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Fished the high tide this afternoon with my dad for 2.5hrs. 15-25mph+ winds brought us one 26" for my dad and one missed hit for me.
When the tide is suppose to move out and it's still rushing in its time to call it quits.
The wind wasn't that bad when we showed up but it got worse and worse it seamed.
If I sell my fly rod will this wind go away?
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Nice going John it was real tough out there tonight glad you were able to stick it out and get some fish. Fishing with your Dad even more a bonus.
I got 2 bass to 33". Not really worth the effort but they were active. Best was around high tide, The wind was like being in a giant wind tunnel. Terrible.
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Nice going John it was real tough out there tonight glad you were able to stick it out and get some fish. Fishing with your Dad even more a bonus.
I got 2 bass to 33". Not really worth the effort but they were active. Best was around high tide, The wind was like being in a giant wind tunnel. Terrible.
Nice LH,
We showed up around 6:30 and there was others catching tiny fish around 10-14". I haven't seen that many dinks caught in a while. Only saw one other fish caught in the mid 20"s and it was kept.
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Anyone out fishing last night deserved a medal, or psychiatric exam. :laugh:
Wind was brutal. Never shifted to the west for part of the tide as Wunderground predicted, hard E all night with 5 minutes at a time of minimizing. As the night got later the wind got worse. Steady 20mph, relentless. Gusts over 30mph causing me to question my sanity. Blasting sand on every part of my body that was not protected. :kooky:
Some have said it in this thread. I'll re-iterate it. NE pattern conditions (generally) do not help you to catch a lot of bigger fish from land in NJ. They work against you and destroy any favorable bite or forage pattern that has developed. You will catch more quality fish, and with more consistency, on a NW/W pattern, or before a NE pattern has developed, as Finchaser and others have explained many times. Just ask West Wind Wally. :) Some people will never understand this, so be it.
With that being said, some of my crazy friends found ways to hide from the wind and caught a few nice fish. The bite was nothing like it could have been, had the wind only shifted for a few hours. Every fish was a lucky fish, no pattern.
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Great going guys. My report drove down to the bay, wind was like a freight train. Turned around and went home. You dudes are hardcore!:headbang:
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Nice fish dark glad you finally got a chance to get back in the game.
Heading out now, wind died down a bit. Stop by you know where we'll be.:HappyWave:
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Good job fellas hope to be out this weekend after the seas calm down.
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Lots of small runts tonight. Slow pick of baby bass, with a sprinkling of small blues as well. dirty water. Oh well can't bat 1000 every night. dark you didn't stop by and we texted ya with some profane pics. You out there?:HappyWave:
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Fished some sod last night picked up a 15lb bass on a swimmer. Released.
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Nice going buckethead even nicer on the c&r.
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Very nice effort, people. :HappyWave:
Some nice fish were caught in the past few days....
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Fished RB 5:00 to 7:00 . Threw metal and needles ....only had one hook up and lost it. Bait guys were doing good on the blues. The blues seem to be getting bigger. I had my first wind knote with my PP slick..... at least I didn't lose the plug. Might have to buy some bait for the next trip out.
I saw horse shoe crabs in the water ...that time of the year
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Got into some nice blues to 10lbs yesterday around dinner time, back of the bay. Daiwa sp minnows.
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this am 2 bass on jig head and rubber
this afternoon 3 blues on wind cheater
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Fished Island beach on the incoming tide. 2 runt bass to 25" clams.
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Finally connected with a solid bite- Took the trip north to see what i could find, double digit catch with bass to 10 lbs, this was fishing nearly all night. Wear your wading belts gents, I took a plunge with a mis step tonight without one :( luckily I had extra clothes and found bass to lighten the spiit.
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Fished for RB 7pm to 8pm.Caught 2 blues has the sun went down ....so crowed I had to go to my back up spots just to get to the water
Didn't not see any other fish caught .....blues might be moving in.
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want fishing the last 3 nights nothing but small bass and skates.
