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I joined up with Ron at 5:15 this morning to fish PLO on the incoming tide. If you come this early you can enter the park by purchasing a boat ramp pass ($10) and you’ll have to drive around the cones they set up at night to get folks to turn into the campground area. Feel like you’re breaking the law but you aren’t.
At the ramp I could hear waves breaking on the rip rap outside the inlet. Winds hadn’t shifted yet and stronger than forecast so we had decent rollers on our beam as we headed towards the lighthouse. Not a bite the whole way there. As we rounded the point the Eye of Mordor greeted us.
Amazing how calm it was on other side of the point but that’s not where the fish were today. You needed to get to where the current met the waves going over the sandbar and just accept that you were going to get tossed around and water was joining you in the boat. We quickly found some decent stripers and then Ron started getting into trout with his magic Z-Man. Fish were running 17-20”.
I picked up a bluefish but couldn’t get the trout to bite for me. Ron gave me the magic lure, all I got was stripers. Reverted to chartreuse Gulp and got a 20’ trout on my light rod. Unusual for a trout it fought me deep. I decided to keep today figuring the spawn must be over. Unfortunately when I cleaned her she was full of eggs. I did read they can spawn into July and that their eggs had high oil content which causes the trout to feed voraciously on menhaden to get the oil. Could be why they’re aggressive right now.
Here’s my lunch and dinner. Love a fresh tailor bluefish as sushi.
As the morning went on the wind shifted and lessened considerably making for a much easier trip back to the ramp. Off by 8:15. We’re in a classic summer pattern of early or late bite, no need to stay longer.
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At the ramp I could hear waves breaking on the rip rap outside the inlet. Winds hadn’t shifted yet and stronger than forecast so we had decent rollers on our beam as we headed towards the lighthouse. Not a bite the whole way there. As we rounded the point the Eye of Mordor greeted us.
Amazing how calm it was on other side of the point but that’s not where the fish were today. You needed to get to where the current met the waves going over the sandbar and just accept that you were going to get tossed around and water was joining you in the boat. We quickly found some decent stripers and then Ron started getting into trout with his magic Z-Man. Fish were running 17-20”.
I picked up a bluefish but couldn’t get the trout to bite for me. Ron gave me the magic lure, all I got was stripers. Reverted to chartreuse Gulp and got a 20’ trout on my light rod. Unusual for a trout it fought me deep. I decided to keep today figuring the spawn must be over. Unfortunately when I cleaned her she was full of eggs. I did read they can spawn into July and that their eggs had high oil content which causes the trout to feed voraciously on menhaden to get the oil. Could be why they’re aggressive right now.
Here’s my lunch and dinner. Love a fresh tailor bluefish as sushi.
As the morning went on the wind shifted and lessened considerably making for a much easier trip back to the ramp. Off by 8:15. We’re in a classic summer pattern of early or late bite, no need to stay longer.
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