After the end of June, the Striped Bass simply disappeared from my local stretch of the Sound. So did the few Bluefish that had been around. I'd caught and ate a 15" bluefish around 1 June.
Lately, it has been bottom fishing for Porgy, if you want to catch anything. A Searobin even came out to play a week ago. Today there were a lot of baby bluefish. This is all that is running the bait that I can detect--4" bluefish. None over 7" and today, I caught 6 of them on either the small shrimp pattern I made up, or on a white double clouser on the surface. The shrimp was on full sink and slightly led on a slow troll.
But then I got to a particular spot I've only made any effort at once before. I decided to see if anything interesting is down on the bottom.
Because the 8 weight was rigged full sink, I put on a 1 oz weight and then about 18" of leader to a small hook with a Gulp minnow. So bottom fishing but with a fly rod and line. Gulp seems to be ridiculously attractive to fish. First fish was a 15" Fluke! Damn it, that was nearly a keeper. It really fought. The 8 weight has less than 1/2 the fighting power of the 10 weight I own. Very interesting.
Then I proceeded to catch no less than 5 tiny little baby black sea bass. I mean small--6."
A 13" porgy was the next surprise. It came home for dinner.
Last cast, fish on! What is it? Well, that's Northern Kingfish! Size of a good trout. 15" or so. I should have eaten it. Next time.
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