I have been hitting South Shore LI beaches and inlets hard, fishing mornings and nights a lot looking for stripers. But, pretty much all of my success has been good size bluefish during afternoons on an outgoing tide. Rotating through about 4 different spots, with 3 being productive and learning the 4th. Fishing bucktails, darters, diamond jigs, needlefish, paddletails, bottle plugs, and EVERY fish has come on SP minnows…. How can I make my mornings and nights more productive? I am seeing people put stripers on the beach at these spots. Fished my 4th spot for hours last night with one hit where a bluefish bit off my paddletail. Fucker.
Posted by tromboneblower
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You catch stuff? Awesome. I haven’t had a bite in over a year.
That’s the biggest bluefish I’ve ever seen. 😮
wait until the bluefish derby, then you won’t catch any bluefish. that’s what usually happens with me every year.
Because once they’re around in numbers, the stripers leave. They’re also the most voracious feeders of all the sport fish on the east coast. Like big piranhas. That’s a big one though and I’m sure he put up a great fight!
Also on the south shore of Long Island. Stripers are hard as fuck to find out here. Could try live bait like eels or you can try bunker chunks.
When did you start? The bass were there a while ago but get driven out by blues. North shore is productive on bass and lite on blues right now
I’ve been watching a TON of LI YouTubers and like 90% of their catches seem to be north shore and at night????
I’m from LI but never fished while I was there. Check out bsprex fishing on yt.
Can confirm, Bass have been spotty on LI. A few weeks ago big ones were being landed-lot of blues now.
You’re not doing anything wrong.