Dashed plans – but not bad!

Bill Dabney and I left the dock at 4:30 am this morning and headed for Barnegat Inlet for a day of Striper fishing. As we cleared the Manahawkin Bridge and headed through the sedge island towards BI, it became all too clear that the weather forecast was more than a...
Fluke in the Middle Grounds

Fluke in the Middle Grounds

June 7, 2014. I got up at sunrise and headed out to the Middle Grounds to see if the Fluke were still in the bay. Luckily, they were. On my first drift I caught a 21″, and on the second drift a 22″. At 8:45 after catching an 18″ to complete the hat...
A Whale of a Striper trip! by Dave Spendiff

A Whale of a Striper trip! by Dave Spendiff

The forecast for Tuesday, May 20th was winds were to be light and out of the West all day – a perfect chance for me to go ocean Striper fishing. I cleared BI around 6:30 and headed North. About 1 mile up IBSP I spotted some surface commotion, slowed down and got...

Thanks, Capt. Fran! by Dave Spendiff

My neighbor, Lee and I left the dock at 8:00 am on Monday, May 12, 2014 to test the new found information we all received Friday night from Capt. Verdi. I bought a dozen fresh clams, a 21/2 gal. bag of frozen clam belly chum, make myself a 3 hole bucket and headed for...

Still No Keepers by Dave Spendiff

I went out early 0n May 6, 2014 to fish the outgoing tide around the bridge closest to Ship Bottom The lagoon temp was 56 and I didn’t see anything higher in the bay than 57.8 degrees all day. I made what seeded like hundreds of drifts covering the bridge and...