Captain Dale Lisi in the crew of foolish pleasures had a great Day of trolling with a couple of yellowfins and a nice bigeye tuna. The bigeye weighed in at a 156 pounds and all fish were caught in the poor I don’t want to get this Fish report done. What do you need?man’s Canyon.
Captain Chris Watkowski and mate Ben Harding had a great day on the Spring Mix II with two Bluefin tuna and a big 97 pound yellowfin tuna.
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Captain and Jason Mumford and his crew on Lucky break had two great trips with keeper Flounder and some sheepshead.
Anglers fishing on board the Ocean Princess for their long tilefish trip had an awesome time putting a bunch of big blueline tilefish in their coolers.
Captain Will of local hooker charters put this lucky angler on a big 22 inch keeper flounder.
Kevin and Leo had some fun on a recent kayak fishing trip. The Father and Sun duo caught Flounder stripers and bluefish.
Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star enjoyed flat calm conditions again and some nice sea bass action.
Enjoyed another flat calm day. Streak ends tomorrow in cooler NE winds though. Not going to fight the tape – laying in for more dock work in NE wind. New crew is really getting her dialed in and I want to press ahead with the work.
We paused at Capt. Bob Gowar’s Memorial Reef on the way off where Kaitlyn, Brandon & Gary T deployed reef block 5,206 between Steve’s Way Reef (a sm tug) and an Iron Lady deployment with 5 truckloads of concrete pipe. (Two of the three would put their Reef Builder’s Karma to excellent use.) Took a great sidescan snap of the whole site too. You can plainly see our block units above the barge at bottom of pic. Am going to fill in between all back to main concrete pipe deployments at top of pic.
Started deploying blocks in 2007 I believe. Now up to 43,885 reef blocks with over 20K donated by York Building Products..
My kingdom federal fisheries management would use my work on sea bass spawning production. Promise – in three years we could, quite literally, have fifty or more cbass for every one we have today.
It’s not a guess. I’m certain we could improve the fishery to beyond anything anyone alive has seen.
Positive.
I even believe, am certain, we could make it better than in all of history.
Using my work’s conclusion about shifting age at maturity from age one to age three in 2006, I predicted a massive increase in cbass spawning after the MD Wind Energy Area Surveying fiasco in 2015/16 – nailed it too. (In three years of multiple boats surveying the wind area nothing died. No whales, no dolphin, no fish – but those surveys moved fish & animals like crazy! By mid-2015 there were no sea bass within five miles of the wind area – about 525 sq miles of barren bottom in a time of year when our reefs should have been loaded with sea bass. Very much alone – no one else was vocal about shifting fish populations & how could anyone else have known? – I was writing DC and to anyone vaguely connected with fisheries about it. BOEM said “everything’s fine – survey equipment is as quiet as a ship’s propeller” ..and that was the end of it. In 2021 new survey gear was installed on a boat that did not affect fish at all – not even a little bit. Where in 2013/14/15 I could instantly tell when a survey boat was within 7 miles of me while fishing; yet now in 2021 my clients caught just fine with the sounding gear running only a mile away. Wonder how they knew what frequency to change so it didn’t bother fish…)
Anyway!!
Simply lowering the size limit to 11 inches would soon force all age-one sea bass into the spawning population. When ALL ocean-found sea bass are spawning? Their numbers increase in exponential fashion.
When only legal sized sea bass are spawning? Their population slowly dwindles.
More on it in my new Fish Report tomorrow.
Did I mention sea bass were a royal pain in the kneecap again today?
Bit a little in the AM.
Long lull – super slow despite mobbed screens. Had a awarm of sharks about. One young lady enjoyed a wire leader free battle for about twenty-five minutes before we broke him off..
Then sea bass started.. As ever, they bit best when it was time to strike a course for home.
Gary T (had four guys named “Gary” aboard today!) pocketed the pool money.
Kaitlyn caught the first mahi of our season with Holly close behind.. Teeny tiny and gut hooked both – earliest I’ve ever seen em.
Mercy!
Cheers,
Monty
Capt. Monty
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