Archive for September, 2007

posted by John on Sep 30

It was a beautiful morning. Calm winds, cool land temperatures and warm water temperatures all combined to create some fantastic morning scenery. There was a still mist rising from the Magothy River. The water being warmer than the air created an enveloping blanket that covered the first 5 feet above the water surface. Broken by the noise of our engine, the stillness we encountered while dropping the boat was now gone. A bird, sitting on the first bouy, fled our boat’s advance. This is the scene we witnessed.

Sep30

 We went to Podickery point, tried fishing the humps, and then on to the bay bridge. We caught about 10 fish, stripers all sublegal, and blue fish that needed to be thrown back.  We used a range of top waters, and jigs, both shiny and with plastic swim baits. The fish were around the rock piles on the south spam on the east side. We attempted to go deep figuring that the bigger rockfish would be below the small bass and small blues. No such luck, just small ones. Nevertheless, for a three hour session of casting, we had fun.

posted by John on Sep 28

Here is a big blue Stephen caught.

Here is great pic of the kids landing a striper.

posted by John on Sep 27

These posts are not in time order. We just started the blog and are back filling the posts. Stephen and I took two friends out fishing to the race around July 12, 2007. We left early, and the weather was gray and foggy. The first cast got us a 34″ striper on a Gibbs 7″ green needlefish (same one I was hooked by).

John with 34″ Striper

After that first bass, nothing in the same area off Wood End. So we zoomed on out to the pot line at the race. Here we nailed 35+ bluefish on sluggos and top water lures. They hit every thing.

Beth with 7 lb. Blue 

Here is Beth with her 7# blue.

I got a double header on the Gibbs 7″ needlefish. the photo is a little out of focus, but you can still make out the action.

Double Header

It still kills me when I look at that.