NJ Fishing Reports for October 2015 - www. StripersAndAnglers.com

[buckethead]

Did a little better today in the dark. 2 shorts before dawn on bucktail and pork. Short fat and aggressive fish. Quick burst of activity and it was over. 2 hickory shads on the redgill as well. Nice little chop out there, wind from the E/SE.

[surferman]

Fished cm this morning. Lord did that ocean
look perfect out there. No fish

[J Barbosa]

Sat Night - No bass where they shoulda been headed back to OC and found 2 rats to at least sorta make it feel like striper fishing.

Sunday am on the boat- I thought it was going to be a windy day skunkaroo but the winds weren't bad and albies saved the day, and there were a lot of them in N mon area mini surface blitzes and birds for hours, had to be hundreds.....maybe a few get into the surf line?

Don't mind any species that will save me from a skunking.

Does anyone know why all these rain fish are sticking around in MoCo/RB this time of year?

I was out on Saturday evening and got 4 short stripers and a handful of hickory shad.

3 came on one of my rain fish teaser and the other on a mag darter.

[cowherder]

Just to add to what J Barbosa is asking, I would like to know how come there's all those rain fish around and how come there aren't tons of peanut bunker or adult bunker mixed in with them?

[finchaser]

Peanut appear to have left in the northeaster/hurricane and IMO there are no fish to push bunker in

A couple of the tuna boats ran into massive adult bunker schools 5 miles off

[SharkHart]

Sunday there was a patch of adult bunker very close to shore right at Monmoth beach with no bass on em, a few dolphins though, In Sept when i was weakfishing there was tons of peanuts and then yesterday after a NE blow they were all gone, which ironically made the weakies hit better not racing through the schools but they didn't stay through oct like they usually would

[jigfreak]

I was out and about and saw them bunker on Sat. Dolphins galore and no stripers. Very frustrating a few guys were livelining for nothing.
Fished last night in a different place up in moco in the back. Bagged 2 shorts on rubber. Fished 8-11 out of the wind. Should have been a lot better but I'll take it.

[hookset]

At least you got something. Fished nomoco around the same time. Wind was getting up there and rough surf. Nada.

[fishinmission78]

Went down to the park this morning before work to toss a few casts. Water still a little dirty and surf pretty big. My neighbor nailed some stripers yesterday on clams. I was tossing metal only had an hour. Nothing for me. I would give it another day to clean up. If you want to throw snot its worth it. The fish are there but scattered.

[surferman]

Yeah looked at the surf cam and it def looks like some choc milk. Time for clams and bunker.

[lostatsea]

Interesting you mention surf cams. I have been checking them out the last week looking for signs of life. I realize you can't see everything on them. Still it looks pretty dead this fall from what I have seen. You rarely see birds in the surf anymore.

[buckethead]

Nothing for me. I would give it another day to clean up. If you want to throw snot its worth it. The fish are there but scattered.

I agree. Started early this am. I had a Dr appt and limited time. It was bad timing as I started out at exact dead low. Nothing at all for me. May try again tomorrow. The water and conditions aren't that bad. As was said, a little dirty. By tomorrow they should be back to more fishable with the steady NW winds.
The fish are still there though. A smart sharpie would be fishing clams. I'm too old to sit there in the cold and do the bait and wait game. Good luck gents.

[cowherder]

Thanks for the heads up on the water conditions guys.