Nice reports fellas great action on the fluke fnm! jb a 5 gallon bucket of crabs is a lot! How do you cook the soft shells do you have any special recipe?
Nice reports fellas great action on the fluke fnm! jb a 5 gallon bucket of crabs is a lot! How do you cook the soft shells do you have any special recipe?
I rarely ever get them when they are perfectly soft...so I usually just steam mine up and enjoy. You need a saltwater tank to get them just right. Too much work to fry just a few up IMO. I know I am doing soft shell crab lovers everywhere a disservice but o well...
There is a firefighter who crabs near our spot and if I see him I'll give them to him. I know he enjoys them much more than we do as thats what he mainly targets.
I remember being 15 or 16 and crabbing with my mom when he passed by and saw us with only two crabs in our cooler. We had just started crabbing for the day but I guess he felt bad so he dumped his whole bucket into our cooler. He said he didn't want them and was looking for soft shells. I never forgot that moment and good karma does eventually come back.
Right on good karma def comes back. And if you are bad to folks regularly that bad karma will roll up on you like a sombitch. Great crabbing report thats a lot.
Fished OC for the sunrise today decided to change it up. Managed a few medium blues and a 27 1/2" bass, all went back. All on ava jigs with green tail. Lots of small bait in the water and a few mullet.
Nice going jf! I fished nomooco this morning. Didn't see a lot of mullet but there were oodles of spearing and rainfish you could see them in the waves.
Ended up with 9 fluke to 17 1/2 " wish the 17 was big enough to pinch the tail but he wouldn't have made keeper so I threw it back. double gulp on bucktail and teaser. White. There were some fish busting out far but I really couldn't see what they were. there were a few other guys around they were catching too and one guy caught a few small blues on metal.
Fished cape may area this morning, Got 5 kingfish 1 cocktail and 2 spot on bloodworms. This was the first time I saw spot in a while. Hope they stay in the area for when the bass start up. Lots of life in the surf just out of casting range. probably bluefish
Walked onto the beach yesterday afternoon and it was a zoo...by 6-7pm everyone left and we had the beach all to ourselves. Mostly very small fluke during the day with two around 17-17.5" taken on a chartreuse over white banana bucktail tipped with gulp.
Friend caught one small bass on a plastic swimmer.
Saw spearing and snappers, a few small mullet. No signs of bunker or big mullet yesterday.
Lots of these sand crabs on the beach yesterday all of them dead (post shed?). I count 17 in this picture + 2 disgusting cigarette butts.
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Same here John went to the beach for the wifes bday yesterday so no fishing for me but when we went swimming the sand crabs were ALL OVER!! Mostly tiny ones in the thousands digging by your feet but if ya dug a little you could find bigger 1s all over....Liking the conditions tn looks like we may have some white water with the ENE wind :)...Ill be out searching around..
Wow that's a lot of sand crabs! No wonder you guys are catching a lot of fluke!
Went down to the ocean this morning not to fish but to look at the water. It's chocolate milk as I suspected. The waves are spectacular. First noreast pattern of the fall but without a pressure drop and heavy rain I won't call it a noreaster. Waves are impressive though. Some about 6' or higher. No surfers out where I was. It may be a little too gnarly even for them until later this afternoon. This will put a hold on ocean fishing for at least 24 hours. I may try to hit the back later this afternoon before dark.
I got out last night with high hopes of hooking up with some bass...Had the right tide and the wind made for some real night white water...The N to S sweep was a bit of a pain but fishable..Worked 2 areas that have paid off for me in those conditions...Threw all the heavier stuff i had but couldnt find any lifehttp://www.stripersurf.com/images/smilies/no.gif fished from 730-1130pm...Water was up real high from the moon..And there wasnt much grass until i was leaving about 11...I knew it would be chocolate milk out there today....So far this Sept is slow to start compared to last year...Already had a bunch of bass under belt by now...Water needs to cool for sure but with those conditions last night i should have caughthttp://www.stripersurf.com/images/smilies/nixweiss.gif ...Oh well ill findem soon enuff! May have to stick to the flatties for the next 2 weeks or so..Like BH said gonna need a few days to settle out there..
