NJ Saltwater Fishing Reports

With 3 tanks full of live ones, and the nicest weather so far this year, I could not wait to get the men down the beach. Jeff caught the first bass which weighed in at 30 lbs. This was a long battle as Jeff must have forgot to eat his wheaties and the fish really took [...]

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Loaded up the tanks and no decision as to where I would fish today. Just curious to see how long that fishing will hold up. Well, it took 2 minutes for me to find out as 2 big bass jumped on the bunker right away. It stayed like that for the next 3 hours, all big [...]

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The whole key has been getting live bait and finding just enough, so I headed right to Monday’s numbers in terrible weather again. It did not take long for the bass to attack the baits and many fish were hooked, there were a few that got away as well.  Just enough blues mixed in too. We [...]

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With winds blowing 20 - 30 mph, I was not sure how this trip was going to handle the rough seas. Well, I stopped inside for a few drifts and one 18lb bass and a few blues before the conditions made this area unfishable. I went around the bend to escape the wind and stopped on [...]

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High hopes for this event as I have been catching real nice fish the past 2 weeks. Well, we only could find 2 small bass with a total weight of 27 lbs. The guys fished hard, just one of those days………….

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With a so so forecast and 2 tanks full of live bunker, I headed to the same area that I jigged earlier in the week. Blue after blue until Brian hooked into a real nice 20 lb bass in the pouring rain. Every bait was getting hit and then Gary Schmitt hooked into another 22 pounder. [...]

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After countless throws, and no bunker even in the pound nets, we decided to try jigging. Fishing was good for a few hours but slowed with the tide. Finally, I was able to locate some bait late in the morning, I headed back out front. There we encountered red hot bluefishing, 5 - 6 fish on at [...]

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I did not have very good expectations due to yesterday’s storm. The guys wanted to try, so we loaded the tanks and started fishing. Very dirty water and a rough sea made for horrible conditions. Later on in the morning, the sea layed down and at the change we found some clean water and the [...]

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Loaded up in GKH and headed straight for my numbers from yesterday. A stiff 25 east with the tide made for a very fast drift. The jumbo blues attacked every bait, and it did not take long to go through the 2 tanks a bunker. 1 bass 18lb was landed and Dean Martin lost a [...]

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Well it finally happened, Leo Medeiros hooked his first bass and after a real nice job by him, the cow hit the deck. She weighed in at 42 1/2 lbs. The next fish hooked ended up at 37 1/2 lbs., 80 pounds 2 fish in a row! Fishing was very good drifting live and chunk [...]

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