Big Bluelines and a Small Snowy

We clobbered big tautog all January long. We went out after them again yesterday. For our first trip in February, for some reason, we decided to leave the wrecks that we have been fishing and try somewhere else. We caught a single tautog on our first wreck. There were some big swells out there and we were never able to get anchored up on our second wreck. We gave up on that and ran offshore.

We caught a nice class of blueline tilefish up to 15.5 pounds. We weighed in four fish in the teens. The dogfish were out there but we were able to move around to get out of them. We were not able to get out of the sea bass. Those things are everywhere and we caught some very pretty bass that became “regulatory discards”.

We also got into 32-33 inch bluefish, catching 15-20 of those. Wes Blow got out his diamond jig to work on the bluefish and ended up catching one of the largest bluelines of the day. Wes also caught our one snowy grouper of the day.