NJ Fishing Reports for September 2013.....wwwStripersAndAnglers.com

[DarkSkies]

**Important when registering on our site -- use an active email address so you can activate your account to be able to post.

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:
Out Front (Ocean) OR -- Out Back (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. 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.

1. 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 there today?

2. 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

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 -

SH - Sandy Hook
NoMoCo - Northern Monmouth County (below the hook to Shark River Inlet SRI)
SoMoCo - Southern Monmouth County (below SRI to Manasquan Inlet)

OC - Ocean County
IBSP - Island Beach State Park
LBI - Long Beach Island

AC - Atlantic County
CISP - Corson's Inlet State Park
CMC - Cape May County
GEI - Great Egg Inlet
TI - Townsend's Inlet

RB - Raritan Bay
BB - Barnegat Bay
CB - Chesapeake Bay
DB - Delaware Bay

[DarkSkies]

Paco33,
you won the plug in the August 2013 random drawing!
PM me your address so I can send it out to ya!



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, or something similar.
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...splay.php?f=83

Thanks for posting and helping to make this a great site!

[J Barbosa]

Fished yesterday morning and caught a 19" fluke and a ton of shorts in the surf.

There's a decent amount of bait in the surf. I saw a few small schools of mullet, spearing, snappers to 1lb blues and a few hickories around.

[storminsteve]

Nice jb. Fished this morning on the incoming tide 3-6a in nomoco. A few of those small blues on bucktail and pork. One short fluke, Didn't see a lot of mullet after 6 maybe because high tide was around that time. From 3-4 am I saw some schools of baitfish just out of reach. Prob mullet and bunker but didn't seem to be much on them.

[seamonkey]

Glad to hear y'all got some. Fished cape may today before sunrise. It was nasty out, there was no real sunrise. Water was dirty and south wind was not too cool.

[robmedina]

wishing everyone a happy and healthy Labor day. Went out to LBI this morning. Started out back caught a few snapper blues on a small teaser rig. I threw a cast net in and got about 50 peanut bunker and a couple snappers mixed in. My buddy Mike got 1 black sea bass. We went out front for the heck of it. I almost caught a 100# and 200# surfer (a girl and a guy- respectively) who completely ignored my line in the water and surfed right over the line. Water was cool and the beach looked like a fall beach- can't wait for another couple of weeks!

[J Barbosa]

Thanks for the reports. Would anyone be able to estimate how big the mullet you are seeing now? Any corncobs in there or all they all the finger mullet size?

small 3-5" size.

[SharkHart]

Returned to the night scene first time out in the dark since memorial day, the results were great. The weakies are in full force in the barny bay. Landed close to 30 lost many more lots of hits on the whole outgoing tide. Chartreuse mullet gulps were hot. Fish were mostly 16" to 19" a few made it to 23". The peanuts were present and the weakies were harassing them constantly. Weird how patterns have changed not a single blue there, years past sept was a fight to get through the small blues to the weaks.

[VSdreams]

small 3-5" size.

Thanks jb. Great reports fellas. Nothing but the skunk tonight, Somoco surfside. Nice night but no one told the fish. Sharkhart don't think I ever caught 30 weakfish in a night that is a fantastic night of catching congrats.

[finchaser]

Fished 10 hours on boat today burnt about 125 gallons of fuel left 5:30 to troll found no bait no Bonita no albacore no Blues most of the lumps and bumps void of any life. Saw acres of bunker nothing in them. Places that were loaded with sand eels last week nada ( river and along the beach). Caught a few weakfish on the mussels beds they were being hammered latter on by gillnetters even though they were illegal size. Heavy south blow Thursday and Friday dropped water temp to 65 in some spots today which may have pushed the Albert's further off shore

[robmedina]

"burnt about 125 gallons of fuel " -sounds like an expensive day. sad to hear that it is bad out there.

[buckethead]

Fished 10 hours on boat today burnt about 125 gallons of fuel left 5:30 to troll found no bait no Bonita no albacore no Blues most of the lumps and bumps void of any life. Saw acres of bunker nothing in them. Places that were loaded with sand eels last week nada ( river and along the beach).

I found the same thing tonight finchaser. I caught bass and blues the other night because it was loaded with bait. Tonight no bait no nothing just like a dead sea out there.

[DarkSkies]

no albacore no Blues most of the lumps and bumps void of any life. Saw acres of bunker nothing in them. Places that were loaded with sand eels last week nada ( river and along the beach).

Finchaser is the bird dog for all of his friends who have boats. He's got an open invite on many of their rigs because he has a 6th sense when it comes to finding fish.

I remember being out there tuna fishin with him one time and he spotted tuna chicks without using binocs. The rest of needed binocs to see them, they were that far away. We got there and sure enough, got into some yellowfins. That's why he's in high demand when there is a tournament. They know if he fishes with them they have a good chance of placing in that tourney.

As mentioned, he has a 6th sense when it comes to finding fish, of any species...rarely does he have a day on a boat where he can't find fish. When that happens, you really do know that despite some of the reports, pickins are slim out there.....
Sorry to hear that Pal...I know you tried....






The situation so far this Fall, is not that great.....fish deep in the channels, on specific lumps, bayside or oceanside, specific areas (Mud Buoy, Mud Hole) the rocky areas off Monmouth County, or specific times and tides at night, Other than fluke, there is not a lot happening so far......
If you find actively feeding fish,
1. You many find them for a night, and then they are gone....
2. They have often been far out of reach of the surf crowd...
3. The inshore abundance we are used to seeing, is just not here yet....

When you have guys fishing the Shrewsbury Rocks this time of year, there are usually scattered reports of bass from that area.......There haven't been...and there are a lot of good guys out there looking.......
Also, the albies that a lot of us are hoping for, would have been abundant in the bluefish reports by now, and they are not....

Here's hoping the weeks ahead will get better.....When the mullet are consistently running tight to the beach all the above could change....hope that happens around this month's full moon, later in the week.