NJ Saltwater Fishing Reports

Mother nature changes the plan, I still cant get over how the weather forecast is nowhere what it really is. We did have the fluke rods and I was determined to put the guys into some decent fish.  The grounds were covered with fluke and thick ones. however many were just under the 18″ line. [...]

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The plan is to best Mike’s big fish record that he set on his last trip. After yesterdays trip, I thought we had a very good chance. The water was extremely dirty and the bottom was covered with small seabass. Hot sweltering conditions made fishing very difficult. The crew did their best, as did I trying [...]

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Leaving the crystal clear, fish infested waters on Friday, and having the storm pass us over the weekend, I had no idea what to expect. Every trip the expectations are to load the box, sometimes it just does not work like that. When we had 4 fish on the first drop, at least the fish [...]

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With my Scales n Tales out of the water for scheduled maintenance, I jumped on the chance to go with my buddy on his boat. 1 final chance to get on the flat fish before the big blow. So Dean, Boston Pete, and myself headed south on Jr’s boat. Once on the grounds, we encountered [...]

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Finally, after 1 trip was blown out, we got the weather we needed and then all that was left was to find the Mahi. The first few stops did not produce and heading east, did not look promising. Finally we made the right stop and we were able to spot a few Mahi, Tim hooked the [...]

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My first to spots did not produce anything other then a few shorts and some nice seabass. Vincent and his son Chris fished hard during the slow period and kept the faith. Finally I got onto a spot that held some nice fish and we were able to put soem nice fluke into the box. [...]

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Here is his chance to get soem white meat in his freezer, only problem his he thinks that the searobins count as the white meat. While myself and Dean were hitting the flat fish hard, Sal was busy feeding the birds. The weather was incredible so when I lost the tide in the channel, it [...]

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With the very calm forecast and the reports red hot from the tuna grounds, we rounded the hook early and made the 53mile run in a little over a hour. We got the spread out and started the troll. A few friends in the fleet were into the fish on jigs and bait. I decided [...]

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Leaving the fish biting yesterday, and very few boats at this spot, I had to get back out there and try and get some white meat for my freezer. We got a late start due to Jr having to finish up his shift. Once there the only drift was the current, but it was the same [...]

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A stiff breeze that was against the tide made for some p conditions early, and the area that I wanted to fish held all shorts before the bite died. Just did not want to wait it out so I made a major move. Glad I did because, Chris along with his father,  his 2 sons, Will and Charley, and [...]

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