Big Sea Bass

We met at the boat at 4 AM Saturday morning. It was cold. Seas were still rather bumpy from the gale the day before. The spray was freezing on contact and shortly there was a sheet of ice on the front of the boat and the ice covering the windshield greatly reduced visibility. When we approached the wreck we intended to fish, RADAR showed there were already a couple of other boats there. We turned the boat so we could see the two head boats that were there, bright and early. Those boys left the dock early, I bet they had a good catch. We moved onto some other wrecks. We found a couple loaded with big sea bass. We caught our 75-fish limit. Back at the dock, we put 6 fish on the scale. All weighed over 5 pounds. There were probably a handful more that would have reached that mark if we had weighed them. We had a couple of 6-pounders. The largest fish weighed a bit over 7 pounds. Keith Blackburn caught that fish. It is his second 7-plus pound sea bass that he has caught in as many trips this year. We had squid and clam but most of the bass were caught on jigs.