Lets go back a few days. Steve had to get a new Humminbird transducer from Chris at the kayak fishing store. He left early in the day. I had some things to do so I left a few hours later. The opportunity wedged in between weather and work was for Wednesday May 7th. I was super-on-the-fence about where to fish. I had the day off but was very uncertain about Nummy. I wanted to go to the Sedges at IBSP. After a whole lot of back and forth in my head (and out loud ranting) I decided to join Steve at Nummy. In my head I was debating the chances of catching keeper bass (IBSP) vs. schoolie bass (Nummy), and as I have been hearing reports of some keepers in the surf at IBSP I thought MAYBE they would be in Oyster Creek Channel. BUT.... I still went to Nummy.
I could see Perchman (Steve) from the bridge going into N. Wildwood. He paddled back to the launch to meet up and we proceeded to the spaghetti. Once there we had about three hours of consistent action on Tube-n worm and some hits on eels. the fish ranged in size from 20 to 28".
Suffice it to say I was not disappointed in my decision to go to Nummy. But still the thought of larger bass at IBSP haunted me, and so Steve picked up more Eels on his way home with a plan for fishing all night on Saturday may 10th.
And so it happened this way; we executed the plan perfectly! We got skunked at the sedges. We drifted Eels up and down and up again at Snake Ditch and spent a total of at least three hours in Oyster Creek Channel with eels. The only action, was a gator blue at sunrise who had committed to my eel, but wasn't hooked. And so I fought it to my boat, then it swam away.
We are now faced with a dilemma of a very serious magnitude: do we spend three days we have off this week set aside to fish at Barnegat, or do we, instead, change our plans and go to North Wildwood?
Stay tuned to find out what happens next...
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