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Good for you C4
We went out to fish the Shrewsbury Rocks yesterday, but the seas looked angry and we never made it out there. Went to a place closer in raritan bay, loaded up on seabass and jumbo porgies. Great fall fishing.
Some early blues action in the park 5-8, thex. All got from blind casting, and one short bass at sunrise.
Congrats to all who caught the past few days, great to hear it. I finally took a day off today and plugged early am to 9am. Nothing for me, but the walk sure felt great. Tons of bait seen, seemed like almost too much. Didn't see or hear of any Albies this morning.
Happy Trails
thanx for the report c4! Congrats! For me fall fishing is all about night fishing, unless if I'm on my kayak.
You guys are out there tryin, can't catch fish in front of a TV. :thumbsup:
Pebbles and I fished for 1/2 hour tonight on the way back from SJersey. We hit some back bay spots. It was hit and run because most of them had little or no bait. The ocean was big, most everyone we saw was fishin clams at high tide. Went in the back and there was lots of cloudy water and a small amount of scattered bait.
I did confirm some things, such as spot and kingfish being caught by the cooler full, along with some small bluefish, in some areas of structure.
However, the loads of spearing we had been seeing and other small bait were on vacation somewhere else tonight.
You people can have all the schoolie bass. I miss my big nasty back bay gorilla bluefish :viking:and I'm a little crabby about it. ;) The last 4 years, we had a bonanza of them around this time.
King Neptune, if the surf is unfishable for albies, at least give me some angry bluefish. Thanks. :fishing: :lookhappy:
Note to Rip and Speedy:
The highlight of the night was the 2 lipstick lesbians we found kissing at one of the back bay spots. I tried not to gawk at them and Pebbles was walking along behind me and nudged me...."did you see that?" :eek:
Yup, I saw it all, but I'm trained in the Ninja ways of not moving your head when ya pass something like that, ya gotta learn to move your eyes only. :d :naughty:
Yeah we need to check out the pics to see if they really were lesbians.:dribble:
Just got back from a crazy night of fishing. Caught 6 bass in total including 2 keepers. Lots of taps/slurps. Fished with a good friend for the outgoing which produced a few fish for us including a nice 32" fish for my friend.
Had a snap problem for the first time.... Huge wave was just about to hit. All of a sudden, I get a nice big hit. I set the hook hard at the same time as the wave comes crashing down. (saw the fish and the pounding right in the face of the wave) Not sure how many pounds of pressure that created or what the fish thought about it. BUT my duo-lock style snap got completely straightened out.
Took a break for the change in tides watching peaceful bait in the back. Came back to the same spot for the incoming. I knew it was going to be good because the first thing I saw was sandeels that got washed up on the beach from the waves. Sure enough, the bass where there and I caught an additional 5 bass including two keepers and I left them biting.
Bucktails and soft plastic jigs were the key tonight. They did not want my swimmers or even bombers. Marine forecast was 100% wrong. It was beautiful out there and 1/2 of what the Marine forecast predicted.
I usually have my sunglasses on so my wife cant see where my eyes are. hahahaha
Nice catch c4charlie. I managed 4 bass to 31" this morning before sunrise on a needlefish. Fished 4 to 6 am, moco.
Nice clamchucker. Looks like you started fishing as I left. They were definitely on the sand eels. Just curious as to which brand and length of needle.
I was using a SS 7 1/4" needlefish Charlie, yellow and white.
:thumbsup::fishing::HappyWave:
Here are a few pics from Friday night. Got some from monday as wel but they are still on the camera.
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Bottom pic is the first keeper of the fall for me at 31-32". This was the only plug that they wanted all night. Plug is a TBONE swimmer.
C4
Larry put you on to some nice fish;)
Finchaser,
I assume Larry is the person that makes them? I did not get mine directly from him but TBONE now has a permanent place in my bag. Expect to see more pics.
