The month has switched to October, but the results are the same. The fishing continues at a blistering pace as I witnessed an all day blitz of stripers and bluefish today along the oceanfront. There were so many fish that at one point that I stood on a rock and just watched hundreds of bass and blues in front of me swimming in the water whirling and feeding in a slick of bay anchovies.
I fished with my son, Jon, today. Together we landed ridiculous numbers of fish, maybe 40 bass and an equal number of bluefish. We actually lost count. He was using a Yo-Zuri swimmer which far outfished my bucktail jig. But I stubbornly stayed with the jig because I did not want to deal with the treble hooks. I also landed several decent fish on a Cocahoe on a jighead. We probably had at least 8 keeper bass from 28-32 inches. The rest of the stripers went 24-28 inches, real decent size. The blues went 5-6 lbs. on average, but Jon had one big one that went about 12 lbs.
