All summer long, I have people who call me asking about make-up or walk on trips. A make up / walk on trip is a where you don't need a group or charter the whole boat. Each person pays a flat rate per person. I don't typically do walk on trips during the summer because I'm booked out with charters every day. As the season slows in late september-october, when the weather is nice and I don't have a charter (usually during the week and always on short notice) I will do a make up trip. I made a post yesterday about a walk on trip and called many of the people who normally ask about walk on's, and no one would commit to going. I made a lot of phone calls last night and was able to round up 3 people to go, but I wanted to go fishing so I said screw it, I'll go with 3. Lots of people who told me last week to "call me next week", told me again this week to call them again next week. So I went to bed at a reasonable time last night with 3 for my make up charter and when I woke up this morning, I had a group of 5 people ready to go. So things worked out, and everything was good.
Today I ran a make up trip. We went to the wrecks and the weather was gorgeous. Hot and calm. We got to the wrecks and set up to start fishing and I was burning up. A haze rolled in early and made things comfortable. The water temperature was 80 degrees which is crazy for October. That warm water temperature had an effect on the fishing. It was too hot to catch sea bass. They were there and thick. I was marking bass stacked up 20-30' over the wreck in places. But with clear 80° blue water, I just don,t think it was right conditions for sea bass. We caught a few, but it just wasn,t good conditions for that. It was great conditions for flounder. The wrecks were literally covered with flounder. I think EVERY SINGLE TIME I dropped a jig to the bottom today, I had a flounder bite. I'd think with as good as that flounder fishing was, you,d have to try really hard to not catch flounder. We caught a quick limit of 24 flounder, and released a bunch, catching over 50 flounders altogether. Great, fun day with a nice catch.
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