NJ Saltwater Fishing Reports

Winds blowing 20 NW, after yesterdays 25-30mph, and a gung-ho crew, only 1 move to make. Greg and his men were game and prepared for any style of fishing to put a catch together. It did not take too long to figure out what we needed to do to catch some bass (see pic in [...]

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It took awhile to fill the tanks, but it did not take too long before we had the bass biting. Ricky had a great runoff before the bass dropped the bait, Matt and Zempe did too. Thats when Ed stepped up and hooked his fish, not giant but a good start to the live bait [...]

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Last years trip found only the gator blues for Joe and his crew, I needed to get them into the white meat. As the cold north west wind blew I did not want to take the chance and head south and miss the tide where I knew we could catch some bass on the inside. [...]

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The weather was beautiful as we headed south looking for signs of life. Anthony(eagle eye) spotted the birds first and as we arrived, Lee and Anthony were both hooked into Bass, Tommy had a blue. A few more casts and Lee was taking Anthony to school on catching these bass on the soft baits. A [...]

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Scales n Tales headed west early this morning and was not disappointed. Quickly boating a limit of bass to 22lbs, even the slack water produced and by mid morning had 24 bass to the boat, releasing all but 4. We will be out again tomorrow in hopes of finding a jig bite.

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Myself, Jr, Sal Bananas and Capt Vin headed south in the gray morning daylight, hoping that the great jig bite lasts1 more day. The beautiful sunrise really charges me up and I had the Yamahas cranking in the cool early morning air. Arriving on the grounds and finding no life really threw me for a loss, however [...]

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All I wanted was for the bite down the beach to last 1 more day. SO as we approached the small fleet and saw nothing that would make me stop, I figured we were just alittle late. Then a bit further south, I noticed the birds and in a few minutes we were surrounded by [...]

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Myself, Erwin Jr, Anthony S and Captain Vinny took out the Scales n Tales on the first trip of the year. I plan on just running the boat and checking the equipment, we put the trolling rods on just for $^@%and giggles. Once it became apparent that all was well, the lines went in and [...]

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Let the season begin, just got off the phone with a good buddy who stated that they could not keep the rods in the water without the bass would jump all over the baits. Then had the fish swirling as far as he could see. Limited with fish to 20lbs, then got tired of catch [...]

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