by The Fisherman magazine Dream Boat contest is filling in rapidly, but every angler still has a shot at the multitude of prizes which are available only to subscribers. Those prizes range up to a Steiger Craft 21-foot center console with a Yamaha 150 and all accessories. Even those only ending up in the top 10 of each species do very well with prizes.
As of the July issue, the most impressive entry was a 15.2-pound fluke boated by Aldo Paonessa (see below), but there were only two others entered with a minimum of 6 pounds.
Once again, there was no 10-pound pre-spawning weakfish entered. The leader is a 6.5-pounder by Tom Lucas which could stand up until the fall — or all the way.
With the minimum at 4 1/2 pounds, the sea bass division was empty — though that will change when party boats start fishing the offshore wrecks in October. o
Blackfish is also empty at just a 7-pound minimum, but the winner there normally is entered in the fall. The same applies to scup, with the leader being 2.32 pounds. The sea robin lead is 3.25 pounds, and there’s only one bluefish at 15.5 pounds by Frank Shea. The bluefish minimum is 15 pounds, which used to be easy to achieve in the spring. Now it’s hard to find jumbo blues even in the fall.
The Golden Eagle from Belmar had a steady pick of ling and sea bass today along with a showing of whiting and winter flounder.
The forecast is for northwest winds at just 5 knots — changing to south in the afternoon.
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