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| This is one of many schoolies landed today. The Cocahoe was a hot lure. |
I fished the last two days along the oceanfront tens of miles apart. The winds and surf conditions were vastly different. Yet, I experienced the same results. It was loaded both days with schoolies as it has been the entire month of October. The October glut just continues.
The fish have switched their preferences from that pink Deceiver fly I was using last week to bucktails and Cocahoes this week. Yesterday I was using and catching with the float and bucktail jig. Today it was the 4-inch Cocahoe that was doing the most damage. Both lures are great for damage free catch-and-release.
Nearly all the fish this month have been schoolies in the 20 to 27 inch range. Occasionally, you might catch or see a small slot limit keeper of 28 to 30 inches, but I have to tell you those fish are not abundant. I saw hundreds of stripers landed today, and I did not see a single keeper. That's just the way things have been going this season, and it's not about to change.
