Rock bottom weekend report

[rockbottom]

It was our first trips since the storm last weekend. Saturday we had out a great group of guys to try and find the fluke. Weather was nice when we first started out, a few shorts here and there, but not much. We kept moving around all day covering a lot of ground and then around 9am the wind and seas picked up quite a bit (which wasn't supposed to happen for a few more hours). It just got way too comfortable and we called it a little early and took an easy ride in. Capt Ed and Jerry were HH with 2 keepers apiece-and the good thing was most of the keepers were nice long fat fish. And Walt was HH with the birds, almost like he had a bird magnet on his hook! Overall it sucked, not even much short action so it looks like the fluke may be ending early.

Sunday we were scheduled to head offshore for bottom fishing but cancelled due to weather and switched to some porgy fishing. Waited a little this morning to see what the ocean was like and we decided to go. It wasn't bad this morning heading to the spot, but finding the porgys were a little bit of an issue. We read them but they just had some lockjaw going on and a few of the first spots were all spike weakfish. Finally found a piece and just sat there the rest of the day, adjusting a few times and the porgys just came in spurts. But it didn't seem like we were the only ones having a slow day because all the boats around us didn't do too much swinging of the rods and then took off and moved a few times. Still ended up with half our 4 man limit, and Capt Ed doing it once again today catching a keeper fluke and a real nice weakfish. By the time we headed in the wind had shifted 180 and got real windy and snotty.

We are booked all next weekend again but have some openings towards the end of the month. And blackfishing is filling up and we've only got a couple spots left for opening day so give us a call.

[Sharkyispy]

Ron, thank you for the honest reporting. Seems as most struggled with conditions out there. Can't beat mother nature sometimes...