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Day After Tournament

By Martin Friedrich I had gotten a fishing report from a friend Saturday night after our tournament. He and a friend fished an area and gotten 9 keepers. If wasn’t for the weather coming in they might have gotten there

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Hot Afternoon Bite By Martin Friedrich

July 4th had my friend Paul out with me today. Started at the LE reef just managed a few shorts. We moved to the Rutgers bouy area, we caught 3 keeper’s and quite a few shorts. Early afternoon we moved

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Garden State South Reef by Martin Friedrich

Friday July 1st Fished on my buddy Tim’s boat today I managed to catch two keepers a 23 and a half inch at 5.7 lbs and 18 and a half inch fluke we also have 4 keeper sea bass the

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Fluke Fishing Report for June 11, 2016 by Vince Sibona

I went fishing on Jeff Barnhart’s Reel Deal with Jeff and John Lyszczarz. We fished on the LE Reef. We knew the forecast was for heavy winds and seas building into the afternoon. Only a few boats on the reef.

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Big fish in the Gulf by Basil Dubroski

I am vacationing in Sarasota, FL this month and Ihad one of the best fishing experiences of my life while fishing with Marvin on the “Winning Bid”, his 30 foot Grady with twin 300 Yamahas and auto pilot. We departed

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They’re Back! by Dave Spendiff

The bay ol’ timers say the big blues come into Barnegat bay around the 21st of April each year – last year they were a little late, this year they were on time. Caught (boated) 27 of these yellow eyed

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2016 1st Bluefish by Dave Spendiff

I left the dock at 7:45 on Monday, April 18th and headed to the Oyster Creek Power Plant outflow. Bay temp was 53. As on the past few trips here, I was trying to catch a weakfish. There were at

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2016 Striper by Dave Spendiff

I left the dock at 8:00 on 4/14/16 and headed north to the Oyster Creek Power Plant outflow. Water temp in the bay was 50 and got warmer as I approached the creek, reaching 60.7 in the creek. I first

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Three Happy Anglers by Basil Dubrosky

A few years back, on a beautiful October day, 3 VHFC members ventured out on a wreck trip in search of Tog. Read about how the trip turned out… http://www.physics.upenn.edu/~wk/Bas-A-Wreck-Trip.html

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WOW!!! by Dave Spendiff

Bill Dabney, myself and two of my friends, Bob and George, joined Capt. Steve Purul aboard the Reel Fantasea for a day of striper fishing. Little did we know when we left the dock Dec. 4th, that this would be

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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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