Made a left out of the inlet this morning & fished from the south end of Deal north to the outer buoy of the Shrewsbury Rocks.
First 2 drifts was almost exclusively short bass (14-26"s) with some chopper blues thrown in the mix. Jason & I each had a fish on our first drop. By the end of the second drift, Jason had boated 5 fish (3 blues & 2 bass) and I had 4 (all bass).
Moved north to the outer bouy of the Rocks where at first it was very slow-although the only keeper bass of the day was taken here. Stayed in the general vicinity with sporadic action on #4-6 bluefish. We did have some serious flurry of action lasting about 20 minutes where it was drop and reel on #3-4 bluefish, an all out blitz. Did see 2 more short bass taken at the end of the day.
At the end of the day, Jason & I had 25 bluefish in our tote to go along with the short bass (released) we caught earlier. I took all my fish on a tubeless AVA-47 while Jason took fish on that bait as well as a 5 ounce Krocodile. Did see some green & red tubed AVAs take some fish.
