First Post Shake Down Trip w Some Nice Stripers

[DEEP POCKETS]

Looking forward to contributing some reports. I have been reading reports over the last few years and NJ Fishing members have pointed me in the right direction on where the latest bite has been so here's the first report

Took advantage of nice weather on Wednesday and fished Raritan Bay. Had my dad who's 75 and brother Will out for the day and weather was awesome with slick calm water and good fishing.

Tried anchoring up on couple different spots that had some nice marks with only one short so we decided to go on the troll with good reports from the weekend. Wasn't long before we had some nice marks on the finder up on the flats and picked up 4 keepers in the next hour on stretches.

Bite slowed so we moved around picked up couple shorts in deeper water, tried near Navy pier and water was really dirty almost like it was stained?? Not sure why but we ran back to where we had em in earlier in the day w clean water and started marking nice fish.

Picked up 2 more nice fish and ended day w 6 nice keepers up to 18 lbs. First time trolling plugs and it was fun to have them slam the plugs.

Great start to the season boat ran good nice day on water w dad and brother Will.

Going to be out again on Saturday.

[dfish28]

Way to get the season going bro! Congrats on a memorable outing! Goes to show about switching tactics to bring in some fish and fun!
: on a side note- I know Joey Da Fish know the area rather well for trolling, feel free to pm him about it

[shrimpman steve]

Thanks for contributing!!

D, I'm lmfao. Joey loves trolling

[Gerry Zagorski]

Great first report Deep. Sounds like you had a decent day.

I noticed the water has been extra dirty this year too. Usually it's caused by the rain and run off but since we've had no rain, I'm assuming its the wind churning everything up.

[DEEP POCKETS]

Originally Posted by dfish28

Way to get the season going bro! Congrats on a memorable outing! Goes to show about switching tactics to bring in some fish and fun!
: on a side note- I know Joey Da Fish know the area rather well for trolling, feel free to pm him about it

Thanks man, have to try something different when plan S isn't working out right.

It was my first time trolling and was cool to have some action

Catch em up!

[DEEP POCKETS]

Originally Posted by shrimpman steve

Thanks for contributing!!

D, I'm lmfao. Joey loves trolling

Thanks man cya on the water...

[DEEP POCKETS]

Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski

Great first report Deep. Sounds like you had a decent day.

I noticed the water has been extra dirty this year too. Usually it's caused by the rain and run off but since we've had no rain, I'm assuming its the wind churning everything up.

Thanks Gerry, glad I joined the NJ Fishing community and get a chance to say thank you for all of the help you have giving me over the last few years on where to launch fish etc since I was new to fishing up north.

I'm keeping the boat in Shark River this season and looking forward to learning the area and sharing some reports.

The water was really really dirty, I would say not fishablebut there were boats anchored up so maybe with bait. Going to give it another shot tomorrow

Thanks again...

John

[Chris G]

Really bad red tide since Monday afternoon.

[DEEP POCKETS]

Originally Posted by Chris G

Really bad red tide since Monday afternoon.

What causes the red tide? That's what I had to see it was more than just churned up dirty water. Thanks.

[Fish Stix]

Some nice fish you guys had there, nice job.

Good seeing you guys. See you soon.