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Due to weather and work I only had one 2 day window to chase one of my favorite kayak fish- black drum. We could only find clams on the Delaware side so that's where we started. 4 of us fished a whole evening tide the first day and had zero signs of life. Only a couple boats out there too and they all reported the skunk. We still had more than half our clams and the reports from the Jersey side were good so we decided to hop on the Cape May - Lewes ferry and try our luck on the north side of the bay.
We got the first ferry from Lewes and got to Cape May nice and early. The bay was flat and full of bunker schools, dolphins and even a couple whales. We saw a small fleet of boats on the drum grounds when we pulled up to the launch. A local surf fisherman I talked to when I was getting my stuff together told me they had been doing well with big stripers in close the past few days. When we launched, we immediately found bunker and decided to try to chunk a few in close for those rumored bass. It took about 10 minutes for my first bunker head to get slammed by an almost 30 lb bass. It fought so hard in the current and the water was so dirty I thought I finally had my 50! I decided to land it onshore and it was really nice but not as big as I'd hoped. Twenty minutes later I got another slightly smaller one.
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The other half of our party was out in the drum fleet and at that point they said the drum were drumming and people were starting to hook up. I left the inshore bass grounds and booked it another half mile offshore into 20 FOW looking for the big drum. My one buddy hooked up when I got there and pretty soon 3 of us were hooked up at once all to nice fish over 50 lbs. We stuck it out a little longer and I managed another 30ish lb drum late in the day. It was an amazing day and the first time ever I've been able to get that magical drum/bass combo.
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We got the first ferry from Lewes and got to Cape May nice and early. The bay was flat and full of bunker schools, dolphins and even a couple whales. We saw a small fleet of boats on the drum grounds when we pulled up to the launch. A local surf fisherman I talked to when I was getting my stuff together told me they had been doing well with big stripers in close the past few days. When we launched, we immediately found bunker and decided to try to chunk a few in close for those rumored bass. It took about 10 minutes for my first bunker head to get slammed by an almost 30 lb bass. It fought so hard in the current and the water was so dirty I thought I finally had my 50! I decided to land it onshore and it was really nice but not as big as I'd hoped. Twenty minutes later I got another slightly smaller one.
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The other half of our party was out in the drum fleet and at that point they said the drum were drumming and people were starting to hook up. I left the inshore bass grounds and booked it another half mile offshore into 20 FOW looking for the big drum. My one buddy hooked up when I got there and pretty soon 3 of us were hooked up at once all to nice fish over 50 lbs. We stuck it out a little longer and I managed another 30ish lb drum late in the day. It was an amazing day and the first time ever I've been able to get that magical drum/bass combo.
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