Fishing with My Sons by Dave Spendiff

Posted on October 3, 2020 by kelli

This last Sunday, 9/27 my three sons and I spent 4 hours fishing with Capt. Brett Taylor of Reel Reaction Charters. We headed out at 7 AM, turning North out of Barnegat Inlet and moved to a small wreck off of Island Beach State Park. Literally on the first drop, the tog were on. We had to weed throuh a lot of shorts before we limited out, but it was wonderful to be out fishing with my sons again. We moved to the North jetty at the inlet with no luck on bass until my oldest son, Bill, hooked up a schoolie at the sod banks. In all, tog, bass, fluke and bluefish were caught and we had a great day with Capt. Brett.

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