Had John Cuozzo and brother Bob from Boonton, NJ on board today fishing in the Sandy Hook Bay Anglers Tournament today for what turned out to be a very productive day, but unfortunately not bagging a fish big enough to win the contest. To give you an idea of the pure numbers of fish we caught today by a 5 man crew: we stopped counting when we hit 100 Fluke with 20 of them being keeper fish in the 18" to 5 lb range. All beautiful fat, plump quality fish as you can tell by the photo below at the fillet station at Anglers Marina in Sea Bright, NJ.
Congrats go out to John and Bob for a job well done as we traveled to numerous locations in and around Ambrose Channel under, sometimes, very adverse drifting and big vessel traffic conditions looking for that elusive "doormat" which we knew we were going to need to win the top prize. Second place would have even been nice, but anything other than that we decided we weren't even going to enter a fish.
We had on board numerous baits such as Peruvian Smelts, beautiful pure white Squid Tubes for strips, live Herring and an assortment of Spro Bucktail jigs from 4 to 8 oz. tipped with natural as well as Gulp Alive products. As you can see we came well prepared for our day on the water, but that big baby was not in our cards today. Once again, my hats off to John and Bob for their tenacious effort....I'm very proud of you guys.
Capt. John
