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John Cooper (Coopie)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 02, 2008 - 8:11 am: | |
May 29th
THIS IS A HEADBOAT STORY FROM
FLORIDA...NOT SHEEPSHEAD-BAY !
My wife and I went out on a half day boat from Key-West Florida.
The Tortuga V
78 degrees and sunny, 65 mph breeze.
A smallish Florida style catamaran party boat.
We had a good time and hooked a couple of fun Red Grouper. But they were shorts.
We had some Yellowtail snapper and grunts to keep.
The trip out is 45 min. and mostly we were fishing for small fish, all pecking away the large bait.
I found myself cutting the bait in half.
Plenty of cold squid & bally chunks.
The party boat was full of some the usual downfalls.
The "Full Gally" was crap, just candy-bars and chips. No coffee, just soda and beer.
Lots of crying for tips in the safety speech and trying to increase pool participation.
The usual spinning reel types stopping everybody else fighting big fish with light line and different bait & tackle.
Miraculously, the regular (who is a mates helper) won the pool.
There is always a Coast Guard safety message from the crew.
In Florida there are a lot of toxic spines and things to get you so be carefull.
There is no shade on this boat except in the cabin so screen up use a hat, glasses whatever.
The mates unhook all fish, if you let them.
The rig is a Knocker-rig: a #6 J hook tied right to the line through a 1 oz egg sinker.
If you can feel it a larger fish takes the bait without the pull of the sinker.
Some of these rigs were bastardized to suspend the bait 6 inches above the bottom.
We fished in 20 to 30 feet of water. There is some tide running and the boat (being shallow draft) lays to the wind.
So sometimes your line is under the boat.
Both the squid and ballyhoo are cut into chunks.
The real mates did not fish and were VERY attentive.
They would not let you unhook your own fish, really on top of the customers.
Your fish is marked and poot on ice instantly.
The boat is clean...heads ok too.
My wife was not the only lady on board.
The customers are all tourists, like me.
This is the cheapest way to go to the reef to fish in Key West.
It is 99% Charter-Boat here.
When you pull in to port, they throw you off the boat and then the pool is settled.
You get your fish while you stand on the dock.
Why? I don't know. Is this all the boats down here? I don't know.
See the giant Tarpons eat the bones as the mates fillet your fish for you.
Alonzo's, in the same marina, will cook your fillets for you! Nice place. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 02, 2008 - 6:56 am: | |
May 23rd 2008,
I went out to the Jetty @ 37th Street and Surf and found it marked "Keep Off Jetty".
I was upset...I don't how long this has been marked keep off but I think of the jetty as MY SPOT.
I did not fish there because I don't want to be chased by cops. The police have better things to do.
I am not a law breaker.
I may try from the beach in that spot but today
I was too angry.
The city will be getting an complaining letter from me.
Steeplechase pier was O.K. instead. Sea-Robins all over the pier. One skate nothing great being caught. I got a Sea-Robin.
I am going to find a new place to fish. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 5:09 pm: | |
May 23rd 2008,
I went out to the Jetty @ 37th Street and Surf and found it marked "Keep Off Jetty".
I was upset...I don't how long this has been marked keep off but I think of the jetty as MY SPOT.
I did not fish there because I don't want to be chased by cops. The police have better things to do. I am not a law breaker.
I may try from the beach in that spot but today I was too angry.
The city will be getting an complaining letter from me.
Steeplechase pier was O.K. instead. Sea-Robins all over the pier. One skate nothing great being caught. I got a Sea-Robin.
The New Portable Carnival show in the Coney Island Amusment Area seems like good use of the site.
I am going to get my jetty back or fing a new place to fish. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 10:45 am: | |
5/8/08,
I went to Sheepshead bay to go on the Sea Queen VII. The day was warm & sunny 70 degrees and 5-10 mph breeze.
They said there was no flounders and they were jigging for blues...So, fine. I put away my flounder stuff and went out. The boat did not sail right away (engine trouble) and the mates said I could come back for the afternoon trip, for free.
I never did two half days before. It was fine. In the morning we killed the blues at brezzy point. The birds were there around the first red bouy any even though I had a rented pole and my jigging techniqe was rusty I hooked a lot and kept 3.
