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Michael
Joined: 28 Jan 2012
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Location: Bridgeport
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 Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 10:51 pm Post subject: Topwater |
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Wednesday low tide for Black Rock was scheduled for 1:57 and decided to head out with my waders on seeing water temps had warmed up quite a bit recently, showing the local buoy at 57.2 Tuesday night. Arrived at the honey hole just as tide was starting to turn. Brought my 8 footer with me for casting heavier lures farther as I used my Penn Fierce 2000 with 10 pound Stealth.
First I casted out with a stainless steel blue mullet SSP-12. First cast set the hook but lost it. Had 1 other explosion so I switched over to an orange gold orange XRW-13. That lure turned the bite on.
Stripers seemed to have been looking for lots of commotion on the surface at a steady pace. Landed 6 ranging from 18 to 25" and lost a few with plenty of explosions as I used the lure as a walk-the-dog and pencil popper.
Once the tide got too high and the north winds had become ridiculous, I hit numerous other spots at Seaside. Only got 1 other explosion at Breezy Point.
By the time it was getting close to sunset, I decided to head over to Fayerweather Island seeing the north winds were diminishing. Bunker started showing up in thick pods on the surface as they'd jump and splash a lot. Threw the SSP-12 out there again. Total was lost 2 that felt keeper and had 2 other explosions.
After sunset is when I was no longer seeing bunker going in and out of the harbor and wasn't getting any more action so I started heading back in. But just as I get the the jetty is when I see bunker all over the place. Right as I'm about to cast, I see a whole school go crazy and hear that loud "wave" sound. The Saltwater Skitter Pop landed me a 35" 16 pound 13 ounce keeper and lost 1 other nice fish.
Will be back out there Friday.
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Chunks
Joined: 27 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 12:17 pm Post subject: NICE FISH! |
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| WTG Michael! Nice bass. Even better on an artificial. |
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PECo
Joined: 06 Oct 2009
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Location: Avon, CT
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, nice fish, Michael!
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sonamcobain
Joined: 09 Aug 2012
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 4:07 pm Post subject: NicE |
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| Love reading your reports. ! Congrats now cant wait to fish the sea side this Memorial weekend. Hopefully i can bump on to you. |
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fishingkid
Joined: 04 May 2011
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| Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| That's a nice fish! |
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RLoutdoors
Joined: 12 Aug 2013
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Location: Stamford, CT
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| Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Michael, FYI, Dick's has a buy 2 get 1 free on all Rapala's til Saturday. |
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paul
Joined: 21 May 2015
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| Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| wow nice fish im looking to catch 1 of those this year only caught 24" 1 so far |
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