A Morning with Greg by Dave Spendiff

Posted on July 2, 2021 by kelli

We left Greg Camilleri’s dock early in the morning and headed for the end of the South jetty of Barnegat inlet in an effort to catch some bluefish. By the time we cleared the end of the South jetty it looked like we had time warped back to 1942 and were a part of a Victory at Sea film – the waves were enormous! It took us very little time to reverse course and head for the safer, more calm bay water. As it generally happens when you enter a shallow part of the bay without any GPS tracks, you hit bottom. We did! More than once before we got some history recorded getting into the north cut off of the DCC. Once comfortably in the cut the fun began – we caught plenty of shorts, lost a few keepers and Greg’s “hot stick of the day” boated our only keeper. We made a few drifts in DCC before calling it a day and headed for home in Greg’s well kept 21’+, 6 year old blue Sea Chaser.

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