keyport seahawk - fluke and seabass window with some classic douchebaggery
The morning couldn't have been any slower...I think by 11am we had messed with some small blues and hickery shad at the hook for a little and caught about 4-5 short fluke since 6am!
Thankfully either with the tide change and/or air pressure about to dip a pretty nice window opened up for some aggressive seabass and fluke action in 50-55' waters. I grabbed my light spinner and jigged up plenty of nice seabass that were absolutely crushing the homemade crippled herring type lures I had and they were also pretty nuts on pink gulp and squid skirts.
We forgot about the fluke for a bit then went back to bucktailing realizing they fluke may have turned on too. sure enough they were very aggressive and it was pretty much drop and reel fishing.
Unfortunately we had a charter boat out of NY watching us about 50 yards away catching nothing so obviously they did the only logical thing and lined up directly in our drift to get in on the action...ok fine...so we get to the end of the drift and go to loop back around to rotate back in and this guy quickly has his group pull up so he can cut the drift short and zip in front of us and cut us off. classic douchbaggery at it's finest. It's pretty sad a charter captain has to hijack a good spot but the quick pull up cut off was just plain an ahole move. going to hope karma catches up to him i guess although i would've liked to peg a searobin carcass at his windshield.
we were able to nab 2 nice keeper fluke in the mess of shorts before the miss beryl showed up.
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