Had the Steve Hamby charter on the boat. The crew consisted of Steve, his brother Bob, and his buddies Gus, Roger, and Ray.
Ran south, lots of bunker in close off Bay Head/Mantoloking with about 75 boats zipping through them like it was Mid-May We then ran offshore, saw some bluefin porpoising on sandeels, then started to run south where they got them yesterday. On the way more bluefins were spotted, well within the 3 mile line, crashing and blowing up on sandeels - great site!
Got down and fished the stretch from the piers to IBSP and had a good amount of bird life with some excellent readings. Had fish on right away, mostly blues to start, but got the bass going after a little bit. Most of the bass were keepers, and the were just a tad under 28".
Mid-Morning, Steve nailed a beautiful 43" that was around 25#. By noontime the 5 man charter had boxed up their limit of 10 stripers, as well as a boat load of blues. Running north to do some toggin', a load of birds were spotted and this time, the guys got covered up with some real gator blues to almost 15# - at times there were 4-5 fish on.
Finished the up the day doing some toggin' on a rockpile - the bite was very slow but we managed about a half dozen to 6#.
All in all an excellent day - the crew boated around 20 stripers, keeping the 5 man limit of 10, and around 75 bluefish as well as the tog. Also, several spiny dogfish were boated. These guys are a great crew and its always a blast having them on the boat!!
