Well, the weather looked promising...so Charlie, Craig, Lena, and myself decided to play a little hooky today and see if the fluke would cooperate!
It turned out to be a good decision as we had a great day on the water...the weather was perfect, the conditions were perfect, and the fish were biting!
We headed out of Keyport around 5:30AM and were greeted by a beautiful sunrise and a light breeze. We headed to some of Charlie's old stomping grounds and hit up a few of his spots.
We were on fish pretty much right away and had a nice drift with the outgoing tide.
The bite wasn't on fire, but was relatively steady with some nice sized keepers coming over the rail...really nice fish ranging from 18" to 24".
We continued to fish the same area for all of incoming, slack, and start of outgoing with good results...although the bite faded around slack tide a bit.
Later in the day we tried a few other spots without much luck. I did pick up a nice 20" keeper around the TC Bouy, but that place is SURROUNDED by pots. What's up with that? Some dude literally had pots and lines surrounding the TC Bouy slope. Brutal.
The day wound down, and we headed back to the farm to clean the boat and fillet our fish. At the end of the day, we finished up with 22 keepers...not bad at all.
Here's a few pics from the day...
On the way to Keyport...someone's a little camera shy!
It's OK, I just time my shots! :)
Sleepin already! LOL
At the boat and ready to roll...Charlie and Scrubby
Scrub with no glasses!
Oh and Scrub's WIFF IT Collection!
Lena...looking all designer in her fishing gear!
And we're off...with a nice sunrise...
Nice...
Look who's guiding! :)
Alright, on to some fishing...Lena off to a strong start! Hehe
SCRUBBBBBBBBBBBB!!!!!!!!!!!
Charlie's into one!
Lena's fighting one!
Lena with her first fluke ever!
Then Scrub wakes up with a monster double header!!!
Little while later, Lena and I double up with keepers!
Lena's first keeper fluke! Nice!
Scrubalicious with a nice keeper a short while later!
And then Lena lands our biggest fish of the day weighing in just shy of 5 lbs!
I went into slacker mode for awhile, and was in all out fishing mode.
That was until...SOMEONE *cough* Scrub *cough* left his bail open with his bucktail on the gunnel?
Well...when you're cruising around 30 knots....this is what happens when your bucktail falls overboard with the bail open!
OUCH! Braid down!!!
Back at the dock, had to get a shot of Scrub's bucktail collection again! Haha
Captain Can't Wait to Fillet Fish was into slicing mode before I could get a final fish pic...so this pic is one short of our 22 keeper final catch!
We'll that's all. Great day on the water with an awesome group as always, and a nice bonus when the fish cooperate.
Big thanks to Charlie for having us out again! Can't wait to get out again and beat on some more flatties!
Until next time...
1 comment:
That is a nice bunch of fish you caught. The background looks like Staten Island. Am I right?
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