Captain's Table Post Storm

Ran a half day inshore charter on Wednesday afternoon with the Bob family and I was a little concerned that right after the Tropical Storm the local Porgy population might be a bit traumatized. Thankfully, as soon as the chum took hold the fish followed quickly with a solid 3 hours of action. Typical small to medium summer Bay Scup with a few jumbos mixed in were on the menu plus a few Kingfish and some puffers. I tried to mix things up at the close of the trip with a quick hour at Jessups neck but the Bluefish population did seem a little more skittish following the blow as we could only fool one 5# fish on a diamond jig.

Yesterday I made a solo trip to the Sound to gather some intel for my upcoming weekend charters and some fresh Sea Bass for dinner. Action was a little bity spotty, perhaps still due to some lingering water clarity issues, but I managed to find my 3 keepers with a real nice one hitting almost 4#. Just in case anyone doesn’t know why Sea Bass taste so good, check out the photo of the stomach contents of the top fish…a fully formed baby lobster! I was tempted to swallow him whole myself!!!

Looking forward with great anticipation to this Sunday’s Montauk Fluke trip. There is still one spot open for this charter so give me a call if you want to hop aboard.

Capt. Mike

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