Great Seabassing on the Clean Sweep!

[striper101]

We left the dock at 5:30 am Thu 3/5 and headed back off to the Seabass grounds and just under 2 hrs. we were there. We stopped at our first set of numbers and caught a few fish nothing really great so we headed off to the second set of numbers and again didn't do well at all! So off we go to the third set and that's where we found the main school of Seabass. On our first drift we probably landed 20 or so nice size Seabass, then on the second drift which lasted about 50 mins we really found a school of bass that were absolutely huge and good numbers, we landed on that drift alone 70 keepers with the largest pulling the Boga down to just over 7 lbs. After that we had had a constant pick of large Bass! The charter did a great job landed double header Seabass with 70% of them being keepers. It's really nice when you don't have to measure the fish & just throw them in the baskets! All the fish were caught using Diamond & Shimano Butterfly jigs tipped with Reel Strips scented Squid strips. We ended the day at 2 pm with the boats limit of 25 per man with the biggest fish being absolutely Huge 29" and the Boga red 8.2 Lbs.

These fish should be here for another month so we're hoping we get a few more weather windows to get back out there to give some more of you guys a chance to get in on this great fishery!

Sorry guys, my camera died for some strange reason so I didn't get any pics of the trip at all. I promise the next trip I'll have a new camera.

[DEEP DEFIANCE]

Did you end up weighing the potential state record fish? I know there are some really big seabass out there and wont be surprised if the state record is broken this year.

[Get Some1]

Congrats on another great trip Capt.That 29"er is HUGE!!

[Ebbs]

Great report Paul. 8.2 is a nice bass, good eats.

[John Rogers]

Pretty work, you doing any open boat trips

[Outbound44]

A 10lb specimine was recently brought aboard a commercial boat. They are out there, but very very rare. That would be a hell of a catch!

Did you guys try the edge for tiles? Word from the comm. boats is that the DOGS are thick.

[striper101]

Did you end up weighing the potential state record fish? I know there are some really big seabass out there and wont be surprised if the state record is broken this year.

The NJ state record right now is 8.2 lbs. We didn't bother because by the time we got in the fish weighed somewhere in the high sevens. If we ever get one that weighed in at 9 out there then we definately get her weighed in when we got back.
There are definately some big Seabass out there.

[striper101]

Pretty work, you doing any open boat trips

Sometimes we need a guy or 2 to fill out there charter. If you want email your contact info John & I'll call when we do!

[striper101]

Did you guys try the edge for tiles? Word from the comm. boats is that the DOGS are thick.

We didn't bother this time because last week when we did we had to fight thru the dogs!

[norter79]

Way to get on them guys!