I got a last minute call from John Sean, he and his famliy were staying on LBI and wanted to end there summer with a bang.
After talking over our options with the Sean famliy we opted to do a mixed bag bottom trip. Targeting porgy, sea bass, and possibly mixing in some fluke.
So left around 6:30am and decided to check out the Garden Reef and some other local lumps that have been pretty good to us this year. With the west wind and seas 2 to 4ft I thought we would give it a try. Some say there are no fish around after a hurricane, but that might be true if we had one. Earl who? We set up in about 50ft of water right on top of some good drops. As soon as we got our baits down about 35ft it was on. Catching some nice porgies about 10-15 inches and some monster sea bass. After the famliy had there cooler half full I suggested we try for some fluke being the season ended the next day. So we moved alittle north, the water color was so,so but we got acouple of quick bites using the Penny Shrimp from Gulip and a jig head. I like tipping it also with a squid strip. After picking through some shorts we got two nice fluke one 4 pounds and the other 5.5 pounds. On our way in we stopped by Barnegat Inlet with some grass shrimp, yes thats right striper! I thought it counldn`t hurt. After acouple of handfuls of shrimp thrown in we were on some striper. They were alittle small but none stop action.
When we got back to the dock we had a good amount of good size porgies and sea bass. Also 4 good size fluke. This was a great day of fishing, it seemed where ever we stoped the bite was on. Wish we had more days like this one. Great famliy and lots of fun.
Thanks Guys...
