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You can now bypass the intros to the Phone Reports Hotline and go directly
to
the surf fishing reports by dialing 516-726-SURF
How They Voted On Saltwater License
:
Here's
what you've been waiting for...get those dialing fingers to work. The
vote in the senate was 32 to 30 along party lines...all it would have taken
was two Long Island senators to vote no and we would have NO SWL...the two
most responsible were Craig John and Brian Foley! In the Assembly the two
surprises...democrats of course Bob Sweeney and Harvey Wiesenberg.
Here’s The Vote…
Surf Fishing This Season
Surf Fishing Reports This Season:
With the closing of many tackle shops over the last season or two and
many taking to the beach on foot now with the bad economy for boating,
we need to band together and help each other as surfcasters. No tackle
shop in Long Beach any more and the ones around the area are not really
geared to surf fishing and they drop like flies every so often. I can’t
be on every beach all the time so we need to help each other. Since many
of you use the fishing reports off
www.thefishingline.com and the phone Hotline Reports at
516-977-2088, I and many other surf anglers would sure appreciate it if
we all would report our activities in a timely fashion. If you’re on a
beach and it’s full of weed, please E mail me
rich@thefishingline.com or call me from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. at
516-889-6895 or my cell at 516-435-8382. I’ll put the fishing and/or
beach condition reports on the web site and the phone lines. We need to
all help each other and be “eyes” on the beach for all of us. You can
post them yourselves on our Message Boards at
www.thefishingline.org and for NJ at
www.NJanglers.org.
DVD Specials
:
Fall surf season is here and we have great
DVD's to get you going
on your trips in the suds. Everything from
Surf
Fishing Jetties in the west to
Pencil
Popping Montauk in the east. Even
Rigging and Tying Knots and how about
Rigging
Eels on your own for giant cow bass? We have you covered with a variety
of Surf
Fishing Videos. All DVD's are 3 for $25 and whether
it's surf fishing striped bass or whatever you or your loved one
pursue, it can be found by going directly to our site at
www.thefishingline.com/ordering.htm.
TFL's On Line Surf Seminar:
The Fishing Line
has a 24 hour
On Line Surf Seminar in place for you folks to learn anew or refresh
yourselves in the art of surf fishing. With video and audio files you can
review how To Read The Beach, Fish Montauk, Fish with Tins, the
Mullet Run or even a simplistic How Fill Your Surf Bag. With audio
interviews from experts like Frank Daignault and many others, anything you
need to know about fishing he suds is available to you 24 hours a day from
your home, IPod or even Blackberry if you wish! Get it al at our
On Line Surf Seminar now
Surf Fishing With Rich Johnson:
Feel like picking the brain
of one of the Island's best known and successful surf anglers? You can...if
you want to fish with Rich Johnson in the surf this season. Rich has
produced and hosted the largest attended and richest giveaways ($17k) surf
seminars ever in the NY Metro area and is now accepting some openings to
fish with Rich this fall. E Mail
rich@thefishingline.com or call 516-889-6895
Surf Fishing Tourney:
East End Bait
& Tackle will be holding a Striped Bass Surf Tournament starting
Sept. 13 and running until Dec. 5. The entry fee will be $25. All collected
monies will be returned as cash prizes. Stop by the shop or give us a call
for more details.
They carry plugs by Gibbs, Super
Strike, J-N-Ski, After Hours, Stillwater, Smack-it, Bomber & Yo-zuri.
On the web at
www.eastendbaitandtackle.com
Rich Johnson's Report:
No fish really at all down here this
week even when weather was good. A few stray fish in the West End 2 Pocket,
a few scattered bass along the 7 mile stretch from Point Lookout to Debs and
many hard core angers were out with no results hoping for a score as the
storm approached Wednesday night into Thursday (11/12). Water was beautiful
clean and weed free mid week and by Thursday afternoon on the start of the
outgoing around 2:30 p.m., Point Lookout and Lido with east Long Beach was
brown and dirty with weed while west Long Beach and AB were beautifully
clean…both areas had no fish to speak of at all with nothing but complaints
from all the surfcasters in the area.
Saturday (11/14)
morning after the results of Friday night were able to be seen, waters were
up to the PL parking lot, the boardwalk in Long Beach and right to the base
of the dunes in AB. Water Saturday morning was black…literally black it was
so dirty. Waves were still huge, the beaches battered and when this is al
said and done…the beaches will be flat, shallow water everywhere and unless
there is bait on the beach, any beach there will be no reason for fish to
hang here…another dismal season in this area. Looking back at logs 2006 was
the last decent year we had down here. It’s been downhill every year since
including this one.
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Sign Sen. Skelos' Petition Against Saltwater License Here
EAST END BEACHES
Montauk:
East End Bait
& Tackle
(631-728-1744):Willie
Young of the MSA says earlier this week Montauk was on fire on the
dropping tides Monday through Wednesday morning then died completely
Wednesday afternoon. Best action was on the sand eels along the sand
beaches with Nappeaque quite the hot area with fish to 38 pounds…that he
knew of. Things are very quiet in Montauk the last day or two with no
real action on Saturday (11/14) as waves were evil and not too many
people tried fishing. A few small fish were caught on the north side
Friday and Saturday morning, getting to Shagwong was impossible unless
you wanted to walk the 2 miles. The bluffs are eaten away with what
Willie called a 4 foot drop off on some of them as severe beach erosion
occurred again but water on the north side he said was clean Saturday,
it just didn’t look too fishy.
Visit TFL's
24 Hour On Line
Surf Seminar.
East
End Bait & Tackle will be holding a Striper Bass surf fishing tournament
starting Sept. 13 and running until Dec. 5. The entry fee will be $25. All
collected monies will be returned as cash prizes. Stop by the shop or give
us a call for more details.
They carry plugs by Gibbs, Super
Strike, J-N-Ski, After Hours, Stillwater, Smack-it, Bomber & Yo-zuri.
East End Bait & Tackle
is running
a "Reel
Blowout Sale" on Columbus Day weekend with prices to low to print
(including Penn & Shimano).
Reels on sale are limited to display and
open box items and does not include all models.
You need to call for pricing or stop by and take a look.
www.eastendbaitandtackle.com
SOUTH SHORE BEACHES
Shinnecock & Hampton Bays:
East End Bait
& Tackle
(631-728-1744):
Scott reported Friday (11/6) and most of this past week the beaches
can be alive at times with the best of it being 24 to 26 inch
bass along the sandy beaches east of Shinnecock Inlet. Bucktails
and tins are best as there is not much bait but the fish seem to
be moving along here. This area seems to be the most consistent
on the south shore of Long Island.
We have increased
our surf fishing inventory to now include Aquaskinz tops and
accessories; Northbar Plugs; as well as other surf fishing
accessories.
East End Bait & Tackle will be holding a Striper Bass surf
fishing tournament starting Sept. 13 and running until Dec. 5.
The entry fee will be $25. All collected monies will be
returned as cash prizes. Stop by the shop or give us a call for
more details.
Visit Our
24 Hour On Line
Surf Seminar.
They carry plugs by Gibbs, Super Strike, J-N-Ski, After
Hours, Stillwater, Smack-it, Bomber & Yo-zuri.
Hours are
Monday to Friday is 7 to 7, Saturday is 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and
Sunday is now 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. On the web at
www.eastendbaitandtackle.com
