Block Island Strippers 9-3-11

[Shawsee]

Nice catch! We fish the Block at night and it's a blast. Same set-ups you used and we catch quite a few good size ones also. Were you guys fishing the "Peanut" on the Southwest Ledge? We fish there in my V20 between the Block & Montauk. Gets rough but the V handles it pretty darn good. At night it gets hairy when there are alot of boats out there drifting, but it's managable. Gotta love the Block!

[Blue_Runner]

What a pig. Congratulations!

[bassarama]

Originally Posted by Shawsee

Nice catch! We fish the Block at night and it's a blast. Same set-ups you used and we catch quite a few good size ones also. Were you guys fishing the "Peanut" on the Southwest Ledge? We fish there in my V20 between the Block & Montauk. Gets rough but the V handles it pretty darn good. At night it gets hairy when there are alot of boats out there drifting, but it's managable. Gotta love the Block!

Thanks and hello to all of you, it's been a while!

Shawsee, it was my second time there, so I'm not realy sure if the spot we fished is called the "peanut". About a month ago, my son Bryan and I fished the area at night for the first time ever! NBS.
All we got were bluefish bite offs. I don't know about you Vee, but mine rocks while drifting...a bite more than I'd like to admit, I don't know if its because of the T-top or what. All I know is that there's no way in heck I would be there last Sat with my Vee, the little boat (20's) I refer to was like a little cork all over those huge waves, those guys bounced like crazy, but their boat rocked much less tht my Vee does.

Can't wait to get a chance to go there again, fish for black sea bass during the day and stay well into the dark for the cow bass...on my Vee that is.

[Shawsee]

Originally Posted by bassarama

Thanks and hello to all of you, it's been a while!

Shawsee, it was my second time there, so I'm not realy sure if the spot we fished is called the "peanut". About a month ago, my son Bryan and I fished the area at night for the first time ever! NBS.
All we got were bluefish bite offs. I don't know about you Vee, but mine rocks while drifting...a bite more than I'd like to admit, I don't know if its because of the T-top or what. All I know is that there's no way in heck I would be there last Sat with my Vee, the little boat (20's) I refer to was like a little cork all over those huge waves, those guys bounced like crazy, but their boat rocked much less tht my Vee does.

Can't wait to get a chance to go there again, fish for black sea bass during the day and stay well into the dark for the cow bass...on my Vee that is.

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

[Road King Cole]

Now THAT's a fish!!!

Man, I need to get out and give it a try soon. Been so busy...next available day for me would be 9/17...

But I can't complain, got my health and I am not flooded...

rkc

[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

[SkunkBoat]

SWEEEEEEET!
Play with them another month and then send 'em down to Jersey

Gettin' itchy....

[reelapeelin]

Nice Striper, Bassarama!!...gotta feel good about THAT one!!...


...and I imagine the extra weight up high of a T-top would cause some extra tipping...

[SkunkBoat]

Originally Posted by reelapeelin

...and I imagine the extra weight up high of a T-top would cause some extra tipping...

I always thought V20s were pretty stable fishing machines and thats why I bought one. My hardtop is pretty substantial and I never noticed any added tippiness.