That word, Wow, sums up today. On facebook I declared today a "5 advil day" because of what you're gonna read below and the end result of what we did today, but the word Wow is an even better adjective to describe the kind of fishing we had...
Had a full open boat trip today with Jimmy, Cubby, Mike, Bob, Flukeman Fred, and Ryan on board with Kenny and I. Ran north up to the fleet and where they had them yesterday afternoon. At first things were very slow, but once we made a few wiggles we had lock and load bass fishing with all NICE fish in the 12-20# range, all on krocs and pb & j's. We limited the entire boat out w/ bonus fish by 8:30AM, and went into C&R mode. All of the action was taking place from 1.5-2.5 miles off - the bite was crazy good until around 9 when it slowed.
We meandered north, looking around, stopping on readings and picking bluefish - got all the way to the rocks and we had even more bluefish there.
At around noon, we got a call a little bite was developing back to our south, so we headed back to where we started, and found small patches of birds working over ACRES of bass and a few bluefish. For the next hour and a half, we had ridiculous catch and release fishing with bigger bass, mostly in the 18-22# range, but we had two that were close to 30# that Ryan got to the boat, one of which threw the hook as we were getting ready to get her inside for a snapshot and release. We stayed with this until 1:45ish when a collective cry of uncle was thrown out there by the entire crew LOL
For the day, we easily boated 70+ bass, with many in the 15-20# range, and maybe a dozen over 20#, all on jigs (pb&j's and krocs). Mixed in with the bass were maybe 15 bluefish, all 5-10#.
Why 5 advil? Aching backs, arms, hands, etc. from reeling fish in all day!! It doesn't get any better than this - GREAT jig fishing!!!!!!!!! Great crew, great day - Wow
