NJ Fishing Reports for June 2014.....www.StripersAndAnglers.com

[robmedina]

I met my fishing buddy Mikey at the bait store at 6am. High tide was 6:14 so we would catch the outgoing from outback. We bought Killies and squid to go fluking. after a brief stop at wawa we were at the bay to launch the kayaks. Water by the powerplant was 75 degrees. We drifted with the current and I caught a 14-1/2" sea robin. We continued drifting but nada. Chatter on the radio was no one was catching flounder.

I said to Mike we need to be by a drop off if we want a chance, so we moved closer to the flats while we were heading that way we saw a small boat with 2 guys and their rods were bent over. Turns out they were catching small blues in the 3-5 lb range. I had to relive myself anyway, so I anchored in the flats and hoped out and did my thing. The buys in the boat moved on. Maybe I scared them??? anyway, so I moved into their position and anchored up and through a SS popper and about my third cast I was in. I was using a very light action spinning rod and man that little 4lb blue was a ton of fun.

We moved around for awhile on the flats. I would stand up in my yak and can see the blues cruising. felt like I was in florida fishing the mosquito lagoon, lol! I could see channels cut through the flats and was able to guestimate where the fish were on a few occasions. Mike only hooked one blue , I got 4. they were all 3-5 pounds, lots of fun.

While we were on the flat Mike noticed a cloud of birds by the BI. Must have been a bass blitz- we heard a 47# bass and a 40# bass caught out front. Mike wanted to go there but I reminded him that he has a screw loose because there was no way we were ever gonna make it by kayak from where we were and we still would have had to go through the inlet- not a great idea.

I tried to catch blues on the fly rod but it was not gonna happen. I need to make some pencil poopers for the flyrod.

Here is a quick video- not promising it's good- but it is what it is.

[DarkSkies]

Glad to see ya got into some fish, Rob......looks like ya's had a blast......

The blues have been active on the flats up by us as well....in 4' of water at the shallowest......for me, getting them has meant wading out 1/8 mile at the bottom of the tide....it would be a lot easier to find them via kayak...but I'm stubborn.....
good call on choosing size of the popper......they can be picky at times....today I casted for 1/2 hour with no action at all until I downsized to one of my smallest poppers....similar to the one you used......

I'm surprised they wouldn't hit a fly for you....by me they are feeding extensively on these shrimp, about 2-3 times larger than grass shrimp.....
I bucktailed a few with a light weight bucktail the other day.....but stopped after they chewed through my leader....and switched to small poppers.....it seems you have to Pi** them off a bit to get them to hit...at least where I'm fishing.....

What kind of fly are you casting? White bucktails seemed to work the best, and not with long grubs....the shorter the profile the better....it seems the closer your artificial resembles these shrimp size, the better they will respond....and of course to the poppers as well......

** For Rob and any other fly fishermen out there....
This Fri, June 13, will be the full moon cycle.....the cinder worms should be spawning again......for those who have gotten them using flies to match this hatch....you can be successful casting those flies......bass and weakfish will respond as well....and if you're out there....while some of the rest of us are getting skunked....matching the hatch could be a blast for those among ya's who love to catch bay and river fish on the fly.








Report - fished the bay flats this morning, had to wade out pretty far....only had an hour to fish......
No action at all for the first half hour....
When I switched to very small poppers I began to pick at a few.....
I found it tough fishing today, as opposed to the other day when they were extremely aggressive before that storm moved in,. cloudy skies, snotty weather...


Only raised 2 fish, one on metal bait tail,
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...els-are-around

other on popper....and caught 2 additional bluefish to 7# by pissing them off with the small popper....

[robmedina]

Here is the fly I was using



Thanks for posting the info on the cinder worms. Can you fish it during the day?

[J Barbosa]

Shark nice fish!

I fished off the kayak yesterday targeting bluefish.

We got a bunch of them all in 3-6ft of water.

