Got a fairly early jump on the day this morning. Capt Don Sr joined me for a search of the flat ones. Funny thing happened at the dock. Tossed the net a couple of times for the spearing and came up empty. Decided not to waste time given we had a fine assortment of frozen bait and live killies. As we released the lines and started to pull away from the dock, one of Schaups rental boats was laying up against Gateways day launch docks untethered with no one in it. This 14 ft rowboat must have broken away and fortunate for Schaups the outgoing in the Shrewsbury put it right on the dock as if it had eyes. We let Schaups know that one of their boats was a run-a-way and they kind of non-chalantly "oh, yea we'll get it". Guess this might be a regular occurance
. The plan today was to head down the beach a way and search out some new territory. Seas were nice coming out through SH bay and as we made the turn around the tip we spot some poor soul with his 20+ CC up on the beach
. I guess that happens with some regularity too
Not much you could do as he was well up on the sand by a good 25 yards. He looked safe but frustrated.
2-3 footers with short intervals made for a cautious trek until we found smoother water well past the false hook. Made decent time to the Red church area where the first drop put a couple of short fluke and small sea bass over the rail. Miyagi was striking early on the teriyaki bait strips and mullet combo. I had decent action on a 4 oz pink spro with a gulp teaser dressed with salted peanut. Enough fish here but not the right size. Moved out away from the beach into 60+ ft of water marked some real nice structure that will have to be revisited
Headed back north stopping periodically at several lumps. Still, plenty of fish but none to keep. Only one Sea Robin showed it's face today. Instead, Miyagi worked his pumpkin stick and swore he was snagged. "You not snagged you got a fish on" He's tuggin away and making slow headway. Net is out and loaded when a mass of flat brown is spotted 6ft below. Hate it when those fluke grow tails
. So, we continue to work our way back north and pay visits to areas south, east and north of the snake. A nice seabass is put in the box as our first keep fish. We boxed a nice 4lb flattie here and continued to move. A just 18" makes it to the cooler. Our second to final area to drift puts several more short fluke and cbass in the boat and then back to the water. Last area we hit puts another 4lber into the ice chest. We logged about 65 miles today, had excellent weather, good bsing and a cold one to cap the day.
It was great fishing with you Capt Don.
Looking forward to the next outing.
Till next time
