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What have you got to say about the topic of: "Fishing in the wind". Here's how is started: "I haven’t had much of a chance to get out this season so the "
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05-16-2007, 11:31 AM
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| Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: CT
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I haven’t had much of a chance to get out this season so the first chance I got I went. Monday even at 7pm it was VERY windy at Barn. So windy that I was the only knucklehead launching or in the lot at all besides a crab guy unloading. First outing I went solo. Didn’t want to risk anyone else’s life. Boat jumped waves like a champ doing 56mph. Can you say AIRBORN! As I was laughing to myself with ever 30 plus mph gust I noticed this crab guy chunking all the dead green crabs out of his 8 big ass bags full off the ramp. They made a chum slick of dead floating crabs that went right out into the waters. I thought how nice it would be to see fish coming up and blasting through them. I’m very quick on the ramps to get my ass in the water in minutes so with in a few I was pushing off. Just clicked it into gear and SPASH! I spin around looking but have no clue. With all the wind there was no way to spot rings on the water. I have 5 poles all set from UL with plastics to giant with JoPlugs. I’m pretty much ready for anything Striper. Again I hear a splash but this time I see the end of it. Defiantly fish whacking the floating crabs. First cast with a JoPlugs raises up a swirl. 3 casts later and nothing doing. I drop a 6” grub over the crab trail and FISH ON! About 28” keeper for y first fish. Now I’m thinking if fish this big are here I am going to hit the mother load. So off I go to hunt them. GPS is on so I will be able to get out the next morn if the fog sets in. I race to 4 spots and save my course. Out side the rollers were 5 to 6 feet easy. Boat ran perfectly. Just had to keep pulling up on the throttle ever time I took her air born. Back inside the river as it was getting dark I hit a bunch of fish. Most taken on plastics from 6” to 12” with no weight added. Sub surface was working fine on the out going tide. 2 keepers (28 and a 30”) and a bunch of smaller fish from 14” to 22”. Wind only got worse through the night. At 5:30am there was a VERY STEADY 20plus mph wind that got worse as time went on. I launched with Joe T. and with in a few cast he had one on. Then another and another. At dead high slack it shut down and then picked up after. All schooly size fish. I hooked a couple that seemed like keepers but was using 8lb test to play with the schoolies. So the would be keepers broke me off. Glad I final broke the ice and got out even though mother natural didn’t corporate. I’ll be back. Jay
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05-16-2007, 12:44 PM
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  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Madison Ct
Posts: 2,136
| Nice report ,Hopefully the wind will calm down.Glad to hear you got some keepers . | ||
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