STRIPERS 4-11

Matt and I headed out early to check out a few spots for an afternoon charter. Had fish on in a couple minutes , and with in 15 minutes we had already caught our our 2 man limit ( all released) , moved around continuing a slow pic of bass till picking up the charter at noon. Ran Steve and his son back to where we had fished in the AM to find Gannets blasting into the water, quickly picked up a 35 " bass and then it shut right off, Wind came on a honkin and we were only able to pick up one more short bass for the evening

Easter Stripers

Met Capt Joe tonight, and headed out on his boat to see if we could into some better striper fishing. The water is starting to clean up, and was a few degrees warmer tonight than yesterday. We headed into the back bay just before 6 pm, onto a sheet of glass.

We set up in the same area where I had Saturdays charter, hoping to get them going again. It took quite a while for the tide to change , but once it did we were steady into the bass. Catching over a few dozen fish, once the sun started to set, and for the next couple hours. Going through a little over a half bushel of clams, left them biting when we used up all the bait.

You can say we Wacked and stacked em, or hammered them 4 reel, but it was def a fun night of fishing. alot of shorts , with more than enough 28-31 inch keepers to keep it interesting. Fish were def more agressive today than yesterday, and super fun on the light tackle rods we were using.

ALL BASS WERE RELEASED TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY

Birthday stripers

Steve called to book a trip for his son Dave to fish for stripers for his Birthday, along with his uncle Smidrow. Took alot to get some going, but Dave put on a show boating 7 bass before noon, with 4 of those being keepers.

ALL BASS RELEASED TO SPAWN

Steve caught 1 short, def the smallest bass ever caught on Reelmusic to save a skunk, with Smidrow , well he tried LOL, these guys had Matt and I laughing ALL day, def made for a super day for this early in the year Tried flounder fishing through the afternoon , but even after heavy chumming we didnt get any flounder bites. . water was still pretty discolored, with lots of debris floating around

NO GO stripers

After getting home from the Bahamas yesterday to warmer weather than we had there I uncovered the boat, and got everything ready to try the back bay today.Matt and I hit four early season spots, fishing each spot for an hour without a bump. boat ran good after its short winter nap

Got boarded back at the ramp by DFGW, the CO was very polite, checked the boat quick and asked for the Salt water registry cards.showed him them and he was off to the next boat.Nice to see they are already in force for the new season

.Looking forward to the spring fishery and the new year

Gambler mid range wreck trip

Hit the Gambler today with Matt for the 20-50 mile trip today, nice ride out in pretty flat seas, Has a good pick of Pollock, Cod , and Ling today, with us filling a cooler .Had a great lunch made by Ms G, and made for an enjoyable day on the water.Fish that won the pool was a 23 pound pollock.Captain Bob looked around alot to make sure everyone got into the fish.

FISHERMAN march on Washington

Talked my Buddy Capt Rich into making the run down to washington with me on the BT bus,joining over 3000 other fisherman.

Def was worth making the run down there,Seeing alot of solid support from people who really care.Hearing about how they want to implement catch shares in the next 120 days also shows why there is a trend to stop fishing in entirety, so those who high bid for the fish will be the only ones enjoying our oceans.Much bigger picture was brought to light yesterday.

Glad everyone had a safe day going to and from the rally.

COME ON SPRING

Im sure just like everyone else I have had enough of this snow already, and cant wait for spring to arrive.

Looks like we will be running out of Shark River this year so that the runs to the Striper grounds are faster.
Looking forward to having another super year live lining for BIG stripers.
Charters are starting to fill up for the prime dates, so give a call soon to book a date to try for your personal best Linesider