All big fish south,,,not yet

[Coop]

When fishing with Sam yesterday, I was getting a little discouraged about the shorts that were being caught and figured the season is coming to an end and was thinking about throwing in the towell in a week or so (have alot of work to do around the house and it may take all winter to get everything done before the spring season),,,like last year and the year before, the shorts always seemed to follow the larger fish,,,occasionally a larger one is mixed in with the shorts but they were hard to come by.

It's slow here at work now, go figure 60* and perfect weather out, I guess no one wants to golf,,,anyway decided to cruise the net in search of some reports to the north,,,mainly NJ,,,there is still plenty of large coming down but most are boat caught,,,still alot of shorts but still a fair amount of large that gotta come this way,,,so I am hopefull that those fish will swim in the surf zone when they get down here,,,so for me, it looks like the house stuff is just going to have to wait, hopefully until next winter .

[ocsnapper]

Scott thanks for looking that up was starting to wounder myself.

[Mighty Quinn]

Coop....Thanx for the report. Gives me hope. Been bummed all day cause I didn't take off and now it doesn't appear my schedule will allow fishing for about a week.

[DaveH]

Great info,thanks.

[Steve]

Thanks Coop, I have a freezer fulla' Bunkah that I'd like to feed to a large.

[Even Steven]

Coop,
Fished SoJo Sunday night - Tuesday midday. Tried the surf Suday night, not a bite, lots of seagrass. Tried the Surf again Monday AM, still dirty so we moved on to one of the inlets. Tried everything, clam, bunker, poppers, plugs, skunk! Monday PM decided to head to yet another spot on the surf, had a few light taps, caught one skate. Quiet there for 90 minutes, so moved to another spot on the surf. Fog rolled in heavy, tide was out, and still dirty, blech! Thought a trip to the rocks near the channel would be better. Saw some schools of Tog tearing up mussles, but they would have none of my bait and lures. Tuesday AM tried the same spot previous and nada. Went to the surf and tried about everything again. Still lots of seagrass and no hits. Makes me wonder I did ALOT of fishing over the past 54 hours and have absolutely nothing to show for it. I know they will come, but is this season over already?

A buddy went out on a boat and did not do much either(and usually he nails it 90% of the time). He got one Bluefish to 5 pounds.

However, still reading reports of big fish up in Mass., so maybe they are yet to come South. This can't be encouraging, though I think one more short run between now and X-mas that will be productive. It may not last long though!

Steve

[Oceanoma]

Last night Oliver noticed lots of phosphorescence in the sand as he walked back and forth to his rods. Oliver mentioned that could mean the water is still too warm. What do you guys think????

[Mighty Quinn]

Have noticed that they've started arriving at OBX.

[Flatfish]

Reports out of Jersey today have large schools of blues and stripers between Manasquan and Barnegat inlet feeding on herring. It's not over.

[Coop]

Originally Posted by Flatfish

Reports out of Jersey today have large schools of blues and stripers between Manasquan and Barnegat inlet feeding on herring. It's not over.

,,,darn right,,,far from over and there is plenty of fun fishing now to keep us occupied with large chompers and shorts.

[fm/nj]

...i measured 52-53 degrees (north end) on the afternoon incoming...

[Sam]

That is just about perfect... Should be some fish.