The best is being in the middle of a huge blitz of stripers and bluefish!!!
Can't unhook and catch another one fast enough!!!
Also, fishing Plum Island from the surf on a cool, foggy nite with no one else around!!! Then you feel someone is watching you and you see something in the fog, or is it just your imagination? Scary!!!
Standing on an open beach watching the birds, bait and fish coming your way...
On the rocks all night doing squat until the rip suddenly forms, the false dawn breaks the horizon, the planets align and it's pure striper mayhem for the next hour. This is usually the time when I get a wind knot or some other tackle failure.
Catching fish with a chosen plug and no one else near you is hooked up...