We had another beautiful day today in and around Ocean City with light winds, sunny skies and warm temperatures. It was so nice I blew off some computer work and went fishing with my good friend Big Bird Cropper. We caught one small red drum, one weakfish and a couple of short rockfish that were released. It was a beautiful evening fishing with my very good friend.
Big Bird and I got to see most of the ocean going bottom fishing fleet heading back in OC Inlet this afternoon. Little did we know they had some stud sea bass on board. Captain Chris Mizurak of the Angler had to change plans today, but his customers were fine with it as some big sea bass and some flounder ended up in coolers.
Captain Kane Bounds of the Fish Bound is away learning stuff so Captain Kevin and Captain DJ have been at the helm and doing just fine by their anglers. Folks have been having great success with sea bass with some flounder, triggerfish, bluefish and more coming aboard as well.
Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star had to jump around a bit today, but he still put together a great trip with some very pretty sea bass.
Another beautiful sunrise at sea gave start to our day. Concerning, however, was a NE swell I hadn’t anticipated. Was not the flat calm I’d hoped. Boys offshore said it was windy and downright rough. Glad we missed that part.
Arriving at Capt. Bobby’s Reef, Cat Lady Cathy (sadly down to just 10 kitties) and our very own Prince of Portliness–the Hurricane his dern self resplendent in newly pie-stained attire, gave today’s 20 block unit a shove off the stern. That makes 4,868 blocks at Bobby’s. Need just 7 more drops to reach my 5,000 block target.
A light rail with some of my favorite regulars aboard, I had evil intent for our reefs’ sea bass this day. Intent won’t put em on a hook though; fishing at my first stop was a bust.
With precious little going on there, we slid offshore a tad more and got into some beautiful sea bass. I even came down and caught two nice ones on a jig. With el grandés coming nicely and loads of fish on my screens?
They just quit biting.
Full Stop!
Was our best spot all day too.
The rest I call ‘one drop wonders.’ Lines in on a new spot?
Get bit!
Second drop?
Ehh, maybe.
So we moved all day long. Never did get a steady bite going. Mark beautiful schools of sea bass ..pull just a few.
Sure got some nice ones though.
I’d also been quite sure we’d see some good fluke today – flounder so thick even I could catch one.
Yeah, ummm..
Does Adam’s keeper count as ‘some’?
Ah well, the old saying goes, “Unlucky at fishing, lucky at love” ..so maybe my FB and Match accounts will fly hot tonight? (Fishing takes many forms!)
On our way in we had absolutely the best bottlenose dolphin show this year. These were very large offshore bottlenose (not coastal) and super active. These jumbos came bounding in from far to starboard straight to my bow. With their enormous splashes I thought they were giant bluefin tuna until they got close enough to spot their dorsal fins. Those dolphin rode the bow wake in excited fashion; at times several were jumping clear of the water in huge leaps.
For me? That never gets old..
Have to get the reef foundation’s “Park Place Jewlers & Benelli Fall Reef Raffle” going.
Man have we got nice prizes! Not just grand prizes, but every Sunday we pull winners too.
Look for a reef raffle announcement shortly – very shortly!
It will tie in nicely with Capt Stormy’s recent deployment of 400-some pyramid units built and donated by Kinsley Construction’s York PA plant.
We’re going to leave more coral & more reef-fish than was left for us – promise!
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