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Written by Capt.Allen
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 19:45 |
 This was our last scheduled FTYP of the summer. Had to Tom K, Socks, John, and Chris aboard with Michael and I. After talking over our options with the guys yesterday morning, we as an entire crew opted to do a mixed bag bottom trip fishing both inshore and offshore while possibly mixing in some fluking if things didn't work out.
So, off we went around 7 and shot north in slick calm seas. We set up on some rough stuff in 52' of water north of the rocks, initially targeting porgies, seabass, and tog on the hook. On and around the rubble, the scup were thick as fleas, and as soon as we got baits down to the bottom we started bailing porgies in the 10-14" range. We also picked some seabass with them, a keeper and short tog, and a thick 18" fluke.
We stayed on this piece with lock and load action until 10:30 when the boys had had enough. By that time the 125 qt coole was 1/2 full of porgies, as well as the other stuff, so we opted to run back south and make a couple of drops targeting tog. The water was yoo-hoo colored, but we got some quick bites and landed a couple of nice tog, including Steve's nice 5#er which he silently swung into the boat lol -- Had a few more shorts, but by noon time we wanted to change gears again.
With slick calm seas, the NW wind dropping out, it was a perfect day to hit a wreck out in the deep for ling and cod - so I gave the guys the option to switch over to fluking or to go offshore to target the deep water stuff, and unanimously they decided to make the move offshore. 12 miles later, in 200'+ of water, we were on the wreck - we initially anchored on the spot but with no wind and little current to speak of, we were swinging all over the place, but picking away slowly at ling of mixed sizes. After a couple of unsuccessful wiggles, we decided to drift the wreck - this proved to be a terrific move as every pass we would land 3-6 jumbo ling, topped by a 5#er by Steve, as well as a beautiful 24" keeper cod by Chris. We did this until we topped off the cooler, and headed home at 330 with a box full of fish.
When we got back to the dock we had a total of 163 fish in the box; 3 keeper tog, 6 seabass, 1 fluke, 1 cod, and a 50/50 mix of porgies and ling. This was a GREAT day of bottom fishing, lots of meat for the guys!!! Today was the perfect example of everything going right, from start to finish - wish we had more days like this but this kind of day keeps you coming back for more whenever we have a tough day. Great crew - lots of laughs and ball busting; a near perfect day!! Thanks again guys!!!! |
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Written by Capt.Allen
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 15:50 |
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Had the Bob Schmitt charter aboard today for a 1/2 day seabass/bottom trip. The group consisted of Bob, his sons Billy and Nick, as well as Ken and Charlie. Started out on some snags where we caught them on Friday, and had an OK pick, picking a few nice keepers. We then ran south about 8 miles to fish a few rockpiles and found a lot less seabass, but some real quality!! Most drops in a 2 mile radius would give up about a half dozen to a dozen keepers. We then ran off the beach to a wreck about 8 miles away, and picked a couple more, then returned to the rocks in close and picked a few more. By 1PM the action really dropped off as we lost the current. We caught fish both on the anchor and on the drift today. Nick was on fire - he nailed the second biggest seabass of the year on the boat at just over a whopping 5# (on a certified scale!) which was just over 22" in length -- he also followed this humpback with a couple of fish in the 2.5-3# Range. Charlie also put a few nicer ones in the box. When all was said and done the guys boxed somewhere between 30-35 keeper seabass in their 5 hour trip, as well as about 50 or so shorts. We also boated a coujple of short fluke. This was a terrific trip with a great group of guys!! (Pics are in the gallery!) |
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Written by Capt.Allen
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Saturday, 28 August 2010 15:17 |
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Had a FTYP trip today with George, Duffman Dan, Bob S, Jim, and Joe aboard. With the news of a crappy bite up north we decided to at least start out locally and fish around a couple of snags in some cleaner water where some fish bit before the blow. We were able to just pull shorts out of these areas. We then made the run all the way up north to fish the rough stuff and got into some better action before the current really got ripping. Some keeper seabass, as well as a mix of short and keeper fluke came out of this area. We then went a bit further off, and fished a couple of hills/rough spots and picked a few more - but by 1PM the current was roaring and we couldn't hold with 12 + oz. of lead! The guys didn't want to have any part of pulling 16 oz. so we switched over to seabass. We then anchored up on a couple of rough spots nearby, and pulled some short seabass out. We then ran offshore and tried a few rough spots on the edge of the mud hole for ling/cod and seabass, and pulled a few short seabass out as well as a couple of short fluke. Our last drop of the day was close to home about 6 miles NE of our inlet. Read a ton of life on this rockpile and immediately anchored up. We had lock and load seabass fishing for about 20 minutes before we swung off; we then picked up the hook and started drifting on the piece and continued to pound away. This last drop saved the day!! For the day we wound up boating around 75 seabass, with around 25 going in the box (I didn't get an exact count from Mike), 30ish fluke with 3 going in the box, as well as a couple of short tog. Overall a good day - nice action to finish it up! |
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