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The striped bass, or “rockfish” as it is known in North and South Carolina, occurs from the St. Lawrence River to northern Florida on the Atlantic coast of the United States; off Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi in th

The American shad  is a species of anadromous fish distributed from southern Labrador to northern Florida. American shad are in family Clupeidae of order Clupeiformes. They are not closely related to the other North American shads. Rather,

Chuck Many of Annandale won last weekend’s Hi-Mar Striper Tournament for the fourth time in the last five years on his Tyman from Highlands. Capt. Bryan Pieros of Lebanon and Matt Calabria from Hazlet joined Many as they chunked bunker in the

The summer flounder season opens Saturday with an 18-inch minimum length and eight-fluke bag limit through Sept. 25. Early season fluking is usually best in South Jersey but northern waters have warmed enough to provide some action at such hot spots

I had my second broiled White Shad of the season today. Great eating and highly recommended for those of you that like a fish that tasted like a fish and arent afraid of a few bones. Well actually a bone in every bite. But worth it. This glorious fis

The 2011 striped bass season is officially under way as the opening of internal waters has resulted in the capture of keepers. Dave Showell weighed in three bass from 29 inches up to an 18.9-pounder at Absecon Bay Sportsman Center in Absecon toward

American shad are moving up the Delaware River in vast quantities in order to spawn and waiting anglers are enjoying steady action with those game fish that don't feed in the river but instinctively strike small lures in their path. Dave Perruso

NEW YORK HARBOR TO RARITAN BAY Striped bass still hold the spotlight and fluking is improving. Raritan Bay has been good for stripers in the teens but finally produced bigger fish on Monday when Capt. Sal Cursi of Cathy Sea at Sewaren put NJ Transit

  Galveston Fishing has been spectacular this month.  Our Galveston Fishing Charters has been running the back bays and marsh the jetties and beachfront night time speckled trout trips and even gigging some summer time Galveston

With the current legislative session nearing its end anglers will have to work hard to make their voices heard in the Assembly so the state’s artificial reefs can be saved for the sportfishing public that paid for their construction with donat

The Fishing Report for Galveston continues to be solid. The Galveston Jettys has been the hot spot the past week. We finished up June and entered July with nice catches of speckled trout to 7 lbs.  Live shrimp has been the go to bait for th

Salmon Fishing Scotland Tay Perthshire Salmon fishing report w/e 3rd March 2018. The Tay Perthshire has now entered March for salmon fishing as February disappears and we have had a very cold weather pattern continue settling the river back to lower

Catching a doormat fluke is quite an accomplishment in local waters as even the gathering of pros in tournaments doesn’t assure that one will be caught. No one came close in the Sandy Hook Bay Anglers Tournament but Ken Temple of Andover Towns

It's often hard to repeat a great catch two days later and that was the case today for Frank Criscola of Bedminster on his custom 60-foot Titan from Brielle Yacht Club. Capt. Paul Dalek pushed the Crisdel as she ate up the northeast sea we faced

Fishing has started in the Hi-Mar Striper Club Fall Tournament and anglers will be looking for mates to the two big bass that were caught locally the last couple of days. The Tackle Box in Hazlet weighed a 41-pounder caught on bunker from the Spy Ho

Stiped bass didn't respond for party boats fishing the ocean today but clamming to the north was good. At Point Pleasant Capt. Johm Brackett of the Queen Mary summed it up as "Wet rough & no fish." However when the sun came out later

The forecast of gale-force southwest winds kept most boaters ashore this morning but there was actually little wind at first before it came on later in the morning. Capt. Rob Semkewyc took advantage of that with his Sea Hunter from Atlantic Highland

I could hardly believe my eyes this afternoon when I took a look at the Bay Head surf and saw a basically flat ocean though with some swell. Ever since the summer there have been few such days -- and it probably won't last for long as there&apo

At this month’s club meeting we are are going to have two seminar topics! Matt Ayers and Paul Caruso from Massachusetts Marine Fisheries will give a 20-25 minute presentation on the new and improved Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP

The New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council voted late Thursday afternoon for fluke management Option 2 which provides the longest season (May 7 to Sept. 25) while retaining an 18-inch minimum and raising the bag limit to eight. Not only was this expect