# 58529: Subject: Ambrose Channel, New Jersey

Submitted by Andrew Sokol (ip 68.192.62.3)

• Fished on 8/25/2010

• Report received: 8/25/2010

Water Temperature: 70+
Water Clarity: Cl;ear
Seas: Surpoising nice, no heave..seas 1-2'
Weather: Nice (if you were a duck). Overcast with intermittent rain showers, light NNW wind. Air temperatures in the 70's.
Fishing_for: Sea Bass, Fluke Blackfish
Boat: Fins On Feathers
captain: Frank Tenore

Report:
Was finally back aboard the Fins today, having not been on since the end of April. Game plan was for a mixture of species.

Started off tight to Romer Light set-up for clamming some stripers where the captain had them last week. Had bites right away, however they were from blackfish. I missed my first bite but boated a nice #5 on my second bite. others aboard caught a few shorts. Soon after I boated my keeper, I had another solid hook-up with which definitely felt like a better fish. But since I was use a light mono leader (was set up for bass fishing after all), the fish dragged me across the rocks & broke me off. Stayed here for about 30 minutes before moving out east along the edge of Ambrose.

Made a few drifts looking for fluke but we didn't get a single bite.

Moved further east past the end of Ambrose and near the Whistler Buoy. Drifted around some hard structure and started putting together a catch of sea bass. There were also a few small tog in the mix (we were able to able one more keeper tog a little bigger than the earlier one). First were catching on a standard hi-lo rig baited with clam but the better bite and better fish came on a Sneaky Pete rig baited with whole small squid or Peruvian spearing. Best bite came on the drift as we caught nothing on anchor. Made a few wiggles here & there putting a decent catch together.

End of the day @ 25 sea bass (kept only 14"s or better..so we probably had close top 50 throw backs), 2 tog (had about dozen short tog) & 1 keeper fluke (throw back 2 shorts)...a few trash fish also caught (sea robin, bergall, dogfish, conger eel).

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