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Fortescue
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Striped bass including a 37-incher and a 36-incher and bluefish were beaten on a trip Sunday on the Buccaneer, Capt. Ralph said. So that was a nice day, he said, and seas were rough on another charter on the boat Saturday, but the trip also caught stripers. Quite a few stripers were angled on both trips, and plenty remained in the bay, but those were the final trips of the season on the Buccaneer. The fish were still entirely possible to catch. Stripers near Fortescue were resident fish or younger bass that were yet to migrate. Still, sizeable ones swam among them. During some years migrating stripers swim the bay near Fortescue. But the migrators seemed to remain toward the ocean this year. Ralph thanks everyone who fished aboard this season, and looks forward to next season. Trips next year will launch in spring with drum fishing. Ralph is a pioneer of drum fishing, running trips for them since the 1960s, before the rest of the fleet sailed for the boomers. His drum schedule gets packed, so think about locking in the charter dates while they’re available.
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