10.20.19 Blitzs with Phoebe

Started the day out by 7am with lots of blitzs happening very close to the dock.  Landed a bunch of small stripers, under keeper size along with a few blues.  The prey of choice was peanutbunker.  I continued my search and was rewarded with many more blitzs up and down the shoreline.  Nabbed a 25" bass which was the largest of the day.  Switched to Toggin.  Didn't catch a single Tog, just kept catching XL seabass and broke my rod on the hookset on this guy.  Overall good fun day.  Home by 12.  No albues or bonito were seen at all.

10.14.19 Albies with SQUID

Had a bit of a late start, but we made up for it by heading straight to LI to search for albies.  With the help of a friend we found them feeding heavy!  After my first hook up in as soon as we rolled up on seen, I switched to the flyrod because I could tell wuickly that these albies were commiting suicide.  They were busting all around the boat at times 360 degrees, close to the boat as well.  It took many tries but I went 1 for 3 and landed an albie on a fly that I tied.  Pretty stoked to see my backing.  Overall we landed propably close to 10 albies that day.  Thanks to SQUID (@Huckleberry_thick on Insta) for the assist.

10.4.19 and 10.5.19 Tightlined Slam Tournament!

Some Fishy Dudes, right there.

Team Light Bite Charters was at it again to seal a victory in the Tightlined Slam Tournament to benefit conservation efforts.  We braved high winds, 3' waves and overall difficult fishing situations and came up short this year.

Saturday, we spent the morning in the islands plugging away and were rewarded with schoolie size bass to put us on the board.  Once the weather got better we hit up some bunker schools and connected with better blues in the 20-28" mark.  We made the run to hunt down albies, but could not make it happen because of how spread out and inconstantly they were popping up.  We hit up the bunker schools again in the afternoon and were rewarded with 29" blues and a 35" bass which awarded Jason Coleman of Salty Sea Tee Company the Largest Striper award.

Sunday, the weather was even worse than the day before.  We could not leave the harbor.  We were really limited geographically with where we can fish because of the high winds and fierce waves.  We braved the elements and eked out accouple more schoolie size bass, just shy of keeper size.

Another team won the title this year because they were able to locate bonito along with small stripers and blues.  There were NO albies caught during the tournament by any team.

It was a lot of fun and we will likely be doing it again next year.

10.1.19 Albies

Took my Dad and Uncle John out.  Made the run in even worse chop than the other day.  Found more albies frothing in the chop.  This time they stayed up feeding for up to a minute! I never have seen this in real life.  I have only seen albies feed locally for a few seconds, up to 10 seconds.  There were feeds that literally lasted a minute, which would make fly fishing for them a real possibility, aside from the fact that the wind was blowing 15mph.  We hooked up with 5-6 albies but only landed 1.  The ride back was absolutely horrible with 3-4 foot tight chop.

9.28.19 ALBIES

Took out friends Bill and Brian.  Made the run and found large schools (50 plus fish) albies frothing in the chop.  They were not up for very long however which made fishing for them quite difficult.  We connected with 4-5 fish and landed none.

Long Island BALD EAGLE!