It was an absolutely beautiful Memorial Sunday today with sunny skies, decent temperatures and zero precipitation. I said goodbye to my dear friend Richard Benn at his celebration of life this morning and this afternoon I got on the water like he loved to do and did a little fishing.
I found a decent flounder bite outside the south jetty with six throwbacks and two keeper sized fish over 16″. 5″ pink shine Gulp on a white Deadly Double was the hot combo. Then I headed inside the inlet and caught and released some stripers at the “sandbar”. It was a great afternoon!
Rob Bukszar and Morgan Mericle were casting the north jetty while I was fishing the sandbar and they were having good luck with the catch and release stripers too.
The guys fishing on Line Dancer fished the OC Inlet this morning and had some striper action.
Anglers fishing on the Calico Jack had a nice day with several keeper flounder ending up in the fish box.
Captain Chris Mizurak of the Angler reported a tough start, but things picked up nicely in the afternoon with lots of sea bass and a couple of flounder.
Luke Wrye caught this big 34″ citation bluefish at the route 50 bridge.
Brock and Peyton Arentz from Thomasville, PA had some fun catching and releasing some stripers at the route 50 bridge.
Ava Kepp was fishing with her Dad Nathan this evening when she caught her first “on her own” fish with this juvenile sea bass.
Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star had several regulars on board today and he treated them to some of the regular good fishing.
I didn’t expect it on a holiday weekend, but what a nice group of regulars we had aboard today. Some new folks, for sure, but plenty who have long been on a first name basis too.
Wrong on the high side yesterday, we had more wind early that then came calm by midday despite a 20 to 25 knot forecast(!) Today’s forecast of 5 to 10 proved wrong on the low side with a steady 13 to 16 knots until 11 when winds again fell out to 10 knots and again to 4.6 kts at 1:30..
A goof now and again? Sure. But overall forecasting has been borderline miraculous a good while now – for years.
This week?
Fugedabodit!
Sure hope forecasts tighten up..
I wanted to drop blocks at Rambler Reef today. Ended up at Capt Bob’s Reef again where Emily and Jen had a clean shot with a 20 block unit right between tug and barge.
I’d like to think I’ll soon be done at Bobby’s, but it’s just not so. I’ll be stitching larger pieces together there for years to come.
Fishing began well enough. Shorts were plenty hungry; keepers came over the rail too. Long about 11 three anglers got into double digits (10 or more of their 15 fish limit) with Emily among them. Nothing wrong with using reef-builder’s karma to advantage. She was high hook too! Fore and aft of her were nameless gentlemen who did not possess said luck. Fortunately they were good sports about it.
Strangely, today sea bass all but shut down after 11. Oh, we still caught some; just not at the same pace, and we weren’t unique. The VHF radio all but dripped tears with skippers complaining about the cbass bite.
Ain’t a thing to do but fish harder..
So we did.
Nicked a few more too.
Bailey bagged the pool winner. I’d seen the fish on the sounder and tried to line it up with Emily. �Missed by a hair..
(Remember: skippers are occasionally given to small exaggerations..)
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