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Hey Guys... OK, I cheated. Got an invite from my good buddy Dominic Lamano to jump on his charter aboard the Bad Influence out of Yarmouth, MA, captained by Jeff Viamari . Too good to pass up! We departed at 4am and took the ride out to the Nantucket Shoals grounds. About a 40 mile steam from the inlet. What a place, what a fishery. Average size of the fluke there is a mind blower to a NY Bight guy. Mind you not all of them are jumbo, but lets put it this way, at any moment you can hook up with a monster. We scored a boat limit of fluke, 30 fish. I had 2 bigguns a 9.7# and a 9,4#, sadly I dropped one much larger. Karl M landed a beast at 11.5# x 37" ! Many other nice fish hit the deck as well. As if that wasn't enuf, Capt. Jeff stopped on a drop about 6 miles into the way home where we topped off the catch with some giant CBass. When I say giant, the average size CBass was a legit 3-4 pounds!!!. What a day, well worth the drive up there to experience. The Bad Influence is the boat you want to be on, Capt. Jeff works hard and the boat is a beast with nice cruising speed. Thanks to Dom for the invite and to Capt. Jeff. A pleasure to fish Dom, and the rest of the boys, Karl, Anthony, Steve & John. BTW Dom's "Poison Tails" and what you want to use up there, he is the originator of these and don't leave home without them.
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Spurred on by the reports of a 10mph light NNE breeze, with a 2' gentle swell every 8 seconds, Capt. Mike and my very special guest, George Scocca of Noreast.com and NYAngler.com fame joined me for a peaceful day of ocean jigging. Yeah, not so much. Completely blown forecast. Try 15-18mph out of the dead East, with a 3' swell and 1.5-2' of wind-blown chop on top. Uggh. Had to stop the boat a few times heading South, so to gauge the feasibility of continuing onward to the deep drops.

It really was borderline, so we ( as in "I") elected to keep going. Turned out to be the right call. Though rough as hell, we managed to put together an 11-fish near limit to 5.5lbs and a clean six pack of very nice-sized biscuits. Had to be careful while moving around the boat, and had the drift sock out the entire day, but we got it done. Dropped at least another half-dozen sure keepers, along with a ton of other misses and assorted 16-18.75" fish that were returned. Meh, jigging in a 1.5-2 mph drift, with a rough ocean screwing with your timing is no easy thing.

The "humble" Captain, with the day's best fish (of course!):

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Your affable site Host, George Scocca, with his very first deep drops keeper:

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Capt. Mike Bady and George with a nice full fish box. It took some doing, but it all worked out in the end:

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Leprechaun said:
Spurred on by the reports of a 10mph light NNE breeze, with a 2' gentle swell every 8 seconds, Capt. Mike and my very special guest, George Scocca of Noreast.com and NYAngler.com fame joined me for a peaceful day of ocean jigging. Yeah, not do much. Completely blown forecast. Try 15-18mph out of the dead East, with a 3' swell and 1.5-2' of wind-blown chop on top. Uggh. Had to stop the boat a few times heading South, so to gauge the feasibility of continuing onward to the deep drops.

It really was borderline, so we ( as in "I") elected to keep going. Turned out to be the right call. Though rough as hell, we managed to put together an 11-fish near limit to 5.5lbs and a clean six pack of very nice-sized biscuits. Had to be careful while moving around the boat, and had the drift sock out the entire day, but we got it done. Dropped at least another half-dozen sure keepers, along with a ton of other misses and assorted 16-8.75" fish that were returned. Meh, jigging in a 1.5-2 mph drift, with a rough ocean screwing with your timing is no easy thing.

The humble Captain, with the day's best fish (of course!):

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Your affable site Host, George Scocca, with his very first deep drops keeper:

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Capt. Mike Bady and George with a nice full fish box. It took some doing, but it all worked out in the end:

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Din-Din tonight! My attempt at a taste of Asia. Steamed Sea Bass with salt-cured black beans (rinsed, of course), fresh ginger, garlic, green onions, light soy sauce, sherry. Finished with a blend of smokin' hot peanut and dark sesame oils drizzled on it to crisp up the skin. Served with the gravy spooned over brown rice and some steamed edamame. Wow, really good!

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Thanks for another great trip Pete. Despite the sea conditions, you definitely served up some fine "lemonade" yesterday. it was also a pleasure to finally meet and share the deck with George who, by the way, did very well for his first attempt at deep drop Fluking. George, your next challenge is to join me on the North Fork, either for some Sea Bass in the early fall or the superior Tog fishing we enjoy come October.
 
Ocean fished this morning with KenScot and NYAngler site boss George Scocca, for good pick of 18.5" fish at our first locale, in the heavy fog. Fish o'plenty, with just one keeper, certainly not what we were looking for.

Once the fog lifted, we shifted grounds a bit, to a completely becalmed fleet. And I do mean fleet. The spinning gear came in handy for flipping the jigs out there and working them back - picked a bunch of plus, plus-sized biscuits to 4lbs and maybe 4 more flat keepers of mixed size to 4lbs.

We waited out the afternoon breeze, which finally came on around 1:30, headed over to my favorite "corner" of the grounds and really pounded on them for an hour, as many as three keepers on one drift. George was especially hot, using the Daiwa Harrier spinner I gifted him to great effect - scoring a 5, 6 and 6.5lb fish back to back to back. He had "one of those days," which I couldn't be happier about!

So we ended up limiting the boat on the fluke, and only one shy of a limit on the big biscuits. Not bad at all, considering how tough a June we've had to deal with.

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Hey Pete thanks for another great day! You sure put us on some big fluke and biscuits. I've never gone through so much gulp on one trip. It was great!

The best was listening to everyone complaining that there were no fish around ?

Thanks again for a day I won't soon forget.
 
captmike28 said:
Thanks for another great trip Pete. Despite the sea conditions, you definitely served up some fine "lemonade" yesterday. it was also a pleasure to finally meet and share the deck with George who, by the way, did very well for his first attempt at deep drop Fluking. George, your next challenge is to join me on the North Fork, either for some Sea Bass in the early fall or the superior Tog fishing we enjoy come October.
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I'm there. It was a great day!
 
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