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I am back in Virginia beach from my trip to Edison NJ.
We left out of Sandy Hook marina at 0700 on Friday on the "Fisherman" which is a party boat.
We first tried clams and had limited success on the boat maybe stripers in a half hour. My buddy and I had nothing.
Then we went to jigging spoons, and still no major hook ups. Then we moved again, but this time at a higher speed. I looked off in the distance and there it was, birds everywhere.
We joined in with the other 4 party boats that were there and had constant hook ups for the next 4 hours. We would only have to move with the birds.
My buddy and I caught mostly Blues like around 50 or so, the stripers were not all that big, the biggest the boat brought onboard was 36 inches. We only caught 4 stripers and only 2 keepers. I kept on adjust my technique jigging, but still caught mostly blues.
It was a new experiance fishing in NJ, seeing New york from the boat was a treat.
It was also my first experiance striper fishing from a party boat, it was a well run boat. They run alot more party boats up there, and run alot of them offshore, which i found interesting.
It was a great day on the water, cant wait to see the birds getting excited down here at the CBBT.
Eric
24 Albemarle
Roll Tide
We left out of Sandy Hook marina at 0700 on Friday on the "Fisherman" which is a party boat.
We first tried clams and had limited success on the boat maybe stripers in a half hour. My buddy and I had nothing.
Then we went to jigging spoons, and still no major hook ups. Then we moved again, but this time at a higher speed. I looked off in the distance and there it was, birds everywhere.
We joined in with the other 4 party boats that were there and had constant hook ups for the next 4 hours. We would only have to move with the birds.
My buddy and I caught mostly Blues like around 50 or so, the stripers were not all that big, the biggest the boat brought onboard was 36 inches. We only caught 4 stripers and only 2 keepers. I kept on adjust my technique jigging, but still caught mostly blues.
It was a new experiance fishing in NJ, seeing New york from the boat was a treat.
It was also my first experiance striper fishing from a party boat, it was a well run boat. They run alot more party boats up there, and run alot of them offshore, which i found interesting.
It was a great day on the water, cant wait to see the birds getting excited down here at the CBBT.
Eric
24 Albemarle
Roll Tide