There were very few passengers so the mates had plenty of time to coach me.
The jig, by the way, was "A-47" regular chrome diamong jig (single hook). I had florescent pink surgical tube on mine. Some had the hammered gold jigs. It doesn't matter if your on the school you could catch them with a wrench. Three feet off the bottom big ones ... good fight.
SO after that the boat returned to shore, I had time for a dry land lunch and to buy a new jig.
The 1:00 trip was the same plenty of fish but now with a few more customers. I had plenty of fish to catch...I shared some with someone who only had one. Good fun...lots of blood...fish flying into the boat. I remember why I got into fishing. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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On April 29 I wanted to take a half day partyboat from Sheepshead Bay. It was raining and Sea Queen was not sailing.
I didn't want to go out all day for flounders so I stayed on shore and finally tried Carnarsie Pier.
I got there at 8 o-clock and ther was a group fishing, I had heard the blues were running in there. I set up in the middle, fishing for flounders with one pole and blues with the other.
Casting a crocodile spoon and clams for the flounder. The tide was falling it moves pretty good here. I have to stop using multiple poles. I can't fish un attended style. I like fishing in this spot but I am catching nothing.
There is some structure right in front to the middle, you can get stuck 20-30 feet out. It seems better toward the right (west).
So I see there was at least one coctail blue pulled in before I showed up. Then this guy nammed Paul hooks a nice fish fights it in and lands it. There was some help from a big weighted trebble hook (Gaff) on a hand line. The fish was a 24 inch Weakfish. That was my guess, nobody was saying how many pounds or how long. It was a beautiful fish. Caught on bunker with a fishfinder rig. He was pretty far out, 5 oz. sinker.
I had to go get me some bluefish hooks and bunker.
So I got to the bait store and took bunker with me to Steeplechase pier.
The guys said Monday 4/28 (when the weather turnned to rain) The blue were hitting like crazy.
I fished the bunker chunks a while. I was not set for the cold rain so I only fished an hour.
There were a couple of blues caught but not by me. A little float keeps the bait up out of the sand with a 12" wire leader and a small chunk of a bunker. (next time I will too)
That is what those guys had tied on.
Clam chowder at Nathan's is good too. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 8:11 am: | |
April 15 I went out on the Ocean Eagle, It was a good trip, the Captian knows good spots and moves the boat around all day to keep everybody catching.
On this day nobody got skunked. It was a real mixed bag of a catch. Sunny with 5 mph breeze.
Usually this boat is the best for Blackfish and there were lots of Blacks comming up, but mostly shorts. I caught a nice keeper, a BIG Flounder and 6 ling. There were keeper Cod too but I didn't get one. Big Eels of some kind, Conger Eel, Skates and Dogfish too. The Mates on the Ocean Eagle are decent humane guys. They don't murder the garbage spicies, just throw 'em back. No keeping shorts either. Mate Mitch and Mate Glenn are attentive and enhance the "Party" atmosphere.
The food is good too, but I keep my tummy empty on these trips, you can't get sick if you don't eat.
Sometimes there is a Striper stop in the A.M. but not today.
Good fishing with Captain Greg. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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April 7th I went to Coney Island looking for a Flounder spot. I got my clam and sandworms @ Stella-Maris and went to Coney Island Creek. First in Bensonhurst behind Home Depot, then in Bayview right at 37th St. and Bayview Avenue.
The tide was high and was starting to fall, it was sunny and windy about 50 degrees.
Nothing, no bites. I had caught Flounder from a boat in this area, so I keep trying here. Perhaps it is too early. Perhaps there are no flounder here.
Next I go to Steeplechase Pier, by this time the tide is 1/2 way out. I start right under the pier out at the end and try casting out with the tide. No flounder.
There is a man catching Skates one after the other. Then I start to get a couple too, comming from the Rockaway side. That is enough it is windy and I don't eat skate. Some fisherman are trying for Herring close to the shore, just past where the waves are breaking, But I am done. |
CaptainIDS (Captainids)
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John Cooper (Coopie)
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August 15 2007 I went to Sheepshead Bay to get some bait,
The man at Stella Maris Fishing Station was very helpfull about buying tackle and fishing advice.
