Offshore Sea Bass - Sailing Sunday 11PM - Report

[Leif]

Originally Posted by PaBeerGuy

Fished the Big J Saturday, got set up on the first wreck (or whatever these sea bass hang on) by 4 A:M. I had a tough time getting started in the darkness, but soon found myself digging into the clam pot after every drop to the bottom. Bites occurred the instant your bait hit the bottom and some real nice sea bass and dinner plate sized porgies came up in the dark. I was surprised the bass were running that strong in the dark, but that was probably a blessing in disguise as the wind started to howl by 11:00 when we headed in with pretty much a consensus boat limit of sea bass and plenty of those porgies to top off the coolers. Nary a trash fish to speak of either. I've had a very fortunate string of good sea bass trips these last two months. Went 3 for 3 with no weather-outages. Finishing off on the Big J in style, I slept good on the way in in my sleeping bag down below. That is definitely the way to fly on this boat, nice heated bunk space in the dark!

Nice trip Dan,
Glad you got out.

Leif