Phil Krausz and I went out on his boat this morning, leaving Back River a little after 6am. We haven't been out for rock in a couple of weeks.
Made our way to R10 near Swan Point and set out an 8 rod spread of tandems, spreader bars and one umbrella in white or green.
Noticed a huge fleet of boats anchored up a little N of Love Point chumming.
We wandered south looking for fish, picking up a few throwbacks along the way. Phil finally decided to head us towards the LP Buoy. We tried the ledges near KI and then started going E/W above and below the buoy...FINALLY
![Big Grin](images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
around 1030 the meter lit up and the first keeper hit...24" hit a Capt John's spreader with a 17 Tony in chrome/green flash...a couple of minutes later we took a big hit but no hook up. Made another pass and a rod with 6oz and a tandem pair on bucktails I had custom made at Slevad landed a fat and feisty 29" that Phil wrestled into the boat, but not before it made a run across the stern and hung up 3 other rods AND the downrigger...
Took us 30 minutes to clear the CF
![Stick Out Tongue](images/smilies/tongue.gif)
and another 30 to find the fish again...this time the WWB rod starts singing big time...I pulled it out and thought we'd hooked a skate...luckily I was wrong...a fat 30".
After that, we called it a day and got home in time to watch the O's pound the Yankees.
Also heard reliable reports of 2 sharks between Podickory and SP...one dorsal was 12" out of the water