Nice Mixed Bag of Fish by Ed Valitutto

Posted on October 4, 2021 by VHFC

Dave Spendiff joined me for an early fall fishing trip on Monday October 4th. With 2 1/2 dozen green crabs from Tony’s B&T and a live well full of peanut bunker netted on the way out, we headed south to fish for tog.
We stopped about 200 yds (towards LBI) from the Rutgers white research building and anchored in 20′ of water. The action was immediate and non-stop. All were small except for the one keeper I got at 16+”. We caught ~30 tog and 6 small seabass before the crabs were gone. We then made several trolls in the open inlet where birds had been working the whole time. Either the bluefish weren’t interested or it was simply birds feeding on bait.
We then headed north and made several drifts with peanut bunker near the hole outside of Morrison’s. Dave immediately hooked up and reeled in a beautiful 19 1/2″ weakfish. We also caught at least 6 small fluke and had many bunker cut in half by bluefish. It was a wonderful day on the water!

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