^^ # of resident bass in our area is definitely down. I remember you did good last August and September with the bass.
I was kicking myself for not going out yesterday but I couldn't make it out.
Finally got out for 2 hours after work today . Attempted ot catch Fluke with gulp but no success. Ended up with a few nice size pain in the *** for eating my gulp snappers. I had a great time getting out on the water. almost forgot how it feels to wet a line.
^^^^^ Agreed blazin. Some folks have no clue.
Dark most of us know what the score is with the striped bass. There has been a steady decline. If someone says differently follow the money trail.
Fished moco this morning. White water and sand crabs, incoming. Picked up 2 short bass on bucktail and large pork rind.
6 fat bass tonight to 10#, released. In da surf moco near top of tide. Rubber shad. Mullet all over. Good to finally see some fish. DS just a thanks for all you do for striped bass. Some of these guys are clueless. They will kill the last striped bass until there are none left. I saw the thread its like you are trying to educate cavemen that they need to hunt different land each time instead of right outside the cave or there will be no cave beasts left to hunt. Unreal. You are a better man than me I don't how you put up with Fisher Price and the other idiots. They are the most notorious meatmen in the bay. It's like David trying to fight Goliath. Thank you dude, You sure have some balls. I would just give up on them.
Awesome jigfreak thats a good night of fishing!! WTG!!...Also nice job BH on the shorts...Real nice to hear of some stripes being caught!!
Got two bass last night on my teasers fished in front of a metal lip. I was fishing out front in MoCo as well.
No obvious signs of bait. Saw some bass caught by others as well.
Ok thats it I gotta go tonight after all these positive reports...Ill prob find the skunk but ya dont no unless ya go!!!
^ I asked you, and you said you won't walk too far if you don't know there are fish there.
I may be having a SR Moment here....please accept my humble apologies because you have been such an outspoken voice on the internet...:thumbsup:
So please allow me to re-phrase that....
Will you walk 2000 feet for a fish?
Would you be willing to walk more than 4 miles at night?...careful with the answer cause if you fish with Monty he will have you running a marathon just to keep up....;) :HappyWave:
Thanks for the kind words guys....:HappyWave:
It's something that has to be done, raising awareness...whether people like me or not...
The striped bass are in the worst condition they have been since the moratorium.
I know that if folks don't fish a lot they might not see that...
but if you fish daily and try to tell folks how healthy they are.....
You have some sort of hidden agenda.....Commercial or financial.....I have proven this in discussions, time and time again.
And congrats on the persistence for the bass Jig...you definitely put your time in......:thumbsup:
I fished south of ocean city today on the incoming tide after work. Right before dark I got 4 kingfish on bloodworms and one small bluefish. There was some activity pretty far out. Reading the albacore report from north I was hoping it was them but it was probably bluefish. It was a good time fishing and it really feels like fall out there. Come on fish!
Got a few nice bass to 32" last night before dark. Pencil poppers. Moco. Lots of mullet and other bait in the surf line. All released.
Looks like some stripers are finally here! Thanks for the reports will try to get out there sunday!
Very nice hookset!!I Fished last night from 730pm-1230am hit 3 spots in MoCo...All i came up with was a 17.5in fluke that slammed my Yozuri mag minnow...Thought it was a small bass at first...Threw everything..With the reports of mullet around, i tossed a bunch of Redfins with no hits to show for it then the wind picked up and i couldnt get them out far enuff...Nice conditions NE wind that wasnt too much and some nice water but the spots i tried were empty..Back to focusing on some flatties Sunday..Gotta get a few more keeps before the season ends. But i will looking for that pre sunrise bass before the GULP comes out;)
Yes...I already asked Monty to join him on one of his Montauk excursions this fall. Schedule didn't allow it this week maybe next week if Monty is okay with that. :HappyWave:
I fished on my friend's boat this morning. Forecast was 5-10mph winds with gusts to 15mph. Turned out to be 15-25+mph sustained when we got there but we decided to go anyway. Saw a decent amount of peanut bunker in the marina's on our way out but they are small 2-4".
