Fly Fishing - Albies Report Montauk NY - Marthas Vineyard

jeremy

Well - i was on block island and the albies were around - weather played a factor and made things tough but water was still warm and tons of bait - i heard a Marthas vineyard report saying that the albies were still around - but not as thick. As of oct 7 - montauk has TONS of bait but no fish to eat it - i hear the albies are all around Manhatten! Geeze - i thought they were an expensive fish to chase before i heard this (the vineyard, block island - things ain't cheap there) and now Manhatten - oh man - 300 buck a night - 100 cab ride to the harbor - and the way i like to chase the albies - i'd probably take a cab 5 times per day.

So - here is what i am checking for the albies report - IT AIN'T OVER YET! Montauk is only a short ferry ride away! Anybody out there - got any reports from the vineyard or rhode island? -- been a reallly slow year for the albies on the mainland in rhode island.

MONTAUK
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gilly09 · Newbie Joined: Oct 10, 2004 Posts: 37

surfrats.com & stripersonline would be your best bets for Montauk/Manhatten checks.

Reel-time has been quiet.

Call Capt Steve Moore of Slamdance Charters. He guides off the Cape and MV.

He'll put you on fish for sure.

http://www.slamdancecharters.com/

Perhaps give you that Tuna Melt on Video we're all waiting for!!!!!! Very Happy

Pete · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject:

They were here, and then they were gone. The most maddening fish on the face of the earth.

I did get into bonito, too, in the far Western Long Island Sound, and then they were gone.

If you're a purist, avert your eyes from the following sentence...

You've got to try fly fishing for them in Florida in June and July, where they chum them off the reefs with live pilchards, and you cast into the madness. Tackle-busting insanity.

heyjonah · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:20 am Post subject:

the vineyard had some sparse action saturday-wednesday - - not as quick as we'd hoped but good enough. (i heard the words "worst columbus day fishin i've ever seen" about 6 times).
blues and bass still around, the occasional odd bonito. there were actually king mackerel in edgartown harbor - people were landing 1-2 of them a day. my bud had a couple bite him off.
people were catchin albies on live butterfish from the town docks on tuesday. that was the only day they were really breaking at all in edgartown. another friend of mine caught an 11-lb from the big bridge jetty about an hour before we came on island.
as for me, i hooked one albie on the fly, blind castin from the Lighthouse point in edgartown. nearly all of my 300yds of backing was GONE. strip, strip, strip, lookin over my right shoulder for birds workin a school (seeing none) and there was CARNAGE on the end of my line. he ate a biiiiiig white deceiver w/ plenty of pearl flashabou. i had him probably 1/2 way back to me, when there just began to be less and less pressure on the line, and he was off. i think he just started swimming toward me and there was no way i could reel fast enough.
my my my.
i thought i hooked him, but no, he hooked me. never have i wanted a single fish so badly.
the same afternoon we cast into a pod of 6-7 running up and down the jetty at big bridge for 2 hours. no hookups. probably 12 spinnin rods and me and another guy throwin every bunker and silverside pattern we had at 'em. wouldn't eat. so much metal in their faces i think.
one more breakin school in the pond opening at tashmoo, and that was all. no eats.
did catch a bluefish on the fly that would have won me a weekly prize in teh derby. of course - i didn't enter.
and......
......i broke my rod.
Sad

BUT
that gives me a winter project. and all in all - - a worthwhile trip. nice video guys. i didn't bring the camera because of rain and wind.