How would you Rate Oct. 2006 ?

[jimmy z]

Decent . Not alot of bass, but decent sized.

[Back Beach]

Same as the rest of the season. Decent and steady, but not phenomenal. Had to "put the time in" as they say. I love these "how did you do" threads. They are interesting, but one man's blitz is another man's skunk,one man's large is another's twinkie, so forth and so on. Without the outer cape, though, you do have to work harder for what you produce over a season in terms of larger, say 30# fish. One good night on the cape and you could get more 30 plus pound fish than you can in an entire season now. I would say if you got a 30 plus from the shore this year, you had a pretty good fish. This excludes the NIB Jersey fishing, of course, meaning the 30's were pretty common for a while.

[doc]

i agree with 'steady and decent'...not a problem finding fish but size was not that impressive...

[Christian]

the number of fish blew my mind, lots of smalls
and picked out a bunch of 15-20lb fish.

[bttfish]

This is the best Oct. ever for me and my Bro. We caught 60 stripers at the Canal Tuesday.. Lots of fun.. Our arms are about to fall off.. We were beat by the time we got home.. I know compare to you guys this is sad, but for us.. we are still learning and having fun.. Oh, no keeper of course.. all schoolies.. between 15 to 27 inches..
Hope our catches get bigger next time...