2012 Running Reports

[saltysurfman]

Well I know its still early in the season, but I know guys are making trips so I figured a Running Report was in order.

My report is a little late. Got out on Saturday, 10/6/12, to see if we could put a decent catch together. Got a few good reports from the day before so we set-off early AM. Got my buddy's boat in the water and the battery was dead so we had to wait for somebody else to lauch and give us a jump. Got that out of the way and didn't push off until about 8 or so. Fished under the bridge and the first drop I anchored us on was filled with life. A lot of smaller tog in the 8-12" range, but it was action. As the tide started to move the larger models in the 14-15.5" range started to chew. We would have had a 4 man limit of 14" fish by 10:30, but with the new 16" regs, we didn't have any keeper fish. Made a few wiggles to get further under the bridge and fish some different structure, but the wind had us sitting all crooked. Ran out of bait around 10:45 (went through 3 doz greens and a quart of asians) so we had to come back and grab more bait.

Couldn't get the boat to sit on anything right after coming back from the bait stop and when we did get in a good position, 12 oz wasn't enough to hold bottom. We bounced around a bit before coming back to the bridge around 1 and there were more of the smaller fish, but detecting a bite in such strong currents were tough. Hung around until 3:30 or so and called it a day.

We finished off the day with 0 keeper tog, 1 keeper seabass, and 1 triggerfish.

It was nice to see a lot of smaller fish around though, hopefully they had a good spawn this year and things will only get better.

[fishwhistle]

I went toggin out in orient on one of my favorite boats the BrooklynGirl on columbusday. It was a great day filled with togs and laughs.
We were fishing 15-30ft of water on the boulders.
As far as rigs, some used standard hi lows, others used 12inch hanging leaders attached just above the sinker via dropperloop (6-10 oz.) and blackfish jigs at slack tide.
Bait was greens, hermits and whites. In my opinion hermits had the slight edge but you had to be crafty on the hook set or you were robbed. Green and whites caught fish too.
Surprisingly the fish were aggresive and fiesty for early season warm warter toggin.We did not get any slobs however the quantity of chins were excellent. A few anglers had bigger fish but they broke off in the rocks.
I had a great day among some pretty good toggers. cant wait to getum again.
Congratz goes out to bill with a nice fat chin to win the pool.

[crabcake]

Late report but I fished on the Bounty Hunter in MA last Sunday. First drop was loaded with short toggies & small seabass. My companions boxed a few keepers of both species but all I had to show was two nice seabass. A Second drop was a slow pick of short tog & some seabass, but a couple of beauties in the #7 range caught by my friends got my adrenaline going. Third drop was deeper & it was the charm drop. When we set up on this piece I immediately caught 4 large seabass in the legit #2-4 range and I thought that they would be the predominant species. On my 3rd drop down I got whacked & proceeded to box a #9.3 beauty. Next drop down, I nailed an 8 pound chin. For the next hour we picked and filled our limits. All but 3 fish went in the #7-9 range and we only saw 2 or 3 seabass after the togs started to chew. For early October I was very happy with these results & it was nice to have some biscuits as by-catch giving everyone something tasty for the table.

[fishinguy]

Saturday morning decided to hit up a local party boat and do some blackfishing. Conditions started off looking shaky (cloudy and thick fog) made the ride out to the fishing ground by the time we dropped lines everything had lifted and what looked like a gloomy and gray day turned into a gorgeous beautiful sunny pleasant day. Tog didn't seem to cooperate, the tog bite was slow, few picked her and there. Capt named us around trying to get a real good bite going but it never produced. Finally finds a nice drop and drop the line and BAM fish and what came up shock me and real nice sized seabass ;D and from that point on it was game on. Every drop produced seabass lots of shorts handful of keeper size only. Then togs started coming over the rail but only problem was they where last years keeper size mark. Still had a great time end of the day tons of tog shorts all safely released and 4 keeper seabass. Best part was returning to the dock and seeing 16.7lb tog hoisted in the air. It was unbelievable.