Friday 8/20:  Had a FTYP marathon trip today with NJ Bob, Art B, Cool Hand Al, Tom K, and Jeremiah. Ran up north.Found some real clean water, and the first few drifts were just short seabass. A little move further north got is in on the fish, and we worked this area all day long. We would pick anywhere from 1-3 keepers per drift along with loads of shorts, as well as a few seabass.

We had a lull around mid-day when the NW dropped out and we were just spinning around in circles. Once we got that little wind from the E and SE, we had a couple of good drifts where we picked a few more keepers.

Called it a day at 4 and left them biting. We easily boated over 100 fluke, with 27 nice keepers going in the box. Tom led the way with 5 keepers and the big fish which was just under 6#. We also wound up with 13 nice chunky seabass - biggest one was about 2.5#. All fish were taken on bucktail + teaser combos.

Finally, a good day where we had a box full of fluke!! This was a great crew, and yep, NJ Bob's yearly magic of producing the best day of the fluke season on Reel Class continues - out of 7 seasons he's been on for 5 of the season's best trips!! He's our good luck charm of the fluke season!

Saturday 8/21:  Had Gary Decker charter the boat with his dad, buddies Cap, Tino, James, and Andy. Today also happened to be Gary's birthday!

The plan was to mix it up; try to jig some blues first thing, do some fluking, then switch over to seabass. Upon leaving the inlet we had some birds working on some awesome marks, so we put the jigs in but found no takers whatsoever.

We then fished some snags and hills to the S and E for fluke. We had a very good bite going first thing with loads of shorts, 3-5 on at a time, with some nicer ones mixed in. That bite pretty much dried up though by 1030 AM so we switched over to seabassin'. We made a few drops on some snags and caught loads of shorts, with some nice keepers mixed in as well as a few blackfish, with one of those going in the box @ 15".

We ran all over, and pieced a catch together. We called it a day at 230 with around 20 seabass in the box, a couple of fluke, and a keeper tog. The guys were a blast as usual and we will be seeing them in the fall for a bass trip.

Thursday 8/19:  Had Ray Linfante charter the boat for his yearly fluke/seabass trip. This year we ran a half day trip and Ray had his brother in law Anthony along with pals Mike and Carmine.

We spent the first 2 hours of the day fluke fishing locally on some snags, hills, and rocks and picked away at a load of shorts, along with a few keepers to 23" taken by Anthony. We probably had at least a dozen fish JUST UNDER 18" make it to the boat.

The second and final 2.5 hours were spent seabass fishing on the anchor. We had a lot of current out of the N so we couldn't drift. We wound up making 3 drops and every one of them was LOADED with seabass - we had a ratio of roughly 5:1 throwbacks to keepers though but the guys boated quite a few nice ones at every drop. One drop also had a good amount of tog on it as we pulled an even dozen off - most were right around 14" while only 1 made it to the box that was over 14".

By 1PM the guys had enough and we called it a day. We wound up boating easily over 100 seabass, with 20-25 going in the box (didn't get an exact count) to around 2.5#, 1 keeper tog, and a few nice fluke to 23". A very good, quick half day trip for a great group of guys who are always a blast to fish with!!