It started like any other September Saturday last weekend with a run out to Montauk point to fish the rip on an outgoing tide. To say it was slow was an understatement. Six hours of trying everything from live eels to trolling the rip yielded one sand shark and two big blue fish.

We decided to head back to Hampton Bays about 5:00 PM and saw what was nothing short of amazing as we rounded Montauk point near Camp Hero. The surf was alive with hundreds a striped bass with a cloud of birds hovering above. It turned out to be an epic fishing adventure.

The school of stripers worked their way up and down the beach pushing the bait fish up against the beach. The surf casters wearing wet suits were getting pulled off the rocks as the big bass hit their lures. We managed to pull in over a dozen bass using light spin casting tackle with katmasters. Three were keepers, including a 34" fish.

We saw another boil about a mile to the west on the way home, this time it turned out to be a school of "slammer blues" again pushing bait fish up against the beach, with the birds above the school the whole time. A September day which will not soon be forgotten for these anglers!