Cat. Frank Massaria reported “Excellent bass bite now on mostly large and larger fish. This is pretty much live bait fishing or jig fishing if the fish pop up.
I’ll let the pictures do the talking. Fluff isn’t my expertise!!!
We have good charter dates available from now through early December!!
We also have dates available for blackfish as soon as the season goes to 5 fish on Nov 16th.
Get your dates in now!!
as Lilly (10) of Hazlet released one striper after another on live eels in sandy Hook Channel.
Dave said the weather was fine and the keeper size bass were hungry.
Dave Lilly picked up the nickname The Wiz due to his fishing skills as a youngster — and got another on the way today as his granddaughter Madison Lilly of Hazlet had a hot hand with keeper-size stripers in Sandy Hook Channel. Dave said the weather was fine and the fish were hungry.
Capt. Ron Santee reports lots of bottom bites from his Fishermen out of Atlantic Highlands though anglers have to work for keepers.
Though NJ pros have been into lots of big stripers off the northern Shore, those bass are probably all local. THE WATER IS MUCH TOO HIGH FOR AN EARLY migration. The migratory bass will have a purple sheen on the back.
IV The NJ charter boat Fisher Price IV reported as following “with up to 5 on at a time. The guys did a great job is some less than favorable conditions landing 31 fish ranging from 36-48”. This afternoon we had John and crew out. Headed right back to where we had them in the morning and got right back into them. Multiple hookups every drift with the guys landing and releasing 25 fish to 47”. Thank you again to both crews fishing hard in some sloppy conditions today.”
Capt. Ron Santee reported bottom fishing keepers for all on his Fishermen from Atlantic Highlands during an all-day bite.
The Tyman stripers noted yesterday were caught on live eels.
Chuck Many checked out the northern NJ ocean grounds after the storm as 21 bass from 4 4 tp 50 inches were released in 4 hours by Tyman!
It’s striper time in Sandy Hook Channel as Dave Lilly confirmed yesterday evening. Most were keeper-size,and there was no problem with blues on the live eels for bait.
Dave Lilly has heard of some post storm bass and blues in the back of the bay.
