NJ Saltwater Fishing Reports

If this is not a reason as to why we like to leave early, then nothing I can say is. Rounding the hook in complete darkness, I had trouble in finding bunker, however we all were looking and located a few schools down the beach. With the sunrise at least a half hour away, my [...]

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I dont know how many Forces there are but I had plenty on my boat today, Starting with the King Force, then ED, Greg and FU RANDY. The seas were calm and I expected good things given that the fish must be hungary. A few stops here and there and no fish, some real good [...]

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With my eyes closed  I can still see the stripers blasting the bait from last evening. As we gathered bait and had a slight west wind, I could not wait to get down the beach. Mike had mentioned that he is a black cloud when it comes to fishing.Going across the bay the wind changed to hard south [...]

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After cancelling yesterday’s trip due to the lack of fish and not getting any good reports, I let the evening trip decide. Mistake number 1!! They did not want to gamble and I can understand that, but this is fishing. So few of my friends and my son went out and I was going to prospect [...]

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Knowning that these men were coming from Philly, Pa., I really wanted them to get on the bass. My intel from saturday was not good, a real slow pick and it seems that the fish moved even further south, I felt like there should be a few fish in the areas that have been good to [...]

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We started out int he dark in very calm conditons, exact opposite from last night. The ride south confirmed my feelings that last night storms sucked the life out of Ocean. A few moves here and there and finally a crashing bite and hook up. 30lber put in the boat, another search and another nice fish hooked [...]

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Heading into a hard southeast swell made for slow going. Once on the grounds you can just tell that there was not much going on. A few moves here and there produced nothing. The scattered schools of bunker had way too many boats working them for my liking. So we just hung around until the [...]

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Wating at the dock, I received a phone call stating that there was a large school of bunker off the beach near Deal. On the way south Pat called me again stating that there looks like “explosions” in that school. Nearing the school all I could say was “HOLY #%@^”!!! I never ever in 40 years [...]

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After getting berated once for bringing bananas on my boat there was no way he would bring them again right? Stopped on the spot where we had fish all week long early and no fish. Headed to where I left them biting yesterday, nothing. I checked his lunch bag, no bananas. Thats when my mate found [...]

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Friday the 13th turned out to be a very good trip for  the crew, Keith, Frank, Ed, Rodney, and Chris. We found real good action early and had boated a bunch of nice size bass before the sun slowed the action. Then thats when it got really exciting. Stopping on a few bunker schools and [...]

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