Chasing my own blog posts from last year....Mid- October report

Any more, If I want to get inspired to fish, or get an idea to try a new tactic, I might check out the internet.  There's so much information out there these days, but there's a few folks I really like to check out.  One of those folks is John Skinner.  Sure, he fishes different waters, mostly Long Island Sound, but it still gets my fishy blood simmering.  (That, and I checked out what I was doing last October.)

Tog Spot

  I rarely fish weekends, but this past week, the only day I was available that the wind was under 15 was Saturday, so I headed down to N. Wildwood for some tog and striped bass fishing.  I was considering catching my own crabs, but also knew that the tide was extra high, and that would make crab-catching for bait more difficult, so I bought some green crabs.  I was still hoping to catch some fiddlers or Asian shore crabs if I ran out, but that just didn't pan out.


I had bites, and bites, and bites, and my bag of crabs dwindled, until I finally had a solid hook up.

PB Tog  (I know its tiny)  13"

I made my way back into the spaghetti, (the little creeks of Nummy Sound), and found feeding bass in the mid 20" range spread out.  Some on top-water, some on soft plastics.

Nice sized South Jersey October Bass

All in all, it was quite a full day, and just as the sun was setting, even though I didn't really get a super early start, I had pretty much accomplished what I had set out to do, so I called it a day.

October Bass along every Sod Bank