Avenger
Well-Known Angler
We ran out to the JI this morning, really expecting to just drown bait.
We (meaning me) got a couple of short fluke. The captain and I both brought a couple of Sea Robins aboard which generously sacrificed a few fillets for bait.
While that was going on we worked our way back through the inlet making a couple of drifts at various buoys and "by the Coast Guard Station." Everyone says they catch fish "by the Coat Guard Station." Maybe they're fishing a different Coast Guard Station.
Anyway we picked up a few more short fluke, sea robins and really small sea bass etc. when he gets his hook bit off. Then we get into a conversation about hooks and I'm pontificating about circle hooks and he asks to borrow one of my rigs.
Doesn't the ba$+@rd start catching everything in the water with my rig. It's not that I'm unhappy that were catching fish, but....
Do any of you fish with someone who will break your chops when they're catching and you're not? How would you feel?
Eventually he pulls up the biggest fluke we've seen all season. (on MY rig!) 18 inches, which brings me back to our earlier conversation about the rules and is anyone seeing fish close to the limit? Well, apparently at least one exists.
Finally, something,... probably a Bluefish, bit off the circle hook I gave him and the inequity stopped.
We finished up by the Wantagh bridges with the same collection of shorts and trash before we finally decided to call it a day. The high point of the trip was being treated to a fly-by from four F-18 Super Hornets, probably related to the golf nonsense going on.
Sorry, I couldn't get to a camera fast enough. You'll have to settle for the picture of a buoy.
We (meaning me) got a couple of short fluke. The captain and I both brought a couple of Sea Robins aboard which generously sacrificed a few fillets for bait.
While that was going on we worked our way back through the inlet making a couple of drifts at various buoys and "by the Coast Guard Station." Everyone says they catch fish "by the Coat Guard Station." Maybe they're fishing a different Coast Guard Station.
Anyway we picked up a few more short fluke, sea robins and really small sea bass etc. when he gets his hook bit off. Then we get into a conversation about hooks and I'm pontificating about circle hooks and he asks to borrow one of my rigs.
Doesn't the ba$+@rd start catching everything in the water with my rig. It's not that I'm unhappy that were catching fish, but....
Do any of you fish with someone who will break your chops when they're catching and you're not? How would you feel?
Eventually he pulls up the biggest fluke we've seen all season. (on MY rig!) 18 inches, which brings me back to our earlier conversation about the rules and is anyone seeing fish close to the limit? Well, apparently at least one exists.
Finally, something,... probably a Bluefish, bit off the circle hook I gave him and the inequity stopped.
We finished up by the Wantagh bridges with the same collection of shorts and trash before we finally decided to call it a day. The high point of the trip was being treated to a fly-by from four F-18 Super Hornets, probably related to the golf nonsense going on.
Sorry, I couldn't get to a camera fast enough. You'll have to settle for the picture of a buoy.
