MAKO SHARKIN CHECKLIST

New Jersey’s offshore waters are bustling with marine life right now, like true Nat Geo type of situations with thousands of dolphin, whales, tuna and sharks proliferating in the bluewaters. I just stepped off the boat from a mako trip, and after releasing a small 55-inch mako shark, it brought attention to me to list […]

ACCESSORIES FOR BLUEFIN TUNA

With recent bombastic action on 50 to 100-pound bluefin tuna on the midshore grounds, know your end game once you get the tuna near boatside. Everybody should understand their responsibilities beforehand so an organized, tight operation is enacted to insure full success and thick tuna steaks for the summer grill. You see color. The tuna […]

PROPER PROTECTION

Preparation of tackle and technique is one thing, but you gotta be ready to protect your body when putting either 4 hours or 24 hours on a fishing trip. From Florida’s 4 PM daily thunderstorms to a whipping Nor’easter in Jersey to oppressive sun in Cabo san Lucas, anglers should always be dressed to be […]

SLINGIN SEA BASS

Black sea bass fishing is firing along the Jersey coast. There’s a very tight window to get in on the action as the season closes on June 22 with an instated bag limit of 10 fish at a 12-1/2-inch minimum size. I hopped aboard the Dauntless party boat in Point Pleasant this past Tuesday to […]

OPENING DAY NJ FLUKE 2018

This is it. New Jersey anglers have been waiting for this day since last September. Fluke season officially opens May 25th with a 3 fish bag limit at 18-inch minimum size in coastal waters and 3 fish at 17 inches in Delaware Bay waters. So what’s the game plan? Here’s my take. Though its opening […]

FISHING A NOR’EAST SURF

A Northeast weather pattern has been sitting on Jersey for the past few days, and with it surf striped bass fishing has gone bananas. Heavy water demands you switch up your tactics a little bit for more effective bait fishing. Start off by bringing larger rods and reels to handle the swashing surf. I employ […]

POPPIN BAY BLUES

The first wave of bluefish moved into Jersey’s bay systems and surf zone, and you’re hard pressed to find a more exciting way to score gators than with topwater poppers. Blues have been of mixed size so far from choppers of 5 to 7 pounds to slammers upwards of 15 pounds, but both size classes […]

SODBANK STRIPERS

I literally just got off the water with TackleDirect pro staffer Captain Brian Williams of the Badfish, mainly to get out and prove that stripers were loaded in Jersey’s backwaters. Water temps ranged from 53 to 60 degrees while we worked over the backwater sodbanks. We were on the hunt to utilize lighter tackle for […]

BUNKER CHUNKING BLUEFISH

Spring choppers are ripping up the Eastern Seaboard shores as we speak, with action on bluefish coming from North Carolina up to New Jersey. The bluefish bomb usually hits Jersey in May and its prime time to target the gators in the surf using bunker chunks as hungry blue dogs are keyed in on the […]

FLORIDA KEYS BRIDGE BASHING

There cannot be a more satisfying moment in fishing then when cruising a worn out highway in the Florida Keys and pulling up to a bridge without a plan, casting a line and coming up big. On a recent trip through the Keys, Sean Reilly and I were heading from Oceans Edge Resort in Key […]

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