Mambo Seabass !

[seabass]

I was supposed to fish the CBBT Thursday and Friday but my buddy had to bail because of illness at the last minute . I called the nice folks at the Starlight Fleet in Wildwood and asked if it was too late to hop on the Friday trip . They told me they had two spots left so I decided to go for it . I'm glad I did . I drove from Salisbury to the Ferry and it was a beautiful night with calm seas . After getting to Wildwood I went straight to the boat and found the mates cleaning the boat from that day's trip . They said that it had been a slow day but people caught some nice fish . I went to a local bar called Mulligans and had a very nice dinner and met some very friendly people who insisted on buying me a few drinks . Before too long it was time to head back to the boat . We left the dock at 2:30 AM and headed offshore . I was snoozing buy 3:30 AM and awoke to find a glorious sunrise , calm winds and flat ocean waters . Our first drop was in 150 feet and we pounded some very corpulent bass along with the eventual pool winner which was a 15 lb tog . We started to get covered up with doggies so we pulled the hook and headed further out . Our next drop was in 250 feet and it was on ! We caught plenty of big bass and a ton of bluefish along with some big conger eels and a few porgies . Dogs became a problem again so off to another spot . I ended up with 11 seabass from 4.5 to just under 7lbs , 6 bluefish , 2 porgies and 1 tog , a respectful 9 pounder . I threw back at least 15 keepers from 12 to 14" hoping to limit out with big ones but to no avail . Captain , mates and the boat are top-notch and I highly reccomend them . I only had a disposable camera but I will post after I do the one hour Walmart photo thing later today .The weather was beautiful and I hope we have some more winter days that compare

[SeaBiscuit]

Nice catch seabass! BSB and tog are hard to beat at the table.
Please post your pictures. We only dream of 5+ BSBs here in NC. Lots of 2-4s, but the really big ones stay to the north it seems.
Thanks for the report.
SeaBiscuit

[seabass]

A shade under 7lbs

[seabass]

[Bay Fishin]

nice report and pics!! Looks like you had a good dinner.

[Graceland]

Those are some nice knotheads for sure!!!

[makokiller975]

seabass next time try jigging to stay away from them doggies

[seabass]

seabass next time try jigging to stay away from them doggies

I jigged til my arms fell off ! . With all of the other anglers feeding the dogs clam , mackeral , squid etc. , I would jig to no avail ! I tried various types of jigs and droppers and all I caught were bluefish . I was surprised . All of the bass were spitting up those little calico crabs . I had some Berkley Gulp Crabs in the new penny color and the bass tore them up .