Cold weather fishing alien by Dave Spendiff

Posted on November 25, 2017 by VHFC

The fishing alien and his grandson, Mike, left the dock at 5am and broke the BI at 6:05 on 11/23/17 and headed north looking for bunker. We went all the way to Lavallette without finding any. Headed back south and found a few bunker pods along with a couple of whales about 3/4 mi off of the IBSP and Seaside border. Put 1/2 dozen in the live well and on the next snag let it drop – only took 3 or 4 minutes and the rod went down resulting in a fat 40” bass that was released to fight another day. And that was it!!! Saw a few boated, but not many. What happened to all of the bunker that were around last week? Sure hope they return as I’m not into trolling even though those trolling today seemed to be doing well. Hope to get out a few more times this year.

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