FISH STIX - 11/4 & 11/5 Stripers/Blackfish

[Fish Stix]

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.

[UglyStick]

Spot on report - My friend and I were on the 11/5 trip and even though fishing was a bit slow, we had a great time. Besides, it was a good warm up for tog season in a few weeks. Kudos once again to Kris and Darren who always go above and beyond to get the job done and are also just great guys to spend a day on the water with. See you guys in 2 weeks.... A few more pics from 11/5

[Ryelof]

As always Capt. Kris goes the extra for the crew......Derwood is the anchor.

[teddysclaw]

Kris do you plan on running any striper and blackfish open boats? Reading the report, it seems like you switched to blackfish because the stripers weren't cooperating. I'm actually looking for a blackfish trip, that would switch to stripers if the togs aren't cooperating.

Just wondering. Thanks for the report.

[Fish Stix]

Originally Posted by teddysclaw

Kris do you plan on running any striper and blackfish open boats? Reading the report, it seems like you switched to blackfish because the stripers weren't cooperating. I'm actually looking for a blackfish trip, that would switch to stripers if the togs aren't cooperating.

Just wondering. Thanks for the report.

Charters, we'll do anything you want. But if you jump on an Open Boat Trip, everyone has to agree to switch up. Sent you a PM.

[Dclark2]

Kris I take offense with the NEWBIE term. Hell i am almost 64.

Good time was had by all Lots of laughs..