Blackfishing the Sandy Hook Reef November 6 2011

After a showing up about 15min late for the striper bite on the edge of the Ambrose channel Bryan Krastins and I fished for about an hour with no results. When we showed up we were watching many of the boats in the fleet hookup and land multiple stripers. Disgusted with our near miss we headed off to the Sandy Hook Reef in search of Blackfish. While running toward to reef we were to cross paths with a wreck so we decided to stop and check it out with the Lowrance Structure Scan Sonar it looked like a nice piece and it showed very well on the down scan it is amazing how easy these wrecks are to miss when using only regular sonar. After scouting for 15 min we decided to mark the spot and comeback another day, we were going to stick with the plan we formulated the night before. After setting the anchor on a wreck we put down the crabs the first 15 min were slow Bryan was first to hookup with a 13.5 inch fish which we released quickly. As the tide began to slow the fish came out to feed for the next 1.5 hours we bailed the blackfish keeping two fish about 19 inches and releasing at least 50 others.