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Ir's crazy how one beach will turn on one night and be dead the next. madcaster and chas I was skunked a few times this week too did not report it. Then last night I switched to a different beach and got 3 bass to 33", and a few blues. All on plugs. Best bite was right around sunset. I will be there tonight and probably have jinxed myself and there will be no fish, lol.
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Fished island beach for the last of the outgoing tide, 4 bass to 29 1/2", clams.
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My brother and I fished in the kayaks from 9am until 4pm. As we were paddling out he catches a 5lb blue right away. I thought it was going to be one of those banner bluefish days. That ended up being the only hit for a few hours until my brother caught a 30" bass. That's it...we covered a lot of water. We should have strapped the kayaks to the roof and joined everyone further out east. They did pretty good in the kayaks out there today.
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Getting behind in my trip logs so here goes....
1 Sun PM - 5 hour trip.
I was determined to catch a fish somewhere, in the hours leading up to the noreast pattern, which we have discussed extensively here.
Made 7 stops. Each one of the stops should have produced at least one fish. They did not, Lots of dead water.
Redeemed myself 1/2 hour before the end of the trip with one short bass on bucktail and white grub, ocean fish.
Mon PM 4-22 - against my better judgement I went out there. Found a cove in the back bay where I thought I could hide from the wind. I was wrong as it was too intense and I got sandblasted in the bay for a few hours. There was nowhere to hide in that area. Still, with the water temps not having dropped yet, I felt there could be some fish.
Managed 3 bass to 14#, all legal fish, all released. Could not find the pattern or the bite I was looking for, all random fish, hundreds of casts. Big swimmers were the only thing I could get out there in that fierce wind.
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Water temp had dropped 10 degrees, which gave fish lockjaw for the artificial night bite.
The winds died down a bit later on, and finally shifted W/NW, a welcome relief.
Threw small rubber, managed 2 fish to 13#, both legal, released.
Again, no pattern, hundreds of blind casts, fished 4 hours.:fishing:
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Fish RB 7pm to 8pm Attachment 16899 My daughter caught her first bass of the year ....ava
We aslo hooked into some big blues ...she was little rusty on realing in bigger fish .... they kept coming off ....after I showed her what to do ...blues moved on. She will be ready next time. Going to start bring a second rod for her.
Bunker were right along the shore line:HappyWave:
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That's great Madcaster :thumbsup:
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Madcaster good Dad good job! You have a fishing partner for life! Thanks for sharing. Jbarbosa at least you tried nice effort.
I fished the bay for the incoming yesterday the bunker were real thick. No hits until an hour before I was getting ready to leave. 2 bass to 32", kept the first one 29" let the other go. One more short bass other than that.
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4- 27-13 Report - I made a few stops ocean front to see the conditions. Only seen 2 others fishing in the 3 spots I stopped at. I ended up fishing the inside from 5pm to 8:30pm. There was bird action off shore. I hooked up near sunset, but lost the fish after the blue made a good acount of it self. I was using shad, and it came back with no tail. I also discovered on my way out from wading 1/4 of my left leg was filled up with water. I couldn't tell while i was in the water that i had a problem:kooky:. These effin :burn:waders don't even last a year anymore.
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Fish RB 7pm to 8pm My daughter caught her first bass of the year ....ava
We aslo hooked into some big blues ...she was little rusty on realing in bigger fish .... they kept coming off ....after I showed her what to do ...blues moved on. She will be ready next time. Going to start bring a second rod for her.
Bunker were right along the shore line:HappyWave:
That's awesome!!! The smile on her face says it all. Good going.:thumbsup::thumbsup:
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I hit bay last night and came up with a short. About three hours of plugging. The decline of bass over the years has always been apparent to me. I hope there is a lot of C&R going on to help build up the numbers.
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Fish RB 7pm to 8pm My daughter caught her first bass of the year ....ava
We aslo hooked into some big blues ...she was little rusty on realing in bigger fish .... they kept coming off ....after I showed her what to do ...blues moved on. She will be ready next time. Going to start bring a second rod for her.
