Open boat trip today with Jeremiah, Bruce, Mike A, Steve B, Evan, and Brian Buddha Sticks M aboard.
Ran north to start, found some birds working on some marks just N of the inlet - wound up being small blues and a few weakfish, got one 15" keeper weakie there. Continued north, and got into some more bird life N of SRI about 2 miles off, turned out to be some big bluefish as well as some sea robins.
Continued up, got up to the rocks, and found a parking lot. Very little life as well, just a couple of bluefish. We then ran inshore, found some marks, dropped the jigs in, and started catching some dinner plate sized porgies on the 27's and 47's; Mike even got one on a butterfly!! Since we were catching the porgies, the guys wanted to put some in the cooler so we tried inshore where we hammered them Monday; only a few bites on the first drop, but steady fishing on the second but the fish were smaller than the ones out in the deep, so we went back out there, dropped the hook on the readings, and had some pretty ridiculous porgy fishing for about 45 minutes with some jumbo slabs in the 2-3# range coming up - even a few double headers. We filled a little more than half the cooler in no time.
Got a call there was a jig bite back near our inlet, so we picked up the hook and flew down there. What we found was a slowish pick of BIG bluefish, but Brian was able to nail his first albie ever @ 10# on his super light buddha spinner. Jeremiah was finally able to nail a beautiful 25#/43" bass on a 47 w/ a red tail, but that was it for us with the bass.
Good day overall, lots of action. Besides the porgies, bluefish, albies, bass, and weakfish, we jigged up 2 fluke and about a half dozen seabass (which all would've been keepers if it were opened). At the end of the day we had ~75 porgies in the box, the 1 bass, and a few bluefish we kept for the table as well as the 1 keeper weakfish. Again, good day action wise - hopefully the bassin' picks up this week!!!
