Slammer Jammer

My boat is down with a pretty significant repair needed. Hopefully itll go quickly and smoothly.   Luckily, my awesome buddy Patrick who happened to of purchased my old boat that I used for guiding let me use it while mines in the shop.   I miss that rig – its a very fishing friendly layout.    We started off the morning fishing hard for 1 keeper flounder.  Made a move and found an awesome drum bite.   Played with them for a while before changing back up to meat fishing.  Grinded hard and managed a beautiful 24.5″ trout.  Thanks guys!

Making memories

Had Leif and his Father and Grandfather on board for a nice Father’s Day gift trip.   He really wanted to catch sharks so we drifted the chum back and caught some sharpies and a blacktip.   Got lucky and hit a motherload of big drum on the way in.  Nice bonus.  However, a little further in my boat decided to break down and we had to get towed in.  Memories……

@ the buzzer

Real tough day today, but came thru in the  4th quarter.

Shoulda been

Today’s report should of consisted of a slob 50lb+ cobia, but due to some unknown dumb reason the line broke and he swam away.  Oh well, that does happen.  Caught a good amount of small flounders today along with a variety of bottom dwellers.   This was the fish of the day – a nice 19″ flatty. Thanks for fishing with me!

Home sweet home

Back at it today with three four hour trips.  This morning we caught some bottom fish before heading out and chumming for some sharks.   The upwelling caused the water temp to plummet and we didn’t get love from the sharks.

Mid day trip the winds really let up and we went out to the wrecks looking for amberjack.  We managed 1 to the boat before the radar told me to head back in closer to land.   Went back in and pulled some fish off the bottom.

Lastly, had some kiddos this evening.  We had to wait for the storms to pass but it cleared up and we had some beautiful weather. We got to see a waterspout in the distance while we pulled a million croakers and various other fish off the bottom.  Had enough of that and went looking for a drum – found one.   Ended the evening with some bluefish and a great sunset.

Thanks everyone for fishing with me!