Striper skunk

[hammer4reel]

Headed out into a squirrely ocean last night with Booner and his son . 
made bait second toss of the net and started hunting . 
was not super easy to see them in rough water but we went from pod to pod searching . 

marked a few but nothing great 

had one half hearted run off and Brandon had a big bass swirl on another bait for almost a minute and not eat it . 
 

south winds cranked up really chilling the water . 
IMO what I saw last night is some more fish are in the bunker schools now .

just have to have some better tide conditions . 
I’m pretty sure a few hours after we pulled out they would chew .

as we were there hour before and after slack tide . 
 

few good days of west wind the ocean bite going to heat up

[Lphunsjr]

I agree. Any day with the right conditions,,,,,it's going to heat up.  I fish out of Barnegat and hoping to get out this weekend or one evening this week

[SPEARFISH]

I hate South wind.

 

[hammer4reel]

2 minutes ago, SPEARFISH said:

I hate South wind.

 

Me too,

no matter what the forcast is. Come around 2 pm almost everyday someone turns on the switch .

just don’t remember it being as bad , until the last ten years or so.

‘many times it dictates where I will be fishing.

ride home even in the contender sucks at times.

 

[vdep217]

Took the kids to the beach to walk last night.   Brought. Rod n some plugs.  Hard south wind made it very difficult.   Had one on but dropped on a storm shad.  Kids got chilly wife said ill take them to the arcade why don't u fish the bay for an hour.  Went to a spot where I could put the wind at my back and ended up with 3 on a pink popper this being the biggest.

Edited May 18, 2021 by vdep217

[hammer4reel]

5 minutes ago, vdep217 said:

Took the kids to the beach to walk last night.   Brought. Rod n some plugs.  Hard south wind made it very difficult.   Had one on but dropped on a storm shad.  Kids got chilly wife said ill take them to the arcade why don't u fish the bay for an hour.  Went to a spot where I could put the wind at my back and ended up with 3 on a pink popper this being the biggest.

Nice 

Bay bite has been good for almost 2 months already . 
ocean bite seems to get later every year . 
fish are moving out of the Chesapeake so it should be good soon unless they stay out in the deep . 
we had bass chasing sea bass Saturday in 120’ of water 

[vdep217]

7 minutes ago, hammer4reel said:

Nice 

Bay bite has been good for almost 2 months already . 
ocean bite seems to get later every year . 
fish are moving out of the Chesapeake so it should be good soon unless they stay out in the deep . 
we had bass chasing sea bass Saturday in 120’ of water 

Yea was my first chance.  This was barnagette

[nmc02]

Bay is top notch now...

[hammer4reel]

1 hour ago, nmc02 said:

Bay is top notch now...

Second wave of big fish pushing in there . 
first set went up river on the last moon 

[archer36]

Nice to see you post good and bad days. 

This was one of your good days.

 

 

Edited May 18, 2021 by archer36

[archer36]

10 minutes ago, archer36 said:

Nice to see you post good and bad days. 

This was one of your good days.

 

 

Correction. Good day for the fisherman, not so much for the Captain. LOL

[nmc02]

Concourse rd

[hammer4reel]

40 minutes ago, nmc02 said:

Concourse rd

West Concourse  lol

[hammer4reel]

2 hours ago, archer36 said:

Nice to see you post good and bad days. 

This was one of your good days.

 

 

Hopefully the Chesapeake fishery can recover and days like that become the norm again . 
Sadly I think they waited to long to protect the big breeders . 
 

[Buck154]

11 hours ago, hammer4reel said:

Me too,

no matter what the forcast is. Come around 2 pm almost everyday someone turns on the switch .

just don’t remember it being as bad , until the last ten years or so.

‘many times it dictates where I will be fishing.

ride home even in the contender sucks at times.

 

Yeah I hate it too. Like you sad ... wind picks up out of the south every afternoon.