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2018/04/29 12:29:24 (permalink)

Mighty muddy 2018

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

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    Fisherlady2
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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/04/29 12:42:35 (permalink)
    Sweet! Looks like a great start to the boating season! 
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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/04/29 12:46:16 (permalink)
    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.

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/04/29 13:14:28 (permalink)
    Now that is the way to get it start. Here is to its continuation.

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/04/29 14:37:44 (permalink)
    Can those brutes be hooked on fly tackle in those waters?
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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/04/29 16:06:39 (permalink)
    We ended up with 5 stripers.
    2 were in the slot of 28-40" and released. The others 28 and under are being eaten, as I type and the remaining will be soon.

    Jack, it's possible and I have before. The probability is very small. All the fish I've put over the rail or my friends and family did this weekend were on bait. Herring or blood worms. Bait is now the focus, we bought frozen and cut it up. We couldn't catch any bait.

    It's just the start of a great season. If the rain stays away, the fishing will be off the charts. My friends are residents of the river every day until the fish leave late May

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/04/30 15:36:37 (permalink)
    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. 
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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/04/30 18:33:48 (permalink)
    Thanks Charlie. Huge swing from only catching 1 fish all last season. The river is a muddy one. Far better looking conditions this season. Don't get me wrong, it's ugly out there but fishable so far and ahead.
    Bait is scarce, good and bad. If you got it it's candy to the fish right now. If you don't, then your just out for a boat ride.
    The other flip is when it's stupid with herring, your just 1 of thousands.
    Next sail, Wednesday
    post edited by hot tuna - 2018/04/30 20:30:23

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/01 21:27:58 (permalink)
    3 over the rail in 2.5 hrs tonight.
    Only going to get better.

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/02 10:54:05 (permalink)
    You're the man!  I feel a 50 lb cow coming your way.
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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/02 21:23:14 (permalink)
    get 'em!
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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/02 22:20:13 (permalink)
    Tough grind tonight. Catching live bait is not happening yet. Relying on help from friends, supermarket clams and bloodworms.
    It's all working so far.
    While the sun was bright, the winds and tide were not so friendly.
    Smaller 3 year-old are prevalent and hungry.
    Soon , very soon the big cows will be HERE

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/03 07:18:20 (permalink)
    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?  
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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/03 08:52:10 (permalink)
    So far it seems like a sparse amount of herring. Everyone I know is struggling with them up here. The river temperature just hit 49 degrees so hopefully they will start.

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/05 12:34:56 (permalink)
    They are HERE and biting
    post edited by hot tuna - 2018/05/05 12:36:27

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/05 13:13:36 (permalink)
    That just has to be a good time.

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/05 18:15:01 (permalink)
    It was on today.
    Thanks to my grandson Harvey and my boy Rob
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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/05 18:42:38 (permalink)
    Looks like you have it figured out! Congrats on the catching and glad to see you out enjoying the boat time!
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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/05 18:54:30 (permalink)
    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 

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/08 07:17:41 (permalink)
    Got a lot of rain Sunday. Made the mighty, muddy. Tough to catch bait.
    Ended up with 3 stripers. No pictures as I left my phone in the truck.
    I got a feeling today is going to be the day .

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/08 08:47:39 (permalink)
    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. 
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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/08 20:23:23 (permalink)
    It was fun . We caught fish too.
    Got nowhere to be right now.
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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/08 21:09:17 (permalink)
    Nice , too much work to be done here to fish

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/09 07:29:05 (permalink)
    A+ .  That boat is gathering more mojo by the day.
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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/09 11:58:26 (permalink)
    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.

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/09 19:50:10 (permalink)
    Where are the cows.
    Slot is not working.

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/10 10:30:36 (permalink)
    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.
    post edited by hot tuna - 2018/05/10 10:33:40

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/10 21:27:36 (permalink)
    The ocean temps were and are 2 weeks behind. They came in late, so you may not have seen the main herd yet. By this time last year I had already caught a bunch, my first trip next week is making me nervous that I'm going too early. Of course, north of Boston is different, but this spring/winter dragged pretty bad.  I hope not all is amiss. The biologists I fish for  found very large amounts of one and two year old stripers   from the Hudson traveling as far as Maine  last year.  Good sign.  Normally they go no further than L.I. and Cape May.  The slot limit either worked or there was an anomaly in the amounts of spawners. Jury is still out. More will be coming over the rail, you'll get some cows. I do like your tag idea- thanks for  sharing your observations.
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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/11 18:11:03 (permalink)
    Couldn't ask for much more
    39.75, could've made her 40 but released for another day

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    Re: Mighty muddy 2018 2018/05/12 08:00:47 (permalink)
    Big girls showed up and we are in the game

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