Thanks Mike, I appreciate it! So much fun to catch them on light tackle and calm days too, hoping the water clarity holds out just a little longer, will keep trying to get the footage 🤙

So many different types of fish, right!? I love seeing them all down there, each are cool in their own way. Oh man you gotta try it, it can really be a blast when they are biting, it’s pretty quick action, and pound for pound they rank as a top fighting fish. Taste great too. Thanks for watching Steve!

Thanks Bsprex! Love your videos too man, I like that you are doing more underwater videos as well now. It's a lot more editing of footage, that's for sure, haha but very rewarding when you do get a good shot of something

huge boils! Man if only I knew they were stripers, lol. They probably would be hard to catch though on artificial I think. Yea thanks, I thought the same thing about the porgies, I think if I was anchored they may hit it quicker but still shows you porgies can be around but not always want to take your bait right away.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed

Nice man, thanks! Appreciate the compliment!

Thanks !! Nice how’d you do in the morning? Love it out here when it’s calm but you’re right the bugs are starting to get bad. Just the other day they were bad in the bay too. Time to start bringing the bug spray. See you out there!

Bob they were stripers!! I talked with another kayaker out there on this day and he said he saw them while standing in the yak and they were big stripers! I can’t believe how many there must have been, I saw so many of these surface swirls while I was out. Yea clarity changed so fast, there’s just so much more “stuff” in the water now with that temp increase. Yea good to see signs of life though, I wanna see your underwater footage!

@@PeterRanieriII that 58-60 degree water had them swimming very fast. Really cool to see. It was hard to keep up with them.

Those were the same type of boils you saw in the cove right? It’s crazy man I can’t believe they were big stripers and I just kept pedaling by them, lol. Yea I want to get back out there!

@@PeterRanieriII haha. Yeah, I love me some top water action. The weather dropped, those bass might stick around for a bit.

@@CurrentJAM same, getting them to hit top water is so cool. I think your right, will be looking for em now

I've been using my ultralight setup lately as I'm fixing the line roller bearing on my stradic 3000 right now. The rod in this video is a shimano stimula 6'-6" ultralight-moderate and the reel is a Diawa AIRD 1000sh. 8lb braid with 10lb mono leader. Thanks for watching, glad you liked it!

Thanks Rene, I always found the underwater footage to be educational to me as well, just tough with the water clarity around me for it to work out. The fish finder in this video is the garmin echomap 44cv. I now have upgraded since then to the garmin uhd 74sv

Thanks! I use this mount that connects to the line and can hold a GoPro : Fishing Line Camera Mount for Gopro and SJCAM Action Cameras - Underwater Fish Camera Monitor Mount www.amazon.com/dp/B07RTPNCJ6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_D4CZADFA2QQMF7RDRJNP

@@PeterRanieriII nice! i might have to pick one of these up, but first i might get an older GoPro just in case it gets tangled up :P

@@CurrentJAM it’s a risk, I put my older GoPro in it as well, and you have to make sure you tie weaker knots and use smaller lb test line below the camera so in case it snags it will break below the camera and you can still retrieve it

Thanks Josh! I actually started my launch from my house that has access to the bay nearby the bridge.

@@PeterRanieriII ah that epics, was wondering where you were crossing into the sound looked like a nice shortcut

@@JBruckstein95 it is pretty epic and I’m very thankful of where I live. That’s also why you see a lot of my videos are around the bridge, lol it’s just so convenient for me and as much as I would love to go try some other locations I usually don’t have long time windows to fish so it’s just better to stay local

I'm pretty close to where nassau and suffolk county meet. My friend also has not seen the porgies in little neck bay either, I guess they start showing out east here a little more first. Yea def more sea robins than fluke here as well, lol

@@PeterRanieriII Thanks Brotha...

@@J.o.e_K : try Matinecock Point, should have porgies around the rocks. Or, follow the city island Party boats to see where they fishing, a bit east of where you are.

haha i think you may be right, these fluke are so tough to get it seems sometimes, def gulp on bucktails or jigheads works best for me too. I usually don't use bait either but if I'm targeting porgies clam would be my go-to. Weakfish will take squid strips but also lots of other artificial baits. You just gave me a great idea with the sea robins this summer though, if I can find a day with clear water, I may try and spear 'em up. I really do see similarities to how lionfish ruined the reefs in FL...but at least they aren't invasive so in theory they shouldn't completely out-compete the other guys

@@PeterRanieriII : I used old spearing from last year and fluke go for it, besides the annoying robins.

@@angy97 great idea! I’ll see if I can find some spearing and try it out on the underwater next time I’m out there

Yeah, I think you're totally right, that woulda got me a lot more fish

@@PeterRanieriII the first few weeks i worked on a partyboat that was my bosses biggest complaint. I was cutting the clams too big

@@tonynicoletti8161 haha, makes sense