The 12-hour trip was a great mix of various kinds of fishing. Captain Mike consistently put us over spots with lots of fish.  Felt a bit bad for his son, the First Mate, when we kept pulling up dogfish in between the good stuff, but he handled it well and humurously. Of course we hoped to take a bug tuna or edible shark, but sometimes that’s more up to the fish than the crew.  We did catch 12 species of bottom-fish fish and one 7’  200 pound blue shark.  The shark wasn’t a variety good for eating, but we came home with many pounds of fillets + 42 mackerel ready to cook.  Would definitely go with Fishbucket again!

Went out on the 3 hr evening trip with Captain Mike and his son Jay (or was it Brad-sorry bro). It took a bit to find the bait fish schools but once we did Jay/Brad was picking them out of the water with ease and baiting the lines for Striper. The rest of us tried to but only one of three was successful catching bait.

Slow night for Striper but ended up getting into one during the steam back to the dock, and landed my first Striper!

Jay/Brad sashimi’d that guy up and I gave the rest to the other fishermen on board.  Even took a swing past Ol’ Iron Sides!

I had a great time, they are very experienced and highly recommend.  Very sorry I forgot your name Jay/Brad.