Daily Reports From The Deck

Conditions - Overcast and some spots of light rain. South wind 10 - 12 knots. Outgoing tide. We Will have a tide change at noon.

First Drift - Made the first one inside Sandy Hook and had our best drift in a couple weeks. The ratio was higher than it's been and we put 9 keepers in the boat up to 5 pounds. Live peanuts and plain spearing are out fishing everything else. High hook on the drift was Ricky D with 2 keeps.

Second Drift - SE wind increased to 15 - 20 knots. Not as many keepers on this one. Pat "Greenhorn" Strang was high hook with 2 keepers.

Third Drift - This one wasn't too good. Wind still around 15 knots gusting to 20. Only 1 keeper and a dozen shorts.

Fourth Drift - This one was better with 5 keepers being caught up to 4 pounds. One possible beast was lost on the way up. Couldn't get it off the bottom, and once it came up a little it had some good head shakes, but it wasn't meant to be. Lost it 10 feet from the boat.

Fifth Drift - No good. Breaking away from the fleet and heading inshore a little.

Sixth Drift - Made a quick one. Not a bite. Going back to where we had the most success of the day.

Seventh Drift - Another not so good one with only a couple shorts caught. We haven't seen much since the tide change. Also the weather has been getting worse by the minute. The radar shows rain all around us, and we see some lightning to the west, but it has not really hit us yet.  Changing up the area.

Eighth Drift - Made one in the deep of Sandy Hook Channel, but it was no good. Making our way to the Ammo Pier. We are gonna get hit by one of these storms soon. Mother Nature is closing in on us.

Ninth Drift - It's over!! We are getting poured and heading home. The day started great, but unfortunately as the weather fell apart, so did the fishing. Ricky D was today's high hook with 3 keepers, and Matt Connors won the pool with a 4.1 pound fluke. Jimmy Chambers took the very early lead in the August pool with a 3 lb 13 oz fluke.

Matt Connors won today's pool with this 4 pounder.

 This is a shot of our radar at noon with the rain all around us in green. We didn't really get any precip till around 1pm. On a side note, if you can read a radar and figure out what landmark is on the screen, then you will know exactly where we fished today.

Note: We are obviously in the center of screen.