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Young anglers have been stealing the spotlight from veteran striper fishermen lately with one of them catching the largest party boat bass reported to me this year. Nine-year-old Bobby Root of Scotch Plains not only caught four bass during a hot bit

Yesterday on the surf we had small dogfish and actually some descent size bluefish caught by a few people. In the sound around kitty hawk bay and currituck there were some small trout caught as well.

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With a few exceptions such as evening fishing striped bass fishing hasn't been too consistent during a Memorial Day weekend that had been a blitz occasion the last two years. The report from Atlantic Highlands wasn't good as Capt. Ron Santee

Hi   We had a great time in Duck and caught lots of spot blues and one flounder as well as one dogfish.  Visited your shop 3 times talked to Ed a lot he was great. Picked up some cool hats and a nice combo to add to my fishing rod collectio

Had a fun half day trip Friday 6/7. The beginning was very slow with no drift at all but as soon as the tide started running the fish became active. Caught a bunch of fluke 3/1 shorts to keepers a couple of dogfish and the requisite sea robin. Also g

Anglers are enjoying the beginning of cod season. Sometimes the dogfish force a quick move but nice cod are coming over the rail.

Capt Steven Sr reports a lot of action this afternoon on the Viking Starlite. We had keeper Fluke and Sea Bass and a bunch of throwbacks. There were also sea robins and dogfish in the mix and a bunch of spinner sharks jumping around the boat. All in

Editing of Friday's column removed a section that made it appear the catches 30 bass by Fintastic and six on That's It were taken during the slow fishing Saturday rather than the hot bite on Tuesday. The missing section referring to bass fis

Dogfish Lake 47.7313, -93.9169

Capt. Sal Cursi had a couple of slow days chunking stripers in Raritan Bay from his Cathy Sea out of Sewaren before big bass cooperated during Monday morning's trip for a party of Jersey Transit engineers headed by Tom Stanczyk. A spawned-out 4

Capt Dave reports a very tough day on the Viking Starship. This was our first day out since last Sunday and we found very dirty water left over from the blow. Action was very limited finding only a few Porgies some Sea Bass a Ling and a couple of dog

Sorry for the delay in getting this blog out. Went to Klein's Restaurant in Belmar for an early dinner with the family and ran into a surprise 75th birthday party for me with family from Florida and long Island plus skippers and friends from al

The dogfish got us on the first stop but we were able to avoid them after that for the most part. Big cod and lots of cusk today.

After last weekends storm the regular bait fishing trips have been tough with a lot of dogfish.  Jigging trips continue to be good.

 Friday 7am Dogfish made things tough for us most of the day today.  We fished several areas looking for Seabass and they were there but it was hard to fish through the sharks.  i guess the easterly wind the last few day pushed th

Dogfish Lake 48.1935, -92.1863

Dogfish Lake 46.4969, -93.8519

Captain Dave reports slow but good fishing conditions. The fishermen caught medium to large fish and some keeper flukes and a little bother from a couple of dogfish. Overall it was a great fishing day and the pool winner was Christopher Urquilla from