went out after work to do a little scouting well one nice bass came over the rail at 34inch last night the guys were back but the little guys were on tap that how it goes:HappyWave:
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went out after work to do a little scouting well one nice bass came over the rail at 34inch last night the guys were back but the little guys were on tap that how it goes:HappyWave:
well it looks like they are coming in to the rivers and harbors, take a look at this pic I found, the guy got it this morning!:fishing:
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Hey guys what do you think of this pic I found?
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got out the other day it was nice and i felt good so i fish a few dwa spots most of the day was small stuff bass and blues there was one good bass i saw a pic of from early that morn so it gave me hope by the end of the nite i had a nice 31 inch bass will put pic up later going backout now :HappyWave::fishing:
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G's having trouble with his phone so I posted this up for him.
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G, let me be the first to congratulate ya on your first keeper this year. I know you got dozens of shorts, always waiting for the bigger fish. They just weren't here in any numbers in the Dirty Water this year like they were in the past.
But still, you kept at it, caught countless small bass and blues, and some big blues in the Spring, and now finally a decent fish. :clapping::clapping::clapping:
Wtg, dude, proud of ya for having the patience to see it through in the Dirty Water!!!!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup: :plastered: :wow: :lookhappy: :fishing:
G had been after me to hit up the "fantastic" :rolleyes: Dirty Water fishin with a kayak, so I did that this morning. I was thinking of fishing the beach, but couldn't get an accurate feel on what I thought the winds might be, so I made the short trip to that stank water that G loves. :HappyWave:
The winds were building when I launched. I fished the last hour of the flood, the slack, and 4 hours of the ebb. I had a hit on the T&W within 3 minutes of putting it out, then nothing for the next hour. I was trying to figure out how better to present, as it seems the fish were having trouble finding the tube. Tried bigger pieces of worm, slower trolling speeds, and the best I could get was taps, no hookups. It soon became apparent there were a lot of small fish around and that any fish there were scattered.
(Later I found out there are still spot and kingfish back there and a few other places)
I fished a bridge I had wanted to fish for a long time, back and forth, back and forth, around the structure. The wind VS tide made the drift a bit difficult. I worked heavy shads, bucktails, and drifted worms to try to coax anything out of that.
Finally managed a small bluefish about 8" on a worm, woo hoo! :rolleyes:
At least it saved me from the skunk. When you have to rely on a small bluefish to save your outing, things must be dismal, and they were. :plastered:
Not ready to give up, I drifted around a rockpile out in the middle, 5x, not a tap on worms. Then went to the other shoreline, back to the T&W.
Finally managed a bass on one of the tubes. I probably shouldn't count it as it was not while trolling. I got it while the tube was sitting on the bottom as I was rebaiting the other tube. It was the smallest bass I've ever caught in my life, about the size of the bluefish.
Still not ready to give up, I entered a semi-restricted area, and tried some old skool NY Harbor bucktail tricks I used to do. Not one bass from that either. Drifted some channels in current for about a mile with peanut bunker, bunker chunk, and worms, nothing.
Giving it one more try, went to the opposite shoreline, and trolled about a mile of that across rocky areas, hoping for a Hail Mary bass that I could actually take a pic of. Alas it wasn't meant to be today. :don't know why:
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This is the crap that's growing on the bottom, some kind of pods.
Let's call them Dirty Water Satan's Dingleberries. :laugh:
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They say being in a kayak gives you some advantages. The only advantage I had today was getting to fish all that dead water and learning it isn't quite ready yet. About 2-4 weeks more is when I'm guessing it will turn on at that location. Last year they got some 25# there at the end of Oct.
I have to give a shout out to the guys who will sit at a pier or dock for 6-12 hours at a time, like G, to get a bigger bass. :thumbsup:
Also had the pleasure of meeting MASardinas, his wife Pinky, and their son. Nice to meet ya's, good talks about your love for fishin! :HappyWave:
Meat works best back there because of the murkiness and deep shorelines in certain areas. Beyond that, it seems to me you need higher concentrations of bait to bring fish together in groups in the fall. There's so many crabs and mantis shrimp there to begin with, they can always grab a quick bite and aren't necessarily in aggressive feeding mode most of the time.
