Love Point 8/4

[Boosted]

Fished the Love PT area from 6:45-8:30, the tide was low and pretty much slack. Started out trolling in 20ft with a bucktail/paddle tail and a pink spoon. Only bite was from a bluefish and it took the tail off my plastic. After half an hour of trolling I noticed birds working the surface closer to shore. Quickly paddled over and it was on. First cast resulted in an 18 in. striper on the pink spoon. I continued to catch a few more similar sized stripers before they calmed down and moved. I saw a few breaking fish nearby and ended up catching a small bluefish which put up quite the fight. After the blue I caught a 22in. channel catfish which I was not expecting. Right after the stripers began blitzing on the surface in shallow water again, and I caught more than I could count. During the blitz I had left the bucktail/paddle tail in the water with the rod in a holder, and caught 8 stripers on that most being doubles while I already had a fish on the spoon. I would estimate the total count of fish to be 30+, it was an epic trip to say the least. Most of the fish were between 18-20in. with a few shorts and the biggest being 24. All fish were caught in 3-12ft of water.

[Pc4sun]

Nice report. Thanks for the description.

[sparky1423]

Nice job!! Still hoping to have one of those days

[Goody]

That's awesome! Love those kind of days.

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[Boosted]

Went back out at Love PT to tonight and had a similar experience. Not quite as good as last nights trip but between the three of us that were out there we caught at least 50 fish. Mostly short stripers with a few bluefish and one channel catfish. I ended up casting a topwater Heddon Zara spook and catching multiple striper which is always fun.

[Fishinfool]

Love Point and the Narrows seen to be the hot areas now. Breaking fish are great fun too!

In the Narrows report posted by John Veil, Mark caught a 21" channel cat as well. Let's hope they don't eat all the smaller bunker, perch, spot etc. I think the DNR folks are worried about the cats.

[steventhehistorian]

Is everyone starting to see breaking fish near shore these days? I can't wait to get out and follow some birds!