Apparently those Yammys on back of Grillo's Sailfish are solar powered cuz he phoned at 4:20 this morning to say he was fogged in in Red Bank and would call in an hour. Well Christine and I were up and caffeinated already so we confirmed there is NOTHING on TV at that hour and waited for his 5:20 report which sounded something like "still foggy why not go back to sleep?"
That wasn't working for us so we shaped up and called Grillo back to say we'd host him and $crew the fog-- well that started his rotating excuses so we said our goodbyes and headed down to Ya Sista's and out we go.
Headed back to the Reach for a few drifts but nothing doing to note so headed around the Hook to a few spots outside and it was a good move. The usual shorts skates and robbins to complete the trifecta but today we had some larger fish mixed in. Christine started out with a fat 19 that had more meat on it than I thought. Drifted a few places thru the end of the incoming and stayed around for the outgoing. Lots of shorts but we wound up with 5 between 18.5" and 20" - nothing spectacular but our high keep for the year and plenty of meat for the freezer. Tried a drift by the 12 in the Reach on the way back but still zippo. Back at the dock by 3:30 after a nice day.
Keepers were caught on squid, Gulp, robbin strips, and killies-- most in over 50' of water but one in 17', so I guess they were hungry.
Guesstimate 10:1 shorts to keepers so we were busy all day.
