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Snuck out a couple nights ago to see if the bass invaded our local waters with the new moon. They are definitely here! Equipped with about a dozen eels, we drifted them using 3-4 oz sinkers and 7/0 circle hooks. It started off pretty slow with the tide just changing, but once it started to...

Went out to the ocean last night on a frigid but relatively windless night, which is hard to come by this time of year. Headed to the grounds armed with a dozen eels and handwarmers in tow. The first drop yielded instant life, securing our limit within moments of touching down. The next few...

Got out there early early a few days ago to fish some structure and see what was biting. Left the marina with barely a hint of crimson on the horizon. This time of year its mostly a night/early morning game with the bass, so I'm on their schedule. I get to the spot at around 5 am, it was pretty...

With water temps exceeding 70 degrees, Bass fishing has been a night game. Went out with a few buddies drifting live eels. With the full moon tide cranking, we had to use 12 oz or more to hold bottom. Drifting over various rock piles and channel edges we caught a few slots. I generally opt...

Left the dock at 4 am. Fished various rockpiles around the Tin Can Grounds. Saw a couple of Dolphin pods scattered around. Here's a question, how do Dolphins and other apex predators affect fishing? Anyhow, I've made it a habit to make a couple casts with the bucktail over any structure...

Found Bluefish blitzing on rainbait at the inlet. I was more interested in the porgies. Took a little while to find them, but once I did it was drop and reel. I prefer not to use bait so I used a small diamond jig. I found that it usually works to cull the larger fish. On light tackle these big...

I've decided to avoid bait as much as possible this season especially with the absurd prices these days. Left the dock with no bait and planned to target structure around Breezy Point with plain ol' bucktails. I try to stick with 1 oz or less to keep it low profile and crawl it slow over the...

With consistent reports of Bass moving into my area, I decided to give it another shot. Looking at the tide and wind conditions, I knew it would be doable despite the intermittent rain. Working the sod banks and mudflats, I had my first bass of the season slowly crawling a Redfin. The action...

Took an hour before work to try my local back bay area. Last year I got my first bass the 3rd week of April in the same spot. Water temp around 49 degrees I employed small shads and a 1 oz super strike around sod banks and flats, for about 45 minutes without a hit. I tried to cover as much area...

With the season winding down to an end, I decided to make one last trip to fish live eels with the full moon. Myself and three others left the dock at slack tide and got there at the start of the outgoing. We had been doing very well with lots of short bass the previous couple of trips, so we...

Unfortunately I wasn't able to take advantage of the incredible weather the past couple of days, but I did sneak out with a couple of friends to fish some structure on a windless night. Headed to the spot at slack tide with 2 dozen eels ready to go. For the first hour of fishing we hardly had...

So the fog in the last couple of days prevented me from hitting the ocean, so I decided to stick to the bay. I had some success last week plugging some back bay spots so I tried for an hour with no luck. The fog was still thick, so ocean was out of the question. I decided to hit up some local...

Boat is in the repair yard so i haven't been fishing, but decided i'd give it a go and try a surf spot I've always wanted to try. Started around 6pm at the first spot with a talkin popper and had no luck. At the next spot i found the bait, massive schools of peanut bunker with fish blowing up on...

Went out yesterday to fish some intense structure, nailed some nice 14-15" porgies and was pleasantly surprised to catch a couple blackfish, one even being a keeper size fish, released of course. The earliest I've ever gotten them, but it makes sense that they'd be filtering in about now. Did a...

Went out this morning with the express intent to tangle with some fluke and hopefully bag a doormat, sad to say i was disappointed. Felt like a desert out there, landed only 3 fluke in about 5 hours of fishing. Ran all around to the elbow by breezy, to manhattan beach, plumb beach, wherever. It...

Decided to run out at dawn today, made it to the jetty by 5:15. Lots of life out there, was greeted by a pod of dolphins which managed to scare a lot of the fish away. Ended up with a couple nice scup and some 3-5 lbs bluefish kept things interesting. Headed inshore towards the Coney Island...

Headed out this morning for some porgy fishing as i heard they just showed up in my area. Once i got there, immediate signs of life. Saw a couple bass and blues busting on bunker. Searched around for some porgies, and was able to locate them. Decent bite, caught 6 which is enough for me and i...

Went out this afternoon to try and see if I could locate some fluke. Had some buddies out earlier in the day reporting poor fishing overall in the inlet, and after giving some local spots a try and not getting much I decided i'd check out the Coney island area. Found much better action there...

Fished Rockaway inlet yesterday, morning was very foggy but it started off okay with decent short action. Bluefish showed up about 2 hours into the trip, tried bucktailing under the birds, but nothing but more shorts. Ran all around the inlet trying different spots, but did not catch a fluke...

Fished Rockaway inlet today on the outgoing. Decent short fluke action but water is still cold out front. Fished hard and salvaged the trip with 2 keeps. Standard bucktails and gulp. By this time last year the fishing was much better in my area, guess this year its taking a while to heat up...