Had Bob T charter the boat for a seabass and bass trip.. Our plan was to start out bass fishing, then switch over to seabassin' a bit later.
We broke the inlet just before 6 and found the bunker spread out and deep; real hard time even snagging them - we had no chance with the net. We were still able to secure about 20 baits after about 40 minutes of really working at it to get them, so we went off into the deeper water and started looking. Found some great marks, here and there, but we could only manage one solid runoff.
After sticking with this until around 9:30, we decided it was time to switch over to bottom fishing so we picked up and headed south of the inlet to fish some snags in 60-75' of water. We were on the anchor all day as there was no chance for us to drift in the 3-5' seas, the E breeze, and a hard tide kinda butting up aside the wind.
Nevertheless, we bounced around, making around 6 drops. First couple were very slow, just a few shorts and keepers, but a third drop further to the south in 65' yielded a good pick of keeper and short seabass, a nice 22" cod taken by Mike, and a few would be keeper blackfish that had to go back.
We kept bouncing around from piece to piece, and put a nice catch together. Lots of real nice 2-3# seabass in the mix along with the shorts, no dogfish, and just lots of life in general! We also read a lot of sandeels right on the bottom -- I tried diamond jigging for the seabass but couldn't even get a sniff...
We wound up boxing around 50 seabass, 2 nice ling, and the one 22" codfish. Again we also had a few tog, and there was lots of bergall life on every drop. Real good day with a great crew who stuck it out all day long despite the sloppy conditions!! Also, a big thanks to Socks and Andy for filling out the trip for Bob!!