Seen more bait yesterday than I have seen all season. Adult bunker, shrimp and small rain fish/spearing type bait. The bunker were in deeper water and unmolested.

Small plugs like a Surfstix egglet swimmer were key to catching these bluefish. I did catch a few on a 2oz pencil but I had way more blowup and miss on it (single rear swish only).



My buddy Rui got a nice weakfish he released.


We probably fished closer to shore than Darkskies did.

[J Barbosa]

One of my bluefish from yesterday...not really sure if this is from disease or a shark/dolphin bite. Marks were on both sides but much worse on this side.

[captnemo]

We gave it our best fishing for bass today. Unfortunately the bass did not cooperate. Started just E of the hook where we found and netted bunker. Tossed one out to have it chopped in half by a big bluefish so we decided to move down the beach. We worked bunker pods from the shrewsbury rocks to asbury. No luck. We did see a group of boats clustered off monmouth beach past the shrewsbury rocks. They were way over the line. From the looks of it they were fishing bunker for bass and I did see some busting when I checked with the binocs. We ventured out further and saw they were fishing for bass. Saw some of the big name sponsors and advertisers on some of the fishing websites out there as well as a party boat. The party boat advertises as a bluefish trip but the other private boats and charters were not bluefishing. I put a call in to the CG and hope they did something about it. It is not fair that some of us have to play by the rules and others feel they do not.

[cowherder]

Wow great catches on the kayaks rob and john! john that is one scarey looking bluefish! captnemo thanks for taking a stand and calling those scum in! You are right the law should apply to everyone. to the idiots that think they are above it.

[seamonkey]

One of my bluefish from yesterday...not really sure if this is from disease or a shark/dolphin bite. Marks were on both sides but much worse on this side.

that is the nastiest bluefish I have ever seen! I'm surprised it was still alive to hit your lure.

[J Barbosa]

John B- is that a trolling motor in your buddies hobie?

Yes, works really well allows us to cover many more miles of water and fast moving water that would normally tire you out quickly under human power.

that is the nastiest bluefish I have ever seen! I'm surprised it was still alive to hit your lure.

He put up a good fight and swam off quickly. That is one bad *** bluefish.

[seamonkey]

I met my fishing buddy Mikey at the bait store at 6am. High tide was 6:14 so we would catch the outgoing from outback. We bought Killies and squid to go fluking. after a brief stop at wawa we were at the bay to launch the kayaks. Water by the powerplant was 75 degrees. We drifted with the current and I caught a 14-1/2" sea robin. We continued drifting but nada. Chatter on the radio was no one was catching flounder.

I said to Mike we need to be by a drop off if we want a chance, so we moved closer to the flats while we were heading that way we saw a small boat with 2 guys and their rods were bent over. Turns out they were catching small blues in the 3-5 lb range. I had to relive myself anyway, so I anchored in the flats and hoped out and did my thing. The buys in the boat moved on. Maybe I scared them??? anyway, so I moved into their position and anchored up and through a SS popper and about my third cast I was in. I was using a very light action spinning rod and man that little 4lb blue was a ton of fun.

We moved around for awhile on the flats. I would stand up in my yak and can see the blues cruising. felt like I was in florida fishing the mosquito lagoon, lol! I could see channels cut through the flats and was able to guestimate where the fish were on a few occasions. Mike only hooked one blue , I got 4. they were all 3-5 pounds, lots of fun.

While we were on the flat Mike noticed a cloud of birds by the BI. Must have been a bass blitz- we heard a 47# bass and a 40# bass caught out front. Mike wanted to go there but I reminded him that he has a screw loose because there was no way we were ever gonna make it by kayak from where we were and we still would have had to go through the inlet- not a great idea.

I tried to catch blues on the fly rod but it was not gonna happen. I need to make some pencil poopers for the flyrod.

Here is a quick video- not promising it's good- but it is what it is.

Awesome report looks like you are having the best of times! thanks for sharing