Montauk or your local beach?
I know the season didn't even start yet but I can't wait. I like hitting the back bays and the SS beaches. I think we have some of the most beautiful structure of all the states. When I hear guys talk about Montauk as the only place to get big fish, it seems a bit amusing. Why do people focus on that when in the spring all the fish have to pass the local beaches to get to Montauk.
So where would you rather fish, your local salt spot or at Montauk, and why?
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Montauk isn't called the sportfishing capital of the world for nothing. Go to montauk they have been getting bass there all summer.
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Sorry I disagree. If you are talking about fishing from a beach we had them great in ocean county last year. Great fishing for over a month. Montauk is too crowded for me. True it was crowded you can see from that famous internet pic but that was after thanksgiving and the word got out. I will take my local beach any day over montauk crowds. With all due respect
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strikezone31
Montauk isn't called the sportfishing capital of the world for nothing. Go to montauk they have been getting bass there all summer.
Yeah strikezone but the surf bite is not that great so far. I haven't reported here but have been there twice at night so far and not that thrilled. One 15Lb fish one trip on a beachmaster, and nothing on the other trip. I Love Montauk but there is a lot of hype as far as the surf catches are concerned. I can catch 15lb fish on FI and Moses beaches.
Here is a report today, another site -
"When we got there at 530a fish were hitting green poppers and darters. The action ended, as if on cue, exactly at sunrise. A few anglers reported good fish most of the night on the ebb tide. Im still kicking myself for not going right to the surf when we arrived!!
We stayed and fished until 2pm. It was a perfect day and we even used the chairs to occassionally rest that were purchased on the internet a couple years back expressly for fishing. You guessed it, NO fish for the whole day.
One angler who spends about 6 weeks in montauk for the fall run(what a life!)said he saw only one blitz thus far as he rounds out his second week. Perhaps i'm justifying my lack of fish but it seems the fish are not fully in fall mode. The water, while still warm, felt colder than last week and there was a noticeable increase in 4-6" baitfish. Even the kayakers came up empty."