This morning I ran out with my brother, my nephew & his girlfriend. Out at dawn hoping to run S down to Shrewsbury Rocks for some bottom fish and maybe to jig some blues, etc on the way. NWS called for NNE @ 5-10 but it was more like 20+mph. S of VZ we found some small blues and jigged a few. Ran out to the Rockaway jetty but there was nobody home. Tried to run to Sandy Hook but turned around due to sloppy conditions.
Ran back to J Bay and drifted fluke by MP Bridge. Picking at shorts for @ 1.5 hours. Afterwards, small blues popped up again and we jigged them until 2 dopey A's continued to troll through the birds until they broke up for good.
We've all seen this before, run around the working birds, shut down & drift into them. Works great until somebody drives through them trolling. If they stopped and threw a 007 jig they would have done well. As far as we could tell, they caught nothing and only ruined it for everyone else.
