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| Date posted |
| April 29, 2013 11:46 AM |
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| BlueMarlin478 |
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| New York > Western Sound > FISH ON, and its got stripes! |
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As this would be the first trip of the 2013 season, I planned all last week to go fishing on Sunday 4/29 with a buddy of mine. Stocked up on clams, chum and bunker on Sat and had all the poles ready to go with fish finder rigs and 8/0 hooks by Sat night. We got down to the boat Saturday evening and set everything up for what would be a 4am wake up. Since we had a few hours to kill before we retired for the night, threw out a couple flounder rigs at the dock to see what would bite. Wound up catching two huge eels, one horseshoe crab, and a 10 inch baby Striper. Releasing everything and hoping for some good karma, we retired around 11pm. Forgetting a space heater this early in the year is NO fun. We froze at night, barely slept, but were up at 4 regardless and started up the coffee machine and got down a couple bagels. Steamed out to Execution under the cover of darkness and were anchored up by 515. Low tide at 8am. Had a couple bumps and no takes but caught a killer sunrise. Well, all of a sudden we start drifting around 830, go to pull up the anchor and its missing...turns out the pin must have popped out, so all I came up with was chain. Luckily we had an old anchor aboard and with a few nuts and bolts, managed to rube goldberg it onto the chain. The fishing continued! Tried another spot by Huckleberry with zero result until 10am. Decided to switch tactics and motored out east toward Hempstead until I marked some nice structure and a few blips on the fish finder. Anchored up and within 30 min we had two missed runs, one of which somehow cut the line on the hookset. We continuously chummed the **** out of the spot which would prove key. We wound up with 2 more runs on bunker chunks and Nick set the hook on both. After some tense moments netting, by 1230 we boated our first two Stripers of the season at 28" (9lb) and 31" (12lb). Nothing else for the rest of the day it turned out, so with the hold full and the wind kicking up, we gladly called it a day by 2pm. Had fresh Bass for dinner last night, pan fried to a golden brown, cant beat it. They're out there, you just have to put in the effort to get em. Tight lines gang! <like href="http://www.noreast.com/postedreports/view.cfm?id=158766" send="false" show_faces="false" width='layout="button_count"'></like> 
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