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NJ Saltwater Fishing Reports and Information => NJ Saltwater Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Reel Class on August 26, 2009, 08:04:40 PM
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Had Bill Stabile, Brian "IBS" McCutcheon, Bryan Turci and his buddy Glenn aboard for a FTYP trip today.
Had every intention of running all the way up the beach, but once we made our way out of the inlet we were greeted by a stiff SSW breeze that was pushing 15 steady, so we stayed closer to home, and still got beat up a bit in 3-5's.
Pretty much started out a few miles to the NE, and got into some OK action to start off with some shorts, a couple of keepers, and some seabass adding to the catch. After roughly the third drift, that entire area dried up so we made a shift to the east, and Brian got a beautiful 6# fish on his homemade bucktail and bucktailing stick - but that was it with the exception of some 7-8# bluefish smashing our rigs on the way up.
We then ran a bit south, caught a couple more shorts, and then ran back to roughly where we started and picked away, albeit very slowly, a bit more. Brian added another 5.5# fish to his credit, and Bryan T added a frisky albie that was about 8# on his bucktail, working it on the bottom - definitely a first seeing an albie take a jig right off the bottom. By 2PM, the WSW was screaming a steady 20
At that point, the bite would be best described as a painfully slow pick, so we ran inshore and finished up in the river just to get some action and bend rods and subsequently added a bunch of shorts on some lighter tackle.
Fishing outside today was simply horrible, we had ~25 fish, only 4 keepers to 6#, plus about a bunch seabass (Bryan T nailed a nice 2#) with only 3 keepers, 3 racer bluefish, and the 1 albacore. In the river, we boated another 25 or so shorts with zero keepers.
Overall a very slow day, but we had a great time and "IBS" had us rolling all day especially with his "retreat" into the cabin of death
Oh, and another thing - NOAA, windguru, Buoyweather, and every other forecast completely all had one thing in common today (for once): THEY ALL BLEW THE FORECAST horribly! LOL
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Nice report Capt Allen. It was tuff today with the wind. :P Another fine job by NOAA. nosmly
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Nice job!
TT^
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Nice report. I can relate to the albie story. Many years ago I caught my first bonito "accidentally" while reeling my bucktail back to the boat while out fluking. ;D
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t^
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Nice work! TT^
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Nice report. I can relate to the albie story. Many years ago I caught my first bonito "accidentally" while reeling my bucktail back to the boat while out fluking. ;D
We've caught albies, bonito, and spanish mackerel reeling in the rigs off the bottom several times but that albie Bryan caught was hooked ON THE BOTTOM. He was working his bucktail right on the piece, and then suddenly, the drag starts peeling, the fish came up, and it was an albie.
I've been fishing the shore for over 25 years - and I have NEVER seen an albie take a bait from the bottom!!
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Nice report. I can relate to the albie story. Many years ago I caught my first bonito "accidentally" while reeling my bucktail back to the boat while out fluking. ;D
We've caught albies, bonito, and spanish mackerel reeling in the rigs off the bottom several times but that albie Bryan caught was hooked ON THE BOTTOM. He was working his bucktail right on the piece, and then suddenly, the drag starts peeling, the fish came up, and it was an albie.
I've been fishing the shore for over 25 years - and I have NEVER seen an albie take a bait from the bottom!!
OK. Gotcha. Very cool! t^
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Nice job in tough conditions Capt! chrz
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nice catch.