Then at about 11:00, I went to 37th street Jetty on Coney Island Beach.
The dept. of Parks chased me off.
The tide was high and some of the rocks were awash with water.
I asked the dept of Parks employee when he thought the tide would be lower.
He had NO IDEA.
He said "probably not today".
Some thing about the pole lease. I dunno.
So I went to the Steeplechase Pier I hooked a few short Porgies on some clam.
No bites on spearing and squid.
I tried casting twards Rockaway and retrieving against the tide.
Fluke like a moving bait.
All up and down the pier not too much luck.
Back @ the Jetty I tried for some fluke but the day was hot.
I think the fish all went to deeper water.
The jetty is best in the morning.
I guess it's nice the Parks Dept looks out for the fishermen.
I just don't want all that much protection. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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August 6 2007
I took a 1/2 day trip on the High Roller in Atlantic City NJ.
The boat is a small flat pontoon boat. There were about 20 passengers and I would say the boat was half to three quarters full.
They have 2-4 hour trips per day, they just go 5 minutes from the dock in the back bay area of the Abescon inlet. Drifting near the shore and in the channel. All in 20 feet of water. The captain gets you fishing right away. On most half day boats you travel at least a half hour to the fishing spots. On this boat you fish 3 hours and forty five minutes.
In the middle of the trip the tide stopped running and there were no fluke being caught, so we rode to a bridge in the bay and all caught small sea bass in the deeper water around the bridge supports. I should say all the sea bass were shorts and on the whole boat only 3 keeper fluke were caught (They call them flounder in A.C.).
It was quiet and low stress, no waves, no card game, beer is allowed but nobody was getting drunk. There is no cabin exept for the toilet and the boat is totally open so they don't sail on bad days. Bait was cut strips of mackerel and a good supply of live killies. I also brought some squid. I caught 6 fluke and 5 sea bass, all shorts.
There is another party boat in the harbor with half and three quarter day trips but it seemed like the usual type of trip.
I would reccomend this boat but don't expect any doormats. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
Thursday May 7
I took the morning half day on the Sea Queen.
The boat was half full so everyone fished on the starboard side, each drift was favored to the right side.
Plenty of nice spearing, No squid (bring your own).
The boat's tackle was regular fluke hook on a long leader & 6 Oz. sinker
I started out like that but switched to 8 Oz.
We drifted in in Coney Island Creek with no hits at 8:30.
Then at 9:00 we started drifting across the end of Seagate by the light house. On these drifts everyone caught fluke (mostly shorts).
Next a few drifts across the south shore of Seagate between the 38th street jetty and the lighthouse. This is when I started catching (shorts).
Finally at 11:00 we drifted by the Steeplechase Pier.
Also I pulled up fluke.(all shorts) right in front of the Parachute.
Some Sea Robbins, Crabs, Skates.
Excelent trip!
The mates are great.
The Captain is skilled in this type of fishing.
Last year I would have had 4 fish.
This new minimum is huge. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
So far in 2007 the only Fishing day I had was in May onboard the Ocean Eagle.
Those guys really know bottom fishing.
I had a great day, caught fish and enjoyed the sun.
The food onboard is good and the mates treat you well.
No pool fish for me though. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 09, 2006 - 3:07 pm: | |
Please look at this... it is sad.
BY WARREN WOODBERRY JR. and JANE H. FURSE
DAILY NEWS 10/9/07
A BROOKLYN college student was presumed drowned yesterday after he fell into the roiling wa¬ters off Breezy Point, Queens, during a fishing expe¬dition with his father and friends. Karl Heinzen, 21, of Park Slope, and five others started fishing off a slippery jetty short¬ly after dawn yesterday, said Karl's father, Jerome Heinzen. They had been fishing about halfway out on the algae-cov¬ered rock, and Karl had caught two striped bass shortly before a wave crashed over the jetty, pushing him into the water about 7:30 a.m.
"I went to try and help him, and I got pushed in by a wave Karl Heinzen myself," said his father, who was still in shock.
