October 22, 2018 Albies Leave + Striper Bite Turns On

WIND and Temperature Drops Cause Albies to Leave and Striper Bite to Turn On.

We have seen both day and night time temperatures drop significantly over the last week from daytime highs in the 70's to now 50's and nighttime highs in the 50's to now in the low 30's.  Along with the temperature drop, there has been a consistent 15mph or better wind that has made it difficult to fish outside of the islands since last Tuesday!  There have been steady 2' waves outside.  The water temps have dropped from the mid 60's to the low to mid 50's!

The boats that are fishing are mostly forced to fish inside the islands for stripers and blues.  The boats that are going outside are mainly anchoring for tog with pretty good results.  I have friends that are limiting out on Tog in 1-2 hours.

As a result of the huge temperature swing, the albies have unfortunately been filtering out, although I have heard of some being caught just east of here as of Friday.  I think the best albie fishing in our area is behind us at this point.  However the temperature drop has sparked a local feeding frenzy of schoolie stripers inside the islands, which can be seen blowing up on peanut bunker in the mornings and evenings.  There have been a good amount of birds on them, so finding them shouldn't be a problem.  I have noticed that the better striper fishing is usually out of the wind in the harbor and smaller coves that are hidden.