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MetroMan, MytMouse , and myself have been awaiting the opportunity to try our hand at some Tautog and Seabass on the Morning Star with Captain Monty for some time. The Targeted 2/23/13 over a month ago to take this trip but was unable to book until the week of due to unpredictable weather. Looking at the extended forecast the week of we decided Friday Feb. 22nd was the best day to go. We were all excited to hit the road together at 1:30am to make it to the boat early as the trip was scheduled to be 5:30am to 5:30pm. They asked us to be there at 5:00am as they will leave early if everyone is there. After making our normal visit to WaWa we made it to the boat in time and left the dock in time to some very frigid weather. We steamed from the dock in darkness with 15 anglers. As we knew the ride out would be a good ways out we didnt realize how bumpy of a ride it would be out. Now to the good part. We steamed out 4 Hours.....Yes 4 hours to the first fishing hole. The boat supplied green crab but we brought some blue crab and shrimp just in case. Capt. Monty said that the fishing has been off and on as of late so we anchored up and dropped our lines. On the first drop a few anglers brought up some nice tog and a few LARGE Seabass. This was a great sign and within a few minutes MytMouse got on the board with a nice Seabass. At this point it was clear that they were a lot of LARGE Seabass down there and they were being caught all around the rail. Not long after MetroMan and I were on the board with some nice Black Seabass. WE stayed at our first fishing spot for about 2 hours and the Tog bite slowed a little so we left that spot and went another hour away. Once we got to the next spot the bite was hot and heavy with plenty of Large Seabass caught by everyone. MytMouse was into a good fight in which he thought it was a nice tog but ended up being a citation Black Seabass at about 22". Not a while later MetroMan hooks into something nice and pulls in a 25.5" BlackSeabass for his citation for the day. I will let them two post on there great day with pics. All three of us continued to fill our coolers with large black seabass as the tautog didnt cooperate with us yet as the seabass were taking whole green crabs . The blue crab and shrimp worked well too. MetroMan and I actually caught two huge bluefish to our surprise in the high 20"s. After that I baited a whole green crab on a double hook down and waited for a hit. Got a hit within seconds and after setting the hook I knew it was something good. Mind you we are in 100' of water and it took all I had to bring this fish up. It got to the surface and BAM My first ever tautog caught and it also managed to be a citation at 24.5". The rest of the trip continued with multiple citations of Seabass and Tautog. At the end of out trip we were all beat and ready to "try" and get some rest on the long ride back which was 4 hours and we made it back to dock around 7:00pm and headed back home. Enjoy the pics
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