Are you properly dressed for fishing?

The historic photo published here recently showed Asbury Park Fishing Club anglers with striped bass caught around 1910. I’m running that again in order to illustrate how fishermen dressed in the “good old days”. It’s been a long time since even party boat fishermen came aboard in coat and tie. The great NYC fisherman Vince Scotti showed me how he consistently trolled big bass with his long tube lure decades ago — and always arrived at his boat in an old suit before putting foul weather gear on top. Could that be the secret to catching big stripers?

The Ocean Explorer from Belmar reported about yesterday’s blackfish trip as follows:

“We made it out this morning in lumpy condtions but it did lay down and we had a comfortable day offshore…We had life to,,plenty of perch biting along with some short blackfish…handful of keeper blackfish onboard,,no Jumbos so your safe another day Timmy..No cod or pollock today,,guess they werent in the mood..Seasonal pool is 4400 bucks and wide open for the taking so come down and take a shot..We are fishing everyday unless weather stops us..See ya tomorrow.”

The forecast is for east winds at 5-10 knots before shifting to south in the afternoon. Seas will be 4-6 feet with a chance of afternoon rain.