Awesome reports. you guys are crushing em. Dark you are hardcore, really out there, to spend all that time. congrats on some great numbers! I'm going to buy you a toilet paper holder for your car.:laugh: :HappyWave:
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Awesome reports. you guys are crushing em. Dark you are hardcore, really out there, to spend all that time. congrats on some great numbers! I'm going to buy you a toilet paper holder for your car.:laugh: :HappyWave:
You get him the toilet paper holder and I'll find a 12 volt air freshener for the rolling cubical. I saw him this AM and he looked like a homeless person after his 3rd 15 hour marathon in as many days.
Went out today for an hour 4 to 5 PM had 3 bass all on plugs water 41 and clean fish were in the wash
Nice going finchaser. Good to see you getting out. Dark told us you were done for the season. Methinks he is subject to fits of hyperbole.:kooky:
Picked up 12 bass tonight to 15#. swimmers. All released
this am 6:30 to 8 released 2 bass 8# and 11# both on chicken scratch SP minnow
Those numbers are off the charts. Truely jealous. Good job gents.
Tuesday 1-8-13
Monty Full Marathon.....
After Sunday's (1-6) trip I was kind of let down....:whoo:
Couldn't figure out if the larger bass had left....or if they just got spread out more....
(Note, there are now bass being caught in the surf between Monmouth Beach and LBI)
Well Tuesday's trip did not disappont....great action.......
In all fairness there were some long periods where there was no action at all.
Had to make 8 separate stops on the route to find these fish, but they were aggressive and full of fight on topwater....
Totals:
23 bass to 13#.... ...
4 legal bass, released.
Half the fish were 26" or better....if you fish a lot you know this is an exceptional ratio.
Total fish 23....
Conditions and What Worked:
Wind - W/SW - Steady, 20mph
Air - 42 dropping to 40
Water - 42 dropping to 40
What worked...
ML Swimmer, White Bomber, bucktails
Pics -
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I noticed that out of the 23, about 4 or 5 had stripes that were out of alignment. Have seen this sometimes, but not with 20% of the catch. Thought it was worth mentioning here.
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tonight 4 to 5 pm released 3 bass 24,26,29 all on 7/8 ounce Mega Bait. the 26" was the strangest bass i ever saw 1/4 of the way up from the tail was black scales like a black fish really strange.
Wednesday 1-9-13
Monty Half Marathon--
After the previous night's great action, I was pumped up again....
Those who had the experience :scared: of talking to me on the phone could feel the enthusiasm...:kooky: :laugh: :fishing:
Unfortunately the Finchaser Weather Forecasting Service said to stay home!!
Strong SE winds clouded up the water and bumped the temp down about a degree, which was all it took to put a vise grip on the bite.
I could not get out on the tide I wanted....
After a long day at work and not much sleep....so tired I had to sleep in a Parkway rest stop on the way down... I was shot.
Buckethead got the tide right though, congrats! :clapping: :HappyWave:
Visited 4 locations, not a tap or bump.
Water was colder and dirty at some of them.
I was already writing the night's report in my head....I would have to come on here and tell you folks how much I absolutely sucked....:(
and that I should forever remain in the Googan and Dillydock club....:bucktooth:
I was so tired I just wanted to quit and sleep somewhere before going home.....
Did not want to end the night with a skunk....
But made another 2 stops, and was rewarded.
First stop managed 6 bass...these were smaller bass again, nothing big....
2nd stop got 3 more short bass in the 12 minute feeding window before sunrise.
Totals:
9 bass to 25".... none was legal, fish were noticably smaller this trip out....while for the previous 2 trips I had managed to avoid the tiny bass that are around in the daytime, this trip it seemed they dominated the catch.......
Total fish 9....
Conditions and What Worked:
Wind - W - hardly any wind at all for the most of the night
Air - 47!!! dropping to 43 - one of the nicest nights for fishing in a long time....
Water - 43 dropping to 42
What worked...
ML swimmer, various bombers white and light colored.
