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Timing
- Jersey shore/IBSP - First week in November might be key. Ideally, when the temperature drops significantly (which comes along with a nor'easter, maybe), start really fishing 2-3 days after full or new moon. Earlier in the season, it might make sense to fish further north like Montauk, plum island, etc.
- most striper anglers find a lull right on the day or 2 of the full moon itself. Peak times seem to be 2-3 days after full / new IMO
- Fish went crazy in IBSP roughly the day after the new moon Oct. 28, 2011. Temperatures dropped significantly around the same time.
- Full moon Oct. 29, 2012
- New moon Nov. 13, 2012
- Full Moon Nov. 28, 2012
Reading
Possible Locations
- Massachusetts
- Martha's Vineyard
- Nantucket
- Plum Island
- Long Island
- Rhode Island
- New Jersey
- IBSP
- Sandy Hook
- Long Beach Island
- Cape May
- North Carolina
Conditions
- Water temps - Montauk, Sandy Hook, Cape May
- Sunrise/Sunset times
- Tide charts
- Moonrise/Moonset times
Surf Fishing Reports
- Long Island
- New Jersey (IBSP, Sandy Hook, Cape May)
- Martha's Vineyard
- North Carolina
Baitfish
- My bass had fed primarily on small crabs, secondarily on small eels 4-5 inches long and 1 cm tall. We didn't see other bait in the water at the time.
- Sand eels - Especially at night
- I have caught these in Sandy Hook
- My bass had a bunch of these in his stomach
- Needlefish - simulates sand eels, but has some float so it works well in Montauk or other boulder fields where snags could be an issue
- SuperStrike - Sinks, but lifts upon retrieve
- Gibbs Needlefish - Floats, making it easy to use
- Needlefish lures have no lips, or blunt or concave ends, so they don't provide much action on their own when retrieved. However in rips, and such places, the moving water provides the action. So just retrieve the lure slow and straight and let the moving water do the work.
- The next question is what color. If you go to Montauk, the fishermen are all using yellow. In June of 2009, Mike Coppola caught a 55.75 pound striper at Montauk on a yellow Super Strike needlefish lure.
- Ava/Diamond Jig - Acts like a sand eel running along the bottom, good in places with a sandy bottom where snags are not a big worry. Makes puffs like sand eels do when they dig in. Add a teaser.
- To keep a metal lure near the surface, retrieve it rapidly. To get it deep, pause and let it sink deeper before retrieving. Retrieve it fast to catch bluefish; slower for stripers.
Videos
- Stick and move! - Travel light (no waders, minimal gear) and find the fish, don't wait for them to find you.
Gear
- Lures
- Black, white teasers
- Deadly Dick
- Storm shads
- Vision Surf Eels
- Needlefish?
- Pencil Popper
- Plug
- "Guy who likes Hopkins/Deadly Dick: I also keep a butterbean bucktail in my bag that I tip with an Uncle Joshes split tail for when the water chills out."
- "when the waves get big break out the big wood swimmers. all plugs with the exception of the poppers are fished below a teaser."
- Montauk blitz - "We caught stripers on every lure we tried; including large poppers and swimmers. The lure most fishermen were using, and the one catching the most fish, was a white bucktail with a red and white pork rind trailer. Although a soft plastic curly tail trailer also worked, the fishermen were using pork rind because it was more durable and it did not need changing between fish, even when they caught a bluefish."
- Line
- 50lb test leader
- 15-17 lb test mono
- Hooks
Bring
- Decent shoes - My wrecked sneaks and aqua socks did not cut it. The shoes totally fell apart and filled up with sand.
- Waders - See here for recommendations
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