Captain Bryan with Iowa Fortune Service contacted us and said that last week moved the needle once again as the next phase of the season fell into place with a great top water bite. As we approached the new moon, this week delivered us the best sight fishing opportunities of the season with nice groups of Bass laid up, or traveling in small schools.
All week long, the stripers tracked fairly predictably as they made their way into the South Jersey back country on the heels of the ever thickening quantities of bait that are invading our shallow bays and basins. Mostly all the bass this week were taken on top water and as we had good moving water all week with the approach of the new moon, this pushed a lot of bass into some very fun areas.
I have to say that there is nothing more fun than targeting a Bass in a small shallow pocket of water, or in a 2 foot wide creek, 10″ deep, and watching him explode on a top water fly or plug as it passes by, and with the new boat this season the Maverick is getting us closer than ever to these sneaky line siders.
Bryan expects that the flats fishing will continue to strengthen as we make our way post spawn and head into July, and as I say every season, as the fishing is by July 4th so goes the season. As more and more of the bait shows up or hatches on the moon phase, the shallower these bass will move, and this will translate into quality sight fishing opportunities.
The Blues still continue to make a rear throughout the backcountry as well, making short time of anything put in front of them. Even though he spends good amounts of time trying to avoid them, these 4 to 6-pound eating machines do provide some very fun action.
