New series of Calstar West Coast Conventional Fishing Rods premium quality inshore specialty fishing rods-featuring high modulus graphite blanks, Bias construction and the finest components— Special actions for Northeastern species from Striper to Cod.
We tested the Calstar GFGR700L Grafighter out this last summer. Seemed like a good fit for our Striper quest. We saw water temps this summer that I’ve personally never experienced in NJ – in mid July I read surface temps a mile off the beach of 83 degrees.
Yesterday the surf temperature was 74 degrees. Great weather for fluking…wonderful for chasing bonito and albacore…there were even some king mackerel caught a few miles off our beaches last week. But for striped bass, it’s still much too warm for them to be comfortable.
Don’t get me wrong, there are some bass around these parts – they are mostly small to very small…they seem much more tolerant of very warm water. But the bigger fish really won’t put on much of a show until our surf temps drop below that 65-67 degree mark. There will be moments, however brief, before those temps where the bigger fish won’t be able to help themselves as the mullet and peanut bunker – who don’t seem to mind that the water temps are more like July than September – make their way out of our inlets and bays and down the beach. Bless their shiny little hearts !So while we wait for our water temps to drop – hopefully not too quickly – the folks in areas to our north are getting into the thick of it with the striped bass.
There’s lots of bait around this early fall in most areas – the peanuts locally are bigger than I’ve ever seen them this time of year with many of them 5″-6″ long! That’s pretty amazing and if the striper movements coincide with these large peanuts moving around. This should make for another successful catch. We got all our Saltwater Fishing Rods from the guys at saltwatertackle.com
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