It was beautiful in the ocean today. We fished until we ran out of bait: 250 clams and about 4 dozen crabs. Hunter Southall showed up this morning talking smack. He and his dad, Charles, had a bet going on which would catch the largest tog. The loser had to wash the winner’s truck. When Hunter jumped out to an early lead, Charles said that we were not going in until he caught a larger tautog. It only got worse from there as Hunter soon caught a tog that turned out to be our largest of the day. Fish bit both the clam and crab baits. The clam caught the most and the largest fish. We ended up catching 49 tautog up to Hunter’s 9 pound 8 ounce fish. 9 of the fish had previously been tagged. We also caught a good number of sea bass, some dogsharks. a nice hake, 2 cunners, 1 large toadfish and an impressive conger eel. We did not catch any cod.
