Bass fishing was slow last night. Biggest fish was around 20 lbs. A couple blue fish too. Next Striper trip sets sail Wednesday Night at 7pm by reservation.
The report from the full day boat was of very good fishing today. A lot of nice fluke and some quality sea bass as well. Mr. Lee took the pool with a fine 9 lb slab while Kill Song from NJ was hi hook with ten keepers to 8 lbs (orl). Longtime regulars Sandy and Cyrus from Whoppinger Falls NY combined for 15 nice fluke and an easy limit of sea bass. Quite a few of the other anglers aboard had four or five good size fluke apiece. Sounds like both bait rigs, jigs and whole squid were all effective today. A lot of quality fluke again in the 3 to 5 lb range. A couple nice scup and a few slammer teen size blue fish rounded out the species assortment for the day. We are set to sail again tomorrow at 7 am with Capt. Rich at the helm of the Gail Frances.
Capt. Mike reported a nice morning of half day fishing as the keeper sea bass were rather cooperative and there were quite a few sea bass limits. The afternoon trip was also good with a fair amount of sea bass limits and plenty of short sea bass to keep things rolling right along and the weather on both trips was far more pleasant than anyone could have ever expected given the weather forecast! A few really nice fluke mixed in during the afternoon with Rodney from Waterford Ct taking the pool with a fine 27 inch 7.5 lb slab and Rodney also had another jumbo fluke of around 4.5 lbs. A picture of Rodney’s big fluke appears courtesy Capt. Mike. Troy was the star angler on both trips however just crushing good size sea bass to nearly 5 lbs using a single 3z crippled herring jig with no bait. Troy is truly one of the best rod handlers this angler has ever seen in more than 30 years of ground fishing! Two half days on tap tomorrow with the Lady set to sail at 8am and again at 1pm. Remember back to back half days can net the angler a $15 discount off the second trip.
Roger