NY fishing reports for July 2009

[DarkSkies]

NY fishing reports for July 2009
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Please post fishing reports here.......as little or as much detail as you want to give.

Please note: NO SPOT BURNING! Posts burning spots will be Edited or DELETED!
Some veteran fishermen have put in years developing and learning about certain spots.Some of these spots can only handle a few guys at a time. We are losing enough access as it is, due to the unfortunate behavior of a few selfish people. No sense in making it worse.

For some areas, it would be wiser to say:
OutFront (Ocean) OR -- OutBack (Bay) -- if you feel too many people will figure out what you are talking about. "Spot burning" also could involve mentioning something specific only to that area. If you do this, your post may be edited, or deleted. Remember that thousands of people could potentially read these posts. You don't want to be fishing next to ALL of them at the same time!


IF you are fishing an area that is NOT residential, being vague is less critical. For example, it's acceptable to say (Any)Park, or (Any)Bay, or mention a specific state park that has loads of parking and can handle the crowds.


If you are unclear on this concept, ask yourself:


If I name this place on the internet, will it be too crowded for me to enjoy tomorrow when people hear I got 30 fish here today?


If the answer is "Yes", then you should probably not be so specific.
More discussion on this:
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...ead.php?t=3763

We post these reports so our community will have a sense of what is working, what is not. We want to show people how to catch fish, rather than where.Even if you struck out or got skunked, it would be helpful to hear that as well.

If you have any additional details you would like to share - weather conditions, tide (incoming, outgoing, ebb, flood) water temps, bait present, or other mention of techniques or plugs used - feel free.
Some acronyms -

BP -- Breezy Point

CB -- CrossBay Bridge
CI -- Coney Island

FB -- Floyd Bennett
FI -- Fire Island
FT -- Fort Tilden Park
FW -- Fort Wadsworth


GSB - Great South Bay



Jones -- Jones Beach/Debs
WE -- West End

JBay -- Jamaica Bay
LB -- Long Beach

MB -- Manhasset Bay
MI -- Moriches Inlet or nearby
MPP -- Marine Parkway Bridge


LNB - Little Neck Bay
OB -- Oyster Bay
PB -- Peconic Bay

RM -- Robert Moses

SB -- Sheepshead Bay

Shinny -- Shinnecock Inlet or nearby

SI -- Staten Island
ST -- Sore Thumb

NS -- North Shore
SS -- South Shore




Mecca -- if you gotta ask where that is, can't help ya

[DarkSkies]

Williehookem you won the plug in the June random drawing!

We post these reports so our community will have a sense of what is working, what is not. We want to show people how to catch fish, rather than where.

If you struck out or got skunked, it would be helpful to hear that as well. Anyone who posts a report can win a plug even if they got skunked!


This month we're giving out plugs from Ace Baits.
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...splay.php?f=83

PM me your info so I can send it out. Thanks for posting and helping to make this a great site!

[vpass]

Fished same spot as yesterday. Fished from 3:45pm to 5:45pm. Caught 16 Fluke. The Fluke were bigger today. got one about 17 inches, the rest were between 12 to 14 inches. all on Gulp. I also caught a Kingfish.

[DarkSkies]

wtg on the fluke, and the kingfish! Vpass. That's a good sign that they're that far up this early, good fish to take kids out for.


I fished the Shinnecock area last night. Did a lot of scouting, not much catching. But at least I'm learning some new spots.

Started by wading out to some sedge areas during the top of the tide, fished pencils and spooks for 1/2 hour till sunset. It's tough to fish up there because so much private property blocks off access. However, I had my potential spots mapped out from Google, and hit them up one by one to see if there was a way to creatively "access" some of them.

Met some people who fish up there a lot, so that was a help. Spent 15 minutes helpin a dude start his car. Dude this is your medicine for today, get that starter out of your back seat and install it, next time ya might not be so lucky!!

Nothing in the sedge areas, so I kept moving. Finally ended up at a place I was at the other night, not much happening there. The abundant bunker were thinned out. Instead there were a lot of hickory shad around, but not a lot of big fish feeding on them.

In my travels, I also found a spot in the shallows where literally thousands of spearing 2-4", and some scattered peanuts, were milling around. Again, in the dark I could see their scattering and feeding movements, but the extreme volume of bait, together with the fact that there were few bigger fish feasting on them, got me worried about the night bite.

