CubasFinest12
07-28-2016, 11:40 AM
Earlier this week, i saw that Wednesday (7-27) called for 0mph winds all day long so I had a couple of my buddies come out fishing with me. Had the boat loaded with rods reels and clams around 615 and off we went. When we got to the reef we marked some huge schools of porgies but had 0 conditions to anchor on it so we drifted around at .0 to .1 and bombed the fish over a big rubble pile they were stacked on. By 930 we were almost out of clams so i decided to head a little further east on the reef to see if we could find our limit of seabass. It took a little to weed through the shorts, but when you hooked into a keeper, you knew it was a big one. we kept our limit of seabass with the smallest keeper being 14 inches! our biggest was a solid knucklehead weighing 2lbs 3 oz on the hand scale. stayed in the area hoping for a blackfish but couldnt do find one. it was now 1030 and we had no clams left so it was time to tie on the bucktails and break open some new packs of gulp. Hopped all over the snake, the reef, ambrose, sandyhook channel, chapel hill and then the triangle on the way home and managed 3 keepers and 23 shorts. 2 keepers ate new penny gulp teasers back in the triangle and the other keeper ate a nuke chicken grub on a 3-way over by ambrose. Ambrose and sandy hook channel were the only two spots where we actually had a drift, however the dogs and sea robins were out in full force so i had to leave. top 5 day i can say that, ocean was glass calm the entire day.
The size of these porgies reminded my of the big ones you get in Long Island sound. The average size was right around 11 inches with a lot of bigger ones in the mix. Double headers were common and even a couple triple headers were caught as well. Kept 30 over 11 inches for the table and released the rest to swim again. no triggerfish today however.
The size of these porgies reminded my of the big ones you get in Long Island sound. The average size was right around 11 inches with a lot of bigger ones in the mix. Double headers were common and even a couple triple headers were caught as well. Kept 30 over 11 inches for the table and released the rest to swim again. no triggerfish today however.