Reel Class 5/29 - 5/30 Seabass, Cod & Bottom Reports

[Reel Class]

Had a couple trips the last 2 days, reports are below.

Friday 5/29: Had Mike Ervin and crew on board for Mike's brother Sean's bachelor party. This was a short Half-day trip, so we were limited where we could fish, so we opted to seabass fish locally but that was very slow. Water temp was 46-48* the whole morning. Last hour of the trip we tried for bass w/ the maja spoons - NG. Only 15 seabass for the morning...

Saturday 5/30: Had Kevin Gordon and crew on board for his dad Kevin Sr's 60th birthday. Great, fun group of guys. Pea soup fog most of the day kept me on my toes Decided to fish a different area and found better life, with nicer fish. Had to hop around A LOT both on the drift and on the hook to put it together, but the guys worked hard. Lots of nice seabass, mostly 14-16" fish, plus a surprisingly large amount of cod were found on some of these pieces, with only a few ling. About half the cod n seabass were keepers, and we did also see a half dozen nice chunky blackfish which were released unharmed. Fishing was not hot by any means we basically had a slow pick all day - we'd pick a few off each piece then have to shift or move on - surface temp was 54 but the fish were coming up ice cold so that probably had something to do with it.

For the day we boxed up 30 keeper seabass, 10 cod (had at least twice that in shorts!) and 2 ling.