that's a fun fish...I thought I spotted you off Newport yesterday..we started with sea bass and short fluke not seeing much on the surface anywhere other than some small bass briefly...found a cove stacked with bait and hung out for a bit...the bones found the bait eventually and pounded them through the morning tide...I ended up with bass, blues, bonito and scup on fly rod and we ended up with a cooler full of bonito...heaven for a shore guy like me...crazy to be out there on a holiday weekend and the only other boats fishing around us were two kayaks, one guy spear fishing and another casting at them and who caught his first bonito...it was hilarious to hear him screaming along with his drag...the spearfishing guy said he got one which must have been a great shot
I never made past 2nd beach ,,, think most of the boats i saw stayed on the big schools of blues inside the river , at noon when i headed back it was all 30, 40ft yachts heading out .. those guys dont get up early