each pulled beautiful 3# fish out and Keith nailed a nice 2.5#er there.
For the day, we easily boated 200+ seabass, boxing around 40 keepers, as well as 6 tog to 14", and 1 codfish @ 20". The guys had a blast, and even with a couple of guys feeling it from the building 3-5'ers, everyone caught fish. Zach kept Mike and I, as well as the rest of the crew rolling all day as the dude can certainly have a great stand-up act! Thanks guys!!!
