Mighty muddy 2018

I'm back home and started off much better then 2017.

Awesome HT, congratulations on a dandy catch. Wiper hunters around these here parts of Penn's Woods be drooling over those pictures.

Gotta git, need to wipe the slobber off my phone. lol.

Can those brutes be hooked on fly tackle in those waters?

Great  start, HT!  Jack, as you know, I've caught thousands of stripers on the fly, but only one from the Hudson and that took a night trip on a flat farther south of HT in my kayak. The Hudson is too deep and murky, even using 12" herring patterns and t-17 shooting heads  with a mono running line that works in ocean rips. There's a few flats, but they are inaccessible from shore. Long Beach Island  has fish  right now, so does the Susquehanna Flats  if you know someone with a Center Console.   I've got 4 weekends booked at campgrounds starting 5/18 on the coast. Can't wait.  Good luck with some cows, HT. 

3 over the rail in 2.5 hrs tonight.
Only going to get better.

get 'em!

I was on the river for a short while trying for some smallies yesterday afternoon. The wind was awful!!!!  Is it a bad herring year, or is it still a little cold?  

They are HERE and biting

It was on today.
Thanks to my grandson Harvey and my boy Rob

Great job HT. Wish I could get out hear the river is doing well   still  way too behind to do much anything but work and rest and repeat 

Good luck out there today! I am stuck at work...But summer schedule starting soon, so will be fishing Erie soon enough....though we have to go get the boat from a marina in southern Maryland this weekend or next, since it spent the winter there. 

Nice , too much work to be done here to fish

gave it a go from 6am till 9:30am. Wrong tide , incoming.
We only caught catfish and couldn't catch bait. Figured it was time to come home for a while and catch up on chores. Mowing for first time this year and it sucks..
Hope to get back on the river tonight.

Gotta take today off from fishing. I can say, the land won't stop swaying.
Here are my thoughts so far and my dislike of the slot size.
We have put 15 legal size stripers in the cooler. Legal means 18-28" OR over 40".
The fish we been catching are mostly in the 20-27" range. Same for others I know.
We keep 25-28" fish and releasing a lot of smaller or slightly over the 28" Mark.
Not seeing the number of slot fish that we did 2 years ago. Sadly back then, we caught a LOT of 32-38" fish that had to be released and seen many floaters coming down the river.
Personally, I'd like the state to implement a tag system of 5 fish each. You tag 5 anytime you want but once you use your fifth tag, your outta the game. No tag, no fishing.
I prefer, 2 or 3 hefty stripers to filet, rather than 15, smaller ones.

All that said, so far I'm seeing a lack of the spawning size stripers so something is a miss.

Couldn't ask for much more
39.75, could've made her 40 but released for another day