The lad in the grey shirt is called taxman
Decided to save 50 miles and 1 hours drive time and went to Atlantic Highlands instead of Brielle.
Good choice I guess since the "D" and Jamica Star were both fishing near us
Went with my son, his girlfriend and my father in law
Started off as one of those days
Up at 4 out at 4:30
Forgot a package to bring to my inlaw, circled home and startd again
Picked up FIL, hit bank, ATM will not give me money
Hit parkway, realize truck does not have ezpass, search for cash, have to wait in line aat each toll since only one attended lane is open this early
Drive to shore, try ATM in quick check, SOL, luckily back up account had enough funds
Get to harbor with10 minutes to spare
Go to rig pole, find out I brought wrong top for base, luckily son had back up
Get to first spot, sons GF gets keeper just over 12.5
I follow up with a no brainer into the bucket
5 minutes later get big hit and fight Get fish to surface and it is a sea bass bergal double, sea bass is a nice knucklehead
Realize, backup pole has old line, see net in bow, ask mate to net it for me since I do not know strength of line.
Get a little bit of blow back, but he does run to upper deck, hands down net, runs back down and nets fish. Tells me I should have swung it, admits it is a nice fish.
Get another no measure keeper and suddenly, the fish leave me alone
Get 1 more sea bass before end of day, did have a good number of throw backs.
Capt George moved to the porgy grounds at end of day and stayed an extra 1/2 hour as we bailed them
4 of us had 6 sea bass and kept 10 porgies and gave away another 15
plenty of action all day, just not alot of keepers
Netted fish stood up for the pool, better safe than sorry. Did find out battling the bottom that the line was good enough to swing the rest of day
Nice day on water, Capt George moved and reset often trying to find the fish
Nice to have hot food in the galley
Still way better than work
