Today started out very foggy. I think it was better on the water than on the land but at this stage of my life I don’t dare risk any non-critical ventures. We stayed in port until 11:00 and waited until we were sure it was not going to get worse. The water was still maybe a foot swells at the worst, I guess if you have fog you are going to have mostly still air. The water was 46 and the air temp was very doable at about 55.
Fishing, we went to 63a just as planned. We did stop once when we saw a lot of boats at the old 1GW but for us it did not show enough life to make us leave our intended path, another good choice. When we got to 63 we saw two captains boats, one was just leaving so I did not get the name the other was the Heritage out of Reedville. He was just circling so I knew we were close. He likely just needed one more fish because he was gone very quickly. Anyway, we immediately started picking up some 19 – 21 inch fish but for us at this point in the season we kept throwing them back. We knew there were bigger fish in the area you just needed to put in the time.
We ended up with a 25” and 23” and both were complete pigs. The stock this year has been really fat so obviously they are eating well. We had Vince our friend in his boat, he ended up with a very nice 23 and we came in together. All told we fished for about 2 hours and caught in the mid thirties for numbers (I wasn’t counting great as they were coming in quickly).
We caught them on the same baits that have been working so well. I tried a chatterbait for the first time as my friend Mike just catches tons with them. For me that was the only bait that didn’t catch, obviously I need to go with him one time to see how he fishes it. He catches too many for it not to be a good bait.
