Bottom Fishing the AC Reef on the Red Herring by Nate Figley

Posted on May 19, 2024 by VHFC

We fished a weather window between some NE winds that didn’t want to move out of the area. We started inshore and caught a few sea bass mixed with good numbers of tog. We then continued to move out into deeper water and found better numbers of larger sea bass with tog mixed in. We fished anywhere from 50’-100’ of water with the best catching in the 80’+ range.

Although the fishing seemed a bit slower than recent early spring sea bass trips, there was plenty of action and we ended the day with approximately 100 fish with a 60/40 split of sea bass/tog. One especially noteworthy catch was a 7 lb cod!

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