NJ Saltwater Fishing Reports

This trip started out just like yesterday even better, Tommy hooked a nice keeper setting the port side rig out. Then it stopped, a few short bass, some blues to keep it interesting, but a very slow trip. Nothing to throw at besides 1 shot a a school of blues and no bass to jig. [...]

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We did not have the lines in the water for more then a few minutes before the port side went off and thats how it went for hours. We kept 6 fish to 36″ and tossed all the rest back, many that were decent keeper size. Sometimes the rigs had 2 bass on. With the [...]

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Finally, the fall fishing is here. Birds, bait and Bass!! Plenty of fish to 32″, Sal siad he had to many to keep count. The bass were spread out over many miles with blues mixed in. The larger fish, upto 34″ and a boat limit, were caught trolling. We did catch quite a few on [...]

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Knowing that there is a bass bite, and that we will have the wrong tide, did not give me high expectations. But   you have to try and try we did, went right to the spotsand dragged eels. No fish and thats when I decided to bend the rods on some blues. Further west then I [...]

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The target was to find surfacing bluefish and toss poppers. 5 minutes from my dock and it was game on. Staying with these fish out towards the tip. Crashing on surface, feeding hard on the peanuts, great action. Decent size fish to 12lbs. Anthony had the big fish of just over 13lbs and his father [...]

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Found them everywhere, right out front, towards the back, and they are feeding. Fish to 12lbs, crushing my pencil popper and everything else you would toss at them. For me, just having them hit the surface popper is enough, let alone the fight. Now the good news, the inshore TUNA bite has started, not far, [...]

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With a not so good forecast, I cancelled John’s tuna trip out deep. Just not right to get out there and only fish for a couple of hours. He reluctantly agreed and decided to try for bass, blues, whatever. Tried eeling in the channel with no action and very little life. Headed south to where [...]

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Needed to leave mid morning to find very few boats and large areas of jumbo blues busting on the surface. Almost 2 hours of every cast hookups had the guys looking for a break. Took the ride south in hopes of getting into some different fish. Smaller blues, bonita and false albecore feeding on very [...]

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