Had another FTYP trip today with Bob S, Jim, Striffler, Jack, Bob T, and Suzanne.
Ran north out of the inlet and on impulse I stopped on a hill where we caught a few Wednesday. In 1 drift, we boated ~20 shorts, nothing bigger than 15", so we decided to move further north to fish the LB area.
Made a drop on one of my favorite rockpiles to start up there. We had a nice W breeze and a slow N current early, so we moved along at around .7 - excellent conditions! We had immediate life, bites, and plenty of shorts, a few keeper fluke, and some nice seabass in the boat. After that initial W wind dropped out, the current from the N really kicked in and we were flying - no more bites. Suzanne was able to bag a nice 5.5# here.
Went further north to fish offshore a bit and got into another solid bite with that slow moving N current and light W wind, and again in about a half dozen drifts we boxed a few more keepers plus some shorts and some seabass. Once that current got going, and the wind switched to NNE, that bite shut off. I tried another drop further offshore, only to find a few more shorts.
We then went in closer to the beach to fish the real snaggy stuff to finish up the day. NE current there couple up against the NW wind made for a real slide of a drift, but we had some very good action with shorts, and some nice keepers topped by a few 20"+ fish, and Bob T's 5.5#er. Suzanne also reeled in a old crusty penn peerless conventional and what looked to be a custom rod
When all was said and done we had 13 fluke in the box, most of them were in that 19-22" range, as well as around 10 seabass. In total, I'd say we had 50ish fluke for the day. For what we've had, we had a solid day.
What made today even better were Bob T's homemade pulled pork sandwiches, Schlinky's Primo Subs from Philly, and Jim's pickled bluefish ceviche. Good eats!!! Gotta love it!!
(I will post pics on sunday night - my laptop still can't upload my digitals pics!! sorry guys!)
