Fishing everyday the weather allows!

The jumbo fluke in the last report appear to have been a grand finale. Still see a couple a day..

Sea bass much more cooperative this week, but keep in mind that abundance is fairly low to begin with. What's out there is biting!

At least it was a fast mover and weakened. Early Saturday morning Noel's remnant winds topped out at 43 knots, seas at 17 feet.

Incredibly, we weren't too far from the buoy that sends that data on Sunday.

Everyday we got our lines in the water was great. Um well, that is we had one really fine day on the water and 6 weather cancellations.

Getting caught up on maintenance is one thing, Q-tip cleaning & oiling the inside of the socket heads...

Some of the finest flounder fishing I've ever seen.

But not everyday!

There's a handful of sea bass with them. Even some sea bass inside 'em. 'Fish eat fish' world out there.

Sea bass... It should be sea bass. Limits of 'em.

It ain't.

Did have a few decent shots of 'em this week though. After last week's doom and despair report, written Sunday evening, we had two of the best days this fall. Yup, Monday and Tuesday some folks pushed into the upper teens.

Dogoned easterly winds keep pushing more warm water in. The water temp was 75 degrees outside the inlet and 73 degrees 20 miles out today.

Flounder continue to be the target species. I've tried focusing on sea bass with less than lukewarm results. Nick a few ~and they seem to be getting thicker on the sounder~ but derned if I can get a sustained bite.

Earlier in the week we had a fantastic run of tool boxes, spare parts, soiled rags and worn-out scrub brushes.

It's the yachting life. Bad weather -just on the edge- not a hurricane or even a decent Nor'easter, but a slightly too heavy flow of northerly wind kept us in for 5 days. Rats.

Still floundering about ~ Sea bass aren't in the picture.

No, I do not understand why the sea bass are AWOL.

All in all though, it strikes me that folks are pretty dogoned happy with flounder around the rail - and usually we get to go nick some hardheads too.

Thursday and Friday. Should'a been there. Nice.

Back to working for 'em on Saturday. Still, it really was awesome to see first time anglers bowed up on nice flatties ~ even keeper doubles.

Although there's still precious few sea bass to be had; contrarian anglers were rewarded this week. At least the ones that had agreeable weather! Wednesday Capt. Tucker had the helm and stopped on a nice mess of croakers (aka hardheads) before going offshore.

Suntan lotion retailers and fishers didn't do so hot last week. Moderate north-east winds, cloudy skies and occasional rain put a damper on the fishing nearly all week.

The mid-Atlantic in August ~ calm, serene, sun-drenched seas... Yeah not.

Easier to call the weather in February than what it's been here lately. Have to play the hand you're dealt I suppose. At least we don't have a hurricane Dean barreling up the coast ~ yet.

Left the dock this morning with high hopes. Calm, cooler finally, and some great regulars ~ pretty day & easily one of the worst days of fishing in my years!

Had I written this report Monday, I'd have told a tale of uncooperative sea bass but worthy of pursuit. Fish piled high on the screen that would bite for at least a few drops. Nice fish ~ make a superb dinner.

Still summer fishing though some of the weather has been oddly fall-like. Sea bass in the 6 to 12 keeper fish per-person range is 'it' with an occasional flounder.

High summer now, just had the first couple mahi today ~ warm water for that. Still haven't picked up a tuna on our 'coming and going' trolling lines. Seems like everyone that's targeting 'em is doing fine though. No worries, just fun when it happens.

We're catching some good sized sea bass but not a lot of 'em ~ at least not compared to a few years ago. Folks are mostly ending the day just getting into the teens or thereabouts. Workin' hard to get there too.

Judging by the boat traffic in the inlet this afternoon ~ summer's here. Same could be said of the fishing.

Still nicking away at sea bass. It's not too bad, occasionally quite good ~ sending folks home with dinner at least. Flounder soon I hope, and still the odd tog about.

As is common come summer, the fishing is more variable and the passengers occasionally sunburned.

Mostly working hard for our sea bass. Easy some days, like Saturday's limit-out and home early, but occasionally struggling to get folks into double digits.