2016 Long Island Fishing Reports Thread

[Monty]

Headed out center LI again, fished this morning from 1:00 to 10:30, ocean side and inlet. Ocean side ~22 inch bass around 2:30 on SS needle, 1:30 about same size blue on SS darter. Missed a bunch of hits and dropped a couple fish. Lots of wind in face.
Then around 6:15 I got into some more blues until 8:30, about a dozen most around 30 inches. Again most were deep and used a bucktail. Did get 3 on Roddy's plugs (Thank you!).
Lost more tackle to those blues in those 2 plus hours than the last 2 years combined.
Moved back ocean side and between 9:00 and 10:30 I got another 6 blues up to 34 inches on poppers. Did get a 26 inch bass on an floating needle at 10:10 in the bright sun (that was a surprise, came out of the white water).

Real fun trip despite getting a blue attached to my wader crotch on that first fish. That woke me up.....I took on a bit of water the rest of the trip.

[williehookem]

Fished out east yesterday after the rain. Lots of small blue fish on metal. sandeels around as well. No stripers for me tho. Still the bluefish were fun. My arms are tired.

[williehookem]

Lost more tackle to those blues in those 2 plus hours than the last 2 years combined.

Real fun trip despite getting a blue attached to my wader crotch on that first fish. That woke me up.....I took on a bit of water the rest of the trip.

No offense, but I'll never understand why people throw expensive plugs and lures to blues. get yourself a lot of metal and used bucktails in the winter, you're going to lose them anyway so why pay top-dollar?
sorry to hear aboutyou hooking yourself. Almost seems like you wanted to put your willy out there as an offering to the fish!

[rockhopper]

Lmao sounds like an episode of jackass!

[Monty]

No offense, but I'll never understand why people throw expensive plugs and lures to blues. get yourself a lot of metal and used bucktails in the winter, you're going to lose them anyway so why pay top-dollar?
sorry to hear about you hooking yourself. Almost seems like you wanted to put your willy out there as an offering to the fish!

Lmao sounds like an episode of jackass!

It certainly got my attention quick. Was a small hook hole 1/4", Aquasealed it.
It wasn't really that bad, 5 leaders were shredded, lost one bucktail,couple shads and a plug that Rip-Plugger just gave me.
Headed back out and fished this morning from 1:00 to 10:00.
Had either a 20 MPH+ cross wind or it was in my face, tough conditions.
Fished hard and caught 10 blues from 20 to 25 inches.
Most caught on bucktails, but got 1 on an Ava, another a Rip-Pluggers plug, another on a Darter and popper.
Missed a few hits and lost a few. Was fun as really had to work for them, when was not getting any action would switch up to something else and that would normally get a strike.
Guys that were fishing metal gave up and left when they could not get a hit.
I'm not anywhere close to being an adequate "bucktailer", so catching on them was a lot of fun.
Fished whole time with 1 leader, nothing lost this trip .
Through a rubber shad at times, not even a bump.

[bababooey]

you guys complain that I am kinky. Hooking your willy is a little freaky. What's next whips and chains on the rocks?

[BassBuddah]

Pretty decent spring so far in the back bays. Bass to 27#, blues to 19# all on swimmers. Things have slowed down a bit time to travel out east.

[Monty]

Headed out east, fished north side this morning from 2:15 to 9:00.
Picked up a short bass on a needle around 2:30 and that was it for bass.
Ended up with 16 blues between 20 and 30 inches, they are all over.
Lost a bunch, missed a bunch.
Tried getting below them, most caught on bucktails and darters.
Fun time, nice weather.