TROLLING FOR SPEEDSTERS

Jersey continues to enjoy the oddest summer in recent history, as tropical speedsters abound in local nearshore waters. Pelagics in the form of bonito, Spanish mackerel, king mackerel, mahi mahi and false albacore are running rampant in the 80 degree waters that extend from right off the beaches out to 10 miles. The easiest way […]

END OF SEASON FLUKE

As the Jersey fluke season winds down for good on September 22, large and in charge flatties have moved in big time off the coast. This past week I was out to the Axel Carlson reef on the Killer Bea with Brian Keating and we had a five man boat limit by 10 AM, the […]

SUMMERTIME STRIPERS

Striped bass fishing in Jersey is only a spring and fall thing, right? Wrong. Locals know that resident stripers will bite all through the heat of the summer, its just a matter of knowing where and what to throw at them to get hit. Generally speaking, low light hours and dark hours are the prime […]

BONITO AND SPANISH MACKS IN THE SURF

In the last week, the Jersey surf has turned into bizarro world and has resembled Florida more than the Garden State. With 76 to 80 degree surf water temperatures sitting on New Jersey, an influx of pelagic speedsters have moved into the area waters from roughly Barnegat Inlet up to Sandy Hook. Bonito and Spanish […]

SURF SHARK CHUNKING BAG

With all the hubbub of sharks and rays in the summer surf, night time excursions demand that you are organized and prepared with all your gear to seamlessly streamline the after hours chunking process. You need to be ready to address any situation that arises when battling sharks and rays that can reach up to […]

BIG GAME SURF RAYS

When you witness some hapless angler chasing his rod and reel into the surf, then coming out of the waves, exasperated, soaking wet and empty handed, you know the cow nosed rays are in town. As the heart of summertime is upon us, big game rays are hanging in the Jersey surfline, stealing rod and […]

POMPANO FROM THE SURF

Whenever I hit the Cape Canaveral, Florida area, I always find time to break out the surf gear and target the silver ghost of the shore – pompano. Pomps can be found on both coasts of Florida and up the entire Eastern Seaboard to the northernmost range around New Jersey. Pompano can be targeted in […]

SNAKES AND STRIPERS

I had the pleasure – well let me be real here – a lifelong wish fulfilled this week when I was able to take one of my old school WWE wrestling idols, Jake the Snake Roberts, out to catch his first striped bass. Being that it’s late July in Jersey, you would think there would […]

TRICKING TRIGGERFISH

In the past decade, Jersey’s wrecks and reefs have begun to colonize with summer visitors in the form of gray triggerfish. Previously known as a relative bycatch on the structure piles, triggers are now carpeting inshore wrecks and reefs, sometimes by the hundreds. For those that don’t know, triggerfish contain a sweet white, flaky meat […]

PARTY BOAT FLUKE CHECKLIST

I literally have squid strips stuck to my backpack and Gulp! Juice stains on my shirt as I write this, reason being I just stepped off the deck of the 90 foot party boat Gambler in Point Pleasant www.gamblerfishing.net from a half day fluke trip. A beauty 7.5-pound flatback took the pool and plenty of […]

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