PrimeTimeFishing
FISHING LOG
2008 Season
April 19. Boats in the water and we did our Sea trial today. All systems performed well and we are off to a good start. Ran into the back bay to give the Stripers a shot. Although the full moon made fishing poor for the whole fleet, we did manage to bring in a 31" keeper to the dock. I still have some open dates for the early spring striper season available.
April 26. Made a run to the back bay today in some pretty poor conditions. Forecast called for 10 - 15 from the southeast but it rapidly became 25+ with higher gusts. Could only stay on anchor for about an hour because conditions were getting worse by the minute. Had a couple of runoffs but had to leave before we could establish a bite. Looks better for next week.
May 3 & 4 . Northeast winds 20-30 knots. No trips
May 10 & 11 Another blowout weekend with a 3 day Nor easter
May 17 Another blow out this morning with 20 to 30 knot winds. Ran out in the afternoon when the winds dropped to 10 - 15 knots. Clammed for about 2 hours before the winds started blowing hard again. Caught a few small bass no blues.
May 24 Finally had good weather but the fishing was the worst I have seen yet. Clamming, trolling and jigging, no bass. Even Blues were hard to raise. Could read the bait and fish, but the fish had lockjaw.
May 25 Another tough day but we managed a pick of Bass to 12 lbs and Blues to 5lbs. Figured out why they were not biting. Their bellies were full of baby porgies. They were swimming through the schools of porgies with their mouths open. That is why they were not interested in Clams and bunker.
May 26 Blues, Blues and more Blues. Caught Blues trolling. Caught Blues clamming and caught Blues Fluking. Caught the first Fluke of the season. Looks like summer is finally starting.
May 31. Tornado Watch. Unbelievable. So much for running down south.
June 1 What a beautiful day. Caught lots of Monster Blues out on the Knoll today as well as a good pick of Fluke to about 4.5 lbs. Caught a lot of last years keepers but this years throw backs. It's hard to throw back fish that fat.
June 7. Had a fly fishing charter today. Had to really work to find a decent concentration of fish. We finally located a big body of big Blues in the channels and nailed Blues to about 10lbs.
June 8. Slammed them today. We were on fish all day and left them biting. Monster Blues and Stripers mixed together hitting metal on top.
June 14. Had a father out with his 3 kids today. All under 12 years old. We started out in the river and got into fish right away. Kids had a great time catching Fluke up to 4.5 lbs and lots of action on shorts and searobins.
June 15 Fathers Day trip. Had the boys out fishing with there old dad. Grabbed the light tackle and chased the Blues all morning. Blues were 3- 5 lbs and had the ugly sticks bent all morning. Thanks Boys.
June 21 am trip. Bass and Bluefish trip. Started between the channels and followed the birds down the beach. The fish were very scattered only picking up one fish on each stop. Ended up down at the rocks chunking Bunker for some good sized Blues. Missed some good Bass runoffs though.
June 21 pm trip. Strong south winds and thunder storms keep us from running down the beach again. Hit all of the rips in the bay and Sandy hook and ended up trolling some Blues out between the channels.
June 27. Looking for the birds on an afternoon trip and nothing happening. Got on to a couple of pods of bunker with nothing feeding on them. This was the worst trip I think I have ever had.
June 28. What a difference a day makes. Had no trouble finding the birds today. Bent rods all day long with Bass and Blues. on light tackle
