11-28 Matador report BIG STRIPERS!

[capt. jakeg]

Today, I had Tommy Cox and friends for a 3/4 day striper fishing. My usual mate had some serious issues, so Kapoc Mike mated for me. Thanks again, Mike. You did great and way to be there on the spot. We started off at the tube between the third and the fourth which was productive but crowded. We caught a couple there, with a slot fish or two mixed in, but it was just a nightmare. The fish were right on the spine and were liking chartruese. The second plan was to go eeling. We tried up by 18 and there was a big crowd there too and not much going on. I did two quick drifts before deciding this was not exactly what we were looking for, so I slid off to somewhere a little more private. Within 5 minutes at the new spot, we hooked up and caught a nice 49'' skinny 41# fish that earned a citation for the little girl we had aboard, Kimberly. Next drift, another 48''er that was just shy of a Virginia citation at 39#. Every subsequent drift for the next hour we had at least one or two bites. We had a couple mishaps where the line was slacked and we lost nice fish at the back of the boat and a couple short strikes, but for the most part we found steady action until we came home. We ended out catching 3 of the big girls (all were over 48'' and skinny- eels in their bellies).
The season here is just getting started and the fishing will get better every day for the next month and a half. I still have plenty of dates available for charter.

[knock down]

Congradulations Jake ! Hopefully this will be the Start of a good Striper season for you! Having Kapoc in the Pit has to make life ALOT easier for you when your huntin down the fish !

[sushi42]

nice fish there capt. way to start the early season run. I caught a show on maybe six months ago, was filmed out of rudee inlet. They were using huge leadhead jigs(20-24 ozs.) with a chartreuse shad body on the hookshank. They were calling them mojo jigs. Can't find them anywhere and I can't even find anyone that has heard of them. Not even on-line. Ever heard or seen these. I fish everything between bunker spoons to homemade dredges to chunking and slinging eels but I would like to find these jigs and see how they might produce up north here. Montauk/ Block Isl. rips. Any info is appreciated.

[Double D]

So that's where the big fish are, nice job Jake.

I fished the last 3 days, the biggest we could manage was 27"

[Squidnation]

nice fish there capt. way to start the early season run. I caught a show on maybe six months ago, was filmed out of rudee inlet. They were using huge leadhead jigs(20-24 ozs.) with a chartreuse shad body on the hookshank. They were calling them mojo jigs. Can't find them anywhere and I can't even find anyone that has heard of them. Not even on-line. Ever heard or seen these. I fish everything between bunker spoons to homemade dredges to chunking and slinging eels but I would like to find these jigs and see how they might produce up north here. Montauk/ Block Isl. rips. Any info is appreciated.

Check out alltackle.com They should have plenty of Mojo's in stock right now. Jake uses the mojo when we need to troll them up. This hungry flounder was caught jake's boat. It ate the big mojo even though he had two "smaller" baits to choose from. That was one hunger flounder.

[pablor]

http://www.boatersworld.com/product/477623425msk.htm

this is one of the only places I could find them....

[sushi42]

thanks for the info guys. Thats a lot of lead for stripers eh.