Fishing with Dad

17 pound Striped Bass.  Caught in Island Beach State Park.  I used a fish finder rig and clams to hook this one.  It took about 15 minutes to get onto the beach as it was low tide and I was using 12 pound test.   Nevertheless a fun and enjoyable fight.  Fish was released.

Caught aboard the Jamaica in August of 2009.  It weighed in at a whopping 9.3 lbs.  It won the overall pool on the charter boat by a measly 3/10 of a pound.

The fluking activity is picking up quite a bit from the beaches. Bucktail jigs with a Gulp! teaser is working to draw those fish in. Fluke are also being caught from the Barnegat Bay and out front on the boats. Stripers are still around a 43.7 pound monster was recently weighed in. Sharks are around mostly on a night bite, eating bunker baits and biting off lots of rigs. Browns are the most common ones and all of these toothy creatures need to be treated with respect. Fluke are also being caught out of the Barnegat Inlet at the Tires and to the south at the Garden State North Reef. On the Tires they are also drifting and catching sea bass. In Barnegat Bay, fluke fishing has been better on the incoming tide. The somewhat cooler water seems to wake up their bite. The 38 Can in the Oyster Creek Channel is a good spot, but tough to fish when there is a lot of boat traffic. Crabbing is still very good and for freshwater anglers, Bamber Lake off Lacey Road has a ton of pickerel and some large mouth bass.

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