Good for you C4
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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. ;)