South NJ Sheep herding!

[jmurr711]

Yesterday Devon & I fished with Captain. Scott out of Longport,NJ for NJ Mutton Mouths and the trip was even greater than we could’ve imagined. Capt. told us tides looked best between 10:30-3:00 so we had a gentleman's sail time of 10:00am which already made this trip awesome as we left home at 8am versus the usual 3:45am lol

Arrived to a beautiful marina with a koi pond and friendly people greeting us everywhere we turned. Loaded the boat and headed out. Arrived at the first drop & Capt. Scott does some wild stuff to hold you in place but boy does it work. Capt would tell ya where he saw the sheeps at in the water, well before I could click my bail dev was hooked up with a brute of a fish. That’s pretty much how it went all day!

We ended up going 12-18, Devon landed 9 jersey Sheeps up to a 25 inch, 13.5lb monster! Yours truly went 3-6 but I landed 15 keeper tog! If you dropped your jig to deep past the sheeps a blackfish would annihilate your crab. A highlight for me was playing a double digit sheep out from under a dock in an incredibly stressful 10 minute brawl. We released everything for the day, I really wanted to kill a sheep as they are delicious but this fishery needs to be protected by us anglers as there are no regs in place yet for these phenomenal fish that grow slow & fight like a tog & a falsie had a baby!
Big thanks to Mikey Jigs for the rods he won on seaside boardwalk as they were absolutely perfect for the fishery & we matched them up with shimano stradic 3k & Vanford 4k with 20lb braid & flouro leader! Now to Capt. Scott, thank you thank you thank you what an amazing day & his hustle is incredible, dude works hard like physical labor holding that boat I never saw anything like it!

Devon got to tag her giant & name it after her cousin who passed away which meant the world to her & that’s all that matters. Even though I am exiled Point Pleasant will always be home but it felt good to be back in South Nj & it was the absolute trip of a lifetime & better than we ever could’ve imagined!