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

[J Barbosa]

My brother and I fished in the kayaks from 9am until 4pm. As we were paddling out he catches a 5lb blue right away. I thought it was going to be one of those banner bluefish days. That ended up being the only hit for a few hours until my brother caught a 30" bass. That's it...we covered a lot of water. We should have strapped the kayaks to the roof and joined everyone further out east. They did pretty good in the kayaks out there today.

[DarkSkies]

Getting behind in my trip logs so here goes....

1 Sun PM - 5 hour trip.
I was determined to catch a fish somewhere, in the hours leading up to the noreast pattern, which we have discussed extensively here.
Made 7 stops. Each one of the stops should have produced at least one fish. They did not, Lots of dead water.
Redeemed myself 1/2 hour before the end of the trip with one short bass on bucktail and white grub, ocean fish.





Mon PM 4-22 - against my better judgement I went out there. Found a cove in the back bay where I thought I could hide from the wind. I was wrong as it was too intense and I got sandblasted in the bay for a few hours. There was nowhere to hide in that area. Still, with the water temps not having dropped yet, I felt there could be some fish.

Managed 3 bass to 14#, all legal fish, all released. Could not find the pattern or the bite I was looking for, all random fish, hundreds of casts. Big swimmers were the only thing I could get out there in that fierce wind.








Tue PM 4-23
Water temp had dropped 10 degrees, which gave fish lockjaw for the artificial night bite.
The winds died down a bit later on, and finally shifted W/NW, a welcome relief.

Threw small rubber, managed 2 fish to 13#, both legal, released.
Again, no pattern, hundreds of blind casts, fished 4 hours.

[madcaster]

Fish RB 7pm to 8pm My daughter caught her first bass of the year ....ava
We aslo hooked into some big blues ...she was little rusty on realing in bigger fish .... they kept coming off ....after I showed her what to do ...blues moved on. She will be ready next time. Going to start bring a second rod for her.
Bunker were right along the shore line

[J Barbosa]

That's great Madcaster

[ledhead36]

Madcaster good Dad good job! You have a fishing partner for life! Thanks for sharing. Jbarbosa at least you tried nice effort.
I fished the bay for the incoming yesterday the bunker were real thick. No hits until an hour before I was getting ready to leave. 2 bass to 32", kept the first one 29" let the other go. One more short bass other than that.

[vpass]

4- 27-13 Report - I made a few stops ocean front to see the conditions. Only seen 2 others fishing in the 3 spots I stopped at. I ended up fishing the inside from 5pm to 8:30pm. There was bird action off shore. I hooked up near sunset, but lost the fish after the blue made a good acount of it self. I was using shad, and it came back with no tail. I also discovered on my way out from wading 1/4 of my left leg was filled up with water. I couldn't tell while i was in the water that i had a problem. These effin waders don't even last a year anymore.

[vpass]

Fish RB 7pm to 8pm My daughter caught her first bass of the year ....ava
We aslo hooked into some big blues ...she was little rusty on realing in bigger fish .... they kept coming off ....after I showed her what to do ...blues moved on. She will be ready next time. Going to start bring a second rod for her.
Bunker were right along the shore line

That's awesome!!! The smile on her face says it all. Good going.

[Fishman]

I hit bay last night and came up with a short. About three hours of plugging. The decline of bass over the years has always been apparent to me. I hope there is a lot of C&R going on to help build up the numbers.

[Monty]

Fish RB 7pm to 8pm My daughter caught her first bass of the year ....ava
We aslo hooked into some big blues ...she was little rusty on realing in bigger fish .... they kept coming off ....after I showed her what to do ...blues moved on. She will be ready next time. Going to start bring a second rod for her.
Bunker were right along the shore line

Great report and pics Madcaster

I fished this morning from 1:00-4:00 out front, 5:00 -8:30 in the back and 9:30-11:30 out front again. Could only manage 1 short bass on a Chartreuse Teaser on the later trip out front. I'm having a weird beginning to the year fishing.
Beautiful night out there, had a great time. Nice sunrise.

[fishinmission78]

Madcaster super awesome trip with your daughter. Hope you have many more.
Fished island beach for on the incoming tide today. 2 bass to 32" on clams.

[DarkSkies]

Getting behind in my fishing reports.

4-23 Wed
Scouted a few places back and front. Lots of dead water.
Found a good solid bite in the western bay where bunker were schooled up with the wind pattern.

6 hour trip
Managed 9 fish....10 to 17lbs.
There was solid action for 1 1/2 hours, the rest of the time I had to work hard for each fish.
All on small bomber type swimmer.
All the hype out there about the expensive swimmers Daiwa, big wood, etc, etc.... and I caught these fish on a $5 plug......
All released











4-24 Thu
Had some business in South Jersey.
On the way home I fished some unfamiliar water.
Fished 7 hours total.
3 bass to 9lbs, all legal, but some were skinny.
all on small swimmer.
All released.











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Madcaster those pics are so precious. You will blink your eyes and before you know it she will be too old to fish with her Dad anymore....these moments are fleeting and so memorable....I know you are both having a blast.....thanks for sharing with us...

[DarkSkies]

4-28 Sun PM - 7 hour Monty Mini Marathon...
I was out there last night ahead of the building SE forecast for today.
Winds were not bad at that point. It did seem that the S wind made the water colder and diminished the artificial bite, at least for me.

Stopped at many promising areas ocean and bay.
Fished all levels of the water column.

Lots of dead water.
4 1/2 hours into it, I had no success at all, not even a tap.
Decided to move way into the bay flats where I was hoping to find some water that was a bit warmer, and some shelter from the building S wind that was forecast through the night.

Blind casting countless times saved the night for me....
Managed one 15# bass. Released.








on a small swimmer - The kinds I am encouraging the new anglers out there to try, in this contest.....
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...d-your-Own-Way

Dropped one other fish....lots of effort for small amount of fish...but that one fish, made it all worth while, to me.

[finchaser]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ bright side it rained you showered

[DarkSkies]

^ Interesting that you would mention that....

I even brought some soap with me and scrubbed my private areas as the rain got a little more intense.
Felt good not to smell like old sweat and pizz for a few hours......

[hookedonbass]

Fished Brigantine island twice this weekend. Sat got 2 short stripers on clam. Sun am got the skunk.

[storminsteve]

^ Interesting that you would mention that....

I even brought some soap with me and scrubbed my private areas as the rain got a little more intense.
Felt good not to smell like old sweat and pizz for a few hours......

Note to self, if invited to dinner at ds's house bring your own soap!
Dark i admire your persistence. Nice going. Fished out back last night and only managed one short bass with clams. Will try plugging next time out thanks for the info.

[bababooey]

Note to self, if invited to dinner at ds's house bring your own soap!
Dark i admire your persistence. Nice going. Fished out back last night and only managed one short bass with clams. Will try plugging next time out thanks for the info.

Steve the way this dude operates he probably doesn't even bring a bar from home. I bet he brings a container around and pumps it out of the hand dispensers in macdonalds and the porta pottys.

[finchaser]

1 bass 9# and 6 blues in the 6 to7 pound range all on school bus SP minnow all released fished from 1 to 3 pm lunchtime.


BBB don't give him anymore ideas

[SharkHart]

Found 2 5lb weakies last night and I lost 2 more, these were lean males so nice to see them. A fair Wind was in my face or I think I could have got more they were at the end of the cast. My ever present pink zooms did the trick. i switched up spots and got a few small bass.

[hookset]

Nice going gents. Picked up 4 bass to 14# plugging tonight on the incoming tide, all released. Slow undeliberate hits, seemed a little sluggish.