Calm Weather Brought Tasty Jig Fishing!

[@mikeluckett602]

Another great video,if you cant be out there this is the next best thing.thanks JOHN.

[@tyler1211]

Great day on the water, thanks!

[@InTheFlow66]

Bizarre season for sure as far stripers go. Tog fishing on the sound out of Huntington yesterday and not a bird or blitz in sight all day.

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

Same on the NF.

[@angelswalkingwithus2876]

Hi John! Nice work. Got the combo rain gear you recommend. Outstanding ! Thx for everything.

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

Yep, people love that slicker/jacket combo. I live in that stuff.

[@socalangler4082]

9:22 is the tick in the line he's talking about. That's awesome to see!

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

I'm glad you saw that!

[@OliviaZwm]

Your videos are always so helpful and inspiring! Thank you for your diligence and passion for creating great content!🫔🔷🚴

[@vincentjames5709]

hey john long time follower fan. can you post vids somtime on how to identify structure on fishfinder and get an idea where to work. i live south shore long island near jones

[@Onethirtytwo]

look at that calm water, the conditions are perfect!

[@jasinc19]

Great video! How do you like the Evict? I just got one and am a little underwhelmed.. seems noisy and grindy. Maybe I just got a bad one?

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

I live on the evict 2000, including big tarpon in florida in the kayak. When I fish the florida flats boat or yak I have between 5 and 7 of them on the boat. It's all I use for spin jigging up north. Rock solid stainless gears at a very fair price.

[@johndrx165]

Thanks for sharing your jigging technique for Sea Bass. Very cool.

[@duffmeister6480]

I’m finding the SeaBass fishing way off this year, I have a deep wreck that normally produces a quick limit of 18+ fish, that spit up Mantis Shrimp, that spot is empty this year ? I remember your videos last year you were killing them. Thanks.

[@jd12elephant]

Are they surveying near it? Turns the fish off or drives them away.

[@mrjohn71398]

Did not know that about green crab, my fingers been burning every time i fish lol

[@bushcraft908]

Awesome video as always! Love your boat also. I know you’ve done a video on your boat before but I can’t seem to find it. What kind of boat is it and would it be to much to ask a little walk through of it again? Again love your videos! Keep it up!

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

1986 Grumman 5.0 Meter Boat CC.

[@gregtaylor145]

Hello John! Thoroughly enjoy watching your videos! Question, what is the purpose of bleeding fish out prior to placing on ice? Thanks! GregT Greenville SC

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

It gets the blood out of the meat. When you fillet the fish, it's a very clean white fillet. Once you do it, you never go back.

[@gregtaylor145]

@ Thank you so much! Happy Fishing! GregT

[@jonpflueger7214]

John Do you always use a swivel or tie the leader to the braid. If tying braid to leader, what knot do you prefer?

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

I always go through a swivel.

[@joshrussell9460]

Great video. Glad you got to enjoy some calm weather . It's been blowing nonstop for seems like months here in jersey as well. thanks as always John very entertaining and informative.

[@Saltyskiangler]

Nice video, I’m new to your channel, what kind of boat are you using?

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

1986 Grumman 5.0 Meter Boat (16'4'') with a 70HP Yamaha.

[@Saltyskiangler]

@ very nice, I’m about to start looking for a 14’ Aluminum for the bay, seeing what you are doing with a 16 gives me great inspiration to do it. I would do 16 but limited garage space. Thanks for the reply.

[@theeefisherman]

Can you make a salt strong class on how to find the sea bass spots? I feel like i know the technique but no idea how to locate

[@jd12elephant]

Structure in whatever depth of water they’re in at the time. Summer they come shallow, winter they go deep.

[@frankbachmann6405]

thanks for the reminder about skin issues with green crabs. I totally forgot that was a thing.

[@pastapaul150]

Awesome conditions and fishing. Such a windy fall. That last week?

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

Yes. Tuesday or Wednesday.

[@sd0753]

How long can you keep the green crab alove in your garage?

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

Easily a week if cool and flushed through with salt water every other day.

[@newenglandwoodsandwater7233]

What spinning rod do you use for Tog ?

