Memorial Day Weekend Trips Part 1

After hammering fish on our scouting trips, we started off the Memorial day trips with Rob Perez, Amanda Waldman and there friend Rolo. This was the second Season in a row for Rob and Amanda making them part of our valued East Coast Repeat Clientele. On their first trip Rob and Amanda did very well so I had some big shoes to fill already. Their friend Rolo had never caught a striped bass before and this was his first time out with us.

After a short ride the sun began to rise and we began to snag some pogies to use for bait. Rob an Rolo had so much fun snagging one fish after another that I literally had to drive away from the school, so that we could get focused on landing the big stuff. After poking around a few of my early morning locations, I marked a few nice fish near structure in 20ft of water. We began to get strikes right away, Once we overcame the learning curve Rob set up on a nice fish! Immediately the fished dumped line off the real and ran strait into a huge pile of pilings and timber. NOOOOOO!

Frustrated, I put the boat in gear and carefully began to maneuver the boat into the structure. Carefully I could feel the fish pulling on the line even though he had Rob wrapped around all sorts of structure. With a delicate game of boat handling and threading the needle with the rod. We amazingly were able to free the fish from the structure and Rob was able to continue the battle. After a few short minutes Rob had the crafty fish beat and into the net, and just like that we were on the board.

An hour or more into the action, and thanks to some crafty and a lot of nasty structure we where Fish 7 Boat 1. At this point the tide had begun to change and was now flooding in. I had the crew reel in their lines and decided to check out a few more spots I like to the south. I pulled up to the new location and instantly began to mark fish. "Deploy the probes" I instructed the crew. I jocked us into position and "WHAM" instantly we end up doubled up. This put another fish into the boat and Rolo was no longer Bass Virgin. Excited by the quick action, we re-rigged and got back at it. For the next 2 hours we ran a clinic on them landing fish after fish until we had completely limited out I nice fish between 15 and 32lbs. Rapping things up with a last minute 27inch fish by Amanda that we gave a quick pat on the head and released.

With the time limit up for the trip we snapped some nice photos for the blog and heading back to port. ( Keep in mind that ROB and ROLO are Giant dudes both of them make 6ft guys look tiny LOL) The fish still look great!

Thanks again for the repeat business guys, I look forward to taking you out again soon.


Capt Jack