jowo
12-13-2010, 09:40 AM
Sorry for the late report!
Got there just after opening with a couple of buddies. Ran out to the buoyline, and there were a couple of guys set up already. Saw one of them catch a couple of fish as other boats showed up and anchored right next to them (the guy at the rental office suggested anchoring in 150+ and fishing near bottom, and they were right on that depth). We anchored a hundred or so yards away in slightly shallower water. No fish marks anywhere.
Nothing for about an hour, then this yahoo who seemed to know all the other boats ran up fast and rammed the buoy line. Not sure why? But he succeeded in breaking the line. We thought he pushed down some of the buoys when we saw the gap appear where he was, and kept fishing. After about 15 min, we realized that we seemed to be drifting towards the buoy line, as it was getting closer and closer. Took another 5 minutes to realize that the line had been snapped/cut by that yahoo, and the whole buoy line was drifting out. We started to pull anchor, and realized the line had pushed us out, and was slowly wrapping around us.
We freed ourselves after 15 minutes of hard pulling, metered around some more for nothing, and took off to look for fish.
Metered all along the edges in 70-150 feet of water, nothing doing except for a few singles that we guessed were LMB sitting on points/dropoffs.
Decided to hit the mooring cove right across from the main ramp, and metered some solid lines of stripers. Dropped the anchor again, and immediately got one.
Fished there the rest of the day, and ended with 9 stripers, all schoolies, and 1 cat, about 2-3 pounds. Wasn't great in numbers, but a good, relaxing day. Seemed like no one did very well; couple of guys we saw at the dock said they got 2-3 fish all day at the buoyline.
Used fresh dines for bait, also got one on the bloodworm.
Got there just after opening with a couple of buddies. Ran out to the buoyline, and there were a couple of guys set up already. Saw one of them catch a couple of fish as other boats showed up and anchored right next to them (the guy at the rental office suggested anchoring in 150+ and fishing near bottom, and they were right on that depth). We anchored a hundred or so yards away in slightly shallower water. No fish marks anywhere.
Nothing for about an hour, then this yahoo who seemed to know all the other boats ran up fast and rammed the buoy line. Not sure why? But he succeeded in breaking the line. We thought he pushed down some of the buoys when we saw the gap appear where he was, and kept fishing. After about 15 min, we realized that we seemed to be drifting towards the buoy line, as it was getting closer and closer. Took another 5 minutes to realize that the line had been snapped/cut by that yahoo, and the whole buoy line was drifting out. We started to pull anchor, and realized the line had pushed us out, and was slowly wrapping around us.
We freed ourselves after 15 minutes of hard pulling, metered around some more for nothing, and took off to look for fish.
Metered all along the edges in 70-150 feet of water, nothing doing except for a few singles that we guessed were LMB sitting on points/dropoffs.
Decided to hit the mooring cove right across from the main ramp, and metered some solid lines of stripers. Dropped the anchor again, and immediately got one.
Fished there the rest of the day, and ended with 9 stripers, all schoolies, and 1 cat, about 2-3 pounds. Wasn't great in numbers, but a good, relaxing day. Seemed like no one did very well; couple of guys we saw at the dock said they got 2-3 fish all day at the buoyline.
Used fresh dines for bait, also got one on the bloodworm.