No Albies BUT

[fishypete]

Got started around 7am and ran south from the hook looking for albies. Found some birds workin and picked at a few bluefish. We decided to turn back north.
Started to see more and more packs of working birds but the schools were moving so fast that even the birds couldn't keep up.
They were albies but they we not giving us many chances. We threw everything including flies but we could only manage one swing and a miss after i basiclly dropped it on the albies head.
Continued north and after a few more blues the bass showed up. They were boiling on very small bait, rainfish I would assume as they would not hit anything larger than a 007. The bigger jigs did not get touched. The only problem were the schools were small and unless you were on top of they you weren't catchen fish. We managed seven bass to 34 inches (aprox) and our fair share of blues.
Not a bad day, it's starting

[williemilkem]

SWEET thanks for the report.

[fishpro28]

Nice job pete.......damn I wish I still had my Grady I miss this time of year. A little sea bass and tog fishing in the Shrewsberry Rocks and some running and gunning on bass and blues

[fintabulous]

Hey fishy Pete,you forgot to mention the massive tangles with the rods and outrigger lines , lol , take a sick day wedsday, ill do the same

mark

[Forever Night]

good work Pete, I finally got to montauk and had similiar situation with the albies, moving fast and wouldnt hit. Exactly like you said I threw a 007 right on ones head and pulled out a nice one. But the bass were much easier

[JAT11]

Sick day tomorrow for me....did you jig those bass or troll em up?

[fishypete]

Nice job pete.......damn I wish I still had my Grady I miss this time of year. A little sea bass and tog fishing in the Shrewsberry Rocks and some running and gunning on bass and blues

Pick your days Mike, the 19ftr will be just fine. We saw some guys out with smaller vessels and it was not very comfortable in the morning.

Hey fishy Pete,you forgot to mention the massive tangles with the rods and outrigger lines , lol , take a sick day wedsday, ill do the same

mark

What outrigger lines, there's none there now. I also forgot to mention that the "captain" woke up an hour late. Don't forget the three sea gulls we musclled. No dice for tomorrow, I have to take off thursday. Damn kids always ruining my plans . Next week maybe.............

good work Pete, I finally got to montauk and had similiar situation with the albies, moving fast and wouldnt hit. Exactly like you said I threw a 007 right on ones head and pulled out a nice one. But the bass were much easier

Nice to hear you hit the bass... Those pics someone posted were beautiful. Nothing more fustrating that seeing the fish and not being able to hook up. It's nice to see some decent bass so early, hopefully it continues

Sick day tomorrow for me....did you jig those bass or troll em up?

We trolled the fly rods for the albies for a bit after getting fustrated with no luck. They were all jigged fairly close to the surface. Had one bass explode on a popper but that was it.

[fintabulous]

hey pete , the tides in the river will be good starting thursday night till at least wedsday of next week, i want to get out thursday, let me know

mark

[ekim]

only big blues in the reach today.followed fast moving fish for a good two hours they were on top.loverly day to be out.fish ranged from 2 to 10 pounds most caught on gold hopkins with white bucktails.

[fishy]

Troll them for the albies your sure to get'em

[fishypete]

Troll them for the albies your sure to get'em

We did for a bit I think they were #3's. We also trolled the flyrods for a bit.