Opening Day Flounder By Marty Friedrich

My two friends and I had a good first day of flounder fishing out in Great Bay. We caught our limit of 9 flounder and had about a dozen throwbacks. There were two nice fish at 22 and 1/2 and one of them weighed 4 & 1/2 lbs.
First Two Days of 2018 Fluke Season by Ed Valitutto

First Two Days of 2018 Fluke Season by Ed Valitutto

On Friday opening day, Alan Goracy and I fished Double Creek. It’s been dredged and nicely marked but there are two or three spots where it is really narrow between the buoys. Despite the large fleet, we quickly had 15 fish with only one at 18″ before it...
Opening Day Fluke by Phil Simon

Opening Day Fluke by Phil Simon

Fished the bay opening day for fluke. Started at the BI, then the 40 can. Nada. Moved to the Research Buoy – lots of algae already on the bottom – my bucktail with teaser kept picking it up. Switched to a white floating jig with white gulp swim...
Inshore Black Sea Bass Fishing by Bob Dodds

Inshore Black Sea Bass Fishing by Bob Dodds

Bob Dodds reported a day sea bass fishing. Three generations of the “Dodds” family went sea bass fishing on Friday May 25th with Captain Greg Carr on the Kev’N Ash II docked in Barnegat Light. Bob (aka Pop Pop), son Shawn and 15 year old granddaughter Ashley had a...
What A Shame! by Dave Spendiff

What A Shame! by Dave Spendiff

I arrived at Gulf Point this morning at 7:30 and started to troll the bay with spoons. I trolled and trolled and trolled without a touch until 10:00 when I finally hooked and boated a small bluefish. I went back over the area a couple more times and got nada so I...