Heinzen said his son — a sophomore at the New School — was "an excellent swimmer and a strong man" and managed to struggle out of his heavy wad¬ers, but the powerful current swept him out toward a party boat, the Dorothy B., as the crew struggled to rescue him.
"They almost saved him; they were so close. I can see him reaching for a buoy, but by that time he was probably too tired," said the father. He called it "kind of ironic" that his son worked on the Dorothy B. dur¬ing his last two years in high school.
A police helicopter and scuba teams, as well as Fire Department, Coast Guard and U.S. park per¬sonnel, almost immediately began searching for the young man, but the strong current forced the search operation to stop until conditions improved, about 2:30 p.m.
As the search continued, the father returned to the scene with his wife and a young woman. The three sat together near the jetty, waiting to hear whether the young man's body had been found.
"I'm holding up okay, but my wife is who I have to deal with," said Heinzen.
Fishermen who frequent the area said the jetty is a popular spot off the point, which divides the Atlantic Ocean and Jamaica Bay, but yesterday's wind and high tide created deadly conditions.
"This is a very, very bad place. You have to observe Mother Nature. Most experienced guys know not to go when it's full moon or high tide," said William Si¬mon, 43, of Manhattan, who volunteers as a rescue ranger in the Rockaways.
Simon said when he went out there on Saturday, the waves were 12 feet high — and yesterday condi¬tions wouldn't have been much better.
PLEASE! do not let this happen to you. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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I went fluking with my wife at Fort Tilden’s Fisherman’s Beach
Sunday August 6th. The tide was coming in. 1:00 in the afternoon
The day was bright, with a nice 10-15 mph on shore breeze.
The water is still cool for August.
Fort Tilden is part of the Gateway National Recreational Area
The access for fishermen is outstanding. It is like going to a club in the Hamptons. You must have a parking pass. Or you can walk in, it is a long way from the Q-22 bus.
Bicycles are O.K. too.
The United States Government has set aside the most beautiful beach in New York City for YOU to fish off. The areas you can go are gorgeous. I am just scratching the surface of the great fishing spots you can go to in Gateway.
Get the pass at The Fort Tilden Visitor’s Center. After you leave the visitor’s center go west on Rockaway Point Blvd. to Beach 193rd street, make a left and go towards the Beach Club.
Turn before the guard house for the club parking lot make a left into federal property. You will see the conservationist and other federal signs. Don’t mess up the habitat.
There is a turn off that goes to the old artillery gun positions, seeing them is like being in a science fiction film. Go to the end of the road there is a parking lot. At the parking lot there are bathrooms, there is no running water but they are not bad, considering. Trash cans are available if you have soda cans or coffee cups to get rid of, that’s nice too. There is not a lot of trash around this place. People are considerate around here.
We parked and went to the beach on the paved road. You can take a cart on the road. Then we took one of the walkways to the beach. The beach is not wide and little jetties stick out into the waves. This separates the different spots on the beach. We came to the beach and to enjoy the sun and catch some fluke. During the week the area is empty, but today there are people clustered at the end of each walkway across the dunes. We went down the road to the 2nd walkway there was plenty of room to set up chairs and fish.
The water is nice, you can splash around but it is not for swimming. There is a steep slope to the beach and considerable rip in the tide. The slope is good for fishing. You can cast out 10 yards and be in 20 feet of water by my estimation. We fished with frozen spearing and squid strips. Also frozen sand eels. 3 oz. pyramid sinkers were plenty to hold bottom.
The other fishermen tell me live bait is better. (I know that!)
We only got one Sea Skate between us after a couple of hours trying.
Then we went to get fried seafood on dry land.
It was a good day fishin’ but not too much catchin’ |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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I went fishing on Rockaway Point on August 18th.
The day started out cloudy and windy.
I was going for fluke in a place I had never tried.
In the Gateway National Recreation Area, Breezy Point, on the point.
I had seen this spot for years from the deck of party boats.
There is a large jetty on the tip of Rockaway Point.
It takes a long time to get there but it is worth it.
To get there takes a while: first you must obtain an on or off road fisherman’s parking pass (off road is better).
