Tips for "The Tip"
(Sandy Hook, NJ)
by Drew
*Always fish beginning Hightide through Hightide*

KNOW THE BASICS

1.) Go to Sandy Hook or Atlantic Highlands.

2.) Buy beer and ice before you get there.

3.) Bring largest, toughest surf poles.
(you will have a "monster" fight on a light rod if you hook a small striper or blue)

4.) Tighten drag before casting(50-100ft), loosen as follows after cast:
Regardless of pole/reel size, set drag very low. Low enough so waves/tides/currents don't take out line, but just low enough so if a "fish" swims by and eats the bait and continues swimming it will pull the drag/line effortlessly off your reel with the bait in its mouth.

If your drag is zooming off line - prepare yourself, get ready to set drag to somewhere tight enough so the fish has to muscle to pull drag or less if you want a longer fight. Just be careful to not set it so tight the fish breaks line.

• Resistance of any type on your line will cause stripers suspicion.
• lights of any kind: silvers spoons, glo-lights, etc. spook stripers.
• Blues bite anything shiny - a cut up, inside out beer can with hook will work.
• Blues almost always school, look for blood, top water activity, and birds.
• Stripers ONLY school when migrating - check the internet for dates, times, patterns, etc. Otherwise they are loners.
WHERE IS "THE TIP"?

• Entrance to Sandy Hook - 1st Guard Shack : Ask where the nudy beach is?
• To buy sticker - 2nd Guard Shack :1/2 Mile to 1 Mile before nudy beach
• Left at cannon - fork
• 1st or 2nd left - make right - make left - into parking lot
• Fish right side of jettie - Atlantic Highlands
• Try fishing "Five Presidents Beach"
EQUIPMENT
(Always fish High Tide)


NIGHT FISHING
High Tide Only

Day-Glo Lights (or whatever they're called) - Break & shake to light. Supposed to be used near bait underwater to attract fish but doesn't work.

< Best use: Put glo-light in top guide while night fishing. Rod tip will be extremely visible and strikes can be detected much easier.


Pyramid Weights:
Rough water conditions will require a heavier weight.

3oz. - Not Rough

4oz. - Kinda / little rough

5oz. - Real rough / or just go home

WHY FISH "THE TIP"?

If you got the gonads, legs, & stamina - GO TO "THE TIP". Here's why:

#1.) Best Fishing in ALL the hook
#2.) No swimmers, sitegoers, etc.
#3.) Deep water even in Low Tide

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