Would have to categorize the weekend weather as less than perfect, but we got 3 trips in Friday - Sunday with each day providing something a little different. Friday/Sunday trips were off of LBI, Saturday trip was offshore of Atlantic City.
Chris Hogan and friends were aboard the Karen Ann II Friday. Conditions were about as difficult as you are going to find. The wind was out of the south at about 10 - 12 knots, but the drift was actually south east, INTO THE WIND. There was that much current running down the beach. Attempts at anchoring on a small hang proved pretty much useless, although we did catch a few fish.
Plan B was drifting for flounder and 4 different stops turned up only sharks and sea robins. I moved over some rough bottom and picked away steady for awhile on nice sea bass and did manage one legal flounder. We kept over three dozen sea bass.
The most interesting part of the day came at about 11:30. While drifting along INTO THE WIND at about a half a knot, the boat came to a complete stop, spun around, and started driting south west (still into the wind, but over 90 degrees different than before). This whole process took less than 10 minutes to complete. It was something you might expect in the inlet as opposed to 10 miles up the beach.
Took Jerry Hodgen and friends on an offshore trolling trip Saturday. Given that I haven't been able to get a decent temp chart all week with the cloud cover, headed back to where we had fish last week. What we found was 70.5 degree gray water. Not good.
I started beating offshore trying to find some decent water. It took some time, but finally after about 2 hours we found 74 degree plus water that had that nice cobalt blue look to it. No signs of bait or fish on the machine, but we did manage a couple false albacore (little tunny) for the day. Not the greatest day of offshore trolling, but at least we had some action.
Got back to some "meat and potatoes" fishing with the Dave Abecunas party aboard Sunday. I knew leaving the dock that conditions would be less than great, but the gang was up for giving it a try. When I watched the 29 footer disappear in a swell not far from me within a couple miles off the beach, I knew were weren't going 15 - 18 miles offshore today. Managed to get anchored up on a wreck about 6 miles offshore and had a good catch of sea bass up to 2 pounds. When things slowed there, I moved off to another small piece and we caught a few more fish, including our biggest of the day that was over 2 pounds. Total sea bass catch for the day was 70 fish.
We ended the day with a few drifts which turned up a couple of throwback flounder. To the guy in the small boat fishing not far from us...tough luck on losing that nice flounder you had off the back of the boat. We tried to catch it to give it back to you!
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Capt. Adam
Karen Ann II 
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