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Ron and I decided to hit PLO to try for Spanish Mackerel that are hanging around Cornfield Harbor. I got there right at 6 when they open, paid my launch fee and on the water at 6:15. Went out the inlet and immediately had schools of breaking fish, nice quality 17-18” fish with occasional 20” in the mix. By the time Ron showed up at 7:30 for the tide change I had easily boated 20 stripers never getting more than 100 yards from the jetties. Vast majority were topwater and I was playing around with jigging metal which worked just as well just to change it up.
We headed off to some offshore rock piles looking for macks, all we got was a workout. Ron headed to the point, I went back to the inlet. Both of us were tearing them up nonstop for hours, the fish never left and they hit top water all day long. Perhaps slightly better fish at the point but 3’ waves versus glass at the inlet.
We could see Mack’s jumping in the breakers and blues obliged on our jigs and metal. Ron took a short break and bottom fished and got a nice Black Sea bass. It really seemed like we hit the Garden Of Eden this morning.
I threw this black and yellow topwater which the fish loved and most importantly the birds ignored. At one point I had a wind knot on a cast and a damn needle fish latched onto the knot in the line and I had to pry him loose. Really glad I didn’t hookup on the top on that cast.
At one point another kayak showed up. He was bottom fishing for perch and refused to try for the stripers as I pulled them in almost every cast. That’s a degree of discipline I lack.
Guessing a minimum of 50 topwater fish, probably closer to 75.
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We headed off to some offshore rock piles looking for macks, all we got was a workout. Ron headed to the point, I went back to the inlet. Both of us were tearing them up nonstop for hours, the fish never left and they hit top water all day long. Perhaps slightly better fish at the point but 3’ waves versus glass at the inlet.
We could see Mack’s jumping in the breakers and blues obliged on our jigs and metal. Ron took a short break and bottom fished and got a nice Black Sea bass. It really seemed like we hit the Garden Of Eden this morning.
I threw this black and yellow topwater which the fish loved and most importantly the birds ignored. At one point I had a wind knot on a cast and a damn needle fish latched onto the knot in the line and I had to pry him loose. Really glad I didn’t hookup on the top on that cast.
At one point another kayak showed up. He was bottom fishing for perch and refused to try for the stripers as I pulled them in almost every cast. That’s a degree of discipline I lack.
Guessing a minimum of 50 topwater fish, probably closer to 75.
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