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

One I designed for this jigging: bit.ly/3oWVAPu

[@LucasLikesFishing]

What was the bucktail?

[@johnsmith-gk4ry]

Hey John do you have a theory about the a Albies not showing up this year?

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

No clue. The last time I saw this was behind hurricane Irene (2012?) when it dumped an incredible amount of dirty water into the sound from the Ct. rivers when the albies should have been coming in. We had a storm that flooded the rivers this year in early September too, but it didn't wreck the water quality the way Irene did. That's the only thing I can think of, and I doubt that was it. I think we'll see a few albies in November.

[@johnsmith-gk4ry]

@@JohnSkinnerFishing Thanks for the answer. Hopefully we will see a few.

[@fishingguuru6888]

y fish rocky point when you can go so mayn udder place else without the boat pressure

[@sticklp6405]

First; John you have the best videos fishing around Long Island and I miss fishing back home now that I spend most of my time in NC

[@sterlingporter830]

i love you

[@chrisbarone2371]

i live in staten island have no idea where to catch blackfish that big near me anyone know any spots?

[@samuelstonebraker3737]

Now that those S&S bucktails don't seem to be available anymore, do you have a recommendation on which would be good for this fishing?

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

We'll have the Dark Matter ones soon. The blackfish jigs are literally days away.

[@AliceSlB]

I'm very happy to be subscribed to your channel. You make really high quality and interesting content.😛🔨🦖

[@nicolaslebrun9455]

The Long Island sound has had some bad bass fishing so far they are staying deep very weird

[@mickmouse92]

Blackfish fishing just tear my hands up. The consistent catches, the sharp fins, the crab shells and even the hooks stuck in the blackfishes tough lips all add up to a beating on my fingers.

[@Tommy.OrginalvideosPhilly]

Same... Totally worth it

[@blackvelvet631]

Maybe you shouldn’t lip blackfish

[@mickmouse92]

@blackvelvet631 who said anything about lipping blackfish? I said the hooks are in their tough lips.

[@blueaggie64]

Fish tough or stay home. Lol

[@nofishtoday]

@@mickmouse92i think he was joking

[@usobninja14]

Definitely a strange start to the fall, October I’m ussually fishing a deep channel just inside of an inlet that has tons of bunker, adult and peanuts, mullet, snappers, spearing, mud minnows, just about any bait u can name, and this year there’s been just about nothing under them had a few slot fish and one over slot going into the full moon and than nothing for 2 weeks after until I heard about the sandeels on the ocean, so I went out front and found a rediculous amount of sandeels and still couldn’t find a thing for 3 straight trips until finally some fish moved back in earlier this week, had one day where there was some a bunch of slot fish with some over slots up to about 20lbs, the day after the beach was very rough and windy and had a very good abundance of slot fish but didn’t see any over slots beached, than the wind blew a ton of sea weed in and killed the bite by the next day. standing on the sand bar getting beaten by waves made me realize how warm the water still is tho so fingers crossed theres still a lot of fish that need to move down the coast that will offer plenty more opportunity. Quick suggestion from someone that also snap jigs, don’t drop that rod tip so fast after snapping up, I know ur trying to let that jig settle back down and get into hookset position but that slack will kill ya on hookups as u can see, try and drop a little slower and follow the jig down with the rod tip a little more and see if that improves you bite to hookup ratio

[@mbnz0174]

Culture is a funny thing. We have a species of fish here in New Zealand called banded wrasse, they look very similar to your blackfish and are in the same family (Labridae), yet few would dream of fishing for them or eating them. For want of a better description and although I hate the term, they are regarded as "trash fish". Yet we regard gurnard (sea robins) very highly! When I spent time on Long Island, I was so obsessed with striped bass that I was barely aware of any other species apart from bluefish.

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

When I was a kid almost no one had any use for blackfish. Now they're targeted heavily.

[@Darth-Betta]

In South Korea, they have a fish very much like toutog/blackfish called HokDom, and they are also regarded as "trash" fish. 🙂

[@chrishall953]

You better sharpen your hook skinner

[@JohnSkinnerFishing]

They're as sharp as pins. I think the spot has had too much pressure and there are a lot of short sea bass smacking the jig. Last few seasons most were keepers.