TheAdamBomb
10-13-2004, 02:43 PM
We had a 5-hr. open boat trip aboard the ADAM BOMB II today, and fished the Cape May rips looking for some more early season striped bass!
We made a backwater stop before heading down to the Point, as we had a report of a few fish being taken. We fished back there for forty-five minutes or so, and had one bass hooked up before spitting the hook, and also missed two others. Funny hits. We then made our run to the rips, and fished from inside to outside and everywhere in between, with bluefish tearing thru about twenty of our eels. We decided to switch off to metal with about an hour of flood tide left, and proceeded to hammer blues in the 2lb. to 3lb. range for the remainder of the tide. Once the tide swung around to the ebb, we switched back to eels, only to go through about another dozen eels on toothy critters. There are A LOT of bluefish in the rips and along the beach. There is also a LOAD of bait...butterfish, bunker, peanut bunker, shiners, and anchovies were all seen on top of the water or in the stomach contents of bluefish we caught today. While jigging during slack tide, we also had a couple weakfish in addition to the blues.
The water is still in the mid to upper 60's, depending on where you're fishing. The local bass are there, getting more active as the water cools. There are also more fishing moving in. However, the water temperature has to drop a bit more before the bluefish move out and give the bass a chance to take an eel!
We'll see what happens after the upcoming windy weekend!
We made a backwater stop before heading down to the Point, as we had a report of a few fish being taken. We fished back there for forty-five minutes or so, and had one bass hooked up before spitting the hook, and also missed two others. Funny hits. We then made our run to the rips, and fished from inside to outside and everywhere in between, with bluefish tearing thru about twenty of our eels. We decided to switch off to metal with about an hour of flood tide left, and proceeded to hammer blues in the 2lb. to 3lb. range for the remainder of the tide. Once the tide swung around to the ebb, we switched back to eels, only to go through about another dozen eels on toothy critters. There are A LOT of bluefish in the rips and along the beach. There is also a LOAD of bait...butterfish, bunker, peanut bunker, shiners, and anchovies were all seen on top of the water or in the stomach contents of bluefish we caught today. While jigging during slack tide, we also had a couple weakfish in addition to the blues.
The water is still in the mid to upper 60's, depending on where you're fishing. The local bass are there, getting more active as the water cools. There are also more fishing moving in. However, the water temperature has to drop a bit more before the bluefish move out and give the bass a chance to take an eel!
We'll see what happens after the upcoming windy weekend!