We got a late start due to partying and watching the neighbors fireworks across the creek.
Left the dock about 5:30 with the intentions of looking for some bass early and then going fluking. Coming out of the inlet that sunken fishing boat is way closer than the half mile reported. It is more like 150-200 yards off the North jetty. The aerials and booms were visible above the water and the smell of diesel was pretty strong...there was no visible sheen on the water though.
Had some great looking pods off Spring Lake...bunker spraying, jumping clean out of the water not just flipping. But did not get a single run-off.
After a the rain passed and it looked like there would be no lightning we started running North. Didn't see much or mark much till we got just South of Shark River. Off in the distance we saw hundreds of birds working...we figured we hit the mother load. Wrong! turned out to be about 200 carcasses, some filleted some not...all stripers. Not sure if it was from a head boat in the inlet or by-catch from a netter that they took some fillets. There was also a lot of garbage and debris in the area. We kept pushing North.
Our final stop Monmouth Beach. We setup on our first fluke drift and had fish on and in the boat immediately and even double headers! There were a lot of 17.5" fish but we managed 10 keepers all over 19" with the largest being 23.5" at 4 lbs 13 oz. We had pretty solid action for over three hours with about 100 fish caught between the two of us. And for once I caught the largest fish on the boat. I bet if we did not try for stripers first we would have had no problems putting together a limit catch, the early morning bite is always much better up there.
We had pretty clear/clean water up North, it was 62 when we got there and 64.x when we left. When breaking the inlet in the morning we had 61.x. Entering the inlet on the way in there was 59.7 degree water in the river. Again the bait of choice fluking was spearing...we went through over three pounds in just over three hours. Most fish hit the spearing but we also had a bunch on the bucktails with pearl Gulp! jerk shads.
Left the dock about 5:30 with the intentions of looking for some bass early and then going fluking. Coming out of the inlet that sunken fishing boat is way closer than the half mile reported. It is more like 150-200 yards off the North jetty. The aerials and booms were visible above the water and the smell of diesel was pretty strong...there was no visible sheen on the water though.
Had some great looking pods off Spring Lake...bunker spraying, jumping clean out of the water not just flipping. But did not get a single run-off.
After a the rain passed and it looked like there would be no lightning we started running North. Didn't see much or mark much till we got just South of Shark River. Off in the distance we saw hundreds of birds working...we figured we hit the mother load. Wrong! turned out to be about 200 carcasses, some filleted some not...all stripers. Not sure if it was from a head boat in the inlet or by-catch from a netter that they took some fillets. There was also a lot of garbage and debris in the area. We kept pushing North.
Our final stop Monmouth Beach. We setup on our first fluke drift and had fish on and in the boat immediately and even double headers! There were a lot of 17.5" fish but we managed 10 keepers all over 19" with the largest being 23.5" at 4 lbs 13 oz. We had pretty solid action for over three hours with about 100 fish caught between the two of us. And for once I caught the largest fish on the boat. I bet if we did not try for stripers first we would have had no problems putting together a limit catch, the early morning bite is always much better up there.
We had pretty clear/clean water up North, it was 62 when we got there and 64.x when we left. When breaking the inlet in the morning we had 61.x. Entering the inlet on the way in there was 59.7 degree water in the river. Again the bait of choice fluking was spearing...we went through over three pounds in just over three hours. Most fish hit the spearing but we also had a bunch on the bucktails with pearl Gulp! jerk shads.
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