Weds 8/18:  Had Brian and Mike aboard today for a mixed bag trip - plan was to start with fluking then hit some snags for seabass/porgies. Got off to a very late start as we didn't break the inlet until after 8, and we had a limited time to fish b/c the boys had to be back to LBI by 5PM.

Ran north at 27kts to get at least give us a fighting chance at getting some fish, and we got up there in about 40 minutes. Had some life on the fluke as soon as we stopped the boat, but they were all short. A few shifts and we got into a couple of keepers, and some nice seabass. We re-drifted this area about a half dozen times, with the last couple of times being nothing but shorts but we did pull a few nice ones out to 4#.

When the S wind started up we went inshore to hit some snags and found some nice seabass, but no scup for us even though we read them well. Lots of bergall life everywhere we went also.

We finished the day by fluking again on a rockpile of long branch, but found no bites as we had completely lost the drift -- headed for home early at 3. We wound up with 6 in the box up to 4#, and had some real quality seabass in the mix as well.

Tough day... Its been an ongoing theme this year but it is what it is - we will keep plugging away!

Monday 8/16:  Weathered out!