I came up here this morning not expecting much other than a final visit to Surfland to
stock up on lead heads and Eddystone Eels for the rest of the season. Wrong!
Jigged and flyfished the beach front from the church to the jetties starting about an
hour before sunrise. Picked up some close to shore mackerel on a teaser fly, but not
much else. I was about to make an early exit when hordes of birds appeared out
of nowhere and all hell broke loose. For the next 45 minutes it was a striper on
almost every cast. Everything I threw was working and they were hitting close.
All of the fish were under 18 inches, some well under. One of the weirder catches
was a mackerel on a bucktail jig and a striper on the teaser above it. The mackerel
was bigger (in length) than the striper. I attempted deep jigging underneath to pull out
some bigger guys, but, try as I might, the little guys beat them to the lure
every time. For most of this blitz, there was no one else fishing until the very end when
they moved out of reach. The presence of large numbers of macks probably means that the bluefish have boogied out
of there for the season.
Anyway, it was fun...
-bd