Full Moon/Half-Bite
Capt. JW Powell fished with “Cork Bar” Billy Wilkins and Richard Hastings of Ocean City at the OC artificial reefs on Wednesday 5/30. The sea conditions were perfect, a light breeze and 1-2ft waves, we set a world speed record getting to the African Queen reef!
Billy Wilkins broke the ice with a beautiful 3lb-17 ½ inch “Bluehead” Sea Bass and we caught several more nice keepers, with a 22 inch-5lb 2oz Flounder to round out the box.
We are anticipating that Sea Bass will show up in significant numbers at these reefs very soon, however, it hasn’t happened yet. We marked more fish than last week and had lots of small fish bites; overall though, the action was less than spectacular.
After the Queen, we “raced” toward OC and made a guest appearance at Russell’s Reef for a little “Toggin”. The group made a valiant effort, the fish weren’t cooperating! It may have been the full moon! Only 7 tog were caught, 3 were keepers. Billy Wilkins caught the largest weighing 5lbs-5ozs.
Sorry no pictures…It was a last minute trip and Capt. JW left his camera, sunscreen and sub sandwich at home. Guess which of those he didn’t actually need!