this AM 3 micro bass and 9 blues in the 5 to 6 pound range
this AM 3 micro bass and 9 blues in the 5 to 6 pound range
Nice finchaser now all we need is some bigger ones up north! I fished nomoco today around sunup. Picked up a few small blues not snappers but no bigger than 1 lb each. Also 2 hickory shad. The shad hit small redgill teaser the blues hit an ava oo7.
took a walk along the beach in portmonmouth.i counted 105 dead horseshoe crabs, in just a mile.does any body know why they are dying.
Did the sunup thing in nomoco today 5-7:30am. The blues were thicker and there seemed to be a lot of small bait around. Some birds and fish working further out but they were slow moving don't think it was the albies just more cocktail blues. Got almost 20 blues and 3 hickory shad. Ava and redgill teaser.
^^^Possible too much algae or too little oxygen. MHO.
nice report steve. finchaser happy to hear about bigger blues there have been a lot of aggressive snappers eating my gulp for the last few weeks its time for a change.
Chas something I found on horseshoe crabs. Dont know if it applies to where you are.
Pollution also is a possible threat to horseshoe crabs. People are using more pesticides on their lawns and farmland, and New Jersey and Delaware are spraying more for mosquito control. As a result, you get more chemicals washing into the water from the urban and agricultural runoff. Junk in the water causes problems, too. Sewage, factory waste, rainwater carrying pollutants from parking lots, yards and streams can kill clams and other animals that crabs use for food. Water pollution may weaken or kill horseshoe eggs and larvae.
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110020/threat.html
paco that was pretty informative thanks for posting. I heard up in new england they don't like them but down by us and in the delaware bay everyone pretty much leaves them alone. Except for the poachers. basshunter I fish a lot in atlantic county and we have not had even the small snappers. Mostly croakers and spot, and always doggies and skates. Would love to see those bigger bluefish like you guys do.
Chas I know that area you were walking in. Paco may be right with some of the possibilities he posted. Also around this time of year the water back there gets stagnant. I don't know if you remember this but in the last 10 years we have had fishkills at least 2 times that I recall. Massive peanut bunker die offs. Maybe it has something to do with the lower summer oxygen levels which also kills the fish. Haven't seen any dead peanut bunker or mullet back there this year so I am not certain. That water does get funny though when there aren't a lot of storms.
Also sometimes there are immigrants who fish along that shoreline. They hate the horseshoe crabs when they hook up with them and leave them on the beach.
Same thing with the sea robins. I believe madcaster posted a pic of a dead circle of sea robins in the dead things thread.
2 fat croakers and a weakie from the back bay last night. Saw the Rocket with fire trail- pretty cool even though I did not know they were launching a rocket and thought we were being invaded. tons of doggies. there were 3-4' brown sharks all over the bay eating peanut bunker. The water was extremely warm- may have a shot at albies after all.
Good reports gents.
Skunk report. Hey rob maybe you will be luckier in south jersey hope you get a chance to find them.
I was out this AM looking for albies. Drove up and down the strip in 2 counties. Moco and Occo. No real signs of life in close. This is getting depressing they are not even getting them on the bluefish boats or at the shrewsbury rocks. finchaser nailed it when he said this could be the worst year for surf albies in some time.
I made a note to look in the sky for the rocket launch last night but by the time I remembered it was over.
Alibies were 40 to 60 miles off today
weird cause they were reported in the surf down in cape may a few days ago.
Rob, don't believe every report you read. I haven't heard of one reliable report of Albies inshore/surf.
I can confirm this...monster sized Albies 30-50 miles out for us. These we're like 5x bigger than any albie I've ever seen in my life.
Fin, were you out there today? Beautiful 1-2ft seas made for a quick and comfortable ride out.
We couldn't keep the Albies out of our trolling spread for longer than a few minutes as they would just slam the spreader bars two/three at a time. Some were so big they were peeling line from 50W setups. If these fish move inshore (I don't think they will - water quality inshore sucks right now as Fin said on page 1) we would be seeing a lot of surf guys getting spooled.
The water quality 40 miles out is really good right now. Lots of life out there too.
We gave up on trolling after a while not being able to get past the falsies and started jigging the readings. We had the fish finder lit up from the sea bottom to the surface all sand eels and Albies. Drop to bottom, crank, crank, jig, Albie on!
