Thursday night Gambler

[Ol Pedro]

We left at 7:35 pm with a good crowd to calm seas and a slight breeze. Set up and caught a few nice Seabass and some Ling. The Macks started to show. Some of the fish were coming up with their tails bit off! Started catching small Bluefish on hi-lows and Ling rigs. Could see them in the chum and the Macks shut off. The bite built with some 4 lbers mixed in. Some limits early with white tail diamond jigs and dropper rigs with wire leaders doing most of the damage. We caught multiple doubles on hi-lows while customers were trying to catch Ling/Seabass. The pool fish was a 4-5lb Bluefish. Released a 6-7lb Cod. That broke my heart. That's the second keeper Cod that I have released this season. Everyone went home with sacks of fish.
We had some horrendous braid tangles that took way too long to undo. 20-25 foot mono top shots would have helped with all those fish wrapping lines. Again a lot of people brought too light tackle. This is PARTYBOAT fishing not a guided Charter. Watched one guy lose all his jigs because he was using 10 lb test. Spliced a 30 lb mono topshot to the 10 lb and problem solved.
This trip reminded me of pre-Sandy Bluefishing. Got to love those bloody decks. Hope we do it again tonight.