We saw some more rain in the area last night, and then a little this morning, but with little to no wind it was out to the ocean for most of the party boat fleet.
Captain Victor Bunting and the crew of the Ocean Princess paddled to the deep today to do some tilefishing, and even though they found tough drifting conditions they still had a nice catch of both blueline and golden tilefish for their anglers.
Captain Chris Mizurak and the crew of the Angler fished the deep today as well and had a good day with several blueline tilefish coming aboard with a few nice goldens mixed in.
Big Bird Cropper is back in business and the fish are scared to death. Bird threw Roy Rigs at them today and had some “snapper” bluefish and some catch and release rockfish action.
Captain Dave from Nanticoke Outfitters found a slot striper in front of the setting sun last night that found it’s way to Lake Crisco.
Anglers fishing on board the Morning Star with Captain Monty Hawkins found some nice knothead sea bass on today’s trip.
Double Digits 5/27/26
Radar w/plotter overlay a fabulous invention from the early 1990s, now my iPhone tells me when to let loose a blast from the air horn too. Fog is still a headache, yet much safer than years back.
Struck a course to my Mother’s reef first thing this am. She and my younger brother’s ashes entombed in reef pyramid units there; I visit often.
Don’t bring flowers though. My crew had loaded 24 concrete blocks this morning. They were stacked and bound together with small manilla rope and pushed by the stern rail as we passed over the heart of the reef.
“Mark!”
Bullseye.
One day I’ll join them.
I designed the mold in Aug 2019 while a hurricane skirted the coast. The idea was to capture waste concrete in industry. We have over 3200 pyramids on our reefs so far with most of them having come from Kinsley Materials and Bear Concrete. Have more molds – updated ones. They’re a cinch to put together. Would sure like more concrete companies participating. Know a guy?
Exact locations published annually in the OCRF charts (see ocreefs.org) Mom’s reef now has 598 blocks and 98 pyramids. (I’ve posted it before, the video is her reef from last summer. No coral yet. Dern sure the fish don’t mind.)
Rain easing; fog not. At lines in we soon had an idea of what this day would offer.
Oyyy..
A slow bite this morning.
Marking plenty. Not a ton of action.
Come a few keepers though. Kept working at it while watching radar all the while.
Bite picked up some. Better for sure. One fellow is taking up Big Jon’s luck from yesterday. Off the ocean over a year owing new knees; Steve’s boxing em up steady while perhaps my most deadly regular of all time has assimilated Big Jon’s bad luck from Monday.
Ouch!
Some days client outcomes seem quite predictable. Other days leave me wondering if I know anything at all.
Mark worked into double digits at 11:25 – Philip at noon. Lots of anglers close. A few limits seemed inevitable. Fog lifted
..then a mass of flys rode a west wind in to swarm the boat and the bite all but quit.
Whaaaattt..
Dogone it.
When the flys are bitting, fish won’t.
Did nick a few more after nearly a full stop with keepers scarce. Sure glad we had a mid-morning bite.
No limits this day, but with quite nearly half my guys in double digits everyone had a nice fish fry.
Tomorrow the sun’s supposed to come out. Shelly too.
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