4/23: IBay nearly a Grand Slam

[Pike Hunter]

Fishing Report

Your Name / Boat Name: Bravo

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TRIP OVERVIEW

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Date(s): 4-23-10

Time on Water: 8 am - noon

Weather/Temp: brisk 40's to 50's

Wind Speed/Direction: NW

Waves: 1-2 ripple

Surface Temp: 49-50

Location: IBay to Webster

LAT/LONG (GPS Cords):

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FISHING RESULTS

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Total Hits: 6

Total Boated: 5

Species Breakdown: Brown, Laker, Coho & Sea Gull

Hot Lure: pink spoons & pink stickbaits and skly blue stickbaits

Trolling Speed: 2.0 - 2.4

Down Speed:

Boat Depth: 8-18

Lure Depth: 4-12

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS

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Great day to be out in the water especially with my day off from work.

Four rods - 2 on riggers and 2 off boards.

Started right out of Ibay - trolling eastward in 12 FOW. First fish took cindy bomber. Nice coho. Birds were dive bombing everywhere in front of Ibay.

Headed east toward Webster park away from the pack. Turned around and began trolling west. Another hit. the line stayed down as it looks familiar. Picked up fat laker over 18 FOW with ball down 12 FOW and 40 back. Took same pink spoon.

Passed Oklahoma beach, 8 FOW, landed this sizable brown brute 10-12# after a good 15 minutes fight.

Landed another brown!

One of the sea gulls took the stick bait and could not take off. Had to cut the line and say good bye to the stickbait. This would have made it unoffical count of 6 out of 7.

tight lines and good luck to those competing this weekend.

[tcon]

Nice Catch almost surf and turf...

[hassellmania]

We catch a lot of birds while casting into Blitzes off montauk. We real them in and put a towel over their head which immobilizes them. Then we unwrap them.

[Big Dave]

You can fight them in, and unhook them. However they are a lot bigger in the boat!!!!!

[ifishy]

I used to leave them in the water with a bucket over there head calms them down and you can unwrap them also remember there 1/20th your size once i remembered this just grab them and hold them between arm and body while unwrapping the more immoble you hold them the less damage is done.

[shorething]

But they have a beak !! Have caught a couple over the years, put my coat over them ,gave them a chance or two to co-operate !

[dbutts]

lol!!!!! I've never caught a bird thats just too funny

[Pike Hunter]

I wanted to add more details about the sea gull. I have tried to reel it back to the boat however the bird was being towed underwater. I had no choice but to cut the line. I would never leave a bird dangled with hooks.

[skipper19]

Try a pelican on the hook. Took three of us to hold one that grabbed a big piece of bunker being tossed from shore at Cape Hatteras.

[momay4000]

Nice job Anthony - nice looking brown and real nice water color.

We're launching next weekend and then it's game on!

Talk to you soon,

- Chris

[W.W.IV.]

Pike Hunter, I think I saw your gulls west of I bay this morning,too of them were tangled together in line and a yellow looking stick bait, one was dead. misted them the first, ended up with board lines tangled together,saved my boards and lost track of birds. You should have landed it.You could have given it mouth to mouth.

[Pike Hunter]

WWIV sorry about how this has tangled your board lines.

Lesson learned here. Note to myself about what to do with bird:

reel in your bird no matter what,

have big blanket on board ready to cover up the bird,

take cpr lesson,

carry noisemaker to ward off birds from your shiny stickbaits.

[L&M]

[W.W.IV.]

The best way to avoid gulls is a small split shot ahead of your lure.

[L&M]

Then ya get it deep nuff for Loon bait.

[tree top flyer]

as always, thanks pike for the detailed report

[Yankee Troller]

I had one last weekend out of the Genny that wouldn't allow me to put my baits back. So i feel your pain. Good job on the fish!

[Just Fishin']

Was in a blue fish blitz off of Stratford CT one time and we had 3 trolling rods, 2 surface plugs and a seagull all going at one time. Those birds fight like hell and seem very large when you bring them in. I was screaming for help and my crewmates wouldn't budge til they had their fish in. Had to throw a coat over him and take hook out. Ever since then, when I see a bird checking out a plug I pray he finds it unattractive.

Nice fish Anthony.