WORST day of the 2015 fishing season

Is the day I bring the boats home for their winters nap.
Would have liked to stay in until the end of December but the sea gulls have taken over the marina, and everything is covered in shit five minutes after you walk away from the docks.
Cant remember ever seeing so many on the docks. possibly hundreds on each dock. The normal deterants havent kept them away 

State needs to sell permits for them , and knock down the numbers like they have done to the deer  .

A good cleaning , then wrapped this week they will be ready for the snow.

Thanksgiving day shore banquet

Headed out Today with Tracey to get in some fishing on a Beautiful Thanksgiving day.
Blackfish bite was slow for us most of the day . some drops having little life on them.
Had four blackfish to 6 pounds. and way too many shorts 
saw a bass blitz going on , threw shads and hooked a nice fat bass ( released to fight another day)
and had one big bluefish hit a blackfish jig.

nice day on fairly flat seas. , got to watch the sunset getting back in at dark.

Blustery Bass Beatdown 11/15

Got to run out today with Tracey , Eddie, And Austin to have a go at the striped bass that have been finally abundant for this fall run.
Plan was to bass for awhile then tog, but That changed as the bassing was just too good to not take advantage of.

Got to fish a bunch of new stuff coming out from Pure Fishing for the new year .
I fished a new Revo beast on a volatile rod, Tracey was fishing a new clash reel on a new carnage rod.
Eddie and Austin were fishing Revo NACL on Battalion rods.
And everything we used made short work of lots of bass to Tracey's 36 pounder.
Throwing  heavy shads out produced snag baits by a  good margin today 

First stop was just south of our inlet where we had a bunch of small fish. A text from The Captain of Monger Nation had me move further south as he was doing well in big bunker schools.

We bounced around looking for working fish amongst a giant sea of boats, and picked here and there.
Seeing some working birds further off, we made the move and had awesome bassing with alot less pressure . 

Fished till a little after noon and headed in . Keeping 4 fish and releasing the rest to fight another day.

was an unreal amount of adult bunker as well as many schools of  peanuts pushing down the beach.
Finally getting to put some stripers on the new ride felt great .
The New Engel 240 cooler is def just the right size.

finished at the fillet table where the new line up of Penn fillet knives made quick work of turning those bass into nice table fare




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ENGEL coolers WOW

After looking and reading tons of reviews I decided on using Engel coolers on the boat.
While I would never get to see the ice last ten days on the boat recently on my Illinois hunting trip I did.
And all I can saw is WOW they really work.
Filled a 123 qt about 75% With ice before leaving Nj.
After daily use through 70 degree weather I still had over a third of that ice still in the cooler 11 days later.
I put my deer in the cooler frozen with no ice at all the night before leaving.
24 hours later when i opened the cooler at home it was like opening a freezer as the cold air escaped in a cloud.
The packaged meat was still rock hard frozen without any change in aperance.

They def proved to be a SUPER cooler.

PENN no slip tools

Penn Has a great new line up of non slip tools and knives.
Check them out, cant wait to start using them on the boat

Tough weather fishing 10/24

Headed out with Eddie to do some bottom fishing today.
Met a much angrier ocean than forcasted as expected with the east winds.
Chased a few areas of working birds that had spike weakfish under them.
Plan was to do some catch and release togging , and then sea bass.

sea bass were crushing the crabs at the first drop, so we switched to them for awhile.
Lots of shorts and just keepers, but we threw those back just keeping fish over 14" .
I had one nice trigger fish there.
Wanted to make a move , and ended up losing the wreck anchor as we got hammered by two 8' plus waves while pulling it. was crazy how far those waves pushed the heavy contender.
Mother nature is one tough lady.

moved south and drifted for sea bass , once again it was drop and reel, but mostly smaller fish. we picked away at some nicer ones who made their way into the box.
Finished the day early with a decent cooler of fish, as we had enough of getting our butts kicked out there .

check out the spine on the one blackfish we kept. I didnt know tog could have scoliosis .

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Slow Windy Togging 10/18

Headed out with Tracey and Eddie to do some togging.
Winds were cranking making it tough not to swing  off the smaller pieces.
so I jumped around to a few bigger spots, not finding much.
5 drops produced 10 keepers ( all released).
as we were looking for a few nicer sized dinner fish with the limit still at one per.
Biggest fish was about 17" so they all got to swim another day.