Amazing what can change in a few hours...just the day before they only had a few falsies and a bunch of 80-100lb tuna. We only heard of a few YFT caught today out of a huge fleet of boats.
We had to give our arms a break stopped on a pot and had absolutely insane Mahi Mahi action. We could have caught our limit of 40 quickly if we wanted to. One of my favorite fish to eat, fresh sashimi tonight!
Went looking in different areas seeing if we could pull up an edible tuna but no luck.
My arms are absolutely shot.
I'm going to shoot the next person who says Albie or Falsie. Got it?
good report JB sounds like you guys had a great time.
Fished nomoco for sunrise and 2 hours after. The small blues were all over on the tiny bait. Picked up a bunch on diamond jig and teaser. Also a few hickories.
Fished Island beach from 6-8. Down by the inlet. There was about 45 minutes of bluefish and bird activity around 6:30. Picked up a few small blues and robins on metal. For once the winds shifted and the flies weren't that bad.
^^^John I could not resist had to jump in on the pile too.:HappyWave:
In a famous movie the lead actor used the phrase: "Albie back!!!!!"
Is this a true or falsie statement?
If so what was that movie?
^^^^^^^^ This is great have to chime in again! Does anyone know if jbarbosa is a big dude or not. Don't want him to kick my *** for busting him.:scared:
Albie back. (great one bababooey)
Albie a monkeys uncle (lol monty)
Albiie there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy3coJZTbdY
albie gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr2IPqV4Ssc
Lol...you guys have a hard time resisting temptation. Albie looking out for y'all this fall on the beaches.
I was pretty frustrated yesterday not being able to escape them but after sleeping on it and still having sore arms I realize what an amazing trip that was. I doubt I'll ever experience another Albie bite/size like that again.
Fished the surf this afternoon and the fluke fishing was very slow. I got five shorts for a few hours of work. Hickory shad and small blues showed up and we had some fun with them on light tackle. Water is a little stained from the blowing wind.
That's a good albie report jb. Its a shame they have not been coming closer to the beach. Was out last night jigged 2 small weakies on rubber in the back near high tide, Fished this morning 7-8. The NE was cranking. In the past even though its a tough wind this would be good albie weather. I saw nothing. Managed a few small blues on the metal.
Fished the bay yesterday 8-10p. It was windy and the water got dirty. Bite was off. You could definitely feel the difference. Only managed a few croakers and spot.
JB, was thinking about the fish you ran into. You said they were 5 times bigger than any albies you had ever seen, Are you talking 30lbs and up? If so was just wondering if you were referring to albacore or false albacore. Would like to hear more details on these fish and size if you are ok with providing them, thanks. It sounded like you had a great time thanks for the report.
Just noticed the post before this one was #2000 for me. Hate the player, not the game, *******. If you don't like my stripper panty stories don't read them. :naughty: :headbang: :wheeeee: :cool: :plastered::laugh:
Maybe DS will give me a trophy. :moon: :HappyWave:
^^^ Dude. Just busting your balls. You don't normally find a guy willing to talk about his hooker exploits on the net, just saying. Didn't mean anything by what I said no offense intended.:HappyWave: Congrats on the 2000.
jigfreak good deal on looking for the albies. Keep the faith. They may not show up in numbers but I am betting by October some one will get one from the surf. Might as well be one of us.
^^^^ Nice going that's big!
jb congrats on the albacore.
For the rest of you shore bound crabbers its time to get your last few crabs in for the season.
With the cooling overnight temps those crabs are one of the first species to begin moving out into deeper water.
My dad and brother were only able to catch six legal sized crabs in three hours...two per hour! Normal catch would have been a few dozen. They went early in the morning after a cool night, the afternoon would have been better.
I've already hung my crabbing nets away until May 2014.
It was a good year for crabbers in NJ!
Look out for a possible crabbing 201 tutorial over the winter. :HappyWave:
Nice catching on the albacore john. They may or may not come in close this year. For now we will have to live vicariously through reports like yours.
20-25lb albies...WOW! nah bro can't say I feel bad for your hurting arms...jealous would be the right word!
6 blues 3 to 5 pounds and 2 bass all on jig head and 4 1/2 inch shaker tail in Arkansas shiner
Nice size blues finchaser most of the guys out there fishing the shoreline are getting the small snappers.