Nice job with the bucktail.
Nice job with the bucktail.
A handful of micro stripers last night in the back. Rubber and light jig.
More of the same this morning. 3 shorts pre dawn. Bucktail and redgill. Not that many spots holding bait in the surf. They must be feeding on the crabs. Wind shifted to the west. Hoping for better luck with the wind. May give it a go again this afternoon.
Nice going bucket head. I fished moco last night and got chased off the beach by lightning. Hope some of you folks did better than me which was zippo.
I don't have a NJ report but i was fishing the south shore of LI, and there is sand eels and Bass not a ton for me the last 2 days but they are there and some heavy crowds, but Im saying this to let everyone know we should get opportunities in 7 to 9 day of migraters.
Thanks for that man. Silver lining for sure. Fished the back last night came up empty handed. Jersey fall fishing so far is pretty lame for me.
Read about it on fb. Somewhat jealous lol. Appreciate the heads up from someone who is over there. Good luck.
After a long absence from the water, went fishing the other night...the first time in quite a while....Covered lots of ground.....found many spots that held tremendous amounts of bait....but no predators.
Short version....8 hour trip, ended up in the morning at sunrise with a lucky short bass, hit a small polaris popper.
Longer version in the ACF thread.
Fished moco this morning again before sunrise. It was low water which may have hindered the action. No fish today where I was. The ocean was pretty flat and the wind has shifted to a NW. Not much bait at all. Saw bunker out there with nothing on them.
Had a decent of run of fish in cmc. Last night it was like they all were away on a conference or something. Skunk ola.
So Moco from 7-9am today. It was very calm, have read here that too calm is not good. Think I agree with that. Was casting a diamond jig with a teaser about 24" above it. Got 2 hickory shad on the teaser. No striper or blue. The ocean looked like a flat lake on a postcard.
Fished last nite managed two dinks on rubber. Talk of a large kayak bass posted up at murphys. That was definitely one in a million. Most of these fish I'm seeing are cookie cutter dinks. According to my logs the last two weeks of this month we should start seeing some larger.
Fished right above ibsp this morning. There must be a hot bite somewhere else or there really aren't that many fish yet. No one around me. Got one cocktail blue on diamond jig. come on fall run we are waiting.
Don't you feel like that sometimes when fishing. You are out there in the middle of the night. Perfect conditions. Awesome water. Bait in the right places. Wind is perfect. Like a surfcasting commercial, or what you would expect if they put the perfect commercial together. Then you can't even buy a hit. You wonder if it was the cigarette you smoked. was it the motor oil that got wiped on your hands when you went to add some cause you were a quart low. All these questions and doubts start running through your mind. Think I'll use that as an excuse to my wife the next time I come home and don't have a fishy smell on my hands. "They were all at a conference, honey. That's why I couldn't catch." Perfect
This morning 4 to 6:30 AM 1 bass 2 blues 6 fluke all on pink finesse very little bait and really small fish
2 big schools of bigger fish have passed 4 to 5 miles off the beach in the pain in the a_s bunker schools
Yesterdays Monmouth County blitz conditions are non existent today
I noticed that too finchaser. Lots of little bait in the surf in nomoco but not many fish. Picked up two small stripers in nomoco this morning on bucktail. Once 7am came and I got ready to leave a huge armada of guys came walking on the beach. Fishing is not like going to the bank if you want some you can't keep bankers hours and expect to catch them lol. Checked a few other beaches on my way home and there were lots of guys and no one catching. Someone must have sent an inter-office memo to go fishing. I did make one more stop because there were albies about 4 casts too far out there at one place. Casted like crazy for a half hour but they never came in.
Funny thing is me and 2 other guys were the only ones casting. The other guys were just standing around and waiting. Waiting for what?:don't know why:
Nice going guys. At least you got some. I caught a skunk this morning. Beautiful conditions. Maybe I will have to go back to fishing at night next time.