Headed out Friday on the Gambler at 3am to fish some spots further off for Cod , Pollack and Hake.
I got to the dock around 1:15am and there was quite a few fisherman already on the boat. Upon entering the cabin I was greeted by capemaymartin and Dakota and Madman as well.
Bunkroo was open, grill was on and at 3am(Keith's dad/grillmaster is awesone) we took off with about 21 fares.
We got to the first spot in 200 ft. of water around 6 and I got the first cod around 8 pounds not too long after that. We picked away and had a bunch of ling, and a few annoying sea bass(hate throwing back 5lb fish) and smaller pollack as well.
Next spot same thing, sprinkling of cod in the 8-10lb range and then picking bigger ling. One sharp fisherman in the bow jigged two fat cod in a row.
Next spot was in about 175 and I decided to jig and caught two Pollack, one being small and one around 15-17lbs. The fish was hooked in the side near the head and I thought I had a 50lb cod. I quit jigging and caught a dozen more ling on smaller hooks on the bottom.
There were quite a few bigger cod caught on that drop including one that went 25-30 lbs and a big pollock caught by Martin that was a little smaller than the cod. Madman had a really nice cod as did Steve and several others.
It was great to see everyone. It was great meeting and fishing with "Dakota" and meeting some other NJFISHING.COM menbers as well. Good talking to everyone.
Thanks Capt. Bob, Mike, Keith and his dad (breakfast was great)for making the trip a pleasure as always.
Leif
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