Small blues in surf

Vinny D’Anton continues to work for stripers in the Monmouth County surf, but everything has been coming up blues lately. Choppers in the 3-5-pound class provide steady action on poppers, and Vinny speculates that school bass can’t compete with them,. There’s lots of small bait in the surf, but the mullet run hasn’t started yet.

The Golden Eagle from Belmar reported as follows:”We had a slow start with a few shots at the BLUES. It took a while to build up but then had a steady pick of BLUES and BONITO until mid-day. The last half of the day was BONITO and MACKEREL.  ” They also had several jigged keeper fluke.

The Jamaica from Brielle is changing the weekend sailing time to 6:30 a.m. Capt. Howard Bogan reported Friday was the best day of the week for jigging and baiting bonito along with some blues ,chub mackerel and little tunny.

Capt. Ralph Leyrer said yesterday’s catch was giant porgies, but today his fares on Last Lady from Neptune, but they had big triggerfish up to 5 pounds plus a fluke while releasing lots of sea bass up to 19 inches today.

Joe Tomasewski broke the inlet in thick fog, and found his first spot devoid of fluke before limiting up to 5 pounds with Brian and Paulie.

The forecast is for south winds at 5-10 knots with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.

Fisher Price IV went 7 of 10 on yellowfin tuna on jigs and bait.