Plan B Stripers during the blow.

[procastinator]

I was in the final legs of my 3.5 hour trip to Sandy Hook to retrieve some gear off the boat to take down to the ASA Cape May tournament when I got word that it was cancelled. Bummer ! :( So instead of comming home I thought I would see what a hurricane felt like to fish in. :D Thursday night I had nobody to fish with in the boat so I left her at Atlantic highlands, grabbed a small spinner and headed towards the hook in the suburban. I stopped short at the Highlands bridge and that was a good move. The striped ones were there and hungry. Caught a handful on 6 inch storm shads, and only one was a short. The bass looked healthy and fat, and bit and fought well at the end of the outgoing tide. Ventured out in a friends 26 foot Grady late friday afternoon, and couldn't put a catch together in the building seas. After a good feed session at Old Country Buffet, I headed back to the bridge and tried the other side, another good move. I was able to stay out of the wind and put a nice catch of 7 stripers together in short order with all but two being keeper size.:) I also had two real nice fish take me for a run down river that I wasn't gonna be able to stop, eventually cutting me off on an abandoned bridge pilling about 30 feet from shore. Saturday myself and two friends hit the bridge during the afternoon, but, fishing was real tough with the gale blowing up the river and the ripping tide, so we headed to Bahr's Landing for a hot breadbowl full of lobster Bisque. Headed out solo that evening and picked up two bass and called it an evening.

All in all an interesting weekend. I haven't casted from the shore for quite a while, and had a good time doing it. I wasn't gonna let some pissant storm ruin my weekend. :D

[Partnership]

Pro- you're an inspiration to us all. Way to show some commitment!
See ya next weekend in CM.

[cc19]

So do you ever fish in nice weather???:D :D . Fishing from land now too, next your gonna join me for some hot kingfish action:D .

[procastinator]

Kurt, someday , yes someday, I plan to fish in nice weather ! :D Hopefully Iwill be able to catch a few weather breaks in the next couple of weeks. The bass are there, the bait is disappearing from the harbors fast, and the water temp at Atlantic Highlands was 51.7 on sunday morning. Striper season is upon us. :)

[babyblue]

Was that a large yellow swimmer you lost to the bridge piling? If so I found it on Sunday.

Rich

[procastinator]

Was that a large yellow swimmer you lost to the bridge piling? If so I found it on Sunday.

Rich

I was throwing 6 inch storm shads, in variuos colors. The bass were right on the bottom. I lost about 2 dozen of them this weekend. If it wasn't catching bottom, it wasn't catching bass. The ones I cut off on the bridge pilling were attatched to big bass that headed downriver on the outside of the pilling. Hopefully someone caught those bass and got the storms out of them. How did you make out? I saw a few other fisherman picking up bass but most were small, about 24 to 26 inches. Most everybody was throwing plugs, but I went deep. :)

[babyblue]

We fished from the bridge to the Earl ammo pier and every point in between, nothing. What bait was there left by sunday. Hopefolly there is more to come.

Rich

[procastinator]

There was alot of peanuts in the Harbor on thursday. They were so thick in one area that it looked like you could walk on them. I took the boat out sunday morning to load a cooler full of peanuts to take home and brine and there wasn't one to be found. I headed up to Keyport to see if it was still loaded up there and they were gone also. :(