Ocean report

Posted on June 27, 2017 by VHFC

Headed out to the Garden State South this morning with my buddy John on Thursday the 22nd for a real slow day on the Reef. There was not much wind and only 3 throwbacks so around 2:30 we started working our way back. We stopped just off the reef and picked up a couple keepers and a few more short fluke. The breeze was just starting to pick up and getting a little bit of a drift. We started working that area hard and ended up with 6 keepers. We had one fish in every inch range from 18 to 23 and a half which was the largest at 5 lb 3 oz. A bad day in the beginning turned great in the end all the fish were caught on gulp.

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