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Long Island South Shore Blackfish Report… 4/23/08

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April 23rd, 2008

Sounds like the Blackfish are still biting on the in-shore wrecks and reefs, although it seems to have slowed a little with the East wind and the Full moon over the weekend. Soft baits, like Clams are definately out-producing the crabs! Reports are coming from the Rockaway Reef, Atlantic Beach Reef, Hempstead Reef and some of the wrecks in 40 to 60 feet of water.

We have fresh clams in stock and we also have some green crabls left too.!

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Long Island South Shore Striped Bass Report… Updated 4/23/08

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April 23rd, 2008

Again, things are slowly improving. We haven’t heard of anyone beating on them, but there are a few fish to be had. Clam Chumming on the West Bar is producing a few fish and plugging with small swimming plugs (Bombers for example), bucktails, Fin_S and Slug-Go’s are getting a few as well. Pete, from the shop, fished between the Meadowbrook and Wantagh bridges yesterday afternoon and had a few small bass on Fin-S fish. High outgoing tide would be the best conditions for this type of fishing!

In the surf, we’re getting reports of a couple fish here and there. No one particular area has been out-producing another though. We’ve heard from Long Beach, Robert Moses, Jones Beach Field 6 and West End 2. This is still just starting, but should improve every day.

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Causeway Bait and Tackle Inventory Update

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April 23rd, 2008

After our winter long renovations, we’ve managed to put MOST of the store back together. We’re still working on re-filling the new space but here are a few pictures some of the areas we’ve renovated, added to or simply re-filled. We continue to list any new products on the “New Products” section on the Home page!

This is the saltwater Gamakatsu wall along with many different jig heads. For those of you that have been in the shop, you’ll remember we had some of this spread out… now it’s all together in one place! Finally! We have the very popular Octopus, Baitholder, Live Bait, Circle, Shiner, Siwash styles in one place and the freshwater hooks and treble hooks together in another place… hopefully it makes it easier for you to find what you need.

Soft Plastics, both saltwater and freshwater, were in a few different places in the shop but we now have them condensed in to one spot, with exception the the Yamamoto plastics. Tsunami Lures, Storm Lures, Slog-Go’s (including the brand new 9″pre-rigged and 12″ pre-rigged Slug-Go’s), Fin-S, Bass Assasin and more are all together now! We also added some new product to the Saltwater Gulp and Saltwater Power Baits!

Ahhh…. all the Fin Strike rigs and pre-snelled hooks are re-organized now. We had these packed in to a much smaller space last season, making it difficult to find what you needed. BUT, check it out now…. MUCH NICER!

Surf Lures…. nice… all together in one place now too. Gibbs, Super Strike, Cordell, and Tsunami’s and more… looking good again, instead of being crammed in to the small space we had them in the past!

LOT’S of Sro Bucktails again! We even added a new 1/4 ounce size and a couple new colors now that we have a little more room! With the Fluke regulations being so rediculous you had to target the bigger fish, so the 6 ounce bucktails became very popular!

Here is another look at the Tsunami plastics. Tsunami keeps adding cool new lures every year, so it’s nice to have a little more space to display them! The Holographic Shrimp were a hot item last year for the Fluke fisherman and we would expect much of the same this year. These are hot, especially considering it looks like we’ll have a 20.5″ size limit this year!

For the freshwater gang, we re-organized the Yamamoto plastics, so they are ALL in one place! Not that we need to sell anything other than the Senkos’s these days!! Without a doubt, the Senko’s are the most popular freshwater lure we sell!

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Long Island Striped Bass Fishing Report- 04/21/08

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April 21st, 2008

Bass fishing is slowly… but surely… improving. We are hearing about more and more fish every day now, however, it’s still a little slow… but it’s still early. Things seem to be coming along in a typical spring pattern and we should continue to see improved fishing from here out.

For the boaters, Clam Chumming will probably be a good bet right now, especially closest to the inlet. The East and West bar’s in the inlet, the Big Meadowbrook, Loop Parkway and Swift Creek bridges would also be worth a shot. We’ve heard of a few fish in the inlet and a few in the back bays, but again… this is only just beginning. Stay with it, because IT WILL GET BETTER FROM HERE!

