So? How Is Your Fall Shaping Up?

[ProfessorM]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

I'll let you know how it's going if I catch a fish this fall. So far 3 trips, 3 skunks. But I did catch fish in the summer.
I hope things turn around for me this week, if not, I'll have to try different places.

hopefully I will be calling you this upcoming week to tell you it's on.

[nightfighter]

Nothing from the shore at dusk worth mentioning for weeks. But have only been at dusk to about 8:30 or 9pm. Boat has been poor for past five weeks, but has just begun to pick up last weekend and yesterday. Live macks. Have to chunk/chum if macks are too big to get them eating. I put the boat really tight to the rocks, and the swell and surge lately has put me close a few times. But that is where they are. Had my second largest fish of the season yesterday that I couldn't revive... Besides two small lobsters, it had a stone in its gut about 1.75 inches around! Someone once told me they will eat stones to help keep themselves lower in the water column. Any thoughts on that? Cod have shown up inshore. Got eight keepers today. Was a little dicey getting out to the Ledge in that fog this morning though....
Lobster guys are still getting eggers, so I think everything is late this year.

[RickBomba]

I was out near you today, Ross. Sloooooow going there until about 10 AM.

[nightfighter]

You should have slid closer south. Had macks all over while codfishing and good bass in the rocks before tide bottomed out. I didn't bass fish, but got the cell and radio reports.

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by ProfessorM

hopefully I will be calling you this upcoming week to tell you it's on.

you know I don't want to know after the fact , I'll be fishing by tomorrow night or wed. AM hopefully


Z, sorry it's so bad down your way, I hope some fish swim by soon for you. We have had some pushes of fish go thru already but nothing like the past. I just hope this fall is not like last fall

[DZ]

Up until Friday night pretty slow for larger fish - but 30 minutes doesn't make the Fall. Just small bass otherwise, very few bluefish.
DZ

[Mugz]

Last 2 weekends I concentrated on the S. Shore. Got a buddy who lives near the beach. Still and hour drive for me. Last weekend I threw everything at them, topwater, plugs, rubber, nada. For sh^ts and giggles I tossed on a white bucktail and started catching shorts. Was the only lure they'd hit (old reliable). Went back this past weekend with a few more bucktails on hand just in case. 3rd cast and I hook up with a short....as well as every other cast after that. Thinking there must be a bigger fish in the mix. Gave a bucktail to my buddy who caught an 18 lb fish within 10 casts. It was his best fish this year from shore....after being skunked 5+ times before yesterday.
I continued to catch a few more shorts, but once the sun came out the bite shut off. I kinda wished I had some clams to chunk. Might make another trip there....make a tog trip, then concentrate in So Co after that. I'll fish till Halloween then pack it in.
I was very surprised to not see any bluefish where we were.

[afterhours]

so far small fish for me. time to get serious and do whatever it takes. hoping to hook up with some old friends this fall...

[fishonnelsons]

Sadly it has been worse than dead up at the tip of the Cape, beach or boat. Bait - sand eels and mackerel- are all over the place, but no fish, either bass or blues, are under or in the bait.

Only bright spot for the last 10 days or so was at night, near one of the lighthouses up here, people getting bass up to mid-twenty pound range, but that has slowed down now. Amazingly, we could never find those fish the next day from the boat, shallow nor deep.

Still no tuna bite at Peaked Hill, although did get a report of a sighting of them over that way. Most tuna getting caught over by the SW corner.

Sooooo, just hoping and wishing that it's still going to happen, but getting a bit discouraged and not sure it will.

[Zeno]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

you know I don't want to know after the fact , I'll be fishing by tomorrow night or wed. AM hopefully


Z, sorry it's so bad down your way, I hope some fish swim by soon for you. We have had some pushes of fish go thru already but nothing like the past. I just hope this fall is not like last fall

Slip..i trade my left nut for the last fall right now, as awful as it was
I'd say I am getting skunked about 80% of time in September, regardless if I try back bays, Montauk or up front
yup, that bad

[Zeal]

Originally Posted by Zeno

Slip..i trade my left nut for the last fall right now, as awful as it was
I'd say I am getting skunked about 80% of time in September, regardless if I try back bays, Montauk or up front
yup, that bad

For what it's worth I fish East Shinnecock and it has been dead as far as bass are concerned (inlet and the beach). Cocktail bluefish and that's about it.

As far as I know..no Fall run this year...