November 4th and 5th, 2017 Hero to Zero (East Wind Sucks!)

My friend Bill with his first albie, in November!

The title says it all! East wind sucks.  I experienced phenomenal albie fishing on Saturday.  A friend and myself caught 4 albies.  There were albies everywhere, outside the islands, inside the islands, and all the way up inside Norwalk harbor, north of the gas dock.  It seemed like they were everywhere they should be and shouldn't be.  I saw them feed with subtle sips on the surface, as well as full out launch themselves 3-4' out of the water.  We caught them on bone and silver 7/8 epoxy jigs.  I even found a bunker school with big blues on them.  I threw a spook and connected multiple times with 27" fish.

Bunker school being harassed by big blues

Then the wind shifted overnight. It was blowing 15 out of the East on Sunday morning and there were no albies to be found.  I checked everywhere; inside of islands, outside, harbor, Saugatuck.  The East wind has once again proven to be a major factor in fizzling out what was extraordinary fishing the day before.

A friend took this pic of me hooked up with an albie

awesome colors

Jones Brothers 1910 LT Cape Fisherman working some albies on a beautiful fall day.

November 2, 2017 November is the New October!

We left the dock around 3:15 and were on surface blitzs of schoolie bass within minutes of leaving the slip.  We had the fish to ourselves for hours.  They fed with reckless abandon on peanut bunker.  The fish were so plentiful that you can choose to blind cast a fly, or spook and still hook up regularly, or sight fish to blitzing fish.    The tide finally was at dead low when the action started to wind down, so we moved on.  We fished some jetties and structure, finding blitzing fish and plenty of action everywhere we went.  All the fish were 20" or smaller.  No albies were seen.