Had Ray Linfante charter the boat for his yearly fluke/seabass trip. This year we ran a half day trip and Ray had his brother in law Anthony along with pals Mike and Carmine.
We spent the first 2 hours of the day fluke fishing locally on some snags, hills, and rocks and picked away at a load of shorts, along with a few keepers to 23" taken by Anthony. We probably had at least a dozen fish JUST UNDER 18" make it to the boat.
The second and final 2.5 hours were spent seabass fishing on the anchor. We had a lot of current out of the N so we couldn't drift. We wound up making 3 drops and every one of them was LOADED with seabass - we had a ratio of roughly 5:1 throwbacks to keepers though but the guys boated quite a few nice ones at every drop. One drop also had a good amount of tog on it as we pulled an even dozen off - most were right around 14" while only 1 made it to the box that was over 14".
By 1PM the guys had enough and we called it a day. We wound up boating easily over 100 seabass, with 20-25 going in the box (didn't get an exact count) to around 2.5#, 1 keeper tog, and a few nice fluke to 23". A very good, quick half day trip for a great group of guys who are always a blast to fish with!!