Getting back in the game...I see....:moon: :kiss:
Ya freaking grouch! :argue:
Glad to see you are out there.....wish you would come fishing with me one night....we'll have the ambulance on standby.....:laugh: :viking:
What do you make of the fish that you saw, and the ones I saw that night? Thoughts?
I'm sorry but I'm calling BS on your reports dark. Either that or you have to be fishing at the power plant and not in the ocean. In the last trips out all the party boats came up with very few fish. Because of that they stopped fishing for bass for the year. How are you able to find fish and they aren't? I checked all the internet saltwater sites in NJ. Even the ones with most members, the guys there are getting out and catching one or 2 fish. And you are catching 20-32 fish a night?:rolleyes: How is that possible? Come on now.
Ban me if you want but no one on the internet n NJ is reporting the sizes and amounts of fish are that you guys are catching on this site.:don't know why:
That's because they are internet fishermen. Fished last night before dark, incoming tide. Picked few small bass to 27". Small plugs, mambo, megabait. No wind, but colder water.
:2flip: Bababooey what kind of ******* are you? I can't remember the last time I saw a surf fishing report from you. do you even fish the surf and understand what surf fishing is about? Why would whether you read about a bite on the internet be an indication of whether it was actually happening or not? I don't get the guys who sit on their fat asses and complain, when all they are is internet fishermen. There are some nice fish out there. Get your waders on, go out there in the cold, and catch some. Stop whining like a schoolgirl.
What is the deal with you bababooey? Dark puts in long hours. He sleeps in his car to fish 2 tides. Are you willing to do that?
And he helps others all the time which I dont see you doing too often. Please just shut up and stop criticizing others. You do that a lot and criticize monty too. Don't be a d***! Finchaser, dark, and you other guys great catches keep up the good work!
Umm, bababooey, a guy just posted on another site that he got 26 this morning. It appears they have a pretty good bite going on up north. If you're that concerned about who is catching and who isn't, maybe you should get out there in the surf more often. The IBSP fishing was so stupid last year it may have gotten some of us into thinking that's all there was to fishing. I may even take a trip up north this weekend.
I don't know DS so I can't speak as to his integrity but from the posts he writes and work he puts in he does seem to be able to figure these things out before most of the others do. just my .02 thats all. And finchaser was catching a lot of fish this summer. but from what I hear he outcatches most everyone because he pretty damn good from what I am told. The numbers of guys like that will always be higher than the weekend warriors.
There are many guys out there who are getting really good numbers. They are not guys that will ever get involved with the internet, and make a report, or explain how they do it. They will even lie and tell you a different area, and lower numbers to not get attention. I believe in DS, He has great character. I fished with him a few times and didn't even noticed the stench, but I might have been fishing upwind with out knowing about it.
Hey Dark keep up with the Great work, You are the Man, and keep Safe!!!:thumbsup::thumbsup:
And another thing bababooey. If you knew anything about fishing at the plant you would know that 5-10 a night is a great night. I have had some nights there when the season is open where I did better than that but very few. I don't want to say anything more about it as the season is closed. The only way to get numbers like that this time of year is to fish in the surf in specific locations, or take a road trip and rent a boat out of VA. If the sandeels were here we would all have fish but from what I have heard they are not. you have to adapt to catch these fish.
Why can't we all be friends... I will say 10% of the fishermen catch 90% of the fish Fact... because they put the time in Fact...It will cause family disruptions (probably part of my first marriage to end Fact... The reason is because you get hooked it is an addiction to some with no cure Fact... If you never reached that level you will never understand it, I don't give a crap about fishing reports to me if you follow them that is part of your problem as a fishermen and it will limit your success.This is not an easy sport it takes years to be really good at it.The Golden rule of surf fishing is to keep your mouth shut and lie that's a Fact.I'm not getting in between the two of you believe who and what you want but bashing people won't solve any issues he does put his time in and sometimes risks his life to do it like many of us he is a good generous guy, if he lies about it that's how the game works nothing will be handed to you or anybody else for that matter.Fact....