Fish Stix
11-06-2014, 09:14 AM
Unfortunately had to cancel Saturday through Monday.
11/4 Finally back at it after a great week of striper fishing. Ran open boat crew of 6. Mostly chefs aboard today, pretty cool. Anyway found some bait in the am and started working it, no bites. Next pile we got one, lost a couple and missed a bunch of bites. Then it was over. We decided to stick with the bass all day in hopes of an afternoon bite. Well it never happened for us. All blues. Worked pod to pod all day. This way, that way, etc. dark to dark. We never gave up and neither did the guys. We gave it hell and caught squat.
11/5 ran open with a crew of 6. Didn't see a bunker today. All rain fish and scattered readings of fish. Decided to put the shad rigs out to see what we could come up with. First up was a striper and a blue. Looked like maybe we could pick away at some fish. Well we did, but no stripes. All blues and even 4 on one rod. Heard of a slow troll bite 25 miles away and wasn't interested. Ended up Blackfishing with 6 newbies. Good time to get them started. Well the first drop was slow for a while, then a ton of shorts and only a couple keepers. Made a move inshore and it looks worse until we got them going. Again loads of shorts. But then they came out to play. When? Right as we were almost out of bait. The guys burned through just about a bushel of green crabs in only a few hours! Right at the end there, the 4-6 pounders started munching right up to out last bait. I wonder how good it would have been if we stayed another hour! Anyway, we finished off the day with 9 blues in the box, 1 striper and a whopping boat limit of 5lb blackfish(8).
Cancelled our trip 11/6, hopefully back at it tomorrow.
Capt Kris
Jim with his first ever keeper blackfish.
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11/4 Finally back at it after a great week of striper fishing. Ran open boat crew of 6. Mostly chefs aboard today, pretty cool. Anyway found some bait in the am and started working it, no bites. Next pile we got one, lost a couple and missed a bunch of bites. Then it was over. We decided to stick with the bass all day in hopes of an afternoon bite. Well it never happened for us. All blues. Worked pod to pod all day. This way, that way, etc. dark to dark. We never gave up and neither did the guys. We gave it hell and caught squat.
11/5 ran open with a crew of 6. Didn't see a bunker today. All rain fish and scattered readings of fish. Decided to put the shad rigs out to see what we could come up with. First up was a striper and a blue. Looked like maybe we could pick away at some fish. Well we did, but no stripes. All blues and even 4 on one rod. Heard of a slow troll bite 25 miles away and wasn't interested. Ended up Blackfishing with 6 newbies. Good time to get them started. Well the first drop was slow for a while, then a ton of shorts and only a couple keepers. Made a move inshore and it looks worse until we got them going. Again loads of shorts. But then they came out to play. When? Right as we were almost out of bait. The guys burned through just about a bushel of green crabs in only a few hours! Right at the end there, the 4-6 pounders started munching right up to out last bait. I wonder how good it would have been if we stayed another hour! Anyway, we finished off the day with 9 blues in the box, 1 striper and a whopping boat limit of 5lb blackfish(8).
Cancelled our trip 11/6, hopefully back at it tomorrow.
Capt Kris
Jim with his first ever keeper blackfish.
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