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A Whale of a Striper trip! by Dave Spendiff

The forecast for Tuesday, May 20th was winds were to be light and out of the West all day – a perfect chance for me to go ocean Striper fishing. I cleared BI around 6:30 and headed North. About 1

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Thanks, Capt. Fran! by Dave Spendiff

My neighbor, Lee and I left the dock at 8:00 am on Monday, May 12, 2014 to test the new found information we all received Friday night from Capt. Verdi. I bought a dozen fresh clams, a 21/2 gal. bag

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Still No Keepers by Dave Spendiff

I went out early 0n May 6, 2014 to fish the outgoing tide around the bridge closest to Ship Bottom The lagoon temp was 56 and I didn’t see anything higher in the bay than 57.8 degrees all day. I

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FIRST TRIP OF 2014 by Dave Spendiff

Although my boat has been in the water 3 weeks, Monday April 28 was the first decent day worth venturing out in. After the presentation made by Capt. Alex of Lighthouse Sportfishing at our April meeting, I was excited about

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1st day on the Beach 2014

After this long hard winter, cabin fever has set in. On Sunday, 4/6/14, the sun was out and the wind blowing off the water, but I couldn’t resist going out with some salted clams and soak in some sunshine. It

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Fishing report from Brett Taylor July 13, 2013

Backbay fishing has lots of options – Fluke, Blowfish, Kingfish, even some Weakfish. Fishing the tide and wind conditions will help to put keepers over rail and in the pail. Even though the incoming water has been icy cold –

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Fishing Report from Brett Taylor July 4, 2013

Although the conditions haven’t been ideal, the fish have been cooperating. Fluke are spread out in their usual midsummer haunts, but consider working channel edges and deeper water as the bay temperatures reach 80 degrees. A couple hours of incoming

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Fishing Report from Brett Taylor June 26, 2013

It’s been a pretty busy week – school is officially out – which means I will be doing a lot of fishing. 
 To start off the week – I ran an afternoon boat trip for fluke and had Tom

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Fishing Report from Joe Filice June 23 & 24, 2013

I took my Grandson, Tyler 12 yrs, at 6:30 in Beach Haven. I put out a bunker head and had Tyler cast clam into the trough. At approx 7:30′ Tyler’s rod doubled over and he set the hook. The fish

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Spring 2013 VHFC Fishing Outing

This trip was scheduled for November 2012, but we all know who paid us a visit that changed everything. The deposit was held over for this year and a Striper Outing was planned for May 24, 2013 aboard the Searcher

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