I Suck!!! - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

piemma · 05-25-2008, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by jkjnp

Yep...on the water by 5am yesterday, by 6 with my father today... from what I gather lots of fish are being taken between 4:30 and 5am.
Guess I need to get there earlier!! Problem is I've got a 35minute drive to the water

I have been getting up at 2:30 AM. I have an hour drive to my boat.

Early is best. I hade my pogies by 4:30 AM this morning and was headed south.

jmonte45 · 05-25-2008, 05:49 PM

please send them pogies up north, the macs are too few this year...Wasting too much time jigging for them.

zacs · 05-25-2008, 05:51 PM

it gets light SO early now that by 5AM the sun is RISING! Gotta get out super early, or late I guess depending on how you look at it.

blue oyster · 05-25-2008, 07:45 PM

i feel your pain , i went out in my boat friday and saturday morning , got some macks and fished all my favorite places , nothing , i tried fishing outside ,inside and even up a river and only had 1 dropped fish for all that work . i don't know if it's because of the cold spring or what ? but according to my records we should be knee deep in 20-30# by now up in the boston area

BigFish · 05-25-2008, 07:47 PM

Those fish are out there Joe! I am hearing and seeing reports and pics of some bona-fide big girls coming from Boston Harbor! Keep Mackin' Daddy!

EarnedStripes44 · 05-29-2008, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by zacs

it gets light SO early now that by 5AM the sun is RISING! Gotta get out super early, or late I guess depending on how you look at it.

I usually leave for fishing (on the weekends) after the pub. I'm on the water by 3, 3:30 the latest.

piemma · 05-29-2008, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by EarnedStripes44

I usually leave for fishing (on the weekends) after the pub. I'm on the water by 3, 3:30 the latest.

I hope to hell you WORK at the pub. Not a good visual of you driving to your boat and then driving your boat after being in a a pub till closing

jkjnp · 05-26-2008, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by piemma

I have been getting up at 2:30 AM. I have an hour drive to my boat.

Early is best. I hade my pogies by 4:30 AM this morning and was headed south.

Piemma--

Saw you on the water around 10am yesterday after I said hi to RI Jimmy...Guess I've got to get up earlier!! What's killing me is my routine has been producing fore the last two years. Time to change!

Joe · 05-26-2008, 08:43 AM

So you're applying a strategy that has worked in the past but is not working this year?
Easy deduction: You're in the wrong spot.
If you can't figure it out, maybe you need to make friends with someone who has a pulse on the fish or follow them - by all accounts the boat guys who are in the know are nailing them this year.

piemma · 05-26-2008, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by jkjnp

Piemma--

Saw you on the water around 10am yesterday after I said hi to RI Jimmy...Guess I've got to get up earlier!! What's killing me is my routine has been producing fore the last two years. Time to change!

Where did you see me? If it was around where RIJ was then you know how far South I went.....

I'll tell you, it was wild out there this morning. 4 footers around Warwick Light at 7:00 AM. I hear that the White Ghost came in this afternoon with 6 to 8 footers.

jkjnp · 05-26-2008, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by piemma

Where did you see me? If it was around where RIJ was then you know how far South I went.....

Yep. It was right there... that area was unbelievably productive for me last year at this time--both with pogies and plugs--this past weekend I only had one small bass play with a pogie. I was with my wife and parents and gave a wave, but I think your were on the phone. We have a Sea Hunt too--the Triton 212.