Friday 8/6 :  Had another FTYP trip today with Bob S, Jim, Striffler, Jack, Bob T, and Suzanne.  Ran north out of the inlet and on impulse I stopped on a hill where we caught a few Wednesday. In 1 drift, we boated ~20 shorts, nothing bigger than 15", so we decided to move further north to fish the LB area.

Made a drop on one of my favorite rockpiles to start up there. We had a nice W breeze and a slow N current early, so we moved along at around .7 - excellent conditions! We had immediate life, bites, and plenty of shorts, a few keeper fluke, and some nice seabass in the boat. After that initial W wind dropped out, the current from the N really kicked in and we were flying - no more bites. Suzanne was able to bag a nice 5.5# here.

Went further north to fish offshore a bit and got into another solid bite with that slow moving N current and light W wind, and again in about a half dozen drifts we boxed a few more keepers plus some shorts and some seabass. Once that current got going, and the wind switched to NNE, that bite shut off. I tried another drop further offshore, only to find a few more shorts.

We then went in closer to the beach to fish the real snaggy stuff to finish up the day. NE current there couple up against the NW wind made for a real slide of a drift, but we had some very good action with shorts, and some nice keepers topped by a few 20"+ fish, and Bob T's 5.5#er. Suzanne also reeled in a old crusty penn peerless conventional and what looked to be a custom rod.

When all was said and done we had 13 fluke in the box, most of them were in that 19-22" range, as well as around 10 seabass. In total, I'd say we had 50ish fluke for the day. For what we've had, we had a solidday.   What made today even better were Bob T's homemade pulled pork sandwiches, Schlinky's Primo Subs from Philly, and Jim's pickled bluefish ceviche. Good eats!!! Gotta love it!!

Saturday 8/7:  Had the Hill boys on the boat again today following their limit seabass trip back in July... Group consisted of brothers Scott and Tom, with their boys TJ, Justin, and Greg and TJ's buddy Kevin.

Ran up north... Started out where we caught some yesterday - just shorts... Ran further up, bounced around, and sorta pieced together a catch with some nice seabass, lots of short fluke, and some keepers in the mix...

I think we wound up with 6-7 fluke, about 8 nice knucklehead seabass, and about 50 short fluke.. We probably had a dozen fluke JUST UNDER 18" today.  Tough day, the guys worked HARD all day bucktailing and keeping at it but the action was fair and the guys did go home with some fillets. As always this crew was a blast and we will be seeing them again in the fall.

Sunday 8/8:  Quick family river trip in the morning on Sunday - just played with the shorts and did a cruise up past Route 70 and back...  Boat traffic was wild!