We got beat up all day and the drift was way too fast us googs forgot the drift sock at home.
Got two hook ups that I dropped and that was it for the day...besides a good beating from 3-4fters in the bay.
Got back to the dock and our van is close to getting flooded from the full moon tide and strong winds blowing into the bay.
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On the brighter side the parking lot was full of small schools of peanut bunker. No signs of bass or blue in the parking lot...Dark I know you will ask me that...:moon:
Grabbed a short video but for some reason the first half of the video has too much glare. Skip to the 1 minute mark to see peanuts in the parking lot near my feet. A first for me...
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You went out on a boat???:beatin:
Next 2 Sat. nights I plan on heading out there, any time you want to go is fine.
Dark is always looking for bait anywhere the water is 3" or deeper, best to keep him in the loop or he tends to go medieval if someone withholds info (be it in a parking lot or cove).
Because he is a master-Baiter.:laugh:
Sorry Rich couldn't help it he teed it up and I had to take the swing! We don't want you to forget where you came from, bud.
JB nice peanut bunker video. Looks like higher tide and clean water was that on the incoming? You def can see the peanuts at the 1:00 mark
Pretty good water quality out there today could see the bottom in 2-3ft of water in the marina. This was the end of the incoming tide in the RB or very close to it around noon today.
Monty, I'll call you during the week. Next week sounds good to me. I have a feeling your going to break the curse free tonight. :HappyWave:
Got out in somoco near the inlet this morning. Got one cocktail blue in the ocean as the sun came up. Ava with green tail. Surf is beautiful looks like it is cleaning up. There were a bunch of guys standing at the inlet rocks casting but I didn't see them catch anything. Had to leave because of church. Hope they get lucky it did seem like a lot of them.
I'm back did you guys miss me? Work has been crazy busy. I was in massachusetts with the wife over the holiday visiting her family. They have been catching some small stripers up there on the Cape beaches. From what I heard they had a pretty good run of bigger fish about a month ago. Pretty strange for August!
Fished Nomoco last night on the incoming tide.surprisingly crowded. Found a spot that was a little less crowded and picked away at the bass, catching and releasing 4 shorties. Mag darter and yellow SP did the trick. There was lots of bait in the water. It felt like a perfect fall night with slight northwest wind.
Great reports guys glad to finally see some action! jb that was a cool vid thanks for sharing. blazing you got that fluke on a yozuri? Awesome,which one? thanks
Way to go dudes. Went down to no mo co this morning. There was a lot of people on the beach. Casted a small diamond jig for the blues and whatever else was biting. Got one small fluke on that and nothing else. I did see some blues but they were way too far out to cast too past where the water was rough. Great beautiful day out there hope you all enjoy it.
You really don't know what you're in for. :scared: Monty is like a freaking fishing machine. I got $5 that says you ask to take a break after the first hour of walking at the warp speed that Monty moves at....(unless he feels sorry for ya and ramps it down from his normal 78 RPM) ;) :HappyWave:
I know ya think I bust you a lot.....maybe......:moon:...because ya remind me of me when I was your age....:HappyWave:...I don't mind helping ya....but still have to bust ya along the way....:laugh:....
I will say you 2 have my respect and admiration for that trip....on most of the hardcore boating sites....the guys sat it out...saying conditions were too tough for them.......and you 2 mooks said effumall and were out there in the bay anyway.......hardcore....:thumbsup: :HappyWave:
And I am so grateful for mooks and good friends like you....to help keep it real for me....:moon: :HappyWave:
After all...."I'm just a Goog with a white bucket..."...thanks for the laughs, pal. :clapping: