Fishing Highlights

[Bottomfeeder]

Where in NY are you? I am on Long Island. If your willing to brave the cold you can catch fish all year here. I know caz i do. I just take the very very cold month's (Jan-March) off because being on a boat when it's 10F and the wind's blowing 20mph is just to painful no matter how much i love to fish.

Brooklyn

As for biggest catches for the year

Inshore
Bluefish 14.5lbs
Fluke 8.3lbs
Striped Bass 36.9lbs
Weakfish 9.6lbs

Offshore
Mako Shark 167.7lbs (we also tag all other mako's we catch before we release)
Mali Mail 28.1lbs
Yellow Fin tuna 30lbs
Ling Cod 5lbs
Wreck Bass 30lbs
Blue Marlin around 250 (we catch, release, and tag all bill fish)

My offshore season has just started. Only got 3 trip's out so far so my offshore numbers will change by the time we stop which is usually end of Oct begin of Nov

You caught a Wreckfish??! Pretty rare on this side of the Atlantic!
Pics?

 

[Fish Finder]

Brooklyn


You caught a Wreckfish??! Pretty rare on this side of the Atlantic!
Pics?

Your not to far away then. Maybe we should meet up some time for some fishing. U ever fish Fire Island Inlet?

Yes we catch Wreckfish in 400FT of water just before the drop off for the canyon. Sorry i didn't take any pic's but my friend did take a pic of the one we caught on the last trip. I will see if i can get it from him. We get those quite often out there along with the tile fish off the deep reefs.

 

[Bottomfeeder]

look like this?

Not my pic
not my website
etc
But interestingly theyre considered, along with Giant Seabass to be in the Striper familoy. This family is a link between black bass and grouper.

 

[Fish Finder]

yep that's them. We call them sea bass on steroids lol

 

[Bottomfeeder]

They do look like a huge Black Seabass. Some mates on party boats would be like "Holy Crap, huge Seabass!" Hows the fight? I imagine they immediately run into structure when hooked. Most structure dwelling fish do. When my Dad takes me to the pier and nothing else is biting, we go for Cunner, and as soon as you set the hook you need to reel or else they wrap the terminal tackle around the pilings.

 

[fishmastermike]

what is that in your avatar Bottomfeeder

 

[Bottomfeeder]

what is that in your avatar Bottomfeeder

It's a male Striped Killifish that I netted from a tide pool on the Brewster Flats in Cape Cod 3 yrs ago.

 

[Mr.Kiet]

not much luck for me this year.

 

[voss345]

fishing season coming to a close? huh? fishing never closes i fish saltwater til mid november and ice fish and everything haha

fishing was kind of weak this year
saltwater was good
caught a 43 pound striper ( and a ton of other stripers)
millions of bluefish
millions of porgy, flounder, searobin, sand sharks, skates

8 pound LMB , 4 pound SMB, 36" pickerel, some northern pike, caught goldfish that were dumped in this pond and brought them to the lfs for credit hahaha

 

[Bottomfeeder]

well if i could i would fish year round. id go on the jetties for cod when they come inshore for the winter. but im only 12 and i need someone to take me nd my Dad hates the coooold.