Nice report Dark,:thumbsup: You got me more interested in the Yak. I watched a few video on youtube, the Mirage drive is amazing. I'm saving up for one. :kooky::eek:
The Tube and worm how long are they? They seem longer then a foot in your Pixs.
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Nice report Dark,:thumbsup: You got me more interested in the Yak. I watched a few video on youtube, the Mirage drive is amazing. I'm saving up for one. :kooky::eek:
The Tube and worm how long are they? They seem longer then a foot in your Pixs.
Congrats on the fish Pebbles. Way to go.
Jigfreak, I'm never embarassed if someone catches more, I'm happy to put them into fish. Pebbles is a pretty good and patient fishing partner. There have been times when we've been at an inlet fishing and she would catch the biggest fish of the day. :wow: Gotta give credit where credit is due. It's all good. :thumbsup:
Vpass, the T&W that a lot of guys use is around 23". I have a few that size, all the way down to 15", some of the ones that Finchaser made up. I like to play around with the different sizes and colors to see which ones work better for that day.
For example, last week in front of hurricane Earl, I was using yellow as one of the tubes. It worked well in the choppy water. Yesterday red and black were the colors. I had red, Pebbles had black. You might make an assumption that black out-produced the red yesterday. They had different weights on as well.
So the broad answer is I play around with weights, colors and lengths until I see what seems to work better for that day, and then try to concentrate on that.
That is one of the main things that I have learned so far as far as plugging is concerned. To experiment with all different types of lure presentations, types, retrieves, speed of retrieves. All kinds of things that I have never tried before. I used to cast out an AVA and reel it in as fast as I could like a retard and go home with soar shoulders and no fish. (what a retard) Please guys, never get tired of teaching us newbies. We want to be as good as you sharpies some day.
Some :clapping::clapping: from the ZenGrouchyBasstardMaster himself! :wow:
I'm honored, but you gotta take some of the credit for those awesome tubes you made. :HappyWave:
Rip, it's all about presentation right now. There are scattered bass around, concentrated on structure areas, both from a boat and from the surf. There is a lot of small bait, so Avas with teasers, bucktails, small bombers and thin spearing profile plugs (when the wind is in your favor) and rubber should get you into a fish or 2.
There are also guys pulling in bass on sandworms and clams. Nothing wrong with that. :thumbsup: However, plugging forces you to think a little more, it's like a game of war. If you don't present something very similar to the bait profile, and at the level of the water column the fish are feeding at, you'll never know the fish are there. And, in the case where you were fishin with Monty, sometimes that area is stacked with fish, other times it's like a desert. Think rocks and structure this time of year, or a spot in the surf where there are strong currents, or outer bar/inner bar cuts and sloughs, and a good amount of bait passing through.
If you hit up a place and see scattered bait, give it a shot, if nothing move on.
Eventually, you'll run into an area that has significantly more bait than the other places you hit up. When you reach that place you'll know it because the fish should be actively feeding. :fishing:
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Vpass, you were asking about the T&W. Here's a thread that goes into a little more detail.
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...ead.php?t=7017
Took the yak out last night, fished the high slack, and 4 hours into the ebb. When I got there it was ok. I started pedaling to a far spot, but the clouds got ominous, so I had to hang close to shore. It took me about an hour before I started catching bass on the T&W. 2nd stop got a doubleheader, it's still a thrill every time that happens. :bigeyes:
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The thunder and lightning moved in, but the lightning wasn't close to where I was, so I fished in the rain. Fish didn't seem to mind and hit through the storm. Where I was, the rain ended right before sunset.
I had been using one of Finchaser's black tubes, and a yellow tube I picked for high visibility in the weather. Nonetheless, the black tube outfished the yellow one last night. At sunset, I was still using the T&W, but the bass action died down.
All throughout the time trolling, I had been getting light taps from porgies, so I knew they were around. I wanted to concentrate on bass or bluefish first, though. Because of the porgies, I was only using very small pieces of worm on the hook, and amazingly they got hit anyway. Around sunset I got a slab dinner plate porgy on the yellow T&W, so I went with the flow and continued. Got 1 more slab that way. :drool:
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Then it was on to drifting worms and bunker. I really wanted some big bluefish. I miss that insane action, but the bluefish were nowhere to be found last night. :don't know why:
I continued my drifts in the dark, working different areas that I hadn't worked before. I managed the biggest bass of the night on a bloody bunker chunk, and some more porgies on sandworm pieces.
