Ditch Lately ?? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

afterhours · 10-09-2004, 08:36 AM

i haven't fished the ditch in a couple of weeks(bloos and rats everywhere), thinking of going this w/end. anybody been down there?

BrianS · 10-09-2004, 09:03 AM

With the exception of this past Wed, its been on fire for me over the last few weeks.

Last night, 6 fish all over 26" 2 keepers..
but over the last two weeks 6 fish over 20lbs

tynan19 · 10-09-2004, 11:25 AM

I was at the canal on Wednesday night also. Nobody was catching at the east end so I moved up toward the Sagamore and still saw or caught nothing or even heard a fish. Everyother time I have been there the last couple of weeks there was fish everywhere.

I am going down tonight with some eels. I seem to have the best luck with them down there.

BrianS · 10-09-2004, 11:35 AM

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeels!

I need to see if iI can con the wifey into letting me head back down tonight.. otherwise tomorrow AM is lookin good.

tynan19 · 10-09-2004, 12:36 PM

I just ask her to come with me. She will just sit and read and fish a little. I don't know after last week though, I walked a big blue down a little ways and I had her bring me the pliers. Well she took a nice digger and got bruised up. She still is willing to come down tonight so she is a trooper.

MAC · 10-09-2004, 01:12 PM

Bunch of 20" fish, 1 fish at 16-18# and some blues

BrianS · 10-09-2004, 01:52 PM

Mine will fish occasionally.. but I think she got satisfied a month or so ago when she got her first keeper.

She now knows why I love going and understands.

She will end up just sleepin tonight or something

Motor Fish · 10-09-2004, 10:57 PM

Skunked on Tuesday night, but I talked to a nice guy with a pretty 24 pounder. Thursday night had a little better luck. 2 shorts and 1 keeper. Both nights there were tons of shorts in close to the bank crashing bait. Jigging seemed most effective, unless you've got eels.

BrianS · 10-10-2004, 07:04 AM

arrrrrrr, there be blooooooofish

3 hours... 1-26" bass... 4 blooooooofeesh this morning

still better than nothing

Nebe · 10-10-2004, 07:24 AM

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Originally posted by MAC
Bunch of 20" fish

those taste the best MAC

Slipknot · 10-10-2004, 09:22 AM

slow Thursday night, not just the fishing but the current was sloooooooooooooow

OX · 10-10-2004, 11:11 AM

Sat. night Sunday am.........still slooooooooow. No drift, lot of backeddying. Nice cruise ship, east to west, west to east. Rat blues, butting my snakes. Nice night for a bicycle ride.

NIB · 10-10-2004, 12:05 PM

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Originally posted by Slipknot
slow Thursday night, not just the fishing but the current was sloooooooooooooow

Hey slip..Same thing by me i hate that.A old timer who taught me a few tricks bough current fishin always bemoaned the slower tides harder to fool em he would say.Friday night was slow out but incomin picked up where gettin closer to the new moon now.

rdang · 10-10-2004, 05:45 PM

Was at the canal today[sun] nothing.Been fishing there off and on for a while in three weeks all I got was one small striper,and one three foot shark.

tynan19 · 10-11-2004, 07:39 AM

Fished last night Sunday, eeellls. One fish I had to run down the service road it was already 150 yrds down current. As I go closer it headed for the rocks and the damm thing cut the 40lb leader. I don't even want to know what it was.

BrianS · 10-11-2004, 07:49 AM

I took Friday off awhile back... unless I get the uncle to take out his boat and zip down to westport, Im loading up the cooler and loading up on bait and hittin the canal from 3am - till im dead

Shawn B · 10-11-2004, 11:47 AM

I went down Saturday morning 4-8 and got all of my eels chopped in half by blues. Right at dawn there was a little surface activity and I threw a 2 oz yellow Gibbs pencil popper into it and got slammed by a nice blue. That was the only fish I landed that morning. Pretty slow.......

reelecstasy · 10-11-2004, 01:47 PM

Going to try and get to the ditch tonight for a few hrs, ok more than a few hrs...I can sleep this weekend

JPowers · 10-11-2004, 02:26 PM

Bring your wind breaker.

Tonight

Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers until early morning...then showers likely late. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds 30 to 35 mph with GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH. Chance of rain 70 percent.

In fact, looking out my window......., bring an anchor.

t.orlando · 10-11-2004, 03:38 PM

Big blues and no bass for me last nite

spinncognito · 10-11-2004, 06:01 PM

was introduced to the ditch this morning by the Dad Fisherman, thanx DF. Managed a coupla rats on storm shads just before daybreak and one slightly bigger rat on a hunk of herring at slack. Damn that water moves! Watched lotsa folks sacrafice their jigs to the bottom with only a few fish taken (all small) No blues around and we gave up mid-morning when the wind started gusting 30+. Overall not a bad virgin experience. Worth the drive from the N. Shore

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