There was also a strong NE wind for most of the night, and the water got cloudy, so that might have affected things a little.
I set up with bunker heads, on the incoming.

Current wasn't that bad, but there was a huge amount of seaweed., some of it in 3' clumps. You had to check and clean your lines every few minutes.

I looked inside one shad as I chopped the head for chunking, it was full of spearing. So at least the shad are eating good!





The elusive seaweed fish



Foggy dawn


Around 4am, I had a nice runoff on one bunker head, no hookup. That's all the action I had in 5 hours of fishin, except for one slight tap as I worked the artificials at all levels of the water column. Could have been a shad on the line. Not many fish were caught overall in the area, slow night of fishin.

[vpass]

Fished SI after work from 5 PM to 8:45pm. Caught 15 Fluke to 17 inches. Also caght 3 Cocktail blues. I used 3/4 oz Jigheads with Gulp. Blues were working Anchovies. The Anchovies were getting beached. I left them biting.

[nitestrikes]

Fished a Moses beach before sunup today. It was great weather but few fish and a bunch of weeds. One slight strike on the chartreuse storm shad I threw, no solid hookups. There did appear to be some birds working offhsore as I was leaving, but they were far away. Lots of boats out early today.

[7deadlyplugs]

Fished 3 hours this morning in the Long Beach area, 2 short bass on bunker chunks. The weeds were a pain. Darkskies, I wanted to thank you for the plug last month. I have been busy but appreciate it and will start using it at night when I can get out.

[vpass]

Fished SI on the way home from work. I got 4 Fluke to 18 inches. I lost some that had good weight to them. I seen a lot of bait around I think this is going to be a real good year for Peanuts.

[strikezone31]

Jones area this morning on the incoming. Threw a bunker colored shad, a little weedy. A bit of a problem until I got into a rhythm where I moved it just above the weeds. One slight hit on that, no fish brought in to the sand.

[plugginpete]

Got some nice fluke this afternoon after work, no keepers, biggest 18", got 5. Gulp new penny shrimp, FI area.

[vpass]

Fished SI area. I got 2 Blues and dropped 2. all on Pink Fin S. a lot of bait around. Tide was incoming.

[rockhopper]

Fished M this morning, south side on the sand. I got 2 small blues, and one around 8lbs, right around 1/2 hour after sunrise. Krocodiles.

[nitestrikes]

Fished Jones area in the front 5-8am. Threw stormshad for awhile, no hits. Decided to downsize to a pink zoom with a 1/2 oz jighead and got a lot of hits from fluke and sea robins, nothing to take home, but still it was pretty constant action.

[plugginpete]

At the last minute I jumped on a friend's boat last night to fish somewhere off the north fork. I am so glad I made it on that boat, we got bass to 25lbs using bunker and eels, left them biting. Beautiful night to be out fishing.

[stripercrazy]

I fished a north shore place early this morning, rubber on a 1/2 oz jig near where some water comes out, one microbass 22", fished between 4-6am.

[pescador29]

SI with bunker chunks. I started at 3am and stopped at 6. 3 nice bluefish and one skatefish. There were a lot of baits, small baits, jumping when the sun came up.

[vpass]

I fished SI from 4:30pm to 7:45pm. I caught 20 Fluke from 12 inches to 15 inches. all on white gulp. Tide: outgoing to the begining of the incoming.

[crosseyedbass]

Late report. I was fishing Monday in front of FI, Moses area. I was fishing for fluke, and saw about 5 huge fish jump out of the water. Does anyone know if wahoo come in this close in the summer, or is it too early for them yet? These fish were long and pretty thick, about 4 to 5 feet long.

[nitestrikes]

Somewhere w of Jones last night, out front, incoming. 2 small bass on clams, one came close 27.8" but no cigar, still swimming. Also caught a stargazer, man they are nasty creatures! It was a great night to be out and seems the weeds cleared up a little.

[BassBuddah]

Late report. I was fishing Monday in front of FI, Moses area. I was fishing for fluke, and saw about 5 huge fish jump out of the water. Does anyone know if wahoo come in this close in the summer, or is it too early for them yet? These fish were long and pretty thick, about 4 to 5 feet long.

CEB, you might have seen sturgeon, I think they're spawning from May to now. I remember reading something about that being spawning behavior, not sure. Did they look like this?