Finally….the water cleared up, the baitfish were in tight with the beach, and the fish were biting. Kara and I must have caught 25 fish today.

I picked up 3 bluefish at dawn with a Gotcha, then the bottom fishing got good. Pulling nice spots and sea mullets out of the breakers.

Kara pulls her first double ever…2 keeper sea mullets!  She also caught the nicest bluefish of the week on fresh shrimp…quite a fight!

Around 11 a.m., I waded out chest deep and started hurling my Gotcha. 10 minutes later, I had a good fish on that turned out to be a nice Spanish mackerel…unfortunately, he came off when I tried to swing him onto the beach after fighting my way through the breakers. 5 minutes more and I had a repeat performance with a bluefish. My luck improved though and I landed a couple more bluefish. Then I spotted a flock of birds working the water about 1/3 mile down the coast. I grabbed my Gotcha rod and ran down in time to pull a Spanish out and get cut off by another before the fish sounded and were gone.

Ended the day with quite a nice cooler of fish which were grilled that evening over charcoal…delicious.