Fishing report from Joe Filice for June 2, 2013.

Posted on June 2, 2013 by VHFC

Well, as I said in my last report, I tried all week, in between scraping and painting, for a bigger Stripers. The south wind was howling all week and put the fish down, I can’t remember catching during these heavy south blows and this week was no exception, I caught nothing. On Sunday, June 2nd, my wife and I took two of our granddaughters to the beach in the morning. It was low tide and the wind was again howling out of the south. I noticed a deep trough just to the right of where we came on. In the afternoon, I took the girls back up by myself, no wife backup. While they played, I watched them and also was throwing a fluke rig with White Gulp 4″ mullets on a jig and a teaser. On the 3rd cast I brought in a nice 20″ Flattie. A few more casts and then the girls were getting too brave with a very rough incoming tide, so the rod went in a spike and I was on guard duty. But I got a nice dinner fish.

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Of the fifty United States, thirty-eight have a striped-bass record. New Jersey has the largest striped-bass record—a 78-pound 8·ounce whopper that was caught in 1982. The state with the smallest striped-bass record is Iowa. That landlocked striper weighed only 9 pounds 4 ounces and was caught in 1983.

There’s something fishy about beer these days. Fish Tail Ale is popular as ever, and New Jersey’s Flying Fish Brewery is one of the state’s largest specialty breweries. There’s also Washington’s Wild Salmon Organic Pale Ale, Florida’s Land Shark beer, Delaware’s Dogfish Head beer, and two versions of Stingray beer—a lighter version from the Cayman Islands and a dark beer from Canada.

The triangle fly is probably the most unusual of saltwater flies. It’s one of the few, if not only, flies tied to a treble hook. It’s also barely a fly at all, because hardly any material is used. It is complete after tying the two straw pearl twinkle flashes and the tiny tuft of natural squirrel, leaving an entire hook fully exposed. Incredibly this barebacked treble fly is a knockout when it comes to sea trout.