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In retrospect, I should have stayed where I got the first 2 slab porgies. It seems they like the mussel beds that are on the bottom there. I wanted to scout a lot of other areas close by, so I kind of did a circular route. By the time I came back to the original area that held the slabs, the bite had died.
Total:
11 bass to 28"
7 porgies to 13".
1 oystercracker, the world's smallest. :o
Coming back the wind shifted back to the W/NW, and the water was like a lake. I covered the usual amount of ground in half the time.
It was a beautiful sunset. I also got to watch the remnants of the storm in the distance. The lightning looked like a scene from "War of the Worlds" :scared:
Heaven
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I couldn't get the lightning shots as they were too far away. Here's some shots of the angry clouds.
and Hell.....
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:dribble:Awesome report Dark!
^ Yup, it was pretty intense. :scared: :HappyWave:
Nice going Dark!
Thanks Plug. :HappyWave:
9-24 kayak report:
The dead water at then beach this morning was depressing. The whole area was covered in pea soup fog, so I decided to find some better water and take advantage of the cloudy conditions.
As I was driving there, I was racing to get in the water, hoping it wouldn't burn off. The fishin during that time was better than it had been, after that it was a slow pick and I had to work for every fish.
My target for the day was bigger bass and porgies on the T&W. For that I needed deeper water and deep rocky structure, about 2 miles from the put-in.
Just for the helluva it, I trolled the T&W in the bay where I launched. That turned out to be the best fishin of the day, with 3 24" bass landed in the first 10 minutes. :lookhappy: I move with the tide, and had to make it to my first stop before the tide turned, so I reluctantly set out for it.
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Turns out the rest of the day I had to work for each fish. I moved a lot and covered a lot of ground. The first stop out at deeper structure I got 2 dinner plate porgies around 14".
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The thrill was getting them on the T&W. :wow: I got hit by a lot of smaller ones, and had to re-bait often. I was only using a 2" piece of worm at a time, so they lasted a while. I found frequent changing of the worm to be the key in getting consistent action.
The problem with T&w very rocky structure is if you're presenting it right, bouncing the bottom, you get hung up a lot. Not that much of a problem in the yak as you just maneuver to the front of the snag and pull from the opposite direction, usually effective about 95% of the time. Today my luck wasn't so great. I ended up losing 2 T&W setups on those rocks, one of them being from Finchaser. :(
The sun came out with a vengeance, and it was hot. That slowed the bite a bit forcing me to move around.
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Eventually the T&W action died, and I got the rest of the porgies drifting worms over mussel beds.
I was delayed in getting back because the winds were pushing up to 25mph, kicking up a big swell from the direction I was headed. I had to stick close to shore just to make headway, but eventually I made it back.
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Total for the day:
-11 bass to26"
(Note, even though these are small bass, most of them were 24-26", a lot bigger than the ones we had been getting. No keepers in the mix, although these bass were fatter and healthy than the little babies in close.)
-10 porgies to 14"
I had a great day and 9/25 is the last day of porgy season up there. I'm rapidly becoming addicted to going there, and will find it hard not to be crabby when weather and life prevent me from making that trip. :dribble: :fishing:
I headed out early this morning and fished in nomo. I caught 2 small bass and used Dark's T& W suggestion.
Nice report Dark, looks like you are really getting into them! PM me if you ever come fish the waters of CT.:HappyWave:
Thanks R-P and Albie. :HappyWave:
Hookedonbass, congrats on the striped ones. It's addictive when you're able to find bass with them. They can't resist attacking that if presented properly. WTG! :clapping: :thumbsup:
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9-26-10
I posted today's report in the Dirty Water Anglers thread, 1 microbass, and tiny blue. I'm posting the link here to make it easier to post everything in my fishing log.
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...2272#post42272
Took a trip to Montauk this weekend.
Arrived saturday 5am, we launched at Camp hero by daylight, right away bird action, my first cast a 31-32" bass, the next 15 minutes i already had 3 bass, all keepers. The blitzes stayed on till 8-9 am, the boats pushed them too far away, then went to the room, took a shower, and nap. Afternoon we started at 3pm and we had instant insane blitzes all over all evening, we left them blitzing at 7pm. All together i had 20 bass and 5 bluefish. :banana:
This morning we started a bit earlier, around 6am, again, instant blitzes all over, not as packed like last night but good action, died out by 8-9 again, today i had 6 bass and 1 blue. out of 26 bass maybe 2-3 were under sized, all between 28-32".
As Danny said before, "there is nothing like MTK" !!!!!
Lenny, wow, that's incredible action. Great pics. What were you catching them on?
congrats on a great weekend.