Nice report, and good fishing. Your a good shore fisherman. Thanks for the pictures.
Striper bite, DMV Area 09Nov16
Tried a new area today on a hunch. I've always experienced a good rockfish bite in productive areas when it rains, so I went out and gave it a shot.
Started popping on the surface and landed a 17 inch fish (fish 1) and a 15 inch fish (fish 2). Also had a few fish miss and not follow up. Then after seeing some action on the surface and watching baitfish get chased, but nothing striking my chugger, I switched up to a 5" Storm POGY (red eyed, silver shad color) and caught two fish immediately on back-to-back casts, both really close to keeper size (pictured below, fish 3 & 4), but I prefer them to be slightly over just in case, so I let them both go.
I hooked a 5th one on my Storm POGY, but with myself not being too familiar with this particular location, he wrapped me up on a rock I didn't know about. I had to snap the line, it was completely hung. It was either a rock or a whale rolled over on him...poor little fella. But anyways, I couldn't tie on another silver shad because I walked in a decent ways away from the truck and left the rest of the Storm POGY's in the truck (dummy). So I tied on another 5" Tsunami POGY in Sardine color. With really low light (about 6pm) I didn't hold too much hope and told myself "a few more casts and I'm outta here." On my 3rd cast, the Tsunami got smacked...HARD. With my drag set kinda tight on 17# mono, this one actually made my drag (reel) click and took some line out. I could tell how hard he was pulling that it was either a little bigger fish or same size, foul hooked.
I got him in the net (fish 5) and he had gobbled the POGY with the tail already swallowed down is throat. I measured him at 21.5 inches and tried to get a picture, but my phone was dying (11%) and apparently my flash doesn't work with low juice in the tank. So I photo'd him when I got home in light. And photo'd the sardine POGY for anyone interested.
All in all, it was pretty fun and another successful outing in intermittent weather.
Fish 1&2 released without pic
Fish 3
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Fish 4
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Fish 5
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Lure that caught fish 5
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Started popping on the surface and landed a 17 inch fish (fish 1) and a 15 inch fish (fish 2). Also had a few fish miss and not follow up. Then after seeing some action on the surface and watching baitfish get chased, but nothing striking my chugger, I switched up to a 5" Storm POGY (red eyed, silver shad color) and caught two fish immediately on back-to-back casts, both really close to keeper size (pictured below, fish 3 & 4), but I prefer them to be slightly over just in case, so I let them both go.
I hooked a 5th one on my Storm POGY, but with myself not being too familiar with this particular location, he wrapped me up on a rock I didn't know about. I had to snap the line, it was completely hung. It was either a rock or a whale rolled over on him...poor little fella. But anyways, I couldn't tie on another silver shad because I walked in a decent ways away from the truck and left the rest of the Storm POGY's in the truck (dummy). So I tied on another 5" Tsunami POGY in Sardine color. With really low light (about 6pm) I didn't hold too much hope and told myself "a few more casts and I'm outta here." On my 3rd cast, the Tsunami got smacked...HARD. With my drag set kinda tight on 17# mono, this one actually made my drag (reel) click and took some line out. I could tell how hard he was pulling that it was either a little bigger fish or same size, foul hooked.
I got him in the net (fish 5) and he had gobbled the POGY with the tail already swallowed down is throat. I measured him at 21.5 inches and tried to get a picture, but my phone was dying (11%) and apparently my flash doesn't work with low juice in the tank. So I photo'd him when I got home in light. And photo'd the sardine POGY for anyone interested.
All in all, it was pretty fun and another successful outing in intermittent weather.
Fish 1&2 released without pic
Fish 3
Fish 4
Fish 5
Lure that caught fish 5
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Me and my friends use to catch rock fish. Now I'm just an old crappy fisherman with a five gallon bucket.
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I would really like to join you fishing from shore, but just too far for me.
Kracka, That was years ago. Not to proud of that, but that was the way it was back then. Did you know they use to use rock fish for fertilizer in the fields on the Eastern Shore years ago. A lot of old timers were dumb years ago. Hope you understand. The fish in the other picture were released.most likely spawners in the bay...........killing cows.
storm makes similar patterned shad. The pattern is "mullet," they also have "golden mullet." I've caught tons of fish on them. This fall I've mainly been throwing the 5" storm chartreuse shad. Had some fish on them but nothing over 30" or so.
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