Shark River Reef

[Togfather2530]

Any advice on getting through the freaking bergalls. It seems like every time I run out there to sea bass fish spring or fall the reef is loaded with them. After fishing for an hour and a half and wasting outrageous priced clam feeding bergalls I got irritated and left. Maybe I should have stayed. Just curious what others do to get through them. I tried jigging only to jig tons of bergalls. I got one barely legal Seabass out of there in an hour and a half. I had salted clam which stays on the hook great. I can’t even imagine if you had fresh clam that wasn’t salted how fast you would be cleaned off. U