NJ Fishing Reports for April 2013....www.StripersAndAnglers.com

[J Barbosa]

Here is a little tease for you guys and gals:


What happens when your fishing a few days after the full moon and have a nice tidal flow over the flats but not too strong.
Now make that tide a little later in the night to help curb some of the crowds.
Sprinkle a chance of light to moderate rain to further thin the crowds and provide some good cloud cover.
Now add at least a few acres of big bunker and just a few blues to keep you on your toes.


35lb bass with a gut ready to explode
28lb bass
2 bass both right around the 20lb mark


The two of us also had a good number of 10-20lb sized fish. All big fish swam away unharmed after being weighed on the boga.


The night started out slow but once we figured out the bass only wanted heads spoon fead to them the action heated up pretty quickly.


These fish were in close, with the exception of snagging bunker we did most of our casts from knee deep water until the tide really moved out.

[ledhead36]

Outstanding report Jbarbosa! We were fishing clam last night and got some nice ones. Didn't do as well as you though, you crushed them. And on releasing so many big girls as well. We kept our first 2 fish around 29". Released the bigger ones that came in later. As the tide came in the bass got bigger. Picked up an even half dozen to 41". Quality over quantity. All keeper size. You are the king for last night though.
sounds like you had some fantastic action. congrats!

[finchaser]

Way to go JB

[cowherder]

Awesome action fellas!
on the catch and release!!!!!!!

[Monty]

Awesome action fellas!
on the catch and release!!!!!!!

^^^^^^
What cowherder said, Awesome!

[DarkSkies]

Great catching and releasing people.....I don't like to preach about it because there's nothing wrong with eating striped bass.....
It is nice to see some of the younger folks starting to look at the big picture though.....



PM April 29 - 3 1/2 hour trip
Fishing, for me, was very slow last night on artificials...as hookset mentioned the fish seemed a little sluggish for that artificial bite...whereas the other night they were very aggressive, last night they barely hit the plug at times. My one fish hit the back treble. Dropped/missed a few others as well.

On a no-name swimmer, nice chunky bass, ready for the spawn, #15, released.





Back to swimming up the Hudson.....

[vpass]

Awesome JB. You got me

Nice going guys

[hookset]

Pretty work, fellas.