A day off…

Wednesdays are my day off from Connecticut Outfitters, and since I didn’t have a charter, Josh and I decided to head out to Block Island for a change of scenery. The plan was to throw eels in the rocks with spinning gear, then switch over to sea bass in some deper water. Josh had some numbers from his past trips that he wanted to try, so we plugged them into the Humminbird and headed out.

There was a good sized swell going when we got there with lots of 6 footers and the ocassional bigger ones so we didn’t want to get too close to shore. We fished in about 30 feet of water casting the eels up tide and letting them free swim to the bottom. This was a completely differnt style of fishing for me. We had a blast catching at least 18 bass before we ran out of eels. The biggest of the trip was a 47″ beast that put up a hell of a fight on light gear.
Here is a quick video clip of the fish:

Once the eels were gone, we turned our attention to sea bass. We fished from 70 feet all the way up to 45 or so and found them scattered around everywhere. Unfortunately, there weren’t many keepers but the action was good. I brought home just enough for dinner. We ended up catching a little bit of everything… Stripers, bluefish, fluke, scup, sea bass and sand sharks. Not a successful day by Josh’s standards but it was definitely a welcome change of pace and scenery for me.