The morning weather was perfect, sunny, light winds, warm...the winds quickly picked up late morning but not to a unmanageable state. Reports from many boats were not good for the morning tide but we decided to give it a shot anyway and pulled out of the slip about 11 AM after we all finished up some work on our boats.
We decided to stop a little south of Dale's Point since a buddy was closer to it and had no action, we figured we would give a different spot a try. Had a few real light hits and taps but no hookups, just lost worms.
We then moved to just outside of the canal on the North side, didn't stay there long as the current was pretty much at max flood stage.
Our last stop was a hole off the north channel along the golf course. Again a few nibbles but no hookups and a few crabs almost keeper size.
The water was 51.2 to 54.5 degrees. After speaking with a few guys that fished during the week we came up with the consensus that they are having a lat spawn this year. A few guys had fish during the week that still had roe in them. But we don't feel that they will stick around long if the water stays in the low to mid fifties, maybe two weeks three tops. Would be nice to see them stick around till a good bass bite materializes but not likely.
Also several guys had heard second hand reports from divers with fish stacked on top of each other at the Mathis Bridge and Mantoloking Bridge. Which would be consistent with them spawning. Earlier in the week a buddy was down to Island Heights and had limit catches and near limit catches of good sized fish.
We decided to stop a little south of Dale's Point since a buddy was closer to it and had no action, we figured we would give a different spot a try. Had a few real light hits and taps but no hookups, just lost worms.
We then moved to just outside of the canal on the North side, didn't stay there long as the current was pretty much at max flood stage.
Our last stop was a hole off the north channel along the golf course. Again a few nibbles but no hookups and a few crabs almost keeper size.
The water was 51.2 to 54.5 degrees. After speaking with a few guys that fished during the week we came up with the consensus that they are having a lat spawn this year. A few guys had fish during the week that still had roe in them. But we don't feel that they will stick around long if the water stays in the low to mid fifties, maybe two weeks three tops. Would be nice to see them stick around till a good bass bite materializes but not likely.
Also several guys had heard second hand reports from divers with fish stacked on top of each other at the Mathis Bridge and Mantoloking Bridge. Which would be consistent with them spawning. Earlier in the week a buddy was down to Island Heights and had limit catches and near limit catches of good sized fish.
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