Steve,
Same for me, Can't wait for the real season to begin and start using those suspending storms in the back. I will be counting the days, and am still waiting for our first real swell from a hurricane. I'll be seeing you in September. Come on fall!!!
Keith the bagman

 

First 50 + poundah in the back. Tonight live shrimp, full report in this forum

 

Still all the 18" - 23" bass you could want and some bigger blues mixed in along the sod banks. High tide and dusk w/ a small popper.
Even got my 67 yr. old mom one.

 

got alot of herring small weaks 10-13" 3 bass up to 27". All on fresh caught spearing.

All behind OC

 

Originally posted by striperaholic:
got alot of herring small weaks 10-13" 3 bass up to 27". All on fresh caught spearing.

All behind OC

Thanks for that report Roger,,
By the way,did you and Ronny Hook Up Yet ?
Everything a Go ????

 

NO I can't seem to connect. He emailed me and I returned his email still waiting on his call.

 

Striperaholic... how you rigging the sprearing?

 

I'm useing a small hook with a couple split shots. Hooking the spearing thru there lips or thru there gills. For the herring I was cutting the spearing heads off and hooking them so they swim somewhat natural.

 

Tried to wait out the thunderstorms an rain this morning.Decided to try a shot near the brick pile for some weakies.I rounded up some peanuts and off I went.Once the tide started outgoing they bit like gangbusters,but there was alot of really small fish.Still managed to take a few home for the smoker.I hooked something really big out there,not really sure what it was,got cut off after fighting fish for about 5 minutes.
If the weather doesn't clear up by tom, I guess I'll go an try this again tom,probably a good idea since they raised the price of gas to 275.9 at the dock.time to get out those gas cans again.

 

Caught mostly bass with some blues mixed in from 10 pm until 2 am last night. For the first hour it was a fish on or a miss on every cast. All fish were caught on plastic finesse type lures similar to the spearing they were feeding on--tons & tons of bait in the water. Largest fish between 3 of us was about 20 inches with most being 15-17 inches. If it's any indication of the future striper population we should be in for a bonanza.

 

saw lots of baby stripers tonight under some lights, caught 1 little 18", on a white zoom, it was a nice cool night, and nice to catch a striper, kinda got me thinking about the fall!

 

Went out last night hopeing to dodge the rain. Succeeded in that and boated 26 herring 3 keeper weaks 15" and threw back 10 shorts up down to 8". Also 2 bass 1-25" 1-17" and a few blues up to 5lb. All on fresh caught spearing. For one hour every cast was a fish.

 

Found Fluke on dead low tide this morning in 4 ft of water
26 total with 5 keepers
Once tide got moving bite dropped off

 

NICE WILLIE!!! ON BUCKTAILS??

 

Bucktails tipped with fishbites

 

fished tonight (after dark) and found blues and bass feeding along the sod banks. Lots of bait around...you could hear it bubbling against the weedlines.

Also caught a herring! Beautiful night to be outside!

 

Tried the back near Avalon. Had one hit on a pinkie- I think it was a small spike. Fish were feeding. Some stripes in the shadow line. Tried mostly spearing immitation- small blurple bombers-delta sword w teasers. I'll be back.

 

Schoolie bass in mullica 12-18", snapper blues,loads of bait fish along banks Peanut bunker where churning water but nothing under them??

 

tons of bait in the back and small striper feeding aggresively on them. Blues were also there top of the tide and early in the outgoing. Small bass in the 15-23 inch range all over the sodbanks. Used 3 inch tsunami lots of action nothing in the keeper range for bass, blues 1-3 lbs...Oh yea behind OC ...Jim

 

found fluke again this morning,same spot,last of outgoing tide in 4-6ft of water
bucktails with fishbites and bucktails with Gulp shrimp
34 fluke 6 legal

 

Willie,

Where have they been all summer? Or, did I just give up on them too soon.

Mike

 

I'm beginning to believe these fish are just arriving as they are real clean on the bottom ,unlike what I was catching a month ago which well full of mud

 

Willie....you using less then .5 oz. in that depth?
Thanks....

 

3/8'S OZ cHATRUESE

 

fished off cape may point today with a friend and two kids...we had steady action all day. Totals were over 40 fluke (5 keepers), 30 croakers, 3 kingfish, one bluefish, misc critters, and three sharks on a sharking rig.

Kids loved the sharks!

I am tired and headin' to the rack!