Had to put the boat in yesterday to do some trailer work. Saw a ton of bait so I caught a few shrimp and decided to fish will paint dried on trailer.
Caught two large bluefish over a school of bait behind folly and figured id slack off a little more and see if there were any big reds cruising the inlet.
Lined up between two of the bars were there’s a cut through to ocean a buddy showed me and Cut each blue fish in 3 chunks and put two lines out.
Was sitting in 6-8ft, rollers were probably 4-5 feet haha. 5min bam, long run on surface screaming, spit the bait. Put a blue fish head on that rod and put it back out.
Bam second rod, 4-5ft shark, fun, unexpected this late, and removed hook without wasting tackle so it was enjoyable.
Put a croaker on that rod. Few minutes later rod 1 starts screaming, left it in holder slowly tighten drag and knew he was hooked when the rod touched the water.
Picked up rod and started fighting, turned the fish around 40yds away and BAM, rod two takes off while im fighting on rod 1.
Pretty excited at this point, fishing solo, surfing the rollers on my stern, and two fish are on. As I fought fish one I gently adjusted drag on rod two to keep it from spooling me but also keeping the fish on.
After another ten minutes or so fish one came to the boat and snapped my Star Jigging rod down to the first eye.
Huge red, thought about cutting line once he was at boat to start fighting fish two, but said what the hell and landed him.
Got him in the boat, put bow line through his gills and tied him off in water. I wouldn’t recommend this but felt somewhat capable.
All’s I could think about was how cool a pic of them both on my bow would look, haha.
Grabbed rod two and went at it, after 20 min or so and several long surface runs the medium action 7ft Crowder and Shimano Sahara 5000 put him in the boat.
Wish I had more time to get specific stats and another person to help and take pic to give fish scale, but I assure you in my experience and knowledge both fish si
