Member Reports

Awesome Day of Wreck Fishing on The Jen-Jen by Larry Leary

Yesterday members Brian, Tyler, Jimbo, & I with Max and Jared from Fishermen Headquarters headed offshore for a day on several wrecks. We had a mixed bag including almost 6-man limit on Sea Bass, many Tog all released a surprise

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Great Wreck Fishing by the Figley Family by Nate Figley

We headed out for some bottom fishing at the Garden State North Reef Site. Fishing itself was a slow pick, but we did manage to put a decent catch together of sea bass, ling, and tog. Of course, all tog

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Two Days Wreck Fishing on The Jen-Jen by Larry Leary

Memorial Weekend Wreck fishing was fantastic! Day 1 crew: Tyler, Sean, Bryson and I had a great day of wreck fishing with lots of Sea Bass and Tog action with close to our limit. Day 2 crew: Brendan, friend Nick,

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Bayside Dave’s Memorial Day Weekend outing on The Great Bay

I went out Saturday on the Great Bay fishing for fluke with 3 buddies, including fellow VHFC member Doug O’Brien.  We picked up a couple keepers trying different areas before we found a steady bite.  We all caught fish and

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Memorial Day Weekend Fishing Bonanza by Dave Puzak

Excellent Memorial Day weekend fishing to report. On Friday, I got my limit of both blues and fluke. Saturday, I picked 150 clams, but fluking was slow. Today, Sunday, I caught my limit of blues with this gator blue of

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Bottom Fishing the AC Reef on the Red Herring by Nate Figley

We fished a weather window between some NE winds that didn’t want to move out of the area. We started inshore and caught a few sea bass mixed with good numbers of tog. We then continued to move out into

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Tuesday May 14 On the Beach by Pat Presutto

I started early Monday morning in Surf City and got into a bunch of blues. It wasn’t what I was looking for, so I went back on Tuesday with club member Bill. We drove south instead looking for deep water

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Fun on the LBI Sands by Ed Valitutto

Our original plans were to go fluking but the exaggerated weather report kept John Stuebing and me shore bound. So, we decided to hit the beach instead. A quick stop at SC B&T for bait and we headed to 5th

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What happened to the White Perch? by Dave Spendiff

Three months and hundreds of casts, with fewer than ten fish caught! I didn’t even see a fish caught during the annual tournament a couple of weekends ago and they were using grass shrimp – I did see a whole

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Fun afternoon in the suds for Bayside Dave

I went fishing the incoming tide mid-island LBI with some friends using fresh clam and bunker for bait. I got 2 bass on clam, but both came off the hook. Then I landed this 32+” bass that hit bunker. A

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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.
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