From the surf, we’ve heard of a few fish here and there… mostly on clams. We had one customer report a few fish in Long Beach, on clams another customer had a few fish from Jones Beach Field 6 on clams and a few fish from Robert Moses on clams as well. Like we mentioned… a few here and a few there. Not much on any plugging, except for Little Neck Bay where a few people are still catching the schoolie sized fish on high water.

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Striped Bass Fishing Report- Updated 04/16/08

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April 16th, 2008

We’re off to a slow start, BUT, there are some fish around! We’ve heard of a few small fish caught way up in the back on artificials and we had one report from the West Bar on clams. To the west of us, in Jamaica Bay, it sounds like things are a little better with fish being caught on lures AND on live bunker! As we’ve mentioned, this is typical for early spring and with this STELLAR weather coming for this week, we should see some improvement in our area any day. People are reporting a ton of spearing, even some sandeels and bunker around the beaches as well as the bay.

We would say that clam chumming is a really good bet this time of year, especially closer to the inlet area. The West Bar, East Bar, Big Meadowbrook and Swift Creek bridges would all be good places to try.

As far as artificials go… considering the type of bait around, we would suggest the thin profile type baits such as the Bass Assasins, Slug-Go’s, Fin-S Fish and Tsunami’s. Bucktails and small tins like the Charlie Graves J8 are ALWAYS a good bet too.

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Blackfish Fishing Report- Updated 4-11-08

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April 14th, 2008

Cody Costa, fishing on his grandfathers boat the “Fish Magnet”, caught a nice 7lb Blackfish on a clam! Sounds like they were fishing in-shore and they had a pretty good catch all day, with that one being Cody’s biggest! Good Job Cody!

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Long Island South Shore Fishing Report- Updated 4/14/08

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April 14th, 2008

Things are FINALLY LOOKING UP! Things are improving, except for the Flounder fishing in our area. Flounder action in these bays is still VERY slow… we’re telling people that if you spend the day targeting Flounder, and you get one… you had a GOOD DAY! We would still recommend looking in the creeks and canals on the North side of the bay, concentrating on the sticky mud bottoms and using LOTS of chum.

To the West, however, in Jamaica Bay and Raritan Bay, there has been some pretty consistent fishing. We don’t have many customers fishing those areas on their own, instead they’re hitting the party boats and catching their share!

Striped Bass haven’t made much of a showing in this bay yet, but we would expect to see this change ANY day now, especially with the nice weather we’re expecting this week. There are fish being caught in Jamaica Bay, Raritan Bay and in around Staten Island… typical of early spring. Sounds like mostly schoolie sized fish being caught on lures like the Tsunami Shads, small Bombers, Bucktails and assorted plastics. We have Fresh Bunker, Fresh / Frozen Clams and Live Eels in stock too!

Blackfish action seems to be improving nicely! We had a number of reports from the past weekend of fish being caught on the in-shore pieces in 40 to 60 feet of water. Spots like the Atlantic Beach Reef and the Hempstead Reef have been producing steady action using Clams. We have fresh clams in stock and a wide variety of Blackfish rigs as well.

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Causeway’s New Store Hours!

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April 14th, 2008

Starting on Tuesday, April 15th, we will be opening at 5:00 AM every day! We won’t be changing our closing hours just yet but we’ll post it when we do.

Current Store Hours:

Monday through Saturday = 5:00 AM to 8:00 PM

Sunday = 5:00 AM to 4:00 PM

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Long Island Fresh Water Fishing Update

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April 9th, 2008

Considering that the fishing in the salt water hasn’t really started yet, the lakes and ponds have been producing some action for those who try. New York State has stocked a bunch of local ponds with Trout and the water is warming enough to catch some panfish and other types of fish as well. For the Trout, waxworms and nightcrawlers seem to be the better baits and if you wanted to cast with lures…. ANYTHING GOLD is the deal. Gold Kastmasters, Phoebe Spoons and Mepps have been the hot lures for the trout!

On a side note… we have MANY customers who love to use Killies in the fresh water and just to remind everyone… IT IS ILLEGAL!! The DEC has been patrolling the local ponds and enforcing this now, so beware!

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