Stripers feeding on razor clams?

Capt. Ron Santee Jr, reported an unusual condition Saturday on his Fishermen from Atlantic Highlands as he found that striped bass were feeding on razor clams.

Santee’s report follows: “

Morning started out with no action, looked over all the local spots and didn’t see much going on……Decided to take a bit of a ride and glad we did! Found clean water, birds working with hungry bass under them!

Stopped the boat and had 10 fish on right away, nice mix of keepers and over’s with some smaller fish in the mix. Fish were feeding on small butterfish and Razor clams! I was surprised that the shads worked as well as they did in that.

There were some Bunker in the area but the Whale had them to himself. Reggie from Totawa took the pool with a nice 31 inch fish. “

Today was a different story as follows:

“Very nasty day today with horrible conditions. Just a handful of customers showed but after yesterdays bite I figured we had a small window to catch a few fish, so we sailed.

Sorry I did as we caught the first of the ebb with the SE wind on the way out. Got nasty fast but we made it to where we caught yesterday. Read plenty of bait and fish on the bottom. They never turned on and after a couple of hours we tossed in the towel.” Ron isn’t fishing tomorrow as few fares are likely to show up in a rain forecast.

Andrea’s Toy from South Amboy reported trip this week when they made a 2.5-mile drift with steady action from stripers before they ran out of bait!

The forecast is for south winds at 10-15 knots plus morning showers.