Reel Class Saturday 6/15 - Excellent Seabass Fishing - NJFishing.com Your Best Online Source for Fishing Information in New Jersey

Reel Class · #1 06-15-2013, 06:26 PM

Looks like today was a very bad day to be a seabass. Had the blues bros. fishing club on board from PA for their annual 3 boat "tournament" with 18 anglers, this year the other boats besides Reel Class were Capt Dan's Megan Beth and Capt Freddie's Andrea's Toy. Biggest, edible keepable fish wins the pool.

Started out looking for bass/bunker as usual found nothing so around 8:30 we headed off to seabass fish. We had a slowish but steady pick at first with the screaming current from the N and the NW wind. We'd pick some but then it'd die off and we'd reset and catch more.

As both wind/current slowed fishing got good. Bouncing around piece to piece we had some real good fishing - at times drop and reel with all 6 rods doubled over, lots of double header keepers and lots of 1.5-3# fish.

Later in the day we took a little ride to our south and fished a real small piece no bigger than my boat and really pasted the seabass, mostly keepers, as well as one short cod.

By day's end we wound up with over 100 seabass in the box close to a 6 man limit + 4 ling. We also had the 1 short cod and a handful of out of season tog. A good portion of our seabass were in that 1.5-3# range as we had a lot of "NMR's" on the boat. Tommy on our boat was high hook and had the biggest seabass out of all the club's guys taking the big pool. Congrats to Tom and our crew.

...Also congrats to Capt Freddy & Eddie on AT for landing a SLOB tog - we'll hear more about that one later I'm sure

Real good day for us, not so good for the seabass! Great crew full bags of fillets it don't get a whole lot better than that!