Exploring Jarvis Sound, by Alexi

Jarvis Sound

     Last monday (Sept 29th) we tried a new area:  Jarvis Sound, Cape May County.  It's not far from where we usually fish in North Wildwood.  It looks really fishy on all of our maps, with many intersecting creeks.  We launched at Skunk sound (aptly named) and went back up into the spaghetti.  The first thing I noticed was a lack of strong currents.   Not much was going on.  Well, besides ENDLESS snapper blues.  I went through a ton of soft plastics before I just gave up on them and trolled a bomber.  Schools of mullet were back there, but we couldn't find the bass.  It seems like it will be a good area for fluke the right time of year.

Another space ship

     It wasn't until we got out into Jarvis Sound, along the sod banks, where I found some bass smashing my topwater lures hard.   I was bending my hooks back after each fish.  I tagged four Striped Bass up to 24" and had a much smaller one, maybe 15",  released.   The action lasted about two hours during the dropping tide, then it was off again.   It was pretty good for a first time trip to an area, but, we decided for better or worse that it would probably be a good idea to focus our energies on the Sedges at IBSP for October.  When I look back at what I did last October, I didn't fish the sedges much, and when I did I had a keeper bass.  So now it's off to familiar ground!