SLOW BLACKFISHING 11/17

Headed out with Mike and Tracey to blackfish on sunday.
unreal weather for mid November, warm , flat seas. BUT the bite was very slow.
Ended p putting 7 blackfish on ice, and about a dozen shorts thrown back,
Had more Bergals than blackfish for sure.

Thought it was going to turn on when Mike had this double.
Bunch drops all had life, but seemed to be best right at the beginning of each drop, as we never seemed to build any life as we were catching.
Can only get better as the waters cool a little more

WEEKEND FLUKING WITH THE OHIO BOYS 9/7-9/8

Was out with my buddy Craig from Ohio yesterday to do some fluking with him, his son Reece, friend Dillion and Brown socks Steve , jumped on (also bringing a great lunch for the gang THANKS) .Headed out to the ruff stuff to show them how we bucktail.
Armed with lots of lead and plenty of gulp we fished hard all day . Catching was great as far as numbers of fish but only 15 made it into the box.
Steve had had big fish of the day at 6 pounds even until My rod doubled over late in the day, and Craig got to slide the net under a mat. Just over 10 pounds.

Fun day with great friends and off to do it again today 

DIllions first ocean fish was a nice sea bass that had to go back.

Sunday we headed back out to the same area, and found nothing but shorts and a few sea bass.
Made a move to some lumps in 90' and found the same just shorts.

Hit a few more lumps south in 60' before heading in at 1 so the guys could drive home in the daylight today.

Was a fun weekend, but todays trip makes me think many of these fish are starting to leave their summer haunts 

MORE LIMIT FLUKING 8/25

Headed out with Scott and George on Scotts boat to fluke yesterday .
what a difference a day makes . ocean was nice except for a slight heave, and we headed north to the sticky stuff.
had a good pick of fish all day with ALOT of shorts.
Few nice fish mixed in , weird fish of the day went to Scott's heart thumping EEL.

Boxed another limit as the seas rebuilt up to NASTY again and made the ride home .

As usual the ball busting amongst friends was pretty intense and makes for a great day , boxing fish was just icing on the cake.

TOUGH FLUKING 8/24

Headed out with My buddy Vinny and Austin this morning to do some fluking. Got word from Bowguide that the seas were evil and nothing matched the forcast.
Since Vinny was driving two hours I decided we were going to at least give it a try .
Made our way out to the reef, and while it was rough , It was def  fishable.
First drift we had 5 keepers, and a few GOOD ones dropped.
Next drift another 3 keepers, then only one more keeper the rest of the day, ending at 9.
With Austins 6 pound even being our nicest fish today.

Had to have caught 60 plus fish that were under 17 inches today , and seemed the nicer the day got the smaller the fish did.

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MARIANTED FLUKE 8-18

After not having a good fish to weigh in for the FSOS fluke tourney I decided to go exploring Sunday .

Myself , Steve, Eddie , and Austin headed out looking for some lumps off the normal beatin paths.

Marinated GULP once again put another nice limit of fluke in the boat with some much nicer fish thrown in.
Steve had his personal best of 8 pounds. I had an 8 1/2 Pounder as well as a 9 pound 9 ounce beauty .
The revo NACL made fighting the bigger fish a dream .Very impressed with this little winch for sure

Was great fishing without another boat near us most of the day . and the ball busting as usual was pretty intense, especially when I started catching them 2 at a time.

FSOS FLUKE TOURNEY

Fished the FSOS fluke tourney today on Scott's boat with him , Ed and Anthony.

Found fish early and had easy limits today . BUT no big fish to weigh in for us today. Each of the guys had a fish right around the 5 pound mark.
fun fishing as usual with this crew, already looking forward to next week to try again

Gulp infused with Mullet Marinade made up most of the catch today !!!

SOUTH JERSEY TUNA

Got a call from My friend Mike that he had bought JR a tuna trip for him becoming a Journeyman this past week .
Headed down to LBI with Mike SR , Mike Jr and Mikes friend Andy who runs the local tackle shop, to get an early start making it to the boat FISH TRAP to head out hoping to see Mike catch his first tuna.
Wasnt too long when the first yellowfin hit a way back, and Mike got to battle his first tuna.

Andy got a funny suprise when the mate Steve came out wearing a bikini top to Serve him shrimp cocktail. Andy had put a note in the suggestion box that he enjoyed fishing in Cost Rica better because they had been served sushi while fighting fish there.

Guess Capt Bob does read those notes left to make the trips better LOL
we ended up boxing 3 yellows and had 2 come unbuttoned at boat side.

Congrats to JR on his first of hopefully many tuna, as well as a good career as an Electrician.