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I haven't seen a good flats report in the past few weeks. Thankfully I have a few boater friends who fish the area pretty regularly, they keep me posted!
I fished Wednesday evening from 330 till 830, with MikeMike. We had a solid report that schoolies were hitting surface plugs everywhere, with the occasional pod of 30 to 35 inch fish moving off Carpenters Pt.-along the north east.
Mike and I set out trolling from Tydings park, right away Mike picked up a few shorts on a glow paddle tail and a sinking Yozuri. I trolled the typical xrap 12 and Yozuri crystal 3d, picking up a few shorts as well. Once we got the "fishing grounds" it was pretty evident these schoolies were active! Every back cast-setting up to troll received an instant smack. I quickly put away my trolling outfits and started casting a white Smack It Jr..........First cast- 3 blow ups! Second cast-Fish on...Third Cast-Fish on. That set the stage for our evening!
After about an hour. I got a call from an old friend(boater), he was on 25 inch plus fish. We high tailed it straight over.(Perry Point Hospital), set up a drift and immediately started catching fish! Mike got his first striper on a surface plug!
All in all, I picked up at least 50 fish. Mostly between 17 and 22 inches with a good handful of fish between 25 and 27 inches.
Sorry for the long post!!!!
Made it back out this Morning with Sparky. Fished from 5am till 9am. With the same results.
The flats close Tuesday. If your thinking about getting out, hopefully this will help push you over the edge!!! Yes there are a lot of boaters-most of them are respectful!
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I fished Wednesday evening from 330 till 830, with MikeMike. We had a solid report that schoolies were hitting surface plugs everywhere, with the occasional pod of 30 to 35 inch fish moving off Carpenters Pt.-along the north east.
Mike and I set out trolling from Tydings park, right away Mike picked up a few shorts on a glow paddle tail and a sinking Yozuri. I trolled the typical xrap 12 and Yozuri crystal 3d, picking up a few shorts as well. Once we got the "fishing grounds" it was pretty evident these schoolies were active! Every back cast-setting up to troll received an instant smack. I quickly put away my trolling outfits and started casting a white Smack It Jr..........First cast- 3 blow ups! Second cast-Fish on...Third Cast-Fish on. That set the stage for our evening!
After about an hour. I got a call from an old friend(boater), he was on 25 inch plus fish. We high tailed it straight over.(Perry Point Hospital), set up a drift and immediately started catching fish! Mike got his first striper on a surface plug!
All in all, I picked up at least 50 fish. Mostly between 17 and 22 inches with a good handful of fish between 25 and 27 inches.
Sorry for the long post!!!!
Made it back out this Morning with Sparky. Fished from 5am till 9am. With the same results.
The flats close Tuesday. If your thinking about getting out, hopefully this will help push you over the edge!!! Yes there are a lot of boaters-most of them are respectful!
IMG_20160427_191041.jpg
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