Charlie
I am guessing that is a mullet type profile.
Knowing better I still got up and tried this AM and was greeted by rough water that was not only brown but reeked. Weren't many people out. There was no bait or any signs of life in a 4 mile stretch through SOMOCO through NOOCCO. I got a call from a friend on a charter boat they found the bait and Albies ,blues and Bonita 3 miles off.
Nice pics and report, C4. :thumbsup:
:beatin: Cmon you know better than that Fin... the water didn't reek, it was filled with the smell of bass and mullet as far as the eye can see. :rolleyes:
The oracles have spoken, and now that the first day of Fall is here 30# fish will be crashing the beach every night.
Catch em up while ya can folks, just follow the smell...
Glad we got that all straightened out. ;)
Nice pictures C4!
Im going out tomorrow afternoon, ill let you guys know whats out there.
I like that plug!!!!
G and I hit the back bay tonight to load up on some spot and kingfish. Our plan was to get some for him, and let me use some of the smaller ones to liveline from the yak in deeper water. The plan fell apart as we fished an hour of the ebb with worms and couldn't get a tap. It seems as if the spot and kingfish either left or the bite is better in the late afternoon before dark.
There were a few tiny snapper blues around. This is the first year in a long time I've seen large parts of the bay barren of any bait this early in the season.
We got a call that there were some adult bunker and nice bass crashing them in the dirty water, so we trucked on over there to try to find them. By that time the wind kicked in much harder than forecast. It started SW but shifted to a straight S of sustained 20+mph, churning up the water and putting the fish and bunker down. :skunk:
Highlight of the night -
We saw what we joked about was a flying saucer. Turned to be the Metlife blimp as it got closer. It was having trouble making headway in the building wind, and had to move along by porpoising its nose directly into the wind.
Met some other nuts fishin bunker, no one else out there. We spent the next half hour watching that blimp being pushed around like a bunker underneath a school of angry bluefish, swerving up and down in the sea of air above. :eek: It crab-walked across the sky until we couldn't see it any more.
I hope it made it back to port, it was a little hairy to watch. Bet the piliot and any passengers poured themselves a few stiff drinks when they got home tonight. :plastered:
Fished this AM with RIP for bass and caught fluke,no signs of life as far as the Eye could see in any direction.
Our next plan of attack is to go for fluke so we can catch bass.
Fin, Great to finally fish with you. Thanks for taking the time out to fish with me. Tomorrow is a new day. Maybe I should bring my fluke rod so I can catch a bass. See ya friend.
OC this AM, goose eggs.
MOCO last night tried some metal and some darters got :skunk:.
I got out a 1/2 hr before storm and then drove around watching lightning from Monmouth to Ocean County and back trying to figure out when the coast was clear to get back out of the vehicle. I waited it out and picked up one short bass MOCO. I even checked the inside on the way home which has been disappointing thus far this season. Felt like more driving than fishing and it was way too calm after the storm with skinny water. Got the fish on a Tsunami sandeel next to a jetty.
Here are some pics from the other day I went out (same lure)...
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Nice effort, Charlie, the storms were a little hairy last night. :thumbsup:
I definitely agree with that, the understatement of the year. :burn:
Last year and for a few solid years before that we enjoyed hot action with big blues and teen bass in many of the inside spots almost until Columbus Day. This year sucks in those areas by comparison. I'm not too accepting of it either, just crabby. ;) :plastered:
Fishin report 9-23 AM
Had 1 1/2 hrs for some hit and run fishing starting at 6:45 am. Started by casting for albies, my first albie effort this year. I had a cool old-skool rig Finchaser made up for me :HappyWave: but there were no albies to be found this morning, either on the surface or blind casting.
There was an abundance of small bait in the wash and pockets, very small profile, not spearing, maybe rainfish approx 1-1 1/2" long. No mullet or other bait in the mix where I was.
