We went back to the Triangle Wrecks yesterday. The weather was gorgeous. The fishing was slow. The nice sea bass we had been letting go seemed to know that the season was back open. There was a fish potter working the area while we were out there. That may have had some affect. We did manage to catch some nice bass but none were large. We ran into the big bluefish once. We trolled around looking for them and never found them. While drifting for flounder, they showed on the fish finder. We dropped a couple of jigs and Charlie Sparrer had a really big one to that boat (20 pound class) that bit the hook off of the jig before we got the landing net under it. No problem, we would just catch more. They disappeared as fast as they showed up and we never found them again. We caught a total of 6 flounder and a few small bluefish while flounder fishing. Capt. JT Hale caught 5 of the flounder and all of the bluefish. It was his birthday so the rest of us contend that we were just letting him catch all of the fish.
I had a number of hits on my jig and had a huge bluefish follow it up to the surface as I took it out of the water to go get the net for Charlie’s fish. Bernie and I got the net out but took too long as it was hung up on that side door. Now there have been some comments that maybe I was actually impeding the net deployment and that the reason that we never found the fish again was due to my skillful avoidance of them as these fish were larger than my 18 pounder that currently is leading the state. I deny all such accusations. It is purely happenstance that my fish gets to stay in first place for one more day. They really were big blues, like those we caught the year Charles won the state.
