Had Gary Decker's & Doc Sokol's combined charter today - the 2 groups combined for today's trip after Doc's trip was cancelled earlier this week due to weather and Gary's group had a couple of guys drop out.
We broke the inlet just after 7 and found a big mean heave out of the SE and incredibly dirty water. Nevertheless we pushed offshore and a bit south. Found some gannets flying over an area, and dropped the jigs in - nada. Continued the same pattern until I decided to try in on the beach a little south. We pretty much set up in the surfline with the bow to the heave and cast artificials into where the surf guys have been pulling bass - another donut.
Ran all the way down to IBSP, trying in close, out in the deep, on structure - still a donut. By noon time the N breeze turned a little NNE, increased to 15-20, and made the chop big and tight in the 4-6' range.
At this point we decided to bite the bullet and put the trolling gear out, pulling a shad rig and a tube rig. No more then 10 minutes into our troll, we had a fish on and Lenny decked a nice 30" bass - his first ever! (pictured below) Continued back north, and had one more knockdown, this time Gary getting the rod and getting another ~30" striper to the boat.
We continued north, got no more bites. Called it a day ~245, the inlet wasn't terrible for us but for some boats going in before us they had a tough time.
Very slow day for a great group of guys, only 2 bass and NOTHING else - they toughed it out all day long and were a blast to have on the boat as always!!