Then go to the very end of Rockaway Point Blvd. @227th street. Just past the Breezy Point Surf Club is the regular fisherman’s parking lot.
You park there then follow the access road to the off road parking lot. On the way you pass tall high grass and you can look in on the Surf Club.
I could tell my little car could not go on the access road. There are big ruts and long stretches of un packed sand. The stuff is hard to walk on. I realized on the way that every step must be repeated on the way back. I was glad I only had one pole and a small amount of tackle.
You have to walk about a half mile to get to the beach. When you pass the Surf Club you can see acres of unspoiled dunes. There is a fence marking the trail. There are signs about fishing and wildlife preservation. It is apparent you are on preserved land. I appreciate seeing allot of nice beach. The special bushes and pines that only grow in a place like this are awesome. This is what it must have looked like when the Dutch explorers were on the beach in the 1500s.
I have seen no one out here but there is a ranger type vehicle parked in the Off Road Parking Lot. If you could drive to this spot it would be awesome. I don’t mind the long journey, It has prepared me for what I am about to see.
As I pass onto the beach I am blown away by the vastness it is about 1000 feet from the dunes to the water. There is not a single person on the whole beach. The day is still about half sun and clouds and the view is stunning. I start walking towards the point. There is the usual marine debris around but is so perfectly placed. I could not imagine a nicer landscape. The occasional bits of wood or other human remnants are so worn from being in the surf they are now a part of nature.
I was amazed at the fantastic view and quiet surroundings. It is hard to believe what a great spot is here in New York City. It is worth it to come here. It is like Montauk or Key West you are at “THE END” it is worth the trip.
I have a long walk ahead of me. I am walking at the high tide mark where the sand is a little firmer underfoot. You can walk better than in the loose dry sand.
On the way there are the usual flocks of sea gulls standing around, but there are some other birds. Little ones, lots of them they are afraid of me and keep away. The little birds are right where the waves are hitting the sand. As the water recedes the birds run towards the ocean looking for food I presume. Then the water comes back up the beach and the birds all run to keep dry. This cycle repeats over and over. The birds never get tired. There are so many of them. They are all walking so fast. It is fun to watch.
I now am coming towards the jetty. I notice it is much bigger than Coney Island.
There was no rain but he tide was high and the surf pounding onto the jetty kept it wet.
I did not venture out to the tip, it seemed hazardous. I had no idea the thing was this huge from passing by on the water.
The jetty is made from huge stone blocks and there are gaps between the stones that look dangerous to me. On another day I will try top go out to the tower at the end of the jetty.
On the jetty there was another man working 2 poles.
I started in for fluke with a 3 oz sinker and a single English bend fluke hook.
2 spearing and a strip of squid each time. The water is deep right off the jetty. I fished for about an hour. I did spend some time hooked up for a striper but no luck. I was enjoying the scenery and the seabirds so much I don’t think I was doing my best fishing.
I caught a sea robin.
I then got down off the jetty and tried off the beach for a while.
The beach here has a fast pitch. Wading in to the surf only a few paces and I was in to my waist. There is a noticeable undertow. Do NOT go to this beach with waders,
The tide is tough. I could not cast effectively past the breakers. When I did I would find my line down the beach with the tide in 3 feet of water
Later it started to clear but I had to go, on the way back the sun came out it was about 2:00 I felt the hot sun and the breeze slowed down. If only this had happened an hour ago. I think the fluke like to see the bait and a little sunshine helps.
Now there were a few cars in the off road lot. There were some surfers coming in. I think this is a good surfing day.
There are some beach goers down the beach. If you are part of the beach club or have a house in Breezy Point you have a spectacular spot on the beach with lifeguards. But this is not for me.
As I was coming off the beach onto the access road I smelled something funky. I thought it was some squid juice on by shirt but it had a smell of garbage too. The smell came and went as I walked to my car. I though nothing about it until the next day when I heard on the news about a strange smell on Staten Island and The Rockaways. Perhaps I smelled it.
