Out of Sayreville, bunker and many boats in back bay looked at a promising morning(especially after yesterdays reports).....needless to say we trolled all around the fleet while keeping an eye on any activity
....within an hour, hour and a half, 3/4 the fleet dispersed to other parts of the bay.....we picked up and headed off the ammo pier, trolled several 8lb blues and a couple short stripers(very short) on bunker spoon. Headed around hook and down to Monmouth beach with plenty of birds working and no fish, back around to Ambrose Channel(ny side) where we picked up 2 more short stripers, headed to the candlesticks and found plenty of 6-8lbs blues....they were eating small weak fish....we matched as best we could with silver stretch and it worked well. Back bay had stripers later in the day swirling but not taking according to fisherman at dock, did say he saw a troller hooked up......been a long time since I've had a keeper striper!
