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Author:
Michael
Date:
Apr 08, 2013
Subject:
Flat Rap Time!
Message:
Bridgeport Harbor buoy read 47.1 degrees Sunday. Monday's forecast was light south winds with warm temps and plentiful sunshine. I right away decided today was a day for checking out the striper action at Remington. High tide for Bridgeport was scheduled for 10:37am and low for 4:49pm. Got to the spot around 12:30pm to find nobody there. Lures I played with were a pearl grey shiner Flat Rap FLR-10, original pearl shad Flat Rap FLR-10, olive green Clackin Minnow CNM-9, spotted minnow Saltwater X-Rap SXR-10, glass ghost Clackin Rap CNR-8, shad Rattlin Rapala RNR-8, shad Shallow Shad Rap SSR-9, glass minnow Husky Jerk HJ-12, and pearl white silver fleck 4" Berkley Havoc Subwoofer. Subwoofer was rigged on a 3/4 ounce Hurricane jighead bounced on the bottom. Never got into anything until tide got lower and I waded out on the sandbar there. A few chunkers who I'm familiar with had gotten there by that time. I was throwing the pearl grey shiner FLR-10 and doing a slow steady retrieve when I get a hit and set the hook. Landed a 21" 3 pound 13 ounce striper. [img:84c632597b]http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r614/mvsimko/21inch3pound13ozStriperatRemington4-8-13_zpse4f284df.jpg[/img:84c632597b] I was sssooo happy to land my first striper and surf fishing fish of the year! After letting it go I got another hit in the same area on the Flat Rap. About a half hour later it was getting closer to dead low so I decided to take a break by heading Downtown to grab a bite to eat and something to drink. Got back to Remington around 5pm to find the chunkers still not getting any hits and a surf fisherman arriving. I waded back out to where I had the hit and caught the striper but never got into anything else. The surf fisherman who arrived around the same time as me was throwing an SP Minnow near the discharge and landed a 14"er. Tide was getting higher quickly so I headed back to shore to cast into the discharge area. Fished next to the other surf fisherman as I played around with a few Rapalas and he played around with a few SP Minnow colors. Chunkers decided to leave. I had 1 more hit and the other surf fisherman landed a chubby 25" striper. He lost what he said looked to be at least a 30" keeper right in front of him. The fish swiped its head at the lure and got a tiny bit of the hook on its head before letting go. He had 3 other hits. Both of us called it a night around 8pm. I got to test a new ML setup. Rod is a medium power 7'6" Okuma SST Salmon Spin and reel is a Penn Spinfisher 440SSG. Jimmy from Jimmy O's stopped by and I let him give it a few casts with a soft plastic. He loved the feeling of the setup and said he could see that Okuma managing a bigger fish. He really liked how the rod and reel could cast a lighter FLR-10. Later in the evening is when 2 cormorants followed by a male and female merganser came, which meant there was bait there. Saw a cormorant come up with a few baitfish.
Author:
iversonbaby
Date:
Apr 08, 2013
Message:
you da man ! nice fish would you say these are migratory or residential bass?
Author:
Michael
Date:
Apr 08, 2013
Message:
I'd say year round residential
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