We went out in the boat today for the last time this year since my brother Steve is headed for hip replacement surgery tomorrow. We found plenty of albies that were scattered over wide areas of the oceanfront. However, there were lots of individual fish breaking with occasional small pods of them which made catching them difficult. And, they were fussy.The three of us in the boat managed to land 13 albies. We also had a lot of fish on and lost along with a lot of hits. The only thing we could get them on was the float and fly. My son Ben tried metal for a good amount of time and he could not even get a hit. The fish today were spitting up small bay anchovies. They are usually very fussy when on this small bait, and generally the fly, in this case a Blue Deceiver, was the only thing they would hit.
In addition to the albies, we also landed a half dozen bluefish. These are the first ones we have seen from the boat along the oceanfront this fall. Hopefully, their numbers are starting to increase. We'll see in the coming days and weeks.
