Yesterday we had Les and the Members of the Fish-On Fishing Club from Maryland on board. The 4 members (Les, Nicole, Chief, and Jarvis) drove up to Pt. Pleasant overnight from North Carolina from a redfish/speckled trout trip - they are beasts!!
Started out on a wreck and had decent life, picked up some shorts and keepers, as well as a couple ling, but it was tough going. Hit a few more wrecks and picked a few everywhere, but no great shakes. We eventually worked our way back to the south to another piece and we had some decent fishing for a bit with some nice knuckleheads coming up, as well as a beautiful shimano calcutta 400 and terramar rod as well as a beautiful 2# seabass (this is NOT a lie!) - an angler on another boat fishing this piece dropped it in the water on the hookset, saw us get the rod up, and shouted over to us. Our agreement was he keeps the rod, we keep the fish
Around noon time it seemed the inshore bite dried up so we shot off to one of my favorite ling/cod wrecks out to the east in 120'. Surprisingly life there was very slow - lots of bergalls and ocean pout, but Les picked a double header keeper cod, a nice 12#, and Nicole added a nice keeper while Chief put a few ling in the box. Overall though, even that offshore stuff seemed slow.
Called it a day at 2 - had 45 seabass, an even dozen ling, and 4 cod in the box as well as one sea raven. Nice day with a great crew - fishing was only fair but we were able to get some fish in the cooler!
