Got out for some trolling at the Point. Been having luck with a deep-swimming silver-and-white lure, about 6 inches long, with a plastic lip that keeps it down about 12 feet. Found big fish in deeper water, tried a deeper (20 foot) swimming lure, but did better with the 12-foot-deep lure. Noticed a pattern of coctail blues, followed by alligator blues, followed by big bass, which would repeat itself through the top of the tide. I was fortunate enough to find another big bass, this one 48", and the next night my fellow kayakfisherman "Jr." (a/k/a "BIGBASS" from Nor'east.com) landed a 48" bass of his own, his first kayak cow. That night I had a couple of keeper bass, but it was mostly bluefish for me. Determined to repeat recent success, I we nt out again the next night, but it was not to be. I caugjt one schoolie bass and a lot of blues.
Lots of fish to catch if you don't mind catching bluefish. When there's all these bluefish around is when I can pretend to be a surfcaster. The tide had been such that I could catch the last of outgoing at Shinnecock Inlet on my way back from Montauk and still pick some bass (pre-dawn) and blues from the surf. Catch 'em up!
