Member Reports

FINALLY Got ’em Good by Bob Dodds

After weeks, no make that months of frustrating weather & a poor fluke bite, accompanied by several VHFC members, we finally had a great day. On Friday, 8/23, I, Boston Bob, Bert, Bill and James went out with Captain Greg Carr on

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Great Fuke Trip by Marty Friedrich

Saturday’s trip was a banner day! I had Wil, my neighbor, and my friend Rick who’s a new member. It was nonstop fishing. The shorts were more than we could count plus many short sea bass. We ended up with

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Got Outfished by Dave Puzak

My daughter caught her first keeper trigger fish and I didn’t catch a thing. We had a great morning on the water in the barneget bay. Tried fluking and blackfishing but no luck. So we decided to take a dip

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First Day of Tog Season on the Barnegat Inlet Jetty by Bayside Dave Etelman

I went out to the walkway this morning for day one of tog season. The bite was non-stop from 6am to 9am, and I left them biting. I went through 100 sand fleas and landed over 30 tog and one

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Tri Club Challenge by John Stuebing

Our First year in the Tri Club Challenge is now in the Books. As a club we came in second place behind the Forked River Tuna Club. As a Club, our top 10 fish weighed in at 27.93 pounds. Top

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Fluke Fishing in Barnegat Bay by Bayside Dave Etelman

Jim Healy took me, Doug O’Brien, and Mike Woodrow out on his boat Monday morning.  All of us are members of the club.  We fished a few spots including Oyster Creek, High Bar Harbor, and the inlet.  We were out

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Cold Water Ocean Fluking by Marty Friedrich

Despite a little bit of fog this morning, July 20th turned out to be a good day. I had my fishing buddy Wil who is a member now and my neighbor out today. We fished off the red Tower again

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Some Success on The Great Bay by Bayside Dave Etelman

Wednesday July 3rd, I went out on the Great Bay on a friend’s boat for fluke.  It was a slow bite but we found a few fish in the deep water behind the stink house.  Bucktails tipped with pink and

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Short trip for Grandpa by Tim Naples

I took my 87 year old grandfather out for a brief trip on Friday (7/5). We only spent a couple hours on the reef, but we managed a nice keeper sea bass and one keeper fluke. It was nice just

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Great Fluke Catching on the Reef by Tim Naples

We headed out for fluke on Sunday and were greeted with dense fog on the way out. But we pressed on, and the fog began to clear about a mile from the reef. We started off with a good bite

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Fishing Facts

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.

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