Due to a late cancellation, Alan Goracy and I jumped on a Brett Taylor Tog / Striper combo trip on Monday, November 2nd. Brett already had a third angler, Dave from Hainesport. We arrived at the inlet jetty rocks at 6:30 with no one else around and perfectly calm seas. We made multiple drifts with live Spot and landed 5 of 7 hookups plus a few bare hooks. Alan had 2 keepers – 29″ & 30″, I had two just over and Dave had one.
As the tide slackened and the bite waned, Brett moved just north of the pocket where a school of bunker were being netted by Andy from Tony’s B&T and two other boats were fishing. Every cast snagged a bunker. Several went missing as we live lined them, but Alan finally connected with a 42″ beauty.
We then went to the tip of the North jetty for Tog where it was lights out drop and crank for mostly keeper Tog. We quickly had our 4 fish and traded up a few for 16″ and one 17″ fish. Great last minute trip with Captain Brett!
