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  1. Matts

    Post up up your 2019/2020/2021/2022 Blackfishing Pix/Reports/Adventures/Musings

    Current was light and I fished with a jig for most of the day, caught a bunch of bergals and sea bass, but they just did not want a jig. All the tog were caught on sinker rigs. This fish was caught in about 100' with 30# braid and my conventional Al Goldberg spiral wrap.
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    Post up up your 2019/2020/2021/2022 Blackfishing Pix/Reports/Adventures/Musings

    I ended the season in grand fashion. We were supposed to fish Newport today, Monday, but the captain called last week to say he had a cancellation for yesterday, Sunday, that the weather would be much better Sunday, and that we might not make it our Monday trip due to high wind. I jumped on it...
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    Feeding after the rain

    I was at Caumsett Park two weeks ago and saw loads of doe, plus a beautiful 10 pointer, but none of my iPhone photos came out that well after I scrambled to take off my gloves and pull my phone out of my pocket.
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    Are you hanging it up for the season or still fishing?

    My area of the Western Sound (West of Rye and Matinecock Pt.) went from on fire (see photo) to not a tap in two weeks. Yesterday i tried wrecks at 100' and 70' and rock piles at 40' and 35' and we had barely a sniff. My boat gets pulled Saturday. But first it's a trip on the Gypsea and a last...
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    North Star

    Mackerel fishing in the late 70's was off the hook. Boats from Sheepshead Bay would make the run up the east river to fish the western sound. My dad and I used small tins and freshwater rods, loosened the drag, and those big Macks would take off like a tuna. Too bad it never came back.
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    North Star

    I can remember the North Star and the Apache. I also remember the Riptide ran a dual hull boat for a bit.
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    Buffalo Bills

    Nice second half!
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    I I I I

    Good luck in Montauk. Good thing I have my own boat, because just about every charter trip was winded, then the new date was winded as well.
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    Should NY have a Minimum Property Tax that homeowners have to pay ?

    Good thing the OP on how NYS should apportion the tax burden was not political! lol
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    Captree Pride

    I had a fun day on the Captree Pride chasing the rare, elusive, striped bass. We broke the inlet, looked a bit to the east, then headed west towards Jones Inlet. A slow pick all day and the captain gave it his all for a full boat limit. No extended, unproductive drifts. The bass were gorging on...
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    I I I I

    Just take turns holding the trolling motor to keep the boat over the boulder! lol
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    South Shore togging

    Personally, I would like to see 3 fish, 15-19" We have so many 12-15" fish eating all the food, I don't know how any tog can get big and fat any more. I send back everything over 18" in my local area, but I'm getting way off topic.
  13. Matts

    Are you hanging it up for the season or still fishing?

    My boat stays in till early December. Thanksgiving weekend is always good fishing, then it comes to a screeching halt. Last trip is 12/8 out of Newport.
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    South Shore togging

    thanks. I did not appreciate that "Bight Region" is essentially the whole S. Shore!
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    South Shore togging

    Isn't it 3 FPP?
  16. Matts

    YELLOW JACKET ?

    as if cleaning fish were not annoying enough.....
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    Current and Blackfish

    I find the bite is often slow when the tide is slack, but sometimes they bite all day and through the tide change and would follow my boat on anchor even as it swung from east/west to west/east. sometimes they bite best near the changes. sometimes they bite through the slack sometimes the bite...
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    ASMFC Striped Bass Draft Addendum III - Plain English Summary

    "Without addressing the root cause - poor recruitment in Chesapeake Bay - these measures are treating symptoms, not the disease."
  19. Matts

    Biodegradable Shrink Wrap - You guys seeing this?

    Maybe they should start trying to convince people to serve the used wrap in restaurants with green crabs? :unsure:
  20. Matts

    Post up up your 2019/2020/2021/2022 Blackfishing Pix/Reports/Adventures/Musings

    where have all the big seabass gone? It's nice to see at least a picture of one over 20" and with a knot on its head!

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