Yearly Archives: 2023

Cold & Windy But we Limited Out by Ed Valitutto

With the end of the 2024 season fast approaching, John Stuebing and Jerry Nichols joined me for a striper trip. Once we cleared the inlet and turned north, working birds were scattered close to shore out to about a mile

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Far From Epic but still a very good day by Ed Valitutto

Jerry Nichols invited me for a day of bass fishing on Thursday 11/30. With both the wind and waves reasonable for venturing outside, only the cold temperatures made things a little uncomfortable but we both were dressed for it. Once

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Multigenerational family fishing Black Friday by Jerry Nichols

After plenty of turkey and football on Thursday, we hit the water on Friday and Saturday fishing for stripers off IBSP. We connected with fish about 2 miles out with two overs and a couple shorts on Friday and then

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Tog Mania by Marty Friedrich

On November 16, I had a great tog trip with Wil, Paul and my buddy Bob. We ended up with 18 keepers before we ran out of bait after starting with 9 dozen crabs! Paul had a 10 lb 1

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Epic Striper Fishing on the Jen-Jen by Larry Leary

Brian, Tyler, friend Smity and I left the dock at 5:45 AM heading to IBSP. We wound up going past Ortley before we started seeing life. Started catching there and then headed back south. The fish were all over the

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Maiden voyage of a tin boat by Dave Spendiff

Two weeks ago I bought a used 10′ Jon boat to use in the lagoons near the house to fish for white perch. It was in “like new” condition, but with only a wheel system on the transom for pushing

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Personal best surf-caught striped bass by Bayside Dave

I went up to Sandy Hook with a few friends on Wednesday, October 26th to target bass by throwing plugs. We all caught quality bass in the 36″ range using 6″ pencil poppers. I was lucky enough to land this

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Another Keeper Tog off the BL Bulkhead by Ed Valitutto

Once again, I decided to drive to Barnegat Light and fish for tog off the bulkhead. This is the sixth time in 10 days that I have gone there. I’ve fished the same spot each time – just off the

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Bunker Everywhere but very few stripers by Ed Valitutto

John Stuebing joined me on Tuesday Oct 23rd. for a fantastic journey north of BI looking for stripers. Perfect weather made the trek enjoyable as we traversed the length of IBSP passing the ‘wheel’ at Seaside Heights and continuing on

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No Stripers Yet but a lot of small Weakfish by Ed Valitutto

Fishing the day after our club dinner was tough, but I couldn’t say no to John Stuebing’s offer to search for Striped Bass. After rounding Holgate, we headed north and quickly found schools of bunker – but no predators were

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