Albies Eastern LI sound

[ruge13]

Spent the last 2 days looking for albies down south. Found them the first day and a few the second day around the Thames river. 2 flat calm days. Got lenty of shots at them. Hooked 4 lost all of them. All on a white deciever 3". Bait was allbunker, 3-6". Much bigger than I am used to seeing albies crash through, pretty good show. All between 7 and 10am both days. Anyway, they were there in good numbers, easy to find. Get out there. Some blues and bass mixed in.

[ruge13]

All the disturbed water above is a bait school

[Wes]

Lot's of nervous water out there. Top pic is great.

[joev]

Shaun
Nice pic of the fish jumping.
Was it a Albie or bass ?

JoeV

[ruge13]

Thursday was slow so I spent about 1/2 hour shaddowing a bait school hoping something would come up on them. I took about 20 pics and this one was the best. Only blues came up, was hoping for albies.

[G-Man]

Good job Shaun.
Nice days to take off.

I also took yesterday off to join Dad in the boat around Beavertail point in RI. Just bluefish all over the place. Massive schools of peanut bunker as well.

Ever time we rush to surface action it was always mid size bluefish. They fight hard and sure beat a skunkin.

Cool picture.
-G

Oh. another not so funny moment yesterday.
Heading out of the harbor I let out my flyline to straighten it out. Got to the backing and the knot let go right before my eyes. Sinking line....gone. :mad:
Lesson learned there. Check my line and knots on shore.

[ruge13]

wow that hurts...I probably would have dove in after that...

[flysully]

Well, ruge 13, it seems your direction of "eastern LI sound" is different from ours, in that the Thames River is really not what we Long Islanders consider the eastern LI sound. We think of it as around the end of LI, like the Race, Orient Point or Montauk. If you want to fish east, get out to Montauk, Gardiners Island, gin beach, etc. Glad to read your report, though. Good fishing to you.