It was beautiful out there yesterday. Ran about 50 miles south looking for striped bass and never found anything to fish on. Declaring the striped bass extinct, we went offshore a bit and ran back north just looking for life and still never found anything. We stopped on the Consols wreck and caught 15 tautog on leftover clams from the day before. Wes Blow lost our one cod at the boat. No citation-sized togs this time. Running in, could barely make out some birds on the Radar directly into the setting sun inshore. Was not sure there was anything but turned into the beach. Found them just as we lost the sun. Nice class of fish. Caught about 20 in a very short time of light left. Every rod hooked up, the tandem rigs with two fish on. Charles Southall weighed in a 45 pounder (had this and another nice fish on the same rod). Wes weighed a 42-pound fish (his first weight rockfish). Steve Martin released a 45-inch fish. Fish were all over the boat. I think there were some other release citation size but we did not measure any others, just released them and got the bait back in the water as fast as possible. Screen was lit up with fish from the time we found them until pitch black. Slow, slow day ended with pure bedlam. Came in with our limit of big fish. 22 miles south of Rudee. These fish are moving north. Nice speckled trout just sitting there, beside the boat at the fuel dock, while we were cleaning fish. There was nothing in the rockfish’s stomachs.
