Gerry Zagorski
11-25-2023, 12:48 PM
Hosted a father/son trip on our boat with Mike and Jake, Jim and Jimmy and Adam and Hudson. Had high hopes and the weather cooperated but the fish didn't.
Worked our way down Sandy Hook looking for signs of Stripers to no avail. Had some marks, tried jigging on them and when that didn't work we went up on the troll and had 1 Bluefish.
Switched over to do a drop or 2 for Blackfish and got one lone fish on a jig. Anchoring was tough. We had 10- 15 mph breeze out of the north thinking that's perfect. Only problem was we had an opposing screaming current out of the south and rather than coming tight to the anchor, we'd flop around and the current would push us up on the anchor.
Saw some birds come up close to us so picked up the anchor and motored over and tried jigging but the birds were pretty scattered and the winds started honking so we took a bumpy ride home.
In spite of the poor fishing the company was great and we found out my grandson Hudson loves the ocean and cutting crabs. Big thanks to Jake, he worked the cockpit like a rabid Mongoose keeping everything in order each time we switched gears.
All in all a great trip with close friends and their sons and got to spend some quality time on the water with my Son in law Adam and grandson Hudson. Can't beat that!
Worked our way down Sandy Hook looking for signs of Stripers to no avail. Had some marks, tried jigging on them and when that didn't work we went up on the troll and had 1 Bluefish.
Switched over to do a drop or 2 for Blackfish and got one lone fish on a jig. Anchoring was tough. We had 10- 15 mph breeze out of the north thinking that's perfect. Only problem was we had an opposing screaming current out of the south and rather than coming tight to the anchor, we'd flop around and the current would push us up on the anchor.
Saw some birds come up close to us so picked up the anchor and motored over and tried jigging but the birds were pretty scattered and the winds started honking so we took a bumpy ride home.
In spite of the poor fishing the company was great and we found out my grandson Hudson loves the ocean and cutting crabs. Big thanks to Jake, he worked the cockpit like a rabid Mongoose keeping everything in order each time we switched gears.
All in all a great trip with close friends and their sons and got to spend some quality time on the water with my Son in law Adam and grandson Hudson. Can't beat that!