Montauk Begins

Fished with Dusty, John, and Luc in Montauk this weekend. We began Saturday morning by looking around for some false albacore. The tide wasn't right so we moved to some deepwater places where I know there are seabass in large numbers. The seabass have been running exceptionally large the last couple of years. We caught many that were over 20 inches long. That is a big seabass. Some were close to 23 inches or bigger. After catching our fill of those the tide was right to catch false albacore so we went looking for them. We found many false albacore that were uncooperative before we found some schools that would eat. When we did it was game on. We ended up catching and releasing over 15 false albacore and several bluefish before calling it a day on Saturday. We caught the false albacore on metal and on the fly. Pro Tip: People usually think of cut bait for fishing for sea bass. However, jigs and metal are extremely productive and tend to catch the larger specimens. We had an unbelievably epic bottom fishing morning and we used absolutely no natural bait.