This was our first "Long Johns" trip of the year. (Long Johns is what we call Me, KGB and Steve because why change clothes when you can wear long johns under waders and shorts!)
KGB said he would wait until there were bluefish to be caught before he went fishing and he did. And he caught a bluefish on a teaser. Very appropriate, as he not so famously once said "Teaser never hurt nobody."
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| 4 rods to rig up |
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| my home for a day |
We pretty much stuck to the same route as last week. Once again, crossing the inlet was a challenge, but this time I went all the way over to the Dyke to cross. I think this is definitely the easiest route.
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| Steve's first keeper Bass on tube-n-worm and a Blue |
We hit some other outer points around Oyster Creek. I was a little surprised to see that there were still some seals hanging around. Then, once we got into some current by the Sedge House it was game on for Steve, (keeper bass in the daytime on tube-n-worm.) I had moved on and ahead from that spot which was obviously a mistake, but my fish would come. I was definitely psyched to hear Steve say over the radio that he got a keeper on Tube-n-worm, because I find it to be a very productive way to fish and cover water from the kayak and have had much better luck at it than he has.
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| one of many 20" bass on tube-n-worm |
I had my new Littoral Society fish tags with me and tagged two Striped Bass for the first time. I got into shorts really thick in front of the old kayak launch. They couldn't keep away from the small bass assassins, to the point where I had to stop fishing so I could get over to snake ditch for sunset. We thought snake ditch would be more productive than it was. We bounced around theories about the moon and how the extreme tide that it creates might send the fish feeding to other spots. Anyway, I was able to pull a nice 29" fish out of the rip on a rigged eel. (my new favorite lure)
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| My keeper on rigged eel |
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