Couple of cows

Victor and Jimmy made the drive up from New York City for a 5 am launch. The same as yesterday, the bait was pretty easy and we were on the reefs in no time. We went straight to where Andrew had lost his big fish on Tuesday and dropped down. We were 2 drifts into the trip when bit Victor and Jimmy got smoked by big fish. Both guys have lots of experience on the water with all kinds of species but this was their first time at stripers in somewhat shallow water.  They were caught by surprise by the power of these fish. Both bass made screaming runs and got them into the bottom… Lesson learned, the drags got tightened down… We lost the tide and moved out to deeper water while we waited for the change. 

We made a few drifts in the 50 to 60 foot range and Jimmy managed to break the curse with a 38″ bass.  Not a big fish, but the skunk was officially out of the boat. We spent about 45 minutes out in deeper water without any more hits and then made the move back in shallow again. Jimmy hooked up right away with a decent fish.

Victor followed  Jimmy up with a fish on the next drift.

We seemed to attract a bit of attention after the first couple of fish there. We quickly had 3 boats move in to our drift lanes. I hate fishing in a crowd, so we picked up and moved off to another spot a few miles away.

By the time we got to the next spot, the tide was moving nicely. Our drifts were right at 2MPH. We made a few drifts, each time moving a little deeper untill we found what we were looking for. As soon as we started marking boulders, I started seeing fish and Victor hooked up…

Victor had the hot hand and boated the next 3 fish. One was a massive fish that measured 47″ and weighed nearly 45 pounds on the digital scale

Things slowed down after the big one. That was the last one in the boat. Thankfully, the breeze was out of the south, so the temps stayed down for us. It was humid but the temps were tolerable.