With an early limit under our belts, we moved into the shallows to play C&R for a couple more hours on the light jigging tackle. Once again, a solid bite was had the entire time we spent on this piece. Many shorts were landed here but we did manage to boat and release at least 4 more keepers during the spree. Even the Capt. Got a shot at dropping the jig for a little while and decked a healthy keeper who was safely returned.
Saturday found my long-term customers, the John party, looking to repeat our success of Friday as well as many previous season trips. Back to the reef and interestingly the keeper Tog were a lot more cooperative on the end of the flood this time. With an extra hour of tide to work the guys put 8 keepers in the 16-18” range in the box before we began to swing into the ebb tide cycle. Based upon Friday’s results I expected another good showing of real quality fish. Unfortunately, the real big guys seemed to change their pattern much to my surprise. Don’t get me wrong, the guys still caught a ton of fish and easily limited the boat by 11 a.m. but the top 2 fish were only in the 5# class that day. Still nothing to be upset about, but I guess sometimes I get a little spoiled. With an early finish I let the guys do some C&R jigging while I cleaned the catch before cruising home on a flat calm Sound.
Looks like a couple of days on crummy weather ahead which will force some postponements but hope to be back out again on Tuesday ready to take another shot at our outstanding North Fork Tog action.
Capt. Mike
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