Returning always seems faster to me than going somewhere. I got back to my car in about a half hour. I will try this again next season. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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Thursday 9/21
The day was a warm still day with humid sun on and off
I fished the Hutcheson River in Mount Vernon. The Hutcheson river is navigable from it’s mouth in Eastchester Bay up to about the Sanford Avenue exit of the Hutcheson River Parkway. Further upstream the river is quite small and quite fresh and there is a small lake where the river gets wide at Wilson Woods Park, Mount Vernon.
I tried to gain access to the river right at the Bronx County line under the Boston Post Road bridge. On the Westchester side of the bridge there are 2 scrap yards right on the water. I went down under the bridge, outside one scrap yard there was a man and woman working out of their pick up stripping the copper wire out of lighting fixtures. I asked if they knew of any fishing down there. No … so I did try to see if I could get to the water.
Under the tall bridge the shore was held back by bulkhead on both sides. The water was green like the Hudson. I think all salt to ¾ tidal backwater. The water was moving downstream at 3 to 5 MPH, I could not get to the water without doing some obvious trespassing. Also the wire strippers might have eyes for the copper in my car.
So I headed upstream to the next place where I could get access.
This is tough urban shore fishing.
Always in view is the big up and over the river pipeworks behind Modell’s…this place is on the edge of Westchester and the Bronx.
I stopped on South Fulton Ave between Edison Avenue and Secor Lane. There is a little bridge.
I have is some thawed squid. I will stop for a short while. So I chum my squid tentacles as I tie on a freshwater size hook. I am on the bridge and I drop my line with the current, it goes under the bridge. The river banks are all concrete around here. I think I will catch nothing, I chum some more eyeballs and check my bait (a wing). Then I changed my bait and fished a while more. Nothing.
Then I wrap it up and go back to work in a sort of warehouse…It was a good day. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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Steeplechase Pier, Coney Island - Brooklyn NY.
I went to Steeplechase pier on September 14th. About 12:00 Noon
It was raining with 10 to 20 mph winds blowing from the East.
The tide was almost high and coming in more.
I tried fluking with spearing and squid strips for about an hour, at the point where I saw people taking fluke before. But I had no luck. I had crab activity and some small bites. It was raining constantly.
Then I tried for some baby blues. (sea birds showed up) I used a surface popper with a trailing hook rig that did me fine before. I added a spearing to the surgical tube covered hook…nothing.
Sometimes the rain would take a break and the wind would slow down.
The pier was almost empty.
Some were getting 3 inch long snappers about ½ way out.
If the pier is shaped like a letter “t” I would say the middle is the cross in the “t”.
I was looking at the end and thought I saw some catching so I went out to the end.
I tied on a Porgy rig and used some frozen clam. Right away I got bites from porgies.
They were shorts, but I found I could just drop straight down and get all the bites I wanted. I kept pulling up short porgies until the clam ran out.
Small bait is good, so they take it in one bite. Just cover the hook. Going from the end, to 50 feet in, on the west side of the pier. I just walked the line to different spots along the rail. You can’t do that on a busy day. I got a 6 inch sea bass too. When the clam was gone so were the porgies. The squid that I had for fluke bait was no use with the porgies. I was cold so I was done.
On the way back towards the parachute I saw the snapper blues were being caught on what I think is a shad rig. A 4 foot leader with small hooks standing 3 inches off the main line every 10 inches. The hooks are dressed with a bit of tinsel. There is a loop at the bottom for a small sinker. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 5:52 pm: | |
Coney Island
Tuesday 8/29/06
I went fluking on the shore at Suicide Jetty 38th and Surf Avenue. It was rainish (not raining) and the tide was all the way in. I was all alone and the rocks were awash. I did not go on to the jetty. I was satisfied to fish in about 10 feet of water where I could stand on the sand. I was not going out to the end alone, if you fall it could be fatal. I decided my physical well being was more important than the good casting location.
There is a “rip” at the end of the jetty that works when the tide is going in or out. I just wasn’t in it. I was getting wet and my reel was getting sandy. So packed up and went to the pier.
The Coney Island Pier (Steeplechase Pier) was fun. I only took bait and one pole from my car. It was raining by now. I didn’t want to commit to a whole thing out there. I was sorry. I cast out and my rig got caught up in some sunken car or rock or something. So I gave a guy my bait and had a look around.
