it was a perfect day(sorry bout yours tony), good food, and a really great bunch of people at the BBQ. GB and i headed out with crat, spec, and steve. nice spot crat and thank-you for sharing. gb, steve and i left, steve went home with his rock wall climbing prize. i took a bit of a digger and kinda broke steves wifes bucket, couple of scrapes and a little bit of leakage on me not the bucket.
on the way back to m&d's had to stop and buy some mackeral and while there some guy trying to buy some fresh poggies from new jersey for some old lady who loves to eat them, everyone there was hoping he was talking about porgy. he was pretty persistant about the poggies though.
Greg and i ended up in westport just before high tide and he plugged and plugged, while i chunked and chunked. had a couple of small taps like scup or real small blues... it was a good sign. about 2 hours on the falling tide i got the one in the pic and found out the batteries were dead in my camera(gotta love kids) just after the pic was taken my other rod took a hit and greg pulled in another one. this one had gotten tangled up in my rig as it was dragging around maybe 50 feet of nylon cord a piece of chain for a sinker and a stainless hook on a wire leader. greg and i removed the gear from the fish and released it. didn't measure it but my guess would be around 28". it slowed down after that and i missed one or two small hits.
Greg left around 2am and i started fishing eels with not much happening till around 3:30. i caught a couple of schoolies and then i caught a 34" bass around 5 am. seeing how i didn't have a a camera i'm not gonna try to enter it.oops no witness
my fishing partner showed up about a half hour after that and my eels were getting beat up by small blues. i ended up catching a couple 2-3 pound blues.
my partner and i were fishing side by side and managed to get tangled up and after screwing around in the surf for a bit finally decided to cut his line. when i reeled in i had a 19" fluke attached to my line and the eel was still kicking. the down side is i didn't notice the knot in the super braid line while reeling it in and actually started rolling up 3 lines somehow onto the reel. i wasn't even gonna try at that point. it was about 7am and i had had enough. it was a good night.