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Author:
Michael
Date:
Oct 08, 2013
Subject:
Snappers & Snarbors
Message:
High tide for Black Rock Harbor was scheduled for 2:09pm Tuesday and got to the Fayerweather jetty around 11:45am. Winds were a steady 10mph north and northeast with gusts 15 to 20mph. Within a half hour, I go to take a cast with a 3/8 ounce FLR-10 and the 7' Okuma Tarvos breaks in half :evil: Head back Downtown to take the bus home and switch to my other 7' medium heavy Daiwa Procyon. Got down to Breezy Point around 1:45pm with calmer winds than earlier. Lures I threw included blue sardine Saltwater X-Rap SXR-10, flake blue sardine Max Rap MXR-11, tennessee olive shad Clackin Minnow CNM-9, purpledescent Shallow Shad Rap SSR-9, silver blue Skitter Pop SP-9, purpledescent BX Minnow BXM-10, silver blue X-Rap Shad Shallow XRSH-8, and pearl grey shiner Flat Rap FLR-10. I didn't get a single hit on any of those lures. Later as the tide was going out the snapper bite turned on. Switched over to a silver Husky Jerk HJ-6 which had snappers going. Caught about 10 with most being 6 inches. 3 were nicer 7 inchers and 1 was a 10" snapper/snarbor. Snappers eventually disappeared so I took a break Downtown. Got over to Remington around 4:30pm to find hardly anybody there. Threw the SP-9. FLR-10, and SXR-10 out there with no luck. A usual surf caster was there with his soft plastics but no hits. As sunset got closer, the bigger snappers got active. I got into them in no time with the HJ-6. Caught close to 20 with size ranging from 6" to 11". Most were in the 6 to 8 inch range with some being nicer snarbor size. Kept my limit of bigger snappers. After sunset is when snappers left and a school of bunker started showing up. The surf caster and I tried throwing a number of lures out there with not even a soft plastic chopped in half. Another person snagged a bunker, livelined it, and let it swim back out there. He had no luck. I hit the road around 7:15pm
Author:
avidangler
Date:
Oct 08, 2013
Message:
Not even a livelined bunker was grabbed??????That's pretty bad considering it's time for the blues and stripers to strap on their feeding bags. Seems to be how it was for me last weekend.After i snagged what i wanted.....I let a few swim and nothing was under them....Yet,the striper i caught on a topwater and kept.....had a whole bunker in it's belly.
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