[willy]

Phester went out last week caught several stripes, 4 32 - 37 and a few smaller, Raritan Bay, my friends are reporting that there are large schools being hit at Fire Island as of last week, expect the recent cold snap to push them my way soon. Or they could do what they did last year and a large amount of them skip the bay completely and head south. The Shrewsbury Rocks are producing some big boys but it is sporadic like I had last week.
I was using eels and fishing the drop offs and channels but got nothing but a few blues ripping my eels apart and after several locations nothing.
I observed two boats coming out of the harbors and fishing long before any one else fishes so I went to investigate and found that they were fishing in 12-14 ft of water! perfectly flat bottom. Said what the H@ll nothing normal is working drifted thru and guess what several big fish, several good hits and something else was getting stuck occasionaly when we would set the hook clams it was a clam smorgasborg down there in that shallow water and thats where the stripes were at I'm just learning this salt water stuff, apparently its going to be a big learning curve as you never know what is happening down in that water.