Had a FTYP trip today with Bud, John, Fred, Bob T, Bob, and Mike L. Broke the inlet around 630 and found a nice leftover heave out of the E from yesterday's mini-blow. Ran out to the N and E to where we had some fish at the end of July.
Made 2 drops on a lump and around a couple of wrecks, had zero bites. We the made a move N where we had the fluke beatdown the day of the PP elks and found horrible conditions - no drift, and a swell that sorta just spun us. Fred did manage 2 nice fish here, 1 20"er and a beautiful FAT 8#er that was only 26.5" long (fish was weighed on a handheld digital on teh boat). We worked this area, sorta grinding it out picking a fish here and there, a mix of shorts and a keeper or two every now and then.
This pick continued and when it dried up we had 6 in the box - but we made a move to look elsewhere to the S to find a few more. We settled in in an area we haven't fished at all this year and found a slow, but steady pick of shorts and some nice quality fluke. Most of the keepers we pulled out of here were over 20" - Fred had another right @ 7#, Bud had one just under 6, and John had two @ 6.2 and 6.75# - all real nice quality fish that were THICK.
We stayed with this until it was time to go home at 4. We wound up boating probably 40 fluke, with 16 making it to the box to Fred's 8#er + 2 chunky seabass and a tasty jmurr special banana cod We had 6 fish over 5#, and only 2 of the keepers were "measurables" as they were both around 18.5". Overall it was a good day - 3 personal bests were broken today (Bud, John, and Fred - Congrats Guys!) and everybody caught fish. Aside from that this was a great crew and Kenny and I had a blast w/ them on the boat today!!
