Post by saltysurfman on Jul 8, 2013 11:04:36 GMT -5
Went out after work on Friday the 5th to see if we could find any fish. Wound up not launching the boat until 5pm, stopped at Captree B&T to pick up some bait and ice, and off we went.
Wound up fishing the bridge, inlet, and a few spots in between with only 1 short, 1 dropped fish, and 1 sea robin to show for the efforts in the first 2 hours. I was jigging with 3 & 4 oz spros and the guys draggin bait didn't even have a touch. This was our first trip out in the Fire Island area so we knew we would eventually find the fish. We spent about 2.5 hours searching and then we wound up finding a nice hole where it went from 15-25' and then dropped from 25' to almost 40'. As soon as we got on that spot, we put about 16 fish in the boat, with 4 of them being keepers from 20-25". Had to make about 10 short drifts to stay on the fish, but we were picking away. Lots of bait showing up on the machine and this spot was really the first sign of bait that we saw all not.
We lost the light so we decided to head back in to wash the boat off and filet the fish, but if we would have found the spot an hour or 2 earlier who knows what would have happened.
Wound up fishing the bridge, inlet, and a few spots in between with only 1 short, 1 dropped fish, and 1 sea robin to show for the efforts in the first 2 hours. I was jigging with 3 & 4 oz spros and the guys draggin bait didn't even have a touch. This was our first trip out in the Fire Island area so we knew we would eventually find the fish. We spent about 2.5 hours searching and then we wound up finding a nice hole where it went from 15-25' and then dropped from 25' to almost 40'. As soon as we got on that spot, we put about 16 fish in the boat, with 4 of them being keepers from 20-25". Had to make about 10 short drifts to stay on the fish, but we were picking away. Lots of bait showing up on the machine and this spot was really the first sign of bait that we saw all not.
We lost the light so we decided to head back in to wash the boat off and filet the fish, but if we would have found the spot an hour or 2 earlier who knows what would have happened.