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Old 09-30-2017, 12:21 PM   #1
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Walked a north side beach myself last evening also Paul,,, weedy at spots and tons of bait in the wash... Narda. :-(
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Old 09-30-2017, 01:14 PM   #2
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Caught a 30" fish walking the dog this am. Felt as full of myself as if I'd landed a 40 lb'er. Best fish I've caught in two weeks, and that includes burning about $100 worth of fuel looking for 'em. Sucks being stupid.
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Old 10-02-2017, 06:49 AM   #3
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Caught a 30" fish walking the dog this am. Felt as full of myself as if I'd landed a 40 lb'er. Best fish I've caught in two weeks, and that includes burning about $100 worth of fuel looking for 'em. Sucks being stupid.
welcome to my world.. been that way the entire summer with exception of a few nights...2 weeks and the boat has to be off the dock... I wont shed a tear this year.

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Old 10-02-2017, 08:41 AM   #4
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Took some friends and family for a low impact trip to state beach in W-ly on Saturday night.

High slack was about 6 pm ish.

We were lobbing some herring chunks. Buddy landed his first surf striper ever - 32 inches. He said "it made my arms burn."

Fish was promptly released.

A slow night but man after the rain died down around 5:30 ish - it was just gorgeous out. Was happy to be there soaking up the scenery.

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Old 10-02-2017, 08:44 AM   #5
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forgot to mention the fish's belly was covered with red sores. don't know what to make of that other than it might have been a sick fish.

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Old 10-02-2017, 11:50 AM   #6
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Yakked off of Marblehead. Beautiful trip, a few other boats out, some yakkers, one of whom saw a small blitz. Caught one 24" striper on a sluggo; no other action. Too bad they were out of worms; I think T & W might have worked better.
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Old 10-02-2017, 04:43 PM   #7
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All the schoolies you could want in Boston. Fished south coast yesterday with decent numbers of Albies. Small bass and blues were abundant
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Old 10-02-2017, 06:50 PM   #8
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Went today 6 Albies 1 10lb little pig smoked my drag washers need to inspect them all on White Albie Snax
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Old 10-02-2017, 08:51 PM   #9
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how do you rig the Albie Snax .......I won some at TFCTF night but not sure if rigging like a sluggo is correct ..

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Old 10-03-2017, 02:49 AM   #10
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how do you rig the Albie Snax .......I won some at TFCTF night but not sure if rigging like a sluggo is correct ..

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They make their own brand twist lock hooks but you could use another mfg's twist lock hooks as well. Thread them on and rig weedless style like other soft plastic baits.
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Old 10-05-2017, 07:12 AM   #11
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white bottle strikes again

the fish ( 10 lb class) showed on the same bar again last night... I hit them a little earlier in the tide last night than the night before... I think it is about the tidal flow around the bar..it lasted about the same amount of time but I think the difference was the build in the height and how it affected the flow... I made passes at the south jetty with no love... a screaming S/W wind made fishing the North side unsafe... didn't eel last night.. I would have went down the beach but the wind would have made it an exercise in futility...those fish are going going somewhere.. I'm sure now it will be along the beach... I keep hoping some larger ones will be ahead or behind... so far it hasn't been the case...

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Old 10-02-2017, 06:50 PM   #12
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finally getting back out there (daycare), albie bite has been really good. My buddy today said a year ago this week he had a red hot bass bite in a certain spot. Shot over there around 10:30 this morning. Bright sun, flat calm, and the bass were there. Got on a wolf pack right away and bailed fish from 15 to 25# on topwater. Got to love the patterns of these fish.
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Old 10-03-2017, 05:09 AM   #13
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Got out in upper bb Sunday am. Plenty of bait and schoolies around but minimal al b. Hoping to find them today
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Old 10-03-2017, 05:20 AM   #14
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thanks ..now I,ll never see them again ><>

