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  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,816
    been blackfishin in long island sound last few weeks, near Connecticut from North Shore Long Island

    Anchor up in about 25-30 ft....they put up a nice fight 
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    CROJAM95 said:
    been blackfishin in long island sound last few weeks, near Connecticut from North Shore Long Island

    Anchor up in about 25-30 ft....they put up a nice fight 
    Stripers are everywhere right now.  You get any mackerel or bonito?
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,816
    tempo_n_groove said:
    CROJAM95 said:
    been blackfishin in long island sound last few weeks, near Connecticut from North Shore Long Island

    Anchor up in about 25-30 ft....they put up a nice fight 
    Stripers are everywhere right now.  You get any mackerel or bonito?
    eh, I just dont like eating stripers....we go out for them a few times a year, Jones Beach Inlet or Huntington/Northport Harbor... Montauk/Orient every few years

    Sea Bass, Porgie, Blackfish, Fluke i enjoy eating

    Few years ago we were on a school of Mackerel off Hampton Bays....probably 3-4 miles offshore, saw 2 white sharks pop in and chase I guess Bunker that got mixed in ....it was cool. We actually hooked on a 7 ft juvenille about 10 years ago, thought it was a mako at 1st.....then as it came up, started to identify it as a white. We cut it loose

    They are out there...crazy I had 2 encounters with them....I know a few lifers in their 60's who say they never seen them
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    CROJAM95 said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    CROJAM95 said:
    been blackfishin in long island sound last few weeks, near Connecticut from North Shore Long Island

    Anchor up in about 25-30 ft....they put up a nice fight 
    Stripers are everywhere right now.  You get any mackerel or bonito?
    eh, I just dont like eating stripers....we go out for them a few times a year, Jones Beach Inlet or Huntington/Northport Harbor... Montauk/Orient every few years

    Sea Bass, Porgie, Blackfish, Fluke i enjoy eating

    Few years ago we were on a school of Mackerel off Hampton Bays....probably 3-4 miles offshore, saw 2 white sharks pop in and chase I guess Bunker that got mixed in ....it was cool. We actually hooked on a 7 ft juvenille about 10 years ago, thought it was a mako at 1st.....then as it came up, started to identify it as a white. We cut it loose

    They are out there...crazy I had 2 encounters with them....I know a few lifers in their 60's who say they never seen them
    Great whites are definitely out there!  Buddy of mine hooked in a 15 footer.  They got it up to the boat and realized it was a white and cut it loose.

    Striper is delicious eating as long as it's under 40lbs.  If they are that heavy you're throwing them back now anyways.  Your still catching fluke up north?
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,816
    tempo_n_groove said:
    CROJAM95 said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    CROJAM95 said:
    been blackfishin in long island sound last few weeks, near Connecticut from North Shore Long Island

    Anchor up in about 25-30 ft....they put up a nice fight 
    Stripers are everywhere right now.  You get any mackerel or bonito?
    eh, I just dont like eating stripers....we go out for them a few times a year, Jones Beach Inlet or Huntington/Northport Harbor... Montauk/Orient every few years

    Sea Bass, Porgie, Blackfish, Fluke i enjoy eating

    Few years ago we were on a school of Mackerel off Hampton Bays....probably 3-4 miles offshore, saw 2 white sharks pop in and chase I guess Bunker that got mixed in ....it was cool. We actually hooked on a 7 ft juvenille about 10 years ago, thought it was a mako at 1st.....then as it came up, started to identify it as a white. We cut it loose

    They are out there...crazy I had 2 encounters with them....I know a few lifers in their 60's who say they never seen them
    Great whites are definitely out there!  Buddy of mine hooked in a 15 footer.  They got it up to the boat and realized it was a white and cut it loose.

    Striper is delicious eating as long as it's under 40lbs.  If they are that heavy you're throwing them back now anyways.  Your still catching fluke up north?
    over the summer we get them, i like to get them in hampton bay.....in about 5-6 ft of water, you see them chase......good sashimi

    I like cooking a whole fish on the BBQ, Sea bass my all time fave, just comes out so good with the garlic/white wine/ olive oil etc
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,702
    mcgruff10 said:
    @loujoe you fishing the musky Or flatbrook?  I spent a lot of time in north jersey fly fishing.  I m currently in mon county so it s hard to head up there.  
    Got that big momma in the musky. Nice. Never explored flatbrook. Also fish south branch raritan. Small world.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    CROJAM95 said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    CROJAM95 said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    CROJAM95 said:
    been blackfishin in long island sound last few weeks, near Connecticut from North Shore Long Island

    Anchor up in about 25-30 ft....they put up a nice fight 
    Stripers are everywhere right now.  You get any mackerel or bonito?
    eh, I just dont like eating stripers....we go out for them a few times a year, Jones Beach Inlet or Huntington/Northport Harbor... Montauk/Orient every few years

