November 15th, 2007
The Edwards brothers from Fair Haven, James is 8 and John is 6
trolling the Reach Channel last Sunday.
A new crop of keeper size stripers have moved into the area. Up the revers and in the bays and also on the surf. KKat reports:
11/8 - Excellent striped bass bite first thing this
morning for the Rob Vogel group from Montclair. A limit catch plus shorts on
clams all within the first hour and a half, after which the bite dropped
out. Nice to fish without whitecaps today, for a change.
Excellent fishing on Wednesday as well for the
Marcus Perry group from Weehawken in a hard west wind. A limit catch of bass to
17 pounds and 30-plus shorts in two drops.
Ron Tucci's group from Totowa had good action on
clams Tuesday afternoon, also in a screaming west wind. 37 bass were caught on
clams, with only 2 being
keepers. >>>==>:>
November 8, 2007
I guess this has become more of a monthly report, but i will try
harder1
today saw some nice small bass action throughout Raritan Bay and parts of
Sandy Hook. Many schools popping up with bass rolling on bait from officers Row
up to Keyport. Mostly shorts but plenty of action. Last week before the quick
nor'easter, the river was full of these bass too. Some decent Keepers were aken
within sight of the dock! All methods seem to be working succesfully including
clams, eels, and trolling. Nothing too bug yet.
Sensational top water action on Saturday afternoon at the Highlands bridge,
big bass crushing the peanuts.
had 2 keepers on my baby bunker spoon. green with black back over silver. Sunday morning had 6 shorts in my boat where the 2 rivers meet while worming. one keeper 22 pounds at the highlands bridge. 11/4 - Excellent striper fishing today for the
Mike Mackey party from Hoboken. The bass bit well on clams until an hour before
low water, then co-operated very well on the troll on shad rigs during slack
water and the start of the flood. We kept a boat limit of 12 bass to 21
pounds, plus 20 shorts. Bluefish were nowhere to be seen!
Other good bass trips before the blow include the
Marcus Perry group, Weehaken, loads of bass & blues on A-47 jigs but
few keepers, Terry McPartland crew, Darian, Ct., 6 keepers plus shorts
& blues on shad rigs & tubes, Kristen Pirozzi group, Rumson, 8 keepers
& 22 shorts on clams.
Capt Rich on the "Just One More" reports:
The largest striped bass of the
fall so far was landed on the "Just One More" yesterday. Joe
Augeri had the honors. We ran an open
boat trip and Joe was one of the callers. The very nice bass
weighed nearly 30 lbs. and measures 42". CONGRATULATIONS JOE ! The fish
was caught eeling and the water temp. is dropping nicely. The stripers are
coming on strong, time to get in one the action.
>>>==>:> Oct
1, 2007
Too Much Bait! That is what everyone is saying. The
bait in the river is truly spectacular. The bass, blues and weakies are crashing
on them all up and down the rivers. It is hard to compete within the thick
schools of bunker, spearing and mullet. The fish must just be closing their eyes
and swimming mouth wide open through the water columns loaded from top to bottom
with an easy meal for them.
Captain Stan came down to his party boat docked at
Bahrs at 5:00 a.m. in the dark last Friday. He heard some peculiar noises out in
the river. It sounded like a whale. He flipped on his hallogen lights and saw an
amazing site. Big Bluefish and bass sending entire schhols of bunker out of the
water with a load wooshing sound. He said that the bright lights disoriented the
blues and they bumped into the side of his wooden hull. He said that his mate
Junior caught a couple 12-14 pounders right away and a diamond jig.
I have been having some more fun at the Sea Bright
Bridge live lining bass. There is a large concentration of decent size fish
under all of the bridges. I have had a few heart pounding moments when the bass
had the peaunuts bucnhed up by the sewer pipe. Maybe 50 people fishing on all 3
bridges every night! What are they going to do when they not my bridge down and
raise the new one 35 ft??!!
The mudhole is producing some bluefin tuna action.
Even a mako caught by a local boat which I heard at the dock.
I met a new charter boat Captain the other night
and told him I would give him a plug. (not the lure type) His name is Captain
Dan this is website, http://www.skinnydriftercharters.com/photo_album.htm
He seems like a nice guy and a good fisherman. and his wife can sing karaoke! He
fishes out of Keyport, which he claims is the striper capital of the world. We
in Highlands know better.
This is his wife Johanna. Give Captain
Dan a call.
l
 Also I heard from a customer juust back from
Montauk, that they are having an incrdible run of 40lb + fish late in their
season. Watch out here they come! < >>>==>:>
The WEAKFISH are in the
back of the bay big time. Just like the old days. Plenty of fish and action. The
weakfish just started showing up about the last week, or maybe even less, but
they are here! The fish have been up to 23" with plenty of smaller fish
mixed in as well as bluefish and even some out of season fluke. Now is the time
to go weakfishing as they will probably stay around only till the end of the
month. Let's go weakfishing!!
