J-bay!!

[Jimbo]

It's that time of year again. Captain kayak will have registration available within the next week..supposedly. The tournament is being held May 12-15 .
Spanky and I arrive the Sunday before. As always, CANT WAIT!!!!
Who else is going??

[MD Dore]

I'm in!

Viking Profish Reload
Hobie Outback

[MetroMan]

In.

[Redfish12]

Definitely in!

Post from last year - http://www.snaggedline.com/showthrea...ay-(JBAY)-2015

Here's some past threads -
http://www.snaggedline.com/showthrea...267-J-bay-2014
http://www.snaggedline.com/showthrea...Bay-Tournament
http://www.snaggedline.com/showthrea...y-8-9-Jun-2013
http://www.snaggedline.com/showthrea...aica-Bay-Recap
http://www.snaggedline.com/showthrea...2411-JBay-2012
http://www.snaggedline.com/showthrea...ay-2011-Re-cap


Here's some past gear recs I gave:

Fishing items for JBAY:


General rods to bring:
Rod 1 - MH-H capable of trolling medium/large lures and live-lining bunker
Rod 2 - MH Spinning rod for throwing snag hook or snag rig, jigging, or additional trolling
Rod 3 - Casting/Jigging rod for throwing plastics, drifting sandworms, or jigging bucktails


Tackle:
Snag hooks (bring a couple of these) (large trebble hook with molded lead, don't need many unless a bluefish bites you off)
ALT Snag hook rig - 2/0 - 4/0 trebble hook, 2ft of 50lb+ flouro, barrel swivel, 1oz egg weight on main line
Tube and worm rig - I recomend the 19" Hogy tube in wine or pink, buy sandworms up there or use fishbites/gulp. Fish these on a 3ft 50-80lb leader (bc of bluefish) to a high quality ballbearing swivel. You can use a keel weight, rubbercore sinker, egg weight, etc if you need to get it down quicker but you do not need a weight.
Bucktails & gulp swimming mullets - bring 1/2-1.5oz in various colors. Unless you are fishing near the bridge or jigging too high off the bottom (bluefish) you shouldn't need many as the bay is not very snaggy.
Plastics/leadheads to jig - Zmans in PINK!, BKDs, swimshads, flukes, hogy's whatever you like etc on 3/8-1.5 oz heads (mostly 3/8-1oz used) in colors like pink, white, blue/grey, yellow.
Plugs - Poppers/spooks for the sod banks, X-raps, rattle traps in various sizes/colors
Live-lining rigs - large circle hooks (8/0+), heavy leader (40-80lb), wire leaders for bluefish, fish finder rigs or egg sinkers to help you get the bunker below the bluefish or so you can chunk your sliced up bunker.
Top / Bottom rigs or weakfish rigs for fishing sandworms (I don't do this but it can be productive).


Accessories:
Scissors or a knife to make strip bait or chunk bunker
Fish Grips for bluefish
Light for night fishing
cart, long haul to water from camping area
navionics app or a fishfinder with gps makes it very helpful for finding the channels and edges.

[Redfish12]

Registration is open! http://www.captainkayak.com/tournaments.html

[echo5oscar]

Just registered

[chimo]

Registered. A weakie is going to be gold this year

[silasvirus82]

Just put in my request with the boss. Do many of you bring wife & kids? I assume being near NYC there is plenty to do.

[mytmouse]

In and registered!! I even scored a Captain's bag, a first in my JBay career! LOL. The plan is to roll up Wednesday morning.

[Redfish12]

In and registered!! I even scored a Captain's bag, a first in my JBay career! LOL. The plan is to roll up Wednesday morning.

Are you riding with me?

[Foursteps24]

I will be there. Hopefully leaving Wednesday morning

[Grilled]

I will be arriving wednesday morning.

[Rockchaser]

I will be there Wednesday.

[MetroMan]

I was hoping to arrive on Thursday. But all of the cool kids are gonna be there on Wednesday. I don't wanna be the one to hear the "Oh Man you shoulda been here yesterday" stories like I had to hear last year lol...

[Foursteps24]

You missed the Vortex Carl