Last chance sea bass trip until the fall by Tim Naples

Posted on June 18, 2024 by bayside425

Tim Naples

We headed out Father’s day for sea bass. The forecast called for NE wind with 3-4, but we were greeted with nearly a flat calm ocean once we left the inlet. First stop was a wreck about 12 miles out from LEI in about 70′ of water. Unfortunately, not much life on this wreck, and we only managed a couple shorts. Since the ocean was so calm, we decided to make a big move and head out another 13 miles to a wreck in 110′ of water.
On our first drop, everyone hooked up with keeper sea bass. Within ten minutes the keeper count was up to 10 fish, and the bite quickly slowed. We kept at it for a while trying jigging, using gulp, and even drifting the wreck, but the fish just went off the bite and we left the spot with a total of 15 keepers.
We decided to head back in to GSS and hopped from structure to structure which yielded us another 10 keepers for a total of 25 on the day. Would have been nice to get more of course, but it was a fun day on the water. I’m looking forward to the next trip.

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