captainmike555
07-22-2016, 08:41 AM
Fished up north yesterday in search of fluke. After witnessing the party boats and some private boats having no luck, we decided to look for some rock piles and try for porgies. The recent reports of good porgy action gave us hope that we might find 'em hungry. First drop we caught only short seabass. Looked around and set up on another pile. By this time, the beautiful light NW breeze had flipped around a S-SE blow was beginning to kick in. We started to pick. A few keeper seabass showed up, then one porgy, then another. Then slow for a few minutes. We smashed up some whole clams and dropped them near the boat to attract any takers. Fifteen minutes later it turned into drop and reel 'stupid fishing'. Double and triple headers. You could not even get the bait to the bottom and engage the reel before they were on it. Nice big porgies, too. We tossed back a ton of little guys that were probably keepers and a mess of little seabass. 3 really big triggers also showed up and on light tackle they were a blast. Ended up with 47 porgies, 3 triggers and 4 keeper seabass before the wind was howling and we decided to bail. Not bad for 2 old salts. Thank God we had the catamaran today, because the 20 mile ride back to MI turned into about 90 minutes of 4-6' tight-chop headsea nastiness. Even with the cat, we got pounded at times. A monohull would have taken us 4 hours and the bow would have been planted at times, no doubt.