In the Spring, it's a different story as they follow the bunker.
After that I made a move to another area where some boats launch from. Talked to a few guys who traveled a lot of miles today and got completely blanked. One guy went 5 miles one-way to catch one keeper porgie. It was tough for a lot of folks today. Also compared notes with a pretty knowledgable fisherman I met on the way home.
Ya can't blame the temp, as the water temps in the deep water harbors are colder than most of the bays. We both agreed that the best fishin back there won't be for another few weeks yet as bass and blues build up in numbers on the Fall migration.
I sure hope so. I covered about 6 miles total in my kayaking travels today, with not much to show for it.
It was a humbling experience. :o
Hope ya catch em up tonight, G. :thumbsup:
You got way more patience than me. :kooky: :fishing:
thanks dude its bin a long road to a good bass with the lack big bunker its hit or mis like tonight it was a mis but i gave it a shot anyway:don't know why:
Nice fish G
Hello Darksies it was pleasure meeting you, and thanks for the Tips !
-Masardinas
Hey Masardinas what's up! :HappyWave:
As I said in the other thread, it was great to meet you and hear some of the stories you had about fishin. Right away I could tell you were a guy who loves to fish :fishing: loves his family, and had some great tales to tell.
Always glad to share info, good to have bumped into ya! :thumbsup:
Bigger bluefish coming in :wow:
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G also mentioned some small seabass, they're coming in by the dozens. Great mid-size snack for hungry stripers. ;)
Hey guys looks like you found some nice bluefish. A guy was complaining that he couldn't catch any this fall, maybe he should have been looking in that dirty water. Love that dirty water, new jersey is my home.:d Nice going guys!
Do you think people are too cool to fish the dirty water?
cmon dude the coolest surf guys will not put on his $200 brethable waderz and bring the $1200 surf setup to fish the piers or the bridges. u should kno that!:kooky: besides there are no fish in the back their all in the ocean where the sand and the jetties are lol.;)
o great ogb fin-dude, i wasnt talking about you, u dont look like those perfect surf guys do u?
and as for bait u cant be serious, there r some times when bait is the only thing that gets the fish to hit, when its relly hot or cold and dudes are skunked at least we get something on bait.
and i want to ask you, when you were a young pup, did u never use bait? so im still a young un, i like to party when the fishiing is slow, and tossing bait lets you hang and get into the mellow.:bong2:
give me a break! please?:eek: :fishing: :plastered: :HappyWave:
Little guy doing bong hits is too funny. LMFAO.
easy there guys its just fishing lets leave the bicering on the other sites:HappyWave:
i am good i just dont want it to go were it should not it only takes a few to get some po and i dont to see that :HappyWave:
hey its all good finchaser i only thought ur a little crabby, its not cool to hate on ppl who use bait. i also plug and fish shads and bucktails on the bridges and pretty soon i will be on the beach with u maniacs too. :bigeyes: i just waz thinking that there must of bin one time in ur life that you fished with bait, and i didn't mean to diss you when i was saying it so if anyone is po'ed my bad im sorry dudes!:(
its all good no one is upset
I didn't have a problem with any of it and I don't hate people who fish bait. To me it's boring to just sit around waiting for a fish to swim by kind of a no brainier. I prefer to entice fish into smashing a lure to me it's much it more challenging and exciting.
Yes I do use bait for bottom fishing on a boat if the fish can't be jigged examples: blackfish or night fishing blues,sharking chunking tuna. I do use live bait for bass because I get to control the bait and it adds to the excitement . I also don't believe in snag and drop as it is another no brainer and injures or kills too many fish.. Plus I release all my fish.