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Old 10-03-2017, 06:56 AM   #15
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thanks ..now I,ll never see them again ><>
Clammer this is what has worked for me.. cast in them in a feed and a head of them cast placement seems to do the trick (not Always ) i dont twitch the Albie snaxs just find the speed they like and just reel ( some times i need to tweek the hook so it doesn't spin on the retrieve )

if they are coming at me ill cast behind them and reel thru that works for me also ..
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Old 10-03-2017, 07:28 AM   #16
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coyotes...ducks and seals ..OH my!

spent the darkness hours of the incoming along the PI refuge trolling eels in the suds and tossing a darter into the sand working it back to the boat...narry a tap.. hit the river for an hour of the turn...more of the same .. the marshes were alive with ducks and the coyotes yapping in the back ground made my spine tingle...glad I was in the boat.. as I entered the channel on the way home I saw numerous seals in the moonlight... there haven't been many around all summer ...not like in the past..not the case any longer... tonight I plan to swim a plug in the rips in the river mouth on the incoming...Saturday I'll get some macs at day break and swim them along the rocks to the north... that'll probably be my last boat trip as it has to be off the dock by the 15th...made a 22 mile round trip last night..never saw another vessel or fisherman..1/2 the boats from my marina are already out... half of them are winterized and shrink wrapped...
water temp is down to 56... air temp 44 here this morning... making me think about venison and ice fishing!

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Old 10-03-2017, 06:13 AM   #17
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the albies are so fat and stuffed with bait. I keep a few for bait and theyre puking up every diff type of bait you could imagine. peanuts, anchovies, butterfish, lookdowns, silversides. one puked up a good size shrimp the other day

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Old 10-03-2017, 09:49 AM   #18
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the albies are so fat and stuffed with bait. I keep a few for bait and theyre puking up every diff type of bait you could imagine. peanuts, anchovies, butterfish, lookdowns, silversides. one puked up a good size shrimp the other day
yup! Tried to get a get a self pic at the helm and the fish puked silversides, peanuts all over my electronics and wheel. Clean up wasnt worth the snapshot.
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Old 10-03-2017, 06:53 PM   #19
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the albies are so fat and stuffed with bait. I keep a few for bait and theyre puking up every diff type of bait you could imagine. peanuts, anchovies, butterfish, lookdowns, silversides. one puked up a good size shrimp the other day
Same here for bait..
Their bellies pop like a balloon so stuffed...

More around this year me thinks...
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Small stuff

ran a few plugs on wire along the jetties and over the shoals last night on the start of the incoming... I picked up a few small fish( on a white bottle)far back from the mouth on the outer bar just as the rips turned frothy...the fish were there for about 20 minuets or so before they dissappeard..no great shakes.. all in the 26 - 30" range... nothing in along the jetty's or inside the mouth... these were back a few hundred yards from the entrance... my guess was a quick pit stop on their way south...

I finished the tide with eels up inside where I fished the night before... I hit a couple of rock piles up river... sadly.. they were barren... only the seals were inhabiting them.... the wind finally drove me off the water as the tide ebbed...same result as the night before...

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the albies are so fat and stuffed with bait. I keep a few for bait and theyre puking up every diff type of bait you could imagine. peanuts, anchovies, butterfish, lookdowns, silversides. one puked up a good size shrimp the other day

What's a "Lookdowns" ???
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Old 10-05-2017, 06:02 PM   #22
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Old 10-05-2017, 08:22 PM   #23
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I never see them much ???? do they get bigger ?????

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Old 10-06-2017, 08:42 AM   #24
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A lookdown! Netted one of those in the Carolinas back in the 70s. So now they're up here, eh? Ahem, and now it's in the 80s in October.
No, there's no evidence for global warming-it's a Chinese hoax!
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Old 10-04-2017, 09:58 AM   #25
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Old 10-04-2017, 10:30 PM   #26
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Got unbuttoned by a couple canalbies after work today.
But did manage some really nice browns in the full moon, nice visuals.
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Old 10-07-2017, 07:14 AM   #27
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Mass com over!
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did you do OK .............live price ????

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Old 10-08-2017, 05:55 AM   #29
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Poor, Foolishly spent too much time chasing Alby ,
I think the BSB pot guys fill the quota more than rods
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I meant Tautog .. sea bass . the pots & lobster guys always fill ours ><><

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