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At Point Pleasant, Capt. Bobby Bogan reported a boat limit of yellowfin tuna during his Friday to Saturday trip to Spencer Canyon with the Gambler. There were also some dolphin and skipjacks, but no albacore. The Saturday to Sunday trip produced the largest swordfish they've ever caught, though it was hardly an IGFA battle. John Sameth of Roselle only...
At Point Pleasant, Capt. Bobby Bogan reported a boat limit of yellowfin tuna during his Friday to Saturday trip to Spencer Canyon with the Gambler. There were also some dolphin and skipjacks, but no albacore. The Saturday to Sunday trip produced the largest swordfish they've ever caught, though it was hardly an IGFA battle. John Sameth of Roselle only fought the sword briefly before it got wrapped in the props and was gaffed on the other side of the boat. Surprisingly, it didn't put up a fuss until tail-roped. The crew was barely able to get the sword through the stern door as it was 9 feet from the lower jaw to the fork of the tail, with a 6-foot girth. By formula, that would come out to about 700 pounds. There were some limits of 30-pound yellowfins, plus a few larger ones. Cristyn Jones of Toms River had a limit up to a 65-pounder. The Gambler will continue canyon trips into November.
Capt. Jim O'Grady finally got his Mud Hole tuna trip on the Cock Robin in on Wednesday. He was all over Monster Ledge without finding much, though a large tuna was hooked before tangling in many lines and breaking off—and another was lost immediately after the hook-up. What they did catch was lots of big sea bass and a couple of fluke that had to be returned during the closed season. A legal cod was boated.
Capt. Dave Riback of the Queen Mary got into hot jigging under birds not far from the inlet this week. Over 20 stripers were found among lots of blues from 10 to16 pounds on Tuesday. Poppers worked best Wednesday for stripers up to 38 inches. Limits of blues to 15 pounds were caught before bass turned on at 9 a.m.
Joe Melillo, at Castaway's Tackle had Sunday weigh-ins of a 10-pound bass on a teaser at Sea Girt by Tom Brown of Wall, and a 14 1/2-pounder on a teaser at Manasquan by Scott Albright. Roy Heartley of Point Pleasant caught a 29 1/2-inch bass Monday at Spring Lake on a teaser. Joseph Green of Manchester had a 13 /16-pounder on clam at Belmar on Tuesday. Jack Cook from Lakewood beached a 14 1/8-pounder yesterday at Normandy Beach, while Terry Martuscelli of Brick weighed surf bass of 12 and 22 pounds. Melillo says blackfishing is holding up in Point Pleasant Canal, and he has green crabs in stock.
Joe Julian reports from Julian's Tackle in Atlantic Highlands that Mike Bijas of Middletown boated a 22-pound bass on clam in front of the Inlet Café on Shrewsbury River. Mike and Jim Soden of Middletown caught four stripers up to 30.33 pounds in the river on eels, and that bait produced a 25-pounder for Rudy Kastner of Middletown who fished there at night.
George Horvath of Trenton has tagged 7,400 fish with ALS tags in N.J. – and his 234 returns have come from 11 states. One of the most interesting was a 28-inch striper caught June 21 last year from the north jetty of Barnegat Inlet. It had six feet of mono sticking out of its mouth from a hook too deep to be removed. Horvath cut back the mono as far as he could while tagging it. That bass was recaptured near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on July 30 – proving that even released bass with deeply swallowed hooks can survive.
Allen Riley of South Plainfield managed a small bass on a Deadly Dick in the Sandy Hook surf Monday morning, but the only other fish caught there was a sea robin snagged by his brother Ed, of Edison. Mike Mossa of Hillsborough caught a 20-inch striper on clam during his first surf attempt. The water temperature there has dropped to 59 degrees.
Chris Cowan and John Caffrey from Stirling trolled from Sandy Hook to Shrewsbury Rocks on Tuesday in good bait readings, but never had a hit before a 29-inch bass grabbed a chartreuse bunker spoon at the Rocks.
Cablevision subscribers will be happy to hear that World Fishing Network (WFN) is being added to provide around the clock fishing programming.
Though 40 stripers have been entered so far in the Long Beach Island Surf Fishing Classic, there have been only four bluefish up to a 10.81-pounder. Gary Naylor of Mt. Holly has led almost from the start with a 41.56-pound striper.
This Fishing Report was submitted on 10/29/2011 4:17:44 AM by Seamus and last updated on 10/29/2011 4:17:44 AM.
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