Swell Rider Sportfishing 02/25..AJ'S & Sea Bass Assault!!

[swell rider]

Well we broke the inlet at 6am, light winds, cool and partly cloudy skies...As always our main objective was grouper but with the cooler water in place I decided to hammer away at the Sea Bass and a good call it was....It was some of the best Sea Bass fishing I've seen in a long time. Our first and only Sea Bass stop was at 25nm and it was game on.. Most fish were in the 3lb range so we released plenty of smaller keepers just to keep the grade up..It was fast and furious all morning never having to move until a few other boats decided to just keep short drifting us..Not wanting to deal with that I headed off another 10nm to look for some warmer water, temp hit 59-60 and the wreck was lit up like a christmas tree..AJ'S stacked like cord wood, most drops there were 3 on at all times and the grade again was more than expected and I was very pleased with what we found, not bad for staying inside 35 nm..It was a great day for our first trip for our 2009 charter season...Heres a few pics, the quality is fair at best since my hands were full most of the day but I tried to snap a few...Ken


Swell Rider Sportfishing
www.swellriderfishing.com
Atlantic Beach, NC
910 233-1714
910 200-2502

[gman]

that last one was a horse Ken, glad to see you got out on the water. Im going crazy

[swell rider]

Man it felt good to be back out..The weather has been horrilble this winter. The AJ'S were thick, most fish were in that class which was real good to see..Pretty short run as well 1.5 hr..Ken


Swell Rider Sportfishing
www.swellriderfishing.com
Atlantic Beach, NC
910 233-1714
910 200-2502

[Sea Draggin]

Nice bass and AJ's!!! Good work.

[fishinmagician_IV]

Is the word for that AJ. Congrats for the first trip, sounds like you started the season pretty good!

[swell rider]

Thanks guys...Were going to be putting alot of time into Jigging this season running some special extended day jigging trips covering all the bases, local wrecks to the deep...The best part about fishing out of Atlantic Beach/ MHC are numorous wrecks and the short run to the Gulfstream...

Jim, I wish I had your jigs today, we donated our share to the cause, well worth it..Ken


Swell Rider Sportfishing
www.swellriderfishing.com
Atlantic Beach, NC
910 233-1714
910 200-2502

[Ponce]

Nice job Ken, I'm sure there are some sore arms today.

[paul708]

nice looking fish.

[jig42na]

Ken good to see you got there, and not working so hard. I knew you were going crazy. I'd love to try to put together a 2 day trip and run a little more NE than usual and try to find those really big bottom critters that are red and toothy and 50-100+lbs.!!!!!
See you soon at the show.

[swell rider]

Sounds good Trav..Think April for the Red ones thats when you'll see the best #'s..As for the AJ'S, all I can say is thick!!! They've been on this wreck all winter and when the warmer warter moves in there lookout!!! See you at Somerset, NJ if it's anything like last years show it will be a great time..Ken


Swell Rider Sportfishing
www.swellriderfishing.com
Atlantic Beach, NC
910 233-1714
910 200-2502