After casting awhile and realizing the albies weren't showing, I switched to an ava 007 and picked up a few cocktail blues. Action died as it got brighter out, despite me making 2 more quick moves to similar areas holding bait.
The ocean wasn't that bad considering last night's storms. Not clear but not too dirty either, no weeds, and fishable. Saw a few kayakers out there, but not much action for them either. Ran into Shorelady and FoxyFisher on the way out, nice to meet you hardcore fishin gals. :thumbsup: :HappyWave:
Made a few more stops before giving up, beautiful dead water at each location. Ran into an old-time sharpie I hadn't seen in a while. :HappyWave: We spent some time discussing how we feel we got cheated out of big surf bluefish this year. :( It's something we look forward to annually, and this year sucked for the surf guys in terms of consistency, if you compare it with the action just a few short years ago.
On the way home I made quite a few stops to check out for myself some intel about bait that had been passed along to me. The back bay area was pretty dirty and weedy from the rains.
Again, I want to state that many back areas that held bait last year are barren this year. Spearing are in abundance in many places, I don't see much difference in that amount.
However, mullet, peanuts, etc are less spread out than last year, particularly peanuts. I did find peanuts about 3", and some 6" mullet at one of the places I stopped at. They were about a 70/30 mullet to peanut ratio, almost the exact opposite from the numbers at this time 2 years ago.
There are some places where the mullet still remain thick. I'm not so sure all will be leaving with this full moon, only time will tell.
And as for adult bunker, I can report to the anglers out there, look for concentrations of adult bunker starting to show along Jersey any day now. You won't see miles of them, but they are there, and moving South, either slightly offshore or within view of the beach. :dribble:
Good luck to all fishin this weekend. :fishing:
Fished the park before work, got some small blues to 5lb, one bass 33", diamond jig with green tail. Bait was popping up and down.
Hey nice catch c4charlie, could I ask you how heavy that tsunami sand eel is? Are you throwing it as a teaser, or by itself? If by itself, how do you get it out there when it's windy out?
Nice catch C4!
A few short bass on a needlefish this morning at sunrise, MoCo.
Fished this AM South wind and current :2flip:shut them down nothing like yesterday morning
I thought it was me that shut them down. Ya can blame me anytime Killie isn't around to kill the bite....feel free. ;)
AM Report:
I fished the ocean this morning. Ran into Finchaser. Fished together for awhile. There was no bait with the S wind and swell, the only life in the ocean was the dolphins feeding 500' offshore. Fishin sucked, so we moved to another beach. Ran into Rip, who was pluggin away. I checked his pockets for bait, lo and behold, NO Bait!!!!! :eek: he was a pluggin' maniac this morning. It didn't do us any good, as Fin said the S pattern is a "stay at home and sleep" pattern. Hey, we gave it a shot anyway, nice fishing wit youse guys! :HappyWave: :lookhappy: :fishing:
PM report:
The foggy and overcast day made me drool. Surely there was someplace else that would be happening on this cloudy day? :don't know why:
I took the yak out to find it. Had about 2 hours of good fishin before the sun came out. After that it was a slow pick, but I had consistent action for the rest of the ebb.
Managed 11 bass to 26", 10 porgies to 14". Most on the T&W, but I also drifted worms over structure. Report in the Kayak fishing reports thread.
Fished the park this am, few strikes on a popper and ML swimmer by "baby" blues, then by 8am, Albie heaven!!! Albies were busting water, jumping out as far as the eyes can see, about 1/4 to 1/2 mi off shore!!!
^^ So close you could taste them, eh? So close, yet so far,,, ;)
Tell me you didn't bring your yak out with you today. :beatin:
Fished this morn, moco, 6-7:30was throwing a very small ss popper, got some small bluefish, and a lot of missed strikes. I tried to slow it down but it seems they were kind of wary of the plug. Lots of small bait in the water.
at the hook early, 3 hrs fishin for 4 small bluefish. where are the big blues?:burn: