Reel Class 10/17-10/18 Weekend Wrap-Up - NJFishing.com Your Best Online Source for Fishing Information in New Jersey

Reel Class · #1 10-18-2015, 07:00 PM

Saturday 10/17: Ran our first trip In about a month Saturday looking for bass blues Albies & weakfish. Early on we had good action w 2-4# bluefish on jigs and spinning rods. Once the wind came up that crapped out. Didn't see any bunker... Worked our way back found a few pods of Albies but couldn't get one to bite. Finished up jigging the motherlode of weakfish --- easily boxed our boat limit (boating well over 50 including countless shorts) and had ~25 keepers to 18" (ORL). No bass or Albies but Larry was even able to Bucktail up a few more fluke as well as weakies. Total for the day was about 40 cocktail blues and our 8 weakfish boat limit. Nice trip lotsa bent rods!

Sunday 10/18: Stark opposite of yesterday. Nice ocean, lots of bunker, very few fish on them. Couldn't find the "bigger" 2-4# blues that we had on the jigs --- wound up bottom fishing for a bit and found a few porgies and blowfish, also PLENTY of would-be keeper seabass. Jigged up some pee wee sized blues and spike weaks on the way home - and also found some albies again but it was tough to get them to bite with the wind and the speed with which they were moving. Tough day overall!

Hunter 2 · #2 10-18-2015, 07:53 PM

Tough weekend Capt.Allen , heard ya on vhf 65 Sat, Went to JETS game today

Mike K · #3 10-18-2015, 08:04 PM

Very interesting report, thanks for sharing. I run a small CC out of Śtrathmere and guess what were catching about a mile off the beach? Albies small blues and spike weaks. Amazing there can be schools of little weaks all up and down the coast after so few were around all year.

Mike

Reel Class · #4 10-19-2015, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Mike K

Very interesting report, thanks for sharing. I run a small CC out of Śtrathmere and guess what were catching about a mile off the beach? Albies small blues and spike weaks. Amazing there can be schools of little weaks all up and down the coast after so few were around all year.

Mike

Mike we see them every year, basically in the same spots, around this time. Some years are definitely better than others, but we always run into them and are able to catch them. My big question is - where are they during the summer????