Every one was catching porgies, snapper blues and fluke. Didn’t see / hear of any big blues or stripers or weakfish. The guys were catching snappers on the popper rig with a teaser. One guy pulled up a triple header of porgies. He was using clam. I saw a nice fluke pulled up and other fluke in buckets.
My next day out I am going to try the pier and the jetty. |
John Cooper (Coopie)
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Suicide Jetty
Posted by John Cooper on August 23, 2006, 4:50 pm
In New York City, Brooklyn. There is the last (western most) jetty on 38th and Surf Ave on Coney Island. They call it "Suicide Jetty" because being the last it could be where you go to end it all.
It is the best shore fishing spot I have found. I catch Blues and Fluke and sometimes Porgies on this jetty. Fisherman have to be carefull, the rocks can be slippery. There is no lifeguard around and you CAN fall and crack your head open and drown. So please be careful!
Monday I caught 2 keeper fluke on frozen squid and spearing. I favor an English bend hook and use a 3 way swivel with a 3 oz pyramid sinker. Just cast out with the tide and retrieve slowly. If the tide is running toward Staten Island cast to the right, toward Rockaway cast to the left. The keepers are out there now.
For porgies cast straight out towards the bouy a dual Porgies rig with clam and/or sandworm gets them in August and September.
Blues and the occasional Striper are caught too. I get Blues on a Crocodile spoon. Sometimes a Blue gets my Fluke bait.(fun suprise)
Coney island pier has allot of spectators and people looking for a handout. But at Suicide Jetty it is a good crowd. Nice people no tangles no fighting for space. Everybody gets along. Fishing has no guarantee but this is a good spot to try. |
NORMAN SCHWARTZ (The_schwaz)
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OCT 20 05 ME AND A FRIEND WENT TO TILDEN BREZE PT. AND THE MAINT YD. FISHED THE OUT GOING TIED. NOTHING.FISHED FOR ABOUT 5 HRS NOT A BITE NOT A NIBEL.NOTHING WE WENT HOME. GOT A CALL SAYING THAT THEY WERE CATHING STRIPPERS AT TILDEN.EVERE WERE. SHOULD HAVE STAYED. THE SHWAZ. |
JKAk (Striper101)
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Yesterday I got my lure and was casting it like 60 times and on one of the throws I messed up and well when that fish hit I didn't feel like I messed up, it was a pretty nice size blue. |
JKAk (Striper101)
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lol,wow Sheephead's Bay is a weird place cause sometimes the fish arent there and sometimes there is just nothing(Empty) and sometimes there are fish but no one catches. Me my dad and my friend went up to find some boat to go on, (first time my friend was going so he was scare)first boat with him that we went on was for flukes (I forgot the name but it was a half a day trip)and my friend pulled out the pool fish, so the other time we went was for blues which i liked the most out of all i have been too, they use a rig and i just was the luckiest person on board every second I was pulling out Blues which were pretty nice, my dad caught 4 and I lended my rod to my friend and he pulled out the fish, so he got 1. It was a total of 12 fish, I pulled out mostly 6-7 pounds and one 10 or 11 pound fish, it was quite I should say...any other good baots out there, if there is or any lures or rigs working really well for fish email me back at Andymil2003@hotmail.com
THANKS ALOT!! |
friend (Unregistered Guest)
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the guy who fished on memorial day should bring a scale next timw |
Roy (Unregistered Guest)
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Memorial Day fishing at Sheepshead Bay was great. Blue fish & Bass plentyful. The boat I was on caught 15 bass 25lb to 40lb average. Tons of Blue Fish. Other boats did well also. |
BigBass
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Subject: FISHING IS LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Go and see the fish I have caught off the beach!
http://www.reelcollector.com/gallery.htm |
HOOKT
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Subject: NO FLOUNDER
Where are all the flounder? If things don't pick up, someone needs to take notice - we could have an ecological issue on our hands.
Party boats are coming up empty, despite their best efforts. All efforts are appreciated, but if I don't catch any fish, I'm waiting for striper season... |
HOOKT
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Subject: Fat lady singing?
Fished the sea queen this weekend. Nice weather but the Stripers aren't biting. |
