Had the Jim Fells charter aboard today, consisting of Jim, his brother Corey, and "Shades," Chris, Ralph and Kenny.
Started out down south jigging on some birds and marks, with some fish busting right on top with the sandeels - only had a few jumbo bluefish to show for our efforts. Got a bit further south, and again only got more bluefish. Ran S towards seaside, again more bluefish, then back to the north -- more bluefish!
Got a call around 11:15 that there were a few bass being caught up near our inlet, so off we went. Once we got there we found a lot of birds working over a large area again on sandeels and some other unidentified bait, and we got into a real good bite of bluefish again - but finally we were able to get a good shot of bass; first fish was 28" by ralph, the other 2 were nice 15# twins taken by Jimmy and Kenny, and we had a 4th right at the net when the hook pulled.
By 1:30 the jigging action dried up, so we made a drop on our local reef targeting tog. First drop was slowish with short tog, some seabass, and a copule of porgies coming in the boat. We made a wiggle, and got a decent bite going with all blackfish and a few seabass which would've been "Monday keepers" topped by a 2# taken by Ralph. Most of the tog we pulled were just under 14", but we were able to squeak out 6 keepers; Jimmy got one about 4# and Chris got one in the 6# class.
Very good day action wise, we wound up with a load of blues, the 3 bass, and the tog as well as a couple of porgies and the seabass which are swimming safely till Monday. Jimmy and crew were great as always - thanks for coming down guys!
