Garden S S

Posted on July 20, 2017 by VHFC

On July 16, we fished the Garden State South Reef again – that’s where the fish seem to be holding. With my crew of Wil and Paul, we had five keepers with 22 and a half the largest. Wil got his limit with the biggest fish and I caught two. All the fish were caught on Gulp. Another friend of mine was out there the same day and also had five keepers caught on the reef. We had our share of throwbacks, plenty of big sea robins and one brown shark about 4 feet long.

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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.