On the casting front, there have
been tons of birds, bait and bluefish everywhere. The blues are in the bay, by
the Hook and Knoll and all the way down the beach. We have been casting to fish
up to 10 lbs. There have even been stripers under certain schools
if you can get down to them past the bluefish. Chumming off shore is producing
bluefish to 15 lbs. and the false albies are around. So as you can see the
action is really starting to heat up. Time to get out there and tire out your
arm.
Look for Sea Bass at the Sandy Hook Reef. Clams or squid work well while
drifting.
Stripers are starting to get frisky under the bridges. I have been
picking a few on jigs and worms. I lost a big one under the Sea Bright bridge
this week. I was using too light of a reel and I got spooled and pulled the hook
after about 5 minutes. Two State Troopers were on seen to watch me try to horse
it in but they just laughed when the hook came out!
Sept 12, 2007
I got this report emailed from Captain Stan. I had to
abbreviate it a bit but the last day of Fluke Season aboard the Elaine B on
Monday sure looked fun!
“Undertaker”
MikeHooked
The PoolWinning
Fluke, A7
Pound, 12 OunceBeauty!
FISHING
BONUS – SEA
BASS!
To
top off a great day of fluke fishing, sea bass were also
hooked!Here
are the biggest ones
DIV>Aug 8,
2007Ok OK I know this report has been not updated in
quite a long time. It is not because the fishing has not been great or that I
have not been fishing. Actually that is part of the problem. Last report in May
ouch! The fishing has been great and I have been getting out much more than in
the past. I have not done any offshore trips, but the inshore and river fishing
has been just incredible. The big thing is the Fluke fishing actually was and
still is very productive, actually unbelieveable to me. When the new draconian
size limit and bag limit were announced I figured that the fluke fishery would
suffer as far as keeper fish on the dock were concerned. And especially after
last years horrible season. But boy was I wrong! Big fat fluke all
season. Last year's complaints of nothing but shorts (just under
16") and sea robins have not been heard hardly at all. I even caught a
7lb fluke a few weeks ago. Look for the pic as soon as Fletcher gets around to
emailing it to me.
Catch & Release 10lb at Bahrs Dock. The chef
was eyeing it up for the frying pan but Dennis N. believes in releasing the
Big Daddy/Mommas. Nice job.he took only 5th place in the Leonardo Fluke
Tourney.
.
I spoke to Ed at the Gas dock and he said perhaps
we can put this picture in the paper. a lot of pull Bifg Has! haha! We will
try.
stripers are quieting down unless you fish real
late at night or can find them craching the bunkers offshore. I had some real
exciting reports of bass blitzes going on just a few miles off of the beaches.
I have been sailing almost every Tuesday with some
clam chowder friends. Capt Fletcher has been guiding us and putting us on
some incredible fishing especially in the spring live lining bass. Along with
his golden retriever named Corona the Captain of Two Rivers Charters never
disappoints always a great time and of course a fish fry feast at the restaurant
compliments of Chef Damon and oh yea a few brews from bartender Steve tops
off Tuesdays.
Live Lining at the rocks THE WEAKFISH ARE IN !!!! I have been receiving many reports of weakfish in the bay and have seen them being cleaned on the dock. They are here!! Not in the great numbers yet, but I am sure we could put together a good catch. August and September are the weakfish months in the Raritan Bayand up the rivers too. Time to go weakfishing. I am going in the am in the Shrewsbury.We were out this week looking for weakfish but had no drift and got out a bit late. I blamed it on the Clamfestifval which wiped me out but that is no excuse for fishing. I just overslept a bit because I went to bed too early, if that makes sense. Fletcher and I commented that we had never seen so many peanut bunker. From one end of the bay to the other and out past the rip and way up in the back of the river. We ended up picking 7 kepper fluke up to 3 pounds and a few bluefish for dog Corona. Today I saw large schools moving out with the tide all night in front of the gas dock. Oh yea and by the way the web cam should be working
any day. If anyone knows anything about setting one of these things up I could
sure use the help. Something went wrong in the setup for the router, if you what
this means call me. 732-872-1245 x12 Also if anyone know how so set up a blog
let me know about that too.
out
>>>==>:> May 9
2007
Flounder fishing is still holding up as they are
clearly on the move with most of the action off of Sandy Hook near the Cedars,
which is basically thew flats off of the Nude Beach. The bluefish have moved
into the rivers the last few days scaring the living "b'jesus" out of the winter
flounder causing them to pick up and head for there summer grounds far
offshore.
Both rivers are full of bunker and bluefish.
Reports of stripers as far as Red Bank. The bay is providing some great early
season action with keepers starting to hit the dock. Reports of 75 to 100 fish
with 10-15 keepers is not uncommon! most are using clam bellies. I guess this is
what it was like in the old days.
