Block Island Strippers 9-3-11

[bassarama]

Originally Posted by Shawsee

Bass,

The "peanut" is a peanut shape rock ledge that comes up to 30 feet from 60 plus depth. If you have a gps chartplotter you can locate it easy enough. It's right off of the Southwest Ledge on the southwest side of Block between the two red cans. It's close to the 3-mile limit area and between Block & Montauk. We got hit bad by blues there also two weeks ago. We were trolling niners and the blues were chewing up the plastics pretty bad where we had to switch over to snapping parachute jigs on wire. Caught some monster ocean blues close to twenty five pounders but no stripers. I pick my days to be venturing out there between Block & Montauk. Sometimes it does get real nasty out there real quick too. My V does great drifting and she does rock somewhat but not that bad at all. I will attach a great link for you ok? It's the NOAA link to the red buoy on the Southwest corner of Block. Great wave info to check on the morning or night you are ready to head out. When Irene hit Sunday that buoy was rocking at 27.6 feet at 12 second intervals. Waves were 27 feet high and 10 second intervals. Simply incredible info site and a great source of info right here. Great to see you again neighbor! http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/mobile/stat...?station=44097

Thanks to all of your nice words, now I'm on the hunt for a 50 pounder!

Shawsee, thanks for all that info. I have the boat at the house in RI, otherwise I'd be zooming in to that that spot right from my front lawn (GPS). like you say, It can't be hard to find, for all I know we might have been there last Sat.
Depending on the weather we might spent this weekend up there, if this forecast holds truth : "NW winds around 5 kt...becoming SW in the afternoon. Seas around 2 ft." we'll take a run to BI.

Thank again

Joe