Author Topic: Hunter 2, Sunday 5-19 Raritan Bay (Read 2105 times)

Hunter 2 · « **on:** May 20, 2013, 06:10:25 AM »

Scott and I pulled out of Keyport at 8:30am with trolling gear and clams. It was blowing Steady E.SE pushing the waves towards the upper bay. Dead low tide was 9:30am So we trolled the slack tide from 11A towards the 8 buoy and more inshore towards the Belford flats. Quite a few Charter boats were anchored in the area and we did not see any action on any of them. I saw some party boats over on Flynns knoll but the wind and waves along with the cold damp air convinced me not to make the 4 mile trip further from port. We boated 2 Bluefish trolling. One on a Maja spoon and the other on a tournament cable umbrella rig with stretch 30. The tournament cable rig is Really nice and so simple to deploy and retrieve.

The incoming tide started to move good and the wind was blowing hard so we head closer to port and set up for clamming in 10' of water. After 1 1/2 hrs with nothing to show for it we called it a day and head in for a nice afternoon party with friends and our families.
Hopefully the Stripers will turn on again but we do have plenty of other options now.