Bunker were right along the shore line:HappyWave:
Great report and pics Madcaster
I fished this morning from 1:00-4:00 out front, 5:00 -8:30 in the back and 9:30-11:30 out front again. Could only manage 1 short bass on a Chartreuse Teaser on the later trip out front. I'm having a weird beginning to the year fishing.
Beautiful night out there, had a great time. Nice sunrise.
http://rocksimpson.com/images/2013_4_28_SR.jpg
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Madcaster super awesome trip with your daughter. Hope you have many more.
Fished island beach for on the incoming tide today. 2 bass to 32" on clams.
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Getting behind in my fishing reports.
4-23 Wed
Scouted a few places back and front. Lots of dead water.
Found a good solid bite in the western bay where bunker were schooled up with the wind pattern.
6 hour trip
Managed 9 fish....10 to 17lbs.
There was solid action for 1 1/2 hours, the rest of the time I had to work hard for each fish.
All on small bomber type swimmer.
All the hype out there about the expensive swimmers Daiwa, big wood, etc, etc.... and I caught these fish on a $5 plug......:headbang:
All released
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Had some business in South Jersey.
On the way home I fished some unfamiliar water.
Fished 7 hours total.
3 bass to 9lbs, all legal, but some were skinny.
all on small swimmer.
All released.
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Madcaster those pics are so precious. You will blink your eyes and before you know it she will be too old to fish with her Dad anymore....these moments are fleeting and so memorable....I know you are both having a blast.....thanks for sharing with us...:HappyWave:
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4-28 Sun PM - 7 hour Monty Mini Marathon...
I was out there last night ahead of the building SE forecast for today.
Winds were not bad at that point. It did seem that the S wind made the water colder and diminished the artificial bite, at least for me.
Stopped at many promising areas ocean and bay.
Fished all levels of the water column.
Lots of dead water.
4 1/2 hours into it, I had no success at all, not even a tap.
Decided to move way into the bay flats where I was hoping to find some water that was a bit warmer, and some shelter from the building S wind that was forecast through the night.
Blind casting countless times saved the night for me....
Managed one 15# bass. Released.
on a small swimmer - The kinds I am encouraging the new anglers out there to try, in this contest.....
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...d-your-Own-Way
Dropped one other fish....lots of effort for small amount of fish...but that one fish, made it all worth while, to me. :)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^:kooky::kooky::kooky: bright side it rained you showered
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^ Interesting that you would mention that....:kiss:
I even brought some soap with me and scrubbed my private areas as the rain got a little more intense.
Felt good not to smell like old sweat and pizz for a few hours......:moon: :HappyWave:
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Fished Brigantine island twice this weekend. Sat got 2 short stripers on clam. Sun am got the skunk.
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^ Interesting that you would mention that....:kiss:
I even brought some soap with me and scrubbed my private areas as the rain got a little more intense.
Felt good not to smell like old sweat and pizz for a few hours......:moon: :HappyWave:
Note to self, if invited to dinner at ds's house bring your own soap!:upck:
Dark i admire your persistence. Nice going. Fished out back last night and only managed one short bass with clams. Will try plugging next time out thanks for the info.
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Note to self, if invited to dinner at ds's house bring your own soap!:upck:
Dark i admire your persistence. Nice going. Fished out back last night and only managed one short bass with clams. Will try plugging next time out thanks for the info.
Steve the way this dude operates he probably doesn't even bring a bar from home. I bet he brings a container around and pumps it out of the hand dispensers in macdonalds and the porta pottys.:ROFLMAO
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1 bass 9# and 6 blues in the 6 to7 pound range all on school bus SP minnow all released fished from 1 to 3 pm lunchtime.
BBB don't give him anymore ideas
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Found 2 5lb weakies last night and I lost 2 more, these were lean males so nice to see them. A fair Wind was in my face or I think I could have got more they were at the end of the cast. My ever present pink zooms did the trick. i switched up spots and got a few small bass.
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Nice going gents. Picked up 4 bass to 14# plugging tonight on the incoming tide, all released. Slow undeliberate hits, seemed a little sluggish.