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Schoolie,
The first morning the NE started to blow I used it as an excuse to sleep in as well. Luckily, I was able to hear that the fish had been in that morning and didn't make the same mistake twice. I had my line in the water at 4 AM the next two mornings, and I was rewarded handsomly. The tale that a hard NE kills fishing out there proved to be very wrong in this instance.
John,
I expect you are correct. I've just been so depressed about the fishing since about mid-June that I'm probably letting the euphoria of a good trip get the best of me. In reality, I'm still worried as well but I'm a little less worried having seen what I've seen the last several days. Rest assured, though, that while I'm not as experienced as most of you guys(only a die hard for about 4-5 years now), this was the most big fish I've ever seen pulled onto a beach in one place. By a very substantial margin. So I have more hope than I did before.
Interesting thing is, last year we went the same week to pretty much the same spots and caught tons of bluefish but almost no bass. This year we caught almost all bass and no bluefish. Who knows why?
Thought for sure I was going to set a new personal record(45 inches, 36-38 lbs using length girth method last July), but not to be. If I could get over my reluctance to use eels until last resort it would probably help me out. I'm currently fishing plugs 90% of the time and eels only about 10%. But that's up from 0% two years ago.
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