Your right about one thing most of us won't wear our $200 waders back there;)
yeah yur rite about that it is boring sometimes that's what the :bong2: is for. when fishin is slow it really suxxs sometimes and i don't know a lot of dudes who catch fish in the summer with plugs unless they go to montauk or up north or on a boat. july and august were sucky months for fishin in nj.
so finchaser when you were fishing for sharks did you use bluefish chunks or the whole blues? whats the biggest shark u ever got?:drool: :fishing:
I know, and you're right on this Fin. When I wrote it I was thinking of the striped bass eating them, not of them being used as live bait. But at the piers and docks, anything is possible, even people keeping 12" baby bass. Thanks for bringing that up. :thumbsup:
Yep anything goes there on the piers:(
Pluggers don't have the seabass issues,
But you bait guy's :kooky:
You would have been in your glory where I fished this AM in clean water there were Pelicans all over the place, maybe pushed north with the tropical airmass. You could have added to your bird documentary;)
You described them to me with such great detail and enthusiasm that I couldn't help but wonder if you were developing a possible interest in bird watching. Ya want I should get ya a birdwatching book from the library??? :ROFLMAO :wow::plastered: :fishing: :ROFLMAO :HappyWave:
Are you sure you want to lay that on him? I did a search on birdwatching and swans on this site, dark, look what I found.:d
seagulls
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...ead.php?t=4912
swans
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...ead.php?t=5524
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...searchid=52191
swans in PA (actually I thought this one was pretty cool, the rest almost make you a closet birdwatcher.:d)
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...ighlight=swans
^ I'm surprised Swan Lake didn't turn up in any of those searches.:don't know why:
Funny, guys, funny. :laugh: :clapping:
Next Spring there will be a S&A Shorebirds seminar :kooky:... I'm sending ya all special invitations.... :d :moon: :HappyWave:
^^^You do that, and I'll bet that the first one to post up some bird pics here before the winter will be you.:laugh: ;)
Guys, this was posted on another site, nice fat fish!:bigeyes:
picked up bunker at true world in bayonne,went to the river with my two sons.cut the tail piece and 20 minutes later nice reward.this one caught around 7pm.got another keeper in the morning around 7am. great day plus the JETS won also.tight lines
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nice!!:clapping:
very nice fish thats what i am talking abought:fishing: dwa fishing baby:plastered:
One fish for 8 hrs of waiting. Let's all run there now. One lucky guy that caught one fish.
Wow what a fish!:drool:
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North Bergen man catches 50-pound bass in Hudson River
Published: Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 9:36 AM Updated: Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 9:36 AM
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http://media.nj.com/hobokennow_impac...4598-large.jpgJude Foley, 42, of North Bergen, holds an Atlantic Striped Bass weighing 50 pounds 7 ounces and a length of 52 inches long that he caught on Oct. 24.
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This was the big one that didn't get away.
North Bergen resident Jude Foley caught an Atlantic striped bass near the George Washington Bridge on Sunday that weighed 50 pounds, 7 ounces.
"We're going to eat it, that's prime meat right there," said Foley, 42, of 61st Street, eyeing the 4-foot, 4-inch monster fish.
Fishing in the Hudson River for 15 years, Foley said he's never caught a fish that size before.
It took Foley and his friend, Robert Vitale, 52, of Waldwick, about 90 minutes to get the fish onto the boat. Vitale, who owns the boat, finally grabbed the fish under the gills and hauled it in.
The world record catch for the same fish is 78 pounds, 8 ounces, and that fish was caught in Atlantic City in 1982, according to the International Gaming Fish Association.
Foley used a small bunker fish to lure the bass but said the fishing line was not strong enough to haul in his catch.
They tried to employ a net but it broke apart.
"You don't want to muscle him (the fish) and snap the line," Vitale explained.
now that is a cow evan if its a boat fish thats the second fish that size i have seen second year seen one last year:fishing:way to go man:thumbsup: