Reel Class
06-09-2013, 08:00 PM
Ran an open trip today. The game plan was to get bait, and go up north and set up on the chunk - possibly doing some snag/drop on the way up.
Broke the inlet early and found bunker right outside, but they were scattered and basically impossible to snag - we were lucky enough to get a handful and we also had some fresh dead in the cooler. A few shots fishing livies on the snags proved fruitless, so we headed up to the chunking spot.
2 runoffs right away, and we had one 4# bluefish, but that was it outside of a couple of keeper seabass that Kenny caught. After 3+ hours of waiting for a bass bite, we took a ride to the east and switched over to seabassin'.
Made a few drops in 60', and had some nice keeper seabass but the current was screaming. Ran off a bit more, away from the current to a spot in 70', but only found dogfish, so we ran back inside. The current subsided, and we were able to drift over some rock humps and finally got a good pick going with the seabass, mostly keepers in the "just keeper" range to about 14", nothing bigger than 15 made it to the boat. Had a couple of real good drifts, and the box was filling up nice.
After 2 hours of that, we headed back south looking for bass and heard of a small bite so we headed there. Got some fresh live baits, and got 1 bite - one nice bass taken by Andrew which was his first ever - didn't get an official weight on it but it was ~17-20#; but that one bass was it for us.
Called it a day around 4. Real long day, just didn't get it going with the bass, but the seabass again filled in the void nicely. At day's end we had ~60 keeper seabass, nothing bigger than 15", 1 ling and the 1 bass. Overall a decent day, but we were all a little disappointed (again) in the bass fishing.
Broke the inlet early and found bunker right outside, but they were scattered and basically impossible to snag - we were lucky enough to get a handful and we also had some fresh dead in the cooler. A few shots fishing livies on the snags proved fruitless, so we headed up to the chunking spot.
2 runoffs right away, and we had one 4# bluefish, but that was it outside of a couple of keeper seabass that Kenny caught. After 3+ hours of waiting for a bass bite, we took a ride to the east and switched over to seabassin'.
Made a few drops in 60', and had some nice keeper seabass but the current was screaming. Ran off a bit more, away from the current to a spot in 70', but only found dogfish, so we ran back inside. The current subsided, and we were able to drift over some rock humps and finally got a good pick going with the seabass, mostly keepers in the "just keeper" range to about 14", nothing bigger than 15 made it to the boat. Had a couple of real good drifts, and the box was filling up nice.
After 2 hours of that, we headed back south looking for bass and heard of a small bite so we headed there. Got some fresh live baits, and got 1 bite - one nice bass taken by Andrew which was his first ever - didn't get an official weight on it but it was ~17-20#; but that one bass was it for us.
Called it a day around 4. Real long day, just didn't get it going with the bass, but the seabass again filled in the void nicely. At day's end we had ~60 keeper seabass, nothing bigger than 15", 1 ling and the 1 bass. Overall a decent day, but we were all a little disappointed (again) in the bass fishing.