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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:
Thursday October 29: Winds NE 15 in the morning and S at 10 in the afternoon: Water was a
mess this morning all brown looking like a regular coffee with milk. The
high water mark was around 4 a.m. and at 10 a.m. water was terrible looking.
The incoming tide and the wind shift to S at 10 in the afternoon was a big
help and conditions were great by 4 p.m. all through this area. There was a
still a very large push of water as the water pushed by the E/NE winds this
past week have not been able to escape, so when the winds went south
Thursday (10/29) afternoon there was a ton of water being pushed to the
beach and you could not get on the jetties even 2 hours before high tide.
Towards the end of the incoming the fish did
show up all through this area but all were small bass of 14 to 22 inches and
most were on the west side of the jetties, tight to the rocks and in the
pocket of shallow water. They still will not come up for anything and
bucktails seem to be the only thins working right now. Len Magiore had five
fish al using this same pattern Thursday afternoon. I had seven fish. I did
have to chase four guys away from the jetty I was after they tried to set up
four bait rods, two on each side of the jetty. No way I was standing for
that nonsense. Meanwhile after
working this jetty with some success, first two then a total of four guys
show up with bait rods to set up on the jetty I was fishing. NO WAY JOSE!
Thankfully one of them spoke English and I explained that was not going to
happen and the scent of clams could kill my action....AND if I got tangled I
was just going to cut their line...they got the message after I explained
that with miles of beach they needed to set up bait fishing between the two
jetties and give us all some space.
Friday October
30: Winds SE
at 10. I fished the last couple of hours of outgoing Friday morning (9:30 to
11:30) and scored five bass, largest maybe 20 inchers and al on the white
bucktails and white pork rind. Conditions are fantastic and with this
afternoon’s southerly coming in and the flooding tide…you would be remiss
not to be on a beach somewhere on the South Shore of LI.
Saturday October 31: Winds SW 20-25 & water great looking...in SW
winds of 20 to 25 and a WILD, surf the bass were again cooperative and a
little larger as some reported fish to 24 inches and nice fat football
shaped, while some had 16 inch bass. The bite lasted till about 10 a.m. when
it shut off and all week they seemed to be biting on the slack and changes
of tides but shutting down for the middle 2-1/2 hours of a tide and either
tide was there same scenario. White bucktails and chicken scratch Bombers
were working and again in the wild water fish were in the pockets and in the
wash. I had six bass to 24 inches & fat!! I went back down after the
radio show at 5:15 and it was EVIL on the rocks.. I lasted about 15 minutes
and said this is crazy and went home for dinner.
Sunday
November 1: Winds N 10 & water getting brown and weed moving in. I hit
the stones about 7 a.m. or so and had a quick bump on a Bomber but that was
it. Water was turning brown right in front for no apparent reason either as
conditions were not bad. Weed was moving in with some beaches worse than
others, but just the same not worth the effort. The full moon is tomorrow
and weed should be hideous this entire week.
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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 they had fish in Montauk from Wednesday and even
into Friday (10/16). It has been mostly the south side and sandy beaches
as sand eels and bass are mixing with some bluefish. Some decent fish on
the sandy beaches mid week with 24 to 34 inch bass and a few 25
pounders. Two 50 pounders were weighed in Friday caught from the south
side like Caswell’s or deeper into the rocks than that. Friday and
Friday night the north side and North Bar seemed to have the action, but
there are fish on the south side and smaller fish on the sandy beaches
with a few occasional decent fish. Saturday they had little action with
a few small fish taken on the north side and the south side getting very
dirty now by noon on Saturday. The surf is wild and most are walking
into the north side and not driving and we’re surprised they have not
closed the beach yet in very rough surf.
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 the beaches are alive with striped bass, but you
have to do some hard work and spend some good time on the
beaches. George White, surfcasting just east of Shinnecock on
the beach needed a friend to help him ease a striped bass out of
the suds; the fish weighed in at 53 pounds! A mix of bass
and blues are filtering through Shinnecock Inlet, but the
Ponquogue Bridge and Shinnecock Canal are temporarily boycotted
by our piscatorial friends.
Most anglers are using a white
bucktail with either a red or white pork rind. 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
