Posted on July 15th, 2026
it was a pretty windy one out in the ocean this morning, but it did calm down by early afternoon and there was some decent fishing to be had.
Captain Chase Eberle of Chasin Tides Charters had some good fishing on today’s trips with flounder, Mahi and a few triggerfish.
Captain Jason Mumford of Lucky Break Charters had a nice day in the back bay with keeper flounder for his anglers.
Gavin Kohr had a great time catching some big spot at the Route 90 bridge with his Deadly Tackle rod and Hi Lo rigs.
Captain Will Poole of Local Hooker Fishing Charters had a great day with two keeper Flounder and a bunch of throwbacks.
Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star had a good day after the drift picked up.
Shew, lots of really expensive offshore fishing trips canceled this day. Forecast looked OKish inshore but not so much offshore. Southerlies always the hardest, I erred on the side of caution and gave clients a weather warning: “If you have back or neck trouble, or if you just don’t want to go on a rough day? Jump on off and we’ll see you another day.”
All better weather prognosticators than I, everyone stayed.
Bit lumpy this morning for sure – calmed to a nice day by 11.
We started fishing as soon as Kristi & Vince sent today’s reef unit to the bottom.
Shortly after that my crew jumped from 8 oz to 10oz leads.
Wasn’t long – 12s.
On anchor.
Devil.
Mounds of sea bass on my screens
..with an abject absence of bites! Sometimes today I had screens slam up with fish and no bites at all..
Nick a few cbass, come a keeper fluke.. Bite did improve on the drift.
Some.
Just a slow day.
Not completely without action though. I wish everyone had gotten a nice dinner out of it. Dern sure Mate Donny was tickled with his fluke. Dave won the sea bass pool, while Jeff won the t-shirt with his fluke..
Cheers,
Monty
