Fish Monger 5-17 with Captain Jerry

[jmurr711]

Captain Hank was on vacation so Captain Jerry took myself, Tats, Vinnie, Directa, Philthy Orr, Evan the shrink, Cousin Rick, KB who brought a BANJO MINNOW & Monger Virgin Iowa Bob out for the day. left the dock at 5:45am & met a calm sea & thick a$$ fog! Captain Jerry took us all the way up to the point where I could see my Staten Island house in search of blues & ghost bass. Jerry did an amazing job navigating throught the fog especially with the peeps out there in the 17ft lundcrafts with no lights #brilliantidea #jerkstores. Reading were scarce on the finder & the evp picked up no ghost bass at all. So captain Jerry put out some shad rigs & we found a few blues on the troll & then taking DaveTats tip of the week he put out the stretch plugs & they were immediately crushed, once hooked up we all started throwing jigs & beat on the blues not great fishing but we'd hook a couple every time we stopped with 1 hooked on the troll.Vinnie was in heaven reliving his gloy days of trolling bigeyes in the wilmington & even tried to make a green stick aboard the monger. Directa lost about 14fish that he hooked as he was using a cape may bluefish rig consisting of hand forged hammered jig & size 12 light wire salmon egg hook. after we were tired Captain Jerry took us bottom fishing.

Water on the bottom was bitter cold still. I saw Directa talking to Jerry privately & somehow after this Directa was hot hand..........& i will admit it outfished me.I struggled only landed 2 ling but Directa was on fire,I am very proud of him & KB had a nice 5lb tog. Tats had a nice keper cod I think Evan had 1 too. We ended up with 30 ling, a couple keeper cod, a few throw back togs & sea bass. Apparently Captain Jerry can use Directas south nj mansion whenever he'd like now. All I ask is that Captain Hank run my trips from now on!

Big ups to Captain Jerry for navigating the fog & Kevin for being there to help overall trip was a success with good bluefishing & I lost 13 sinkers which is all that matters!

[hartattack]

Gotta love that first picture Joey. Who bit whom ?

[shrimpman steve]

No pics of ragu sleeping

[bunker dunker]

great going Joe and crew!!!!!great job to the capt and crew for the catch and dealing with that fog.

[jmurr711]

great time & great crew hope that water warms up a bit it was frigid on the bottom. we also saw an ocean sunfish but I couldn't get him to bite

[Joey Dah Fish]

Wow that's a lot of sinkers glad Hank wasn't on the boat how did wrinkles do?

[Capt. Jerry P]

Originally Posted by Joey Dah Fish

Wow that's a lot of sinkers glad Hank wasn't on the boat how did wrinkles do?

She survived ( Marie was relieved ) but they brought her a squeaky banana toy to the boat that will b staying on land

[Joey Dah Fish]

Lmao

[Jigman13]

Originally Posted by jmurr711

great time & great crew hope that water warms up a bit it was frigid on the bottom. we also saw an ocean sunfish but I couldn't get him to bite

Bunker snagged and hold on... As dopey as they look, they can move when they want to! They even go airborn!

[jmurr711]

Originally Posted by Jigman13

Bunker snagged and hold on... As dopey as they look, they can move when they want to! They even go airborn!

we tried! Paul Bunyan fka Cousin Rick called me last night & said he has done a 180 on Bluefish as he grilled it last night & said it was some of the best fish he ever ate.I been analyzing what I did wrong Sunday as I was a disgrace with my pullin skills only thing i can think of is I was to close to Philthy Orr who scares ling away. Big thanks again to jerr for running through taht fog & Kevin survived first Jmurr trip.Co- MVP goes to KB & Directa who schooled us young bloods on bottom fishing