Obsession Fishing Stripers 5/7/11

captkeith · Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 3:44 pm Post subject: Obsession Fishing Stripers 5/7/11

Obsession Fishing 5/7/11
We fished with Harlan Smith, Bruce and Zane and his 8 year old son Jaimen today. I spoke to Harlan during the week and asked if he could reschedule his trip due to the poor fishing conditions we were having. It has been slow with a few fish being caught. Harlan decided he wanted to give it a try anyway and was looking forward to a day on the water. We have fished together for several years now and Harlan always brings the best of attitudes and some good luck. We decided to give it a shot which turned out to be a great decision. They arrived about 6o am and we got things together and made our way out the inlet. Young Jaimen joined me up on the bridge for most of the day helping me run the boat what a great kid listened well and payed close attention to everything going on. We first ran NE of the inlet to about 45 feet of water and started marking bait I kept going and ran out of the bait, we decided to start there we set our lines and trolled back through the bait. The water temp was 48 degrees and the water was cloudy and green. The bait was still there, we didn’t get a touch after 45 minutes so we pulled everything in and ran up the beach. We started fishing in 60 feet of water . We were at it for about 1 hour the water temp was 49 to 50 degrees a little cleaner and then we got our first bite on a custom bunker spoon it turned out to be a 44’ Striper very nice fish. Zane and His Son Jaimen double teamed this fish and did a great job on it. This fish was almost as big as Jaimen. They did a great job getting him to the boat. Next up was Bruce he landed a nice 40 incher on the green spoon. The next one came on a green spoon as well for Harlan.The water surface temp was up to 52.5 degrees and the fishing started improving for us. We worked a spot and picked up 4 more Stripers then Harlan wanted to try some Fluke fishing we left them biting about 1:00 pm the first bite was about 10 AM . On the way back to the inlet we hit some huge schools of bunker we tried casting some plugs and Jaimien snagged a bunker he was pretty happy to catch him as well. No sign of bass we moved on to try fluking where Jaimien was the only one to catch a short. It turned out to be a great day ending up with 7 Stripers. ITS STRIPER TIME I HAVE DATES OPEN www.obsessionfishing.com for more photos.
Tight Lines Capt Keith Mate Kenny