Hey y'all the weather here in nj is nice out but they are calling for some rain tonight but after working two weeks with out a day off I'm hitting the beach for some night surf fishing with my cuz. I got my truck ready to hit the and got my beach buggy pass and all my rods and tackle ready and firewood so let's see what tonight holds for fishing. The blues are heading out and the strippers are coming in so I'm hoping to get some

My brother loved surf fishing plus he had local honey holes that produced big stripers. When the blues came close to shore the surf fishing was very hot. He was my mentor. My dad and my brother went Deep sea fishing off the highlands in Jersey. I was too small then.

The blue fishing has been insane  on the coast this year. starting to slow now, maybe the stripers  will feel safe enough to come in now.

 

BTW nite is the best  time for strippers, just be careful what you take home. Sorry could not resist.

C22

Yeah the blue fishing was crazy there for a bit I got most I've mine on sp minnows at night and a few small stripper on them. Yeah I go surf fishing at night I'm down on the beach at least 4times a week if I can. Last night the surf was really rouf 6oz of wait wasn't holding bottom so I put 8oz on and could hold but my 12 foot tica ex heavy rods were getting a work out. Ive spent more time surf fishing this year then bass fishing lol

At the bait shop there was only one bass checked in all day yesterday at 31" so maybe tonight I will have better luck

I fish the surf nearly every morning.  Little different in South Florida, no breakers here and many of the species are caught well within 15-20 yds of the beach.  Using only artificial lures I'm able to fish with medium spinning rods, up on the jettys I need a mh rod.

 

The plan this morning is to fish the jetty on the outgoing for snook and tarpon, tide change about 5:30 I'll hit the beach, hopefully for snook and jacks.  About 8 am I'll go to another jetty and fish barracuda on the incoming tide. 

Good luck fishing today. And nice that's awesome your getting fish 15-20 yds off the beach. I'm sure a medium rod gets a little work out . I use for bait anywhere from a 12 - 14 foot ex heavy for bait and I use 8-10 foot mh to a heavy rod for lures depending on the surf . when the blues where blitzing here you can cast 20-50 yards off the beach and get hooked up and somtimes strippers to on a good night

stripers are in here on Long Island

 

My uncle caught a 25# one this past weekend

Yeah that's what I hered I'm gonna be heading out to montog and hitting the surf this weekend. Nice that's a nice size striper your uncle caught

What a difference an extra "t" makes in a story

 

If I went out chasing strippers all night, I'd come home to my stuff laying in the yard    I'd much rather be out chasing stripers anyways 

Yesterday was a goose egg, no snook on the outgoing, no fish on the beach and 1 cuda chased me but didn't strike.  Even did some peacock fishing in the afternoon and didn't see any.  Doing the same program this morning, hopefully better results, I like the tide change relative to sunrise better for today and tomorrow.

Yesterday was a goose egg, no snook on the outgoing, no fish on the beach and 1 cuda chased me but didn't strike.  Even did some peacock fishing in the afternoon and didn't see any.  Doing the same program this morning, hopefully better results, I like the tide change relative to sunrise better for today and tomorrow.

Thought of you on our vacation Tuesday morning Snook. Bunch of seaweed had broken loose and floated up against the beach and was rolling around in the surf. Decided to swim along the edges and see what I could see and figured it would probably be interesting. The surf was rolling pretty good so my visibility was a little limited but at one point I got a decent look and saw some large baitfish (looked like shad but obviously not), probably 6-8 inches long which was much bigger than the ones that I had been seeing that the jacks were chasing. One wave rolled by and they were gone, next wave rolled by and a snook as longer than my leg and half again as thick was cruising by. No idea what it weighed but to see that monster in waist deep water 20 yards off the beach were everyone was tanning was pretty surreal. I saw another one shortly after that nearly as big. If I'd have known there were monsters like that cruising the beach I probably would have bought my saltwater license while I was there since it was a 3 minute walk to the beach from our hotel.

The seaweed the last 10 days has been very thick, a southeast wind produces a lot of it and that's the predominant offshore wind this time of year.  Yesterday it wasn't too bad on the beach (the inlet was terrible), the water was too calm for snook.  Oh yeh there a big fish out there, just something about the way a fish fights off the beach, they hit that swash and it's like they'e stuck in cement, hard to move them.  You have to walk them backwards and pull them out.  No place I'd rather fish than the beach.

 

I can understand coming to Florida and wanting to catch peacock, you had a nice one, but compared to what's in the surf, there is no comparison.

I'll be hiting the surf tonight and all weekend I for a four day weekend so I'll be fishing the surf hard with a friend. Just got two new rods and reels and some tackle in this morning so getting everything ready. My cuz was out last night and did okay he got 2 stripers one was 14" and the other was 22". But tonight we both are heading down tovthw beach so we will see. I'm gonna be throwing some so minnows and some plugs and maybe some jiging spoons. And gonna put out 3-4 rods with clams or bunker most likely both tho