Stripers bite in rough waters

After having a very good all-day striper bite yesterday, Capt. Ron Santee wasn’t about to be scared off by today’s wind and rough waters with his Fishermen from Atlantic Highlands. He summed up the day as follows:”

Had fish right off the bat once again, the wind hadn’t started to blow so we got a good hour out of it. Got a little nasty with the last of the incoming but the customers toughed it out and they were rewarded.

After the change it settled a bit and beleave it or not the bite got better!! Long drifts on Keepers, Bonus & Overs….Everyone went home with the meat. Back at it in the Morning.‘

The Golden Eagle from Belmar reported “It was a slow pick on the STRIPERS in the morning but the last half of the day the fish were splashing on top. We had better action as the day went on. We ended up with a good amount of throwbacks along with Keepers and some SLOT FISH.“

A small craft advisory is up through Sunday evening. Sunday’s forecast is for west winds at 10-15 knots increasing to 15-20 with gusts to 25 in the afternoon.

Quite in contrast to the world record in last night’s blog, Joe Handley was happy with this small one at LBI as reported by Fisherman’s Headquarters.