    Sea Bass, Porgie, Blackfish, Fluke i enjoy eating

    Few years ago we were on a school of Mackerel off Hampton Bays....probably 3-4 miles offshore, saw 2 white sharks pop in and chase I guess Bunker that got mixed in ....it was cool. We actually hooked on a 7 ft juvenille about 10 years ago, thought it was a mako at 1st.....then as it came up, started to identify it as a white. We cut it loose

    They are out there...crazy I had 2 encounters with them....I know a few lifers in their 60's who say they never seen them
    Great whites are definitely out there!  Buddy of mine hooked in a 15 footer.  They got it up to the boat and realized it was a white and cut it loose.

    Striper is delicious eating as long as it's under 40lbs.  If they are that heavy you're throwing them back now anyways.  Your still catching fluke up north?
    over the summer we get them, i like to get them in hampton bay.....in about 5-6 ft of water, you see them chase......good sashimi

    I like cooking a whole fish on the BBQ, Sea bass my all time fave, just comes out so good with the garlic/white wine/ olive oil etc
    Those are delicious.

    My buddy caught a tuna last year.  I made my own sushi with it.  So good.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,702
    Any fish stories? Been reading about east coast usa striper fishing. Not too close to causally hit the surf. Maybe next season.
    Old friend let me fish the stream that runs through his farm. A club stocks it. Biggest brown I ever got (kind of cheating) still fought like a son of a gun.

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,702
    edited December 2022
    Rainbow
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,702
    edited December 2022
    Variegated Brown. Someone told me that's what it is. Got a few of these this season. Cool looking fish.
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    Loujoe Posts: 11,702

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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,702
    first trout if 2023. Friday 13th. Musconetcong River @mcgruff10 Very pretty. The pink stripe went right through the tail. Thought about eating it, but threw it back. I find it hard to kill anything and I'm not that hungry thank god. 
    Post some pics or stories people or they should change thread title to Lou's bragging fish stories.

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,702
    edited January 2023
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Loujoe said:
    True^^ they are taking down dams everywhere which is great.

    I read the book 'on the run' about stripers. Great one.
    How old is it?

    I'm curious to read up on someone who has studied them over the years.  Since I moved back to NY in 2012 the laws on catching them has changed 5 or 6 times now.
    followed the run in 2001 but still a great read. Follows from Maine to as far south as they go. Super. Also read another one, surfcasters guide to the striper coast by DJ Muller, lots of stories and some techniques. 

    Back prob 30 years ago. I was working delivering stuff in early december. Drove by the Hackensack river in bergen county. Rod in car. Saw the river was high and blowing over a dam I used to fish at behind someone's house (where heroin may or may not have been used & father may or may not of been kept around to steal his social security money). Hospital waste and other junk would fill the river at the right tide. Also loaded with odd fish time to time. Went back to work. Grabbed a kid (future meth cooker/criminal)I worked with to take a few casts. Ultralight rod. Stuck a 3+inch bright florescent plug on. Ripped it through the fast water below that dam...WHAM...pulled in a solid 20+" striper. No camera. Me and the kid stared at it and really couldn't believe ourselves. Threw it back and started bragging to anyone that gave a sh.t. The story still lives. Not sure about the characters in story. I know two moved to a quiet town in Vermont where the crime rate skyrocketed.

    All or none of this is true.

    Go fish
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  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,959
    Loujoe said:
    first trout if 2023. Friday 13th. Musconetcong River @mcgruff10 Very pretty. The pink stripe went right through the tail. Thought about eating it, but threw it back. I find it hard to kill anything and I'm not that hungry thank god. 
    Post some pics or stories people or they should change thread title to Lou's bragging fish stories.


    Nice one.
    I really miss fishing the Northeast streams. When I was home over Thanksgiving I took my fly rod to a little creek near my parents house. Wasn't planning on catching anything, and I didn't, but it was nice being on the water.
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,112
    Loujoe said:
    first trout if 2023. Friday 13th. Musconetcong River @mcgruff10 Very pretty. The pink stripe went right through the tail. Thought about eating it, but threw it back. I find it hard to kill anything and I'm not that hungry thank god. 
    Post some pics or stories people or they should change thread title to Lou's bragging fish stories.

    That is one pretty fish!  Nice work.  I gotta get out and fish, it's been way too long.  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,808
    Wanna get down to the bayous of Louisiana in the next few months.  Been since April and I'm missing it.
    Haven't been out around here in months but my nephew came and got his gear from our garage amd went a few weeks ago.  No bites. 
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,890
    Here are some of my catches.  From a few years back now. But all from lakes or gravel pits.


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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,890



    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,890
    Fish on


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