Great Saturday fluking on RockBottom - NJFishing.com Your Best Online Source for Fishing Information in New Jersey

rockbottom · #1 08-14-2016, 01:20 PM

Saturday we had Joe Z , Dave, Mike and Mike aboard en route to try to find out trophy fish for the tournaments. Left before the sun came up and we were still torn of where to go and it depended on the wind. Since all the weathermen got the weather horribly wrong yesterday, (never had the wind or seas until late In the day) we went with our gut. We had boats in the distance but none too close. As soon as we stopped it was almost lights out fishing. Some drifts had mutiple keepers, some just a few shorts. But it was hard to repeat the same exact drift twice so we just delt with it. Dave wasn't feeling too good so he fished only a short amount of time-and hopefully he's feeling better today! We had a lot of fish that just missed 18, and a lot of fish between the 18-20 inch mark. Mid morning, Jr was hooked up, rod doubled over and pulling drag. Took him around the boat a little and then I heard him say "wait! Hold on!" And then it was quiet. With the water being as filthy as it was joe, who netted the fish only saw the top fish, which was a keeper. Jr said there was one on the bucktail as well and that it was jumbo-definitely much bigger than our 6lber. He was a little upset at first but quickly shook it off. Joe felt horrible but shit happens. And especially because the water was so brown it made seeing any fish we caught extremely difficult until it was sitting right at the surface. Fishing was red hot and then it just stopped. Lost the drift and little bit of breeze we had and spun in a circle. Tried another couple numbers in the area and decided to head elsewhere in search of a drift and some life. Hit a few more areas and had skates at 1, some shorts at another and then the wind started cranking and we decided to call it a day. Our big fish wound up being 6lbs even with a couple in the 4lb range and some really nice blue knuckle seabass. 23 keepers and Overall it was a real nice day, great group of guys good weather and an insane morning bite. Looking forward to our next trip with them.

Pictures will be posted later and so far today is going pretty well too

rockbottom · #2 08-14-2016, 07:39 PM

pictures from sat

Joey Dah Fish · #3 08-14-2016, 07:55 PM

Great job Capt great trip except for the polish net guy

see you again soon. Sorry again Jr

rockbottom · #4 08-14-2016, 10:21 PM

Don't worry about it! Could have happened to anyone. Definitely
Looking forward to the next trip

Sharkyispy · #5 08-15-2016, 06:14 AM

Echo the compliments Capt. First time sailing with you. Nice job finding and putting us on the fish and adjusting to changing conditions with bite, winds, etc. Look to see you again soon.

dales529 · #6 08-15-2016, 11:20 AM

Well at least I assembled the right crew and picked the right boat. First time out with Capt Ron and his son Ron Jr. VERY impressed with the operation from the vessel right down to every detail. Highly recommend these guys for a charter and will be back for sure.

Always a pleasure fishing with Joey Da Fish( he was my puller from the start) and Mike Reynolds Sharyispy who is no slouch either. Between those 2 and Capt Ron SR / JR we had a steady bite all morning to a pick later on of many quality fish. Just not the right one although we had a couple shots.
No apologies required Joey ever. its fishing. Your Keeper count (ORL) and Sharky's work had us in the running.
My work Buddy Two guys Rod Mike also contributed with some nice keepers and a huge seabass.
Funniest Line of the day: Joey looks at Two Guys Rod Mike and says hey Mike your "F ng" pliers cost more than your ROD!

Myself on the other hand got hit after 2 to 3 hrs in with some muscle spasms / cramps from hell that put me out. Usually I can walk it off, stretch it off or some contortions in a few minutes. These lasted for an hour or more each episode and put me out of action which sucked especially in tournament mode.
Got to the point where I could only sit in one position in one spot on the boat and not move

So I sucked and its worse because we had the fish going.

I did manage a couple of keepers, loads of shorts etc and came unbuttoned on a nice drag pulling fish in the little time the spasm gods allowed.

Again another great SPONSER captain and mate and will be back for sure. Which makes this site such a great fishing resource

Gerry Zagorski · #7 08-15-2016, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dales529

Myself on the other hand got hit after 2 to 3 hrs in with some muscle spasms / cramps from hell that put me out. Usually I can walk it off, stretch it off or some contortions in a few minutes. These lasted for an hour or more each episode and put me out of action which sucked especially in tournament mode.
Got to the point where I could only sit in one position in one spot on the boat and not move

So I sucked and its worse because we had the fish going.

I did manage a couple of keepers, loads of shorts etc and came unbuttoned on a nice drag pulling fish in the little time the spasm gods allowed.

And you wanna be my Latex salesmen