Headed out at 6:30 AM armed with a bucket of eels. Drifted several spots in Sandy Hook channel with only one pickup. Tried drifting the eels on the clam beds -nada. I then headed out to Ambrose where I did land a 32" bass. Went back and tried the drift where I lost a fish after a short battle, dropped the eel back and the same thing happened. This time I inspected the eel and saw the hook point was buried deep in the eels head
. The drift was getting way too fast and I was having trouble keeping the bait on the bottom with 12oz so I went a bit north and tried drifting outside of the channel nothing doing. Then I headed over to Breezy Point to see if I could jig something up. Just as I arrived the Fisherman and the Flamingo were high tailing it out of there (not a good sign). Jigged a few marks without a hit. Back to Ambrose for one more drift on the slack and that was all she wrote.
