I'm a new registered member of the site and must admit I've been reading your reports for several months now like many others without contributing. Not sure what prompted me to join but look forward to sharing our reports. Now to mine which have been nothing short of spectacular fall fishing.
Monday - 11/9 Left the dock in Keansburg at 5:45am with my brother. Went straight outside the hook looking for the bird life, find some birds that appeared to be working but didn't mark anything as the sun began to come up. No wind and little tide throughout the morning. Made a move between the channels and few a mark under a few birds. Started jigging with the Ava 47's and boated a few blues and schoolie bass. Later on the same drift the marks built and wy brother boxed about a 15 pounder followed by my 19 pound fish. A great start. The action died as the party boats showed up. Made a move closer to Ambrose and stopped on a few swirls. Read the bass immediately and proceeded to jig these fish for the next 3 hours! Mostly schoolies with some real nice 30 inchers mixed in. Started out all bass then more blues. We easily boated 50 fish with 3 more being keepers. Already in keeper release mode, the tide and wind kicked up a little and the bass began rolling. An amazing site, but you needed to work to get hooked up as we were no longer matching the hatch. Left them biting and moved towrards the SH channel to join the fleet catching more shorts and 2 more keepers being released. A great day on the water. Nothing beats jigging bass all day!
Saturday 11/7 Left the dock in Keansburg at 5:45am with my brother in law. Went straight outside the hook looking for the bird life, find some birds a little down the beach and game on! We jigged up the schoolie bass with 1 keeper in the mix along with the gator blues. Moved further south and find more birds working close to the beach. Jigged more shorts and boxed 2 more keepers. Continued south, to find some more birds and boats but this time small blues stacked up from the bottom for 20 feet. Didn't waste much time with them. Looked arounf and moved back north between the channels. Joined the fleet and jigged more shorts and gators. Bite died out with the tide change. Then we jigged up a really nice 22 pound fish to cap off another great day of outstanding fall jigging here in north jersey
It doesn't get much better than this! Go get em!
