striped bass report ship bottom 10-18-09

[madgaffer]

I fished the ** beach for the afternoon incoming tide from about 4 til 615 beautiful day on the water. Only needed 5 ounces maybe less to hold bottom. First trip on the beach of the fall season came equiped with herring, semi fresh clams, and mullet. We heard of a guy catching a short bass as we got there and within about an hour into our night my rod went off with the clicker screaming I set up on him and landed a 26 inch fat bass on a herring chunk which was released to fight another day. Slow fishing from there with just a few junk fish. lots of guys fishing from ** beach but we didnt see alot of action tho not bad for our first fall surf trip. should begin to take off soon.

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[TomKat]

Thanks for the report. Any birdplay offshore of you?

[bdubbs]

tom were u out there today? thought i heard your name dropped on radio... just wondering if you were howd you do????

[TomKat]

Yeah, ran out to 60ft of water. Lot's of gannets and gulls looking around but not much really going on. Might run north tomorrow.

[bdubbs]

Yea I'm thinkin thesame thing. Ill be out tomorrow.