Except for a very few random rain drops, today was a really beautiful day to be out on the water. There were several boats fishing the back bay and there were plenty of boats fishing the ocean. After this past weekend’s crap weather it was nice to have great weather with good fishing.
Captain Chase Eberle of Chasin’ Tides Charters had a great day of deep dropping today with a limit of blueline tilefish and several golden tilefish. Eight of the golden tilefish were over 30 pounds and caught on jigs.
Captain Jason Mumford of Lucky Break Charters had a nice day in the back bay for his anglers putting them on two “snapper” bluefish and five keeper flounder.
Morgan Mericle caught this 30″ slot striper on a swim shad over the Memorial Weekend.
Captain Chris Mizurak of the Angler reported having to weed through shorts, but the bite was good with plenty of keeper sea bass going in coolers.
Vincent Fick fished Homer Gudelsky Park and landed this keeper flounder.
Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star reported good sea bass fishing with some limits and a nice 27″ flounder
Weather today dern sure wasn’t what they’d called for yesterday. Cleared the inlet and found as calm a sea as ever one could hope. Though the forecast had foreseen rain, heavy at times, all day long; after a small shower on the way off, we never saw another drop of rain.
Wish I could have told anglers this day was coming. Nice day off there.
Ah well, with a few folks aboard, off we went. Though visibility was fine at first, wasn’t long and I had my radar on with a horn every two minutes.
Tennessee Mike and son Parker made today’s block drop. It fell spot-on into a nicely growing reef.
I’m hoping to hit 50K reef blocks by Christmas. They work incredibly well for sea bass. As the world-wide master of artificial reef science, Dr William Seaman, emphasizes in his 2023 work, Structure in the Sea — “Complexity, Complexity, Complexity” is the key to good reef building.
I agree. The more nooks and crannies there are, the more life a reef can support. And because concrete blocks are all nooks and crannies – lots of life! (plus, unlike reefs far to our south, we’ve no need to worry with large spaces for 20 to 400lb grouper!) (Yet.)
First drops today proved challenging. The boys instantly had to up everyone from 8 to 12oz sinkers and the bite wasn’t all that.
Hmmm…
While pondering my strategy Mr Lee called for a net. At 27 inches, a fine fluke indeed. Sure looked as though a small cbass had taken his bait – then the flounder hit the struggling sea bass.
A one-off that. Nice, but back to sea bass. Kept on working. Current piped down, saw some huge schools of sea bass on my screens.
Fellow last to limit yesterday was first into double digits today at 11:25. Another long-long time client, a friend really, was having his turn in the barrel instead. With Big Jon at 11, this nameless angler had two keepers with something like a 25 to 1 keeper ratio.
Oyyy…
Same bait. Same hooks. Same leader and line. Altogether different luck..
Just when it seems it’s not your turn, however, luck can pivot.
And did.
Big Jon limited about 1:30. Across the way, Edgar fell one shy as we headed for the barn. My friend ended up with 9.
Makes a fine fish fry.
Young Mr Parker had a lock on the pool until almost the last spot. There Big Jon boxed a dandy crushing a spellbinding Tennessee Thanksgiving tale. Well, second biggest still makes a fish story. No telling how much bigger it will get in six months.
Couple more pretty days coming, looks like. Bite’s not bad. Lot of weeding though.
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