^ What he said, I think we could see them in Oct if the water clears up and the bait hugs the shore, otherwise its sayonara.
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^ What he said, I think we could see them in Oct if the water clears up and the bait hugs the shore, otherwise its sayonara.
A friend of mine from the NY side has the same opinion as Finchaser..
"No Albacore yet, I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see them at all this year, the offshore boats have seen close to none...ya never know but it looks like ****."
We don't want to be negative here, just realistic. But like Fin said, the conditions are poor this year. The inshore bait has had it's masses broken up and washed away. The albies tend to congregate where the bait concentrations are densest, and right now those conditions don't exist at too many places for them locally, except for Montauk and some North Shore LI locations.
I truly hope we're wrong with these "realistic" assessments, as I and some other albie addicts would really like a shot at them from the surf this year.
So I'm still hoping for the best, maybe......:drool:
I agree, until we hear of some boat reports there is a slim chance of them being in the surf. All this rain is killing it.
^ There was a charter that was fishing out of Montauk for tuna yesterday. They got one tuna and a bunch of albies, SE of Block offshore. So we may be hearing more reports soon, hopefully!
I would love to hook into an albacore this year. Thanks for the info willie!
**** Robin- The **** Robin from Point Pleasant has had some unusual variety while bluefishing on a wreck the last two days. Capt. Jim O'Grady reported a Monday mix of pollock and cod with the blues. Today there were more pollock, and they had their first little tunny of the season hooked. Tomorrow's trip targets the little tunny and bonito that have been missing so far.
Had one today, dropped it. Still hearing the drag scream in my head. They have arrived.
Nice dude, I was looking for em before dark, slinging metal, but not a sign anywhere.
Jigfreak, are you sure? how do you know you had an albie on and not a bluefish?
Listen baitball or crumb stealer or whatever your name is, it is apparent from your posts that you don't know your *** from your elbow. GO BACK AND READ MY POST ABOVE! The bluefish in the surf right now aren't drag screamers. If you would even do a search and read some of the albie threads here, I am assuming you have never caught one, you will LEARN of the drag-screaming runs of these balls of fire. They are addictive. I had it in my log that we got them last year around this time and took the day off. Searched for hours no signs of them. Then I saw them porpoising. Hard to reach, but they finally came in after the bait. There were no bluefish with them, pure albies. Use the search key and get yourself up to speed before you make a fool of yourself again.
wtg jigfreak! That is encouraging, I was wondering with the water as cloudy as it was if they would show up. Thanks.
They supposably hit the ss here today too.
" I went out planning to fish until dead low tide which was around 2:15pm. Got there'd and nobody around.claimed to have any luck or see anything. Around noon heard some splashes and look down expecting blues, only to find false albies jumping in a school so thick it looked like a dark cloud passing through. First time I have seen them so got amped at the prospect of notching another species in my belt. Threw 007's, Deadly ****, Crippled Herring, some soft plastics and come up empty handed. Hooked up once on the crippled herring, jumped twice and that was then end of that. Came home with nothing but stories. "
Little tunny caught on the **** Robin yesterday
Marlin princess report
Another day of mixed bag fishing on the MARLIN VI PRINCESS. Todat we added another fish to the mix, albies. I have never seen so many caught on diamond jigs. I have seen 1 or 2 per trip but today we had over 25 in a 1 hour span. When the tide dropped out so did the fish only to reappear on the next tide.
Congrats on the action jigfreak. Hopefully we see more of that and the weather and swells don't screw it up.
Got one today, blind casting. About 8lbs, quick release, a DD made it work, direct tie. Blues and small bass came in later, There were waves of bait in the surfline, mostly mullet but spearing, rainfish also. Hell there could even been some sandeels mixed in there was so much of it. All moving S.
Congrats to those who put in their time. I took today off to find and target them, no real success..
I did see em today, twice....
Brought my kayak with me last night, if all went well I would have been OTW at 5:30 am paddling out to them. Unfortunately the hard 15-20N from last night continued and shifted to a NE stiff 15, one of the absolute worst winds for NJ surf fishing.
The swells were 6-8', wave duration every 3 secs, with double rollers breaking on the beach at the same time. Launching a yak today would have been suicide.
I had to be content to observe them from the beach, 200' - 250' out, as the birds telegraphed where they were in the rough surf..
It seemed to me they moved at the speed of light ;), first here, then there. 500' away in the blink of an eye.
There were multiple pods earlier in the day, probably a few dozen of them.
I watched them for about 1 1/2 hours, drool dribbling from my chin, :drool: unable to present because of the effing stiff NE. http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...cons/icon9.png
Although I did blind cast,. my best cast fell far short of where they were.
I felt like a kid happily walking into the candy store with a shiny new nickel, only to find out that all the candy costs a dime....:laugh:
Later on in the afternoon, there were a few of us out there braving the waves and the slop, blind casting.
We might have seen albie activity when there was a flurry of bird movement for about a 1/2 hour. In any case, the activity in the afternoon paled in comparison to earlier. Although the surf was rough, they were there, right beyond the dirty water line, but unreachable.
They were truly a blast to watch, though, powerful and frustrating fish that they are...
Even though you couldn't reach them it must have been wild to see them so close like that. Thanks for the descriptions, you got me stoked!