first report of 07
nothing major, but I had the pleasure of fishing my friends 2360 SailfishCC w/ twin 115 yammy4s. Nice boat. There are bunker [menheden] so thick around here, the likes of which I haven't seen in years. Not only could you step outta the boat and walk on them , you could STAND on them. Anyway we set up in front of the LIPA power station in Northport. Acres and acres of bunker. Snagged about 30 or so. Our thoughts were that the bass are not yet in "feed" mode so livelining a bunker took a back seat to cutting one up and using chunks. Lots of false "run-offs" it was just the bait snagging themselves in the line. I finally had one run-off that lasted alot longer and was alot faster than the previous ones, so after about twenty seconds of peeling line I locked the Calcutta 400s in full drag and bought him in. Again, nothing major about a 28" bass but it beats getting skunked. My friend Don, who owns the boat, got one on the next drift. We got these fish in the last 15 mins of a six hour trip....a little to long on a school night.....Water temps around here are still mid 40's [ 60* right in front of the power stations outflow] so we still need some warmer weather to get the water temp. up to 55* or so then the fishing can get really good. We'll see
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