Big Blue in Great Bay by Bill Dabney

Big Blue in Great Bay by Bill Dabney

After working on my boat all morning to get it ready for the the new season, I decided to try for blues in the white caps of Great Bay. After bouncing around for a while I hooked into a nice seven pound fish that kept me busy for a while and was a great way to start...
Bluefish and a Seaplane by Dave Spendiff

Bluefish and a Seaplane by Dave Spendiff

I left the dock this morning looking for bluefish. I headed in the same direction that produced a couple of days ago, north, under the RT 72 Bridge and into Manahawkin Bay. Started trolling a Tony Aceta #17 spoon and a yellow swimming plug and headed in the direction...
Alligator Blues By Marty Friedrich

Alligator Blues By Marty Friedrich

Fished a few hours in the morning the last two days with my neighbors in Great Bay. Saturday we had about a dozen Blues. We kept 5 and released the rest with the biggest over 8 lb. We also lost quite a few. We went out again on Sunday morning and discovered that the...
More Seabass Limits on the Red Herring by Dave Spendiff

More Seabass Limits on the Red Herring by Dave Spendiff

If you want to go offshore to fish for black seabass, there is probably no better boat to be aboard than Bill Figley’s “Red Herring”. Bill, his son, Nate, Ron Roshelli and myself headed out at 6:00 in the morning for a day of wreck fishing. We headed south and had...