ONE VERY FRUSTRATING WEEK! by Dave spendiff

Posted on November 19, 2016 by VHFC

On Friday Nov. 18, 2016 I broke the BI at 6:10 with hundreds of boats heading north. Never have I seen so many boats! Guess nobody works on Friday’s any more. At any rate, I could not find a concentration of bunker, I think the bait was scattered because of all the traffic heading north. Eventually, I started throwing a white Storm swimming shad at a few decent looking marks and tied into a 16.75lb gator bluefish. There were a few radio reports of bass caught on the troll, but I’m not into trolling so was fully frustrated with the rocking and rolling from the constant fast boat traffic close to shore. I was unable to find any bunker pods and I finally headed for home around 11:30. I had gone south, around Harvey Cedars , the day before(Thursday) with plenty of bunker but no bass working them and the day before that, I was north of BI with plenty of concentrated bunker, but again, no bass. On Monday, 11/14/15 Bill Dabney and I cleared the BI in the dark, went north and found plenty of bunker but no bass. One very frustrating week!!! I will be out again next week with the expectation of catching my first keeper fall striper.

Congratulations to Vince and John on their successful Monday trip. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

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