FISHING SEASON 09!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bOOsteN aUdI]

Nice Striper!!! No I don't fish it that much as I don't have a car in NY anymore so I have to depend on friends with cars to go fishing. But when we fish we normally fish either the bay side of Breezy Point or the Ocean side but in Fort Tilden. The stone jetty of Breezy Point is a dangerous place, even if you not on the rocks. Plus knowone has a 4x4 so it way too long a walk with a fish, waders and gear.

hmm I catch and release.. between the danger and the fish I don't know what excites me more.. I'm big into to rock hopping in montauk too.. I like to put my wetsuit on and strap on the korkers, swim out to a rock and cast a 100 yards plus into the rip for the monsters. I love the thrill but I am a little crazzi for fishing and just a little crazzi.

 

[Tequila]

hmm I catch and release.. between the danger and the fish I don't know what excites me more.. I'm big into to rock hopping in montauk too.. I like to put my wetsuit on and strap on the korkers, swim out to a rock and cast a 100 yards plus into the rip for the monsters. I love the thrill but I am a little crazzi for fishing and just a little crazzi.

Yeah, I'll agree with that. If it's legal size I keep it, they make a great fish chowder.

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

Huge. Staten island has nice fishing. I used to go for Blues out of Freeport but know a few that loved staten island.

Staten Island has amazing fishing!!! those aren't huge.. this is pretty big... I was fishing a storm and swear it stopped out of know where.. kind of surprised this big momma, 43lbs, was lurking during the day for most of my big bass and all my bass are caught at night. She fell for a parrot colored 3.5oz custom danny plug. I fish 97 percent of the time at night. I also fish a lllloott and many for stripers.

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

btw she was released and since then I no longer hold big fish from the mouth.

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

Yeah, I'll agree with that. If it's legal size I keep it, they make a great fish chowder.

I agreed but not healthy to eat believe it or not. I keep one or two bass a season and I will only take then if they are 28 inches on the nose. Smaller the better. Plus we need to practice conservation to help increase the bass population.

 

[cichlid fiend]

SPOTS FISHED-1

TIME FISHED-8 HRS

FISH LANDED-I-5/Dennis-1

Returned back to "Farrington" at 9am. The first fish(2.13) came at 9:38 while I was just slowing rolling the spinny parallel to some lily pads!!!

The was bite slow today and my second fish came awhile later at 11:16 when a decent 15'er followed my crank bait all the way tp the boat. Its around 2:45 now and we are covering the banks. I havent had a bite in so long im just died casting and out of nowhere a decent 2 pounder banged my spinny bringing my total to three on the day at 2:43pm. Thats almost six hours, it was a slow day. Since I had pulled him out of a stretch lily pads, I doulbled back again instead of just sticking and moving. It pad off caue i was able to land another but it was a small 12"er. Dennis at that point was a alittle discouraged but at 3:40 he was able to land his first. My last fish of the day was a small 16-18"er that hit the spinny as I was pulling it out of the water. I didnt even have a chance to fight the fish, he hit right as the spinny was about to surface ans I just swung it in the boat.

Decent first fish but the day was not good!!!!

~~~~~~FISH MORE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~STRESS LESS~~~~~~~~

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

healthy looking bass ^^

 

[Tequila]

I agreed but not healthy to eat believe it or not. I keep one or two bass a season and I will only take then if they are 28 inches on the nose. Smaller the better. Plus we need to practice conservation to help increase the bass population.

Well since I only get to go Striper fishing maybe 5~7 times per season and I caught a keeper or too, during that time I keep them. I'm not one that believes that the fish in the market and local A&P are better for you than the ones you catch yourself. I fish cut bait or clams, it ain't cheap and so I keep what I catch so long as there legal. If I were catching stripers like I catch LMB in Florida then I could afford to throw 99% of them back. Sorry but I one of the people that believe that conservation starts with the shipping fleet and the dragon fleet. Not with the weekend fishmen. If I fished every day of my life and caught a fish on every day that I fished, I still wouldn't have caught what a "DRAGON" with it nets pull up in a single night. And I'm just talkin what they don't even take but throw but 90% of the time dead.

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

Well since I only get to go Striper fishing maybe 5~7 times per season and I caught a keeper or too, during that time I keep them. I'm not one that believes that the fish in the market and local A&P are better for you than the ones you catch yourself. I fish cut bait or clams, it ain't cheap and so I keep what I catch so long as there legal. If I were catching stripers like I catch LMB in Florida then I could afford to throw 99% of them back. Sorry but I one of the people that believe that conservation starts with the shipping fleet and the dragon fleet. Not with the weekend fishmen. If I fished every day of my life and caught a fish on every day that I fished, I still wouldn't have caught what a "DRAGON" with it nets pull up in a single night. And I'm just talkin what they don't even take but throw but 90% of the time dead.

yup, I fish almost everyday starting at the end of march to the beginning of june and then I slow a bit fishing about 4-5 times a week... I catch a few hundred stripers a year and also travel great distances to follow these guys on there journey. When I do throw bait, I try to get my own. In the spring if there isn't pods of bunker all around you then your in the wrong spot. Alot of the time in the early season when there still a little finicky and the water temps are still low, I use rigs that I make to snag the bunker and leave them out there. You may know this as snag and drop. Never buy bait... Fresh moving bait is better and cheaper

 

[Tequila]

A few recent pics from this past week I think:

My friend texted me yesterday to say " get you mule down here the fish are turning on, caught 35 Bass in 3 hrs'". Such a great guy!