 At Cedar Creek Bait and Tackle, Tom reports he is finally getting hermits on a steady basis and should have them for the next month or so. Everyone who has tried these hermits and given a report is astonished at how unbelievably well they are at producing tog. The only negative report they’ve received is how to hook them. Tog take them so fast; if you are going to use them, you need lightning-fast reaction. With the NE blows, the bunker was pushed out of the bay and has been nearly impossible to obtain as of this writing. He’s traveling to get fresh bunker. After 2 days, it gets frozen for crab bait and he obtains more. Fresh bunker, eels, and spot seem to be the baits the rockfish/stripers are after. A few reports were received while trolling stretches. Tom suggests calling ahead if you’d like large quantities of bunker; they will have it bagged and ready to go when you arrive. Tog fishing has been fabulous, weights are running 3 lbs and greater. The hot spots for stripers have been 60’ Slough, Blake’s Channel, Brown Shoal, and Brandywine. Tom was busy filleting fish for nearly 3 hours on Saturday. If you looking for striper/rockfish action, the time is now. See their latest catches at www.cedarcreekbaitntackle.com
Jerry Shrock fished the Brown Shoal on Sunday, Nov 01 and boated a 23.8 lb striper on a bucktail. Capt. Ed Meeds, a charter boat captain, who docks his boat here at Slaughter Beach, had a party of 3 on Tuesday. Clarence Murphy came ashore with his limit on stripers and the boat brought in a total of 5. Frank Phillips landed a 38” striper and lost one at Brown Shoal. Wednesday was a busy day for Cedar Creek Bait and Tackle as they issued 3 citation stripers and weighed in some beautiful fish. Josh Shupe boated a citation 21.2 lb striper with 20” girth from Brandywine in 36’ water on live spot. John Guizetti, Jim Kossek, and Steve Quinn were fishing 60’ Slough and each came ashore with a striper, 15.6 lb, 19.7 lb, and 12.6 lb respectively. Thomas Strange weighed in a 25.9 lb striper with a 23.5” girth from Brandywine. Scott O’Hara weighed in a citation striper from Site #4 weighing 22.0 lbs with a 21” girth. Tom Kennedy, Dale Bradley, and Bill Tucker each boated a striper; the first at Brandywine while trolling stretches before moving to the rips at Brown Shoal where they landed the other two. Tom took Judy, Dawn Donovan and Shawn McCue togging where Dawn was high hook with 3 keepers. Tom showed ‘em how it was done; landing 2 tog within 4 minutes! Capt. Ed Meeds had a party on board Wednesday. Fishing Brandywine while soaking eels, they came ashore with 4 stripers. Kenny Blakely weighed in a citation 25.7 lb striper using live spot while fishing near the 8’s. Chris Gibbons, fishing from the surf at 3 R’s watched as blues and flounder were being caught. Using a Hopkins spoon where the bluefish were seen breaking the surface, he hooked into a short and lost 2 in the surf. A 22” and 24” flounder were brought ashore using mullet rigs. Gene Heyman boated a citation 8.47 lb tog while fishing Site #7 using green crab. He and Jim Hoff reported steady action for an hour and a half. John Carr, Dave Wellington, Bruce and Ben Smith came ashore late with their limit on tog from Site #4 while using green crabs and switching to hermits when the tog became finicky. Tim and Brian Coleman were joined by Dave Bauerle for some striper action. While chunking bunker they each landed a striper with Tim being high hook with a citation 23.9 lb with a 23” girth. They also put 12 tog in the box from Site #4. Capt Ed Meeds, fishing Brandywine using live eels boated an 18.8 lb striper while Kenny Watts boated a 14.8 lb, and Clarence Murphy landed an 18.3 lb. Ernie Stone fished the rips at Brown Shoal using live spot when he landed a 19 ˝” flounder. Capt. Ed Meeds is available for parties of 6 maximum. Capt Ed has been a licensed captain for 35 years and is available 7 days a week and will be tog and striper fishing from now thru the end of the season. Rates are 300.00 for bottom fishing and 350.00 for tog fishing. Ed can be reached by calling (302) 349-4989 or (302) 245-7446.
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