Fishing Reports Cape May Oct 1 to Oct 31

[CapeMayRay]

Peter after last night decided not to go out this morning. Got out Sunday morning an hour later than I wanted to due to an alarm clock problem. Left the dock at 6:30 a.m. and headed right back to where we fished last night.

It was totally different. Water was 66.3 and I started getting small stripers right away on a black mullet fly on intermediate line.

Action was hot and heavy, and the fish were feeding in two foot of water. Switched to a popping fly and gurggler on floating as it was dead calm and the water was very shallow.


I and caught fish till around 7:45 after which I got no more strikes and was back in by 8:30 for a totol of 7 bass to 21 1/2 inches.

[CapeMayRay]

After a great trip this morning I was excited to get back out at prime time tonight. Left the dock with Peter around 5:15 p.m. with a good wind blowing out of the southeast, close to the top of the tide. We had great expectations and we worked to death a number of super prime spots in the back bay that normally should of been great fishing with the tides and time of the day.

Water was around 66 degrees at most of the creek mouths and points that we fished. It was another horrible night. We each had a bass hit but neither of us could get a solid hook up. We didn't even hook a blue all night. (we had many small blues hit our popping flies or larger bunker flies) We didn't even see much bait anywhere.

Was thinking about doing another morning personal trip, but after tonight's bummer trip I will be sleeping in

[CapeMayRay]

Peter and I decided we were going out tonight come hell of high water. We had to think twice about going out as the the wind had to be blowing a stead 20 mph out of the southeast.



We left the dock at 4:00 pm figuring we could find some shelter behind the south inlet jetty. There wasn't much shelter and it took all our efforts to hold the boat in position and punch our our flies toward the rocks. Water temperature at close to high was 68.3

We fished it for about an hour with the water very brown even close to high tide. We had a few bluefish hits with Peter landing one.

With the strong winds we decided to go way up in the back and work a couple of creeks where we could get a little shelter from the wind. Found the water back there pretty dirty. Believe at low tide the waves in the back had all the shallows stirred up.

Found nothing but some super small blues and moved to a leeward sod bank and worked it all around till after dark. Water here was 69.2 degrees. We only had one hit that looked like a bass catching a couple more blues to about 2 lbs.

All this warm water is just killing the bass fishing. I have charters waiting for a call when the action picks up. With the water temps so high I don't know when that will be. Never saw it this warm this late in the season.

[CapeMayRay]

Really wasn't planning of fishing today, but went to beach and the water looked a lot better than yesterday and the guys were catching small blues.

Since I hadn't fished for a week I had to fish some where.

Let the dock at around 12:00 noon with a super high tide going out. (figured I would try the back bay with a good tide and a lot of sun rather than fish tonight on a bad tide.

Water at the marina was 62.4 When I got to a creek mouth way in the back it was 60.2 With a good flow already coming out and the clarity not too bad I started with 350 sinking and a bunker fly.

After about 30 casts I got a 20 inch bass and some blue fish hits. I worked 2 creek mouths catching two blues around 3 lbs missed a bass close to the boat and had one bass follow the fly to the boat.

When the tide really got going the water got very brown and muddy so I moved to another area where I met a friend who was fishing rubber baits. He had been out since morning and said he got nothing out front but had about 7 bass already in the back.

We fished the same area with our boats close enough where we could talk. I caught 4 more small stripers to 22 inches on the bunker fly and he had 5 on the plastic.


Fished to about 2:30 The water was getting low and very brown. When I came back under the bridge the tide was still screaming out and the water was ugly brown.

Was a fun afternoon and it was a lot better fishing than I had expected. This fishing when you can see is kind of fun. I am not use to a day time bite.

[CapeMayRay]

Ended the month on a High Note!

Got back from the gym and was excited about getting out this afternoon on the out going tide. A friend got 10 bass yesterday while I was away, on rubber baits , so I knew there would be some fish around. Peter couldn't make and Paul was out of town so I did another solo trip.

Left the dock around 2:00 pm with a strong southeast wind blowing. It was blowing hard enough that I didn't even go out to check out the inlet.

Went straight to the back bay flats to work the creeks and points knowing I could hide from the strong winds a bit. The water was 62.4 and I started with 350 sinking line and a bunker fly and started catching bass after a few casts. The water was as clean and nice looking as we ever get down here and it was a real pleasure being able to see the fish flash in the water as the hit the fly.

The fish were all small 17 to 22 inches and there would be another bass following the hooked one once in awhile. The action was as hot as I have seen it in a long while.





Even got a shot of me with one with the new tripod set up that I rigged up for the boat.

I had 10 stripers in the first hour and a half with a steady pick. As I worked around I met up with a friend who had 10 yesterday and he had 10 again today. He left for the barn and I continued on catching two more bass, one nice size blue and loosing one nice bunker fly to a bite off.

It was a great 2 1/2 hours of fly fishing and during daylight hours too. Not big fish but I will take the action anyday.