Fishing Report - 9/23

Not too much new to report this week. The weakfishing in the bay remains good to excellent with fish in the 18 to 24 inch range being pretty common. While grass shrimp is still working, the fish are fattening up on peanut bunker so it probably won't be too long until they start making their move out of the bay. Bluefish are still abundant both in the back bay and the inlet areas. We'll continue to concentrate on weakies for the next week or so before making the switch over to striped bass for the remainder of the year.

We did spend part of the time on yesterday's trip checking the inlet areas for striped bass, but the bluefish made it pretty tough to keep a whole bait in the water for more than a couple of minutes. That situation should get better as more of the bluefish move down the beach chasing the baitfish that are heading south for the winter. The best fishing of the year is about to begin, so let's go fishing.

Capt. Jack,

What were you guys using in the inlet yesterday? We tried a little bit, in between jigging for weakfish in the bay. Tried several types of spoons, diamond jigs, plastic fish in peanut bunker pattern, but other than a couple of hits, we were not able to get anything going. Didn't have any bait with us, and there wasn't much happening according to the radio contacts we had. So we went back to fish for more weaks.

Tony,
My charter was livelining large peanut bunker and I was experimenting with 9" bkd's. Both had action, but most of it came on the peanuts.

I hear the secret is live spot, but have never tried them myself.

That secret was let out of the bag years ago

I know, just moving slower than you sharpies.

Thanks!