Today was girls day thanks to nine year old Minny who brought her older sister Lainey and Dad out for the morning. The bonito were elsewhere so we decided to hit the porgy grounds. The porgy’s were hungry and the girls did well with them. They added a couple of sea bass and Minny capped off the day with a two foot long sandshark. The brothers fished with us earlier in the week. I think that I heard Minny say the boys could fish like girls if they tried harder.

Seven year old Julian brought mom and dad back out for another adventure. We started off with dad catching a few bonito and our first bluefish of the year. After a bit we moved off to the scup grounds. The scup were waiting along with some friends. The guys loaded up on them and added a handful of sand sharks, a couple sea bass, a fluke and a sea robin. A pretty fun day on the briney.

Jim was back on the briney to search for the elusive bonito. We found some but they were few and far between. He did manage to find one to play and he got it done with a fly rod.

These guys are the second half of today’s crew. The smiles say it all.

Jim made the trip back from Denver with his guys. They did pretty well with bass last year so I was hoping for a repeat. We left early but found still slack tide at where I wanted to stop. Plan B was to check out some moving water. We had just pulled up when we got the lucky phone call. If you have fished with me you know what that means. Right on schedule a small pod of fish popped up and it was game on for the next four hours. The bones found us and everyone caught multiple fish. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Jim came back this morning and brought Keith along. We left to get the tide and it paid off pretty well. The guys were throwing flies and the bass were scattered but hungry. We ended the trip with a double and called it a day.

Thursday morning brought Peter back with his sil Tom for his first trip in the salt. We left early in the fog to catch the remaining tide. It was running pretty good when we arrived and soon we found what we had come for. We had a pretty good pick till the tide petered out. The bass were all in the 12 to 20 pound range.Their smiles said it all.

This past week brought our granddaughter up from South Carolina to do some fishing. She wanted bottom fish so off we went. Lots of small stuff around but she landed a seven pound fluke that was 25 inches long. She finished the week with a four foot sandshark. We went through 15 pounds of squid but had a blast. Back to stripers this week.