There were a lot less boats than the first commercial day and the next thursday after that (thursdays happen to be a day off for me coinciding with commercial day).
Chased the birds into deeper water down the backside, a couple miles offshore but inside the 3NM and just had endless thick bait and bass swimming under the boat from 20-60 feet. Wouldn't even call them schools because there weren't pods of them, just an endless stream. None smaller than 36" that we landed. Drifted for 2 hours with nonstop action on live macs and not a single boat anywhere near us while the commercial guys were on the radio complaining about how the fish were too small and moving too fast to stay on top of them and jig. I'm new to the area and this style of fishing and haven't had much success jigging them on the drop off by the race, even when surrounded by 5 boats consistently hooking up jigging, so to get out of the fleet and have great peaceful success on a day where the topwater was slower than the past few weeks was nice.