Left Bahr's Landing at 6:10 AM with a hard stop at noon. I was armed with fresh peanuts, squid, killies and a dozen sandworms. Went straight to CH channel near the borrow hole and started a drift with a light rod rigged with a sandworm and I was bucktailing another. As soon as I drifted over the edge I had my first weakfish in 2 years, just a 12" spike but great to see again. Made another pass and got two more weakies of the same size. Next drift I landed 4 short fluke 16" class on the bucktail. As I was about to go back the light rod gets a hit and I land an 18.5 fluke on the worm. Back again and I get 3 more Jersey keeps but they go back too. I was also picking away on shorts on the bucktail. Ran out of worms pretty quick once the fluke took an interest. Tried a gulp sandworm but only caught some large birds. Made a move further north around West Bank and had lots of action on bait and jigging gulp. Managed only 1 NY keep at 21.5" out of about 15 more shorts. Moved to Ambrose and only caught a bird, and my time was running out so I pulled the plug and was pulling into my slip at 12:05.
Now I am off to drive my daughter to JFK to pick up her boyfriend. I was halfway there
. Just heard the belt parkway was closed so it is going to be a long one.
