Golden morning.... - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

BrianS · 09-23-2004, 06:38 AM

Some of my best luck ever in the canal. Weather was awesome, water was calm...

33,34, and a 35 landed. Several shorts... and a couple blues...

Live eels dead eels ... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeels!
Wouldnt even look at anything else.

Soon as light hit, one last blue, then they were gone..

kippy · 09-23-2004, 06:44 AM

Nice fish BJ..how did you fish the eels?

Rappin Mikey · 09-23-2004, 06:55 AM

I'm guessing that is inches right?

Iwannakeeper · 09-23-2004, 06:56 AM

congrat's BJs

BrianS · 09-23-2004, 06:56 AM

cast against the current..
slow slow retreive if any at all.

although, at least half the fish were caugh within seconds of them hitting the water.. so that doesnt really apply to them.

and yes.. inches..

Ive yet to nail that 30lber... I got a feeling it willbe this year though..

It was a good feeling too.. I thought the 35" one was gonna die.. I tried to revive it, kept going belly up.. Left it in the water in front of me, stayed belly up for a good hour... Then, all of a sudden, very calmly it flipped back over, and swam away (not so calmly)

All fish successfully released.

reelecstasy · 09-23-2004, 07:26 AM

Nice fish mang.....(RE kickin himself) I was gonna go to the ditch last night, but nooooo GF wants to have some time with me, dammit

Shawn B · 09-23-2004, 08:03 AM

Bjs, Nice going man. You did a lot better than me this morning. I only managed one small schoolie and two small bluefish before I had to go to work. Had lots of nice big rubber get chewed to bits by the snapper blues as well but didn't hook to many of them, it's amazing how they bite off your rubber right behind the hook most of the time. There really wasn't much surface activity this morning considering it was slack at right about sunrise? I did try a topwater plug at slack but no takers. I guess maybe I should have brought some eels.......

BrianS · 09-23-2004, 09:10 AM

Shawn, that wasnt you i talked to on my way out was it?
just after the cruise ship went by?

Shawn B · 09-23-2004, 09:18 AM

Bjs, No I don't think it was me. I was at the base of some big bridge piling. I think I should have gone around the run, I have been doing better there lately. That was quite a vessel that came through this morning wasn't it. I think the name of it was the Navigator from Nassau or something like that. That thing sucked quite a bit of water from the shoreline when it went by. Did you see any surface activity at dawn? I still can't believe there weren't more fish busting today, seemed to be plenty of bait where I was to.

macojoe · 09-23-2004, 09:31 AM

And to think I was going to go down there last night

I was sitting here on my night off boarded to death and was thinking about it?? Then I tought I hate that place, and there is no Bait stores open I will just watch TV and try to sleep instead!

Good Job!!

BrianS · 09-23-2004, 09:42 AM

with the angle i was at i wasnt sure if it was gonna make it under the bridge...

i did see a bunch of activity, but all my fish were caught away from it..

I almost didnt even go.. Got up this morning 45 mins late... Got down there later than I wanted.. Apparantley it wasnt *too* late..

Might have to try again tomorrow... but I need to be up early on sat so I might push it off.. Taking the old man on the captain johns stellwagon trip on Sat..