Two Unbelievable Days at Little Egg Reef by Larry Leary

Posted on September 5, 2018 by kelli

Larry Leary, my son Brian and my grandkids went out fishing this Labor Day weekend. On Sunday we caught 11 keepers and on Monday we outdid ourselves with 15 keepers. The pictures in this report were all from Monday’s trip. Fluke were all 19″- 25″ including a 5.94 lb weighed in at FHQ. We crushed these fish on Monday and had our limit by 10:30 AM. We also caught and released false albacore. Great days fishing outside the LE Reef! My son and grandkids will have good memories of these trips.

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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.