Striper Jiggin'! - ADAM BOMB 12/16

[TheAdamBomb]

After several days of strong winds, we were finally able to get out and hunt down some stripers! We had Rob Segal's private charter aboard, and we decided to head North on the look-out for schools of bass feeding under birds.

The action took us to the North end of Sea Isle City, where we found some birds working about two miles offshore. The fish were very scattered out, marking pods of bait and fish here and there, with no solid grouping. Moving North along the beach, we were able to jig some small stripers on metal. There was nothing of size, but we were able to catch some fish. As the morning went, the wind came up quite a bit stiffer from the Southwest, and we decided to head for Cape May along the beach, looking for more activity. Running about a quarter mile from shore, we didn't see anything significant, and came back to the dock right around lunch time.

There are still fish here! The water temperature ranged from 44 to 48 degrees, depending on your location. We'll be striper fishing until the fish move on, and we'll also be chasin' tog when conditions permit.

Until next time...

[MAKO19]

Glad to see you are still bending the rod as usual. Did you guys try the rips or have things shut down?

We used to frequently fish out of Townsends inlet and did pretty good in December following the birds. That seems to be the most productive method up around those parts, but you got to be patroling the beach before sun rise. It always seemed like the birds stopped working when the sun came up. Were you using those sand eel looking jigs?

[indeep]

I fished off of the north end of sea Isle 2 weeks ago with some success, mostly slots i was bounceing 3&4 oz diamond jigs. Alot of fun! Hoping to fish friday clamming off wwd then go rippin on saturday conditions permitting. see ya in the suds!

[RodFather]

Good seeing ya out the Adam, way to get on some meat.

[Farauscher]

Adam, thanks for the bay report at the gas dock yesterday. Yep, it was a little bumpy, but not too bad. I would have said Hi but I didn't see the boat name until it was too late.

Thanks again

Fred

[bubblehead1]

Hey Adam: The lump has been like that for a couple weeks now. I fish out of starthmere and go there often. I've had 1 trip out of the last dozen where the fish and birds weren't scattered. We caught fish each trip, but a pick not a blitz and mostly smaller fish. Sounds like that pattern is holding. We havn't really had great bird action all fall yet up here. I was hoping December would make up for October but not looking good.