The American Striper Association is coming to Bahrs Landing in
Capt. Richie on the "Just One More" reports in The Striped Bass are in ! We have benn fishing the last week with good results. Starting last Saturday, April 28, we had aboard the Bob Able {FB} charter. We did some great winter flounder fishing. By the end of the day, we had 34 keeper flounder to 17" !! Now that is good flounder fishing. We only had one throw back, which we actually could have kept. The flounder were very thick, with nice thick fillets even on the white side. Sunday we had aboard Kevin Markow who produces his own line of saltwater fishing plugs. We striped bass fished and had 23 stripers to 30" with a bunch of keepers. Monday we had aboard Dave Taub who fished by himself. Dave caught 12 keeper winter flounder and then we went striped bass fishing. He proceeded to catch 20 striped bass to 29" with his limit of keepers. Monday, Dean Devasia charter had 12 striped bass to 30" and bluefish. Yes, the blues are in!! Up to 12lbs. Wednesday we had an open boat trip with Chris, Joe, and Bert. They limited out with stripers to 32" and landed a total of 21 all together. It seems these open boat trips are always doing well, even going back to last season. Thursday, Big Glen Glaczek was aboard with his crew. They had 30 striped bass and had fish up to 34". Scott Lavenberg was aboard Friday and his crew landed only 12 stripes to 30", but went home with bass fillets and plenty of bluefish were landed. Yesterday we had aboard the famous Bluefish Bob Donahue. It was a slow pick of striped bass but they managed 13 stripers with a limit of keepers to 34". Plenty of 6-7lb. bluefish were landed as well. So it seems it is time to go. Water temps. have been anywhere from the low 48 degree mark to 53.6 degrees. Available dates to charter in
June are: 14, 20, 25, 28. That is it. Evenings are available in
May and June, just call for availability.
908-472-2684. >>>==>:>Jay Cosgrove's NO BULL Fishing Report >>>==>:> April 18
2007
The weather was a little messy this week but as the sun starts to come
out and the weather warms up I am finally starting to get some reports.
I have numerous reports of bait from points all
over the river. And something that I do not ever remeber seeing on Sunday I
spotted a Northern Gannet flying around the river in front of the restaurant. it
was at the height of the storm and seemed to not have any problem navigating the
50 mile/hour gusts. The next day there were over 3 dozen of these big things
bomb diving into the out going current feeding on what I believe was herring.
They stayed under for about 10 seconds and came up with a blast of water and
took off into the winds!
 Very Cool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Gannet-
Capt. Ken on the K-Kat charter boat reports...Super good fishing today for the Ed
Denver party from Allentown, PA. We were anchored in western Raritan bay by 7
am, and had the bass right away on clams. By trips end we had well over 100,
including 5 keepers, and another 10 that were just barely short. The big
surprise came when I decided to lower a flounder rod halfway through the trip. I
ended up with 20 fat keepers by myself! and Montauk Mike (who is really from Red Bank) reports....
hi jay
just a short note to keep in touch and let you know i had about 20 short bass and my limit of flounders at the oceanic bridge on saturday, 2 hours before high until 2 hours on the out going. chunked the bass with clams. caught most of the flounders on worms. cold water, 42 to 44 degrees. April 1 2007 The Clean Ocean Action Flounder Tourney last Saturday kicked of the 2007 season with a bang. Over 75 fisherman pre registered for the annual free event. The winner once again for at least the 3rd time, Ray Bradford from Rumson, put a 3.16 lb flattie on the scale to take the $30 plus the handmade plaque. Ray usually fished the area of the Shrewbury near Rumson Country Club. 2nd Place was weighed in by Monica Oswald 2.61lbs and 3rd place by Michael Borpora at a close call 2.53lbs. This year featured a rare good weather day for the tourney. Held here at Bahrs Landing it was a fun day with lots of good fishing, good chowder and a good cause. From all report flounder were caught in good numbers and sizes in both rivers. The flounder fishing has continued to be good all week in most of the usual spots. Blood or sand worms plus some good clam chum should do the trick. I did get many reports of schoolie bass all over the rivers and bays with a few keepeers too! < >>>==>:> November 27, 2006 Thanksgiving Day turned out to be another wash-out with the little Nor"Easter. I was planning a little pre-turkey bass jigging, but the wind and rain kept me and brother Dave at the dock... (aka in bed). The subsequent days were beautiful and there were many small bass to be had. With just a few keepers mostly on those who trolled rigs. Today Tuesday was nice and I spoke to one die hard at the gas dock with over 30 fish and 2 keepers in the cooler. He was fishing in between the channels all by himself trolling rigs. Blackfish season (8 per man bag limit) has now been open since November 15th. the Tautog aka blackfishing has been stellar, when the conditions are conducive for the little fighters to feed. Anchoring up and fishing with green crabs, most fisherman both expert and novice are finding an abundance of big fish on the Sandy Hook reef and the Shrewsbury Rocks. It is too bad that most marinas force their slip owners out of the water by the time this fishery really heats up. Blackfishing has prooved to be a real boon to local sportfishing industry in our area. Due to the newly created artificial reef along with other things such as conservation and cleaner waters this fishing is excellent! Some days after a northeaster, the blacks refuse to bight but once the sea calms down, boy do they get hungry as witnessed yesterday out on the reef. Opening weekend prooved to be a sign of things that were to come and so far did. Witness Here is a picture of a blackfish
caught 11/19/06. Fish was caught by Steve Foster of
Oceanport. Fish was weighed in @ Bahrs
11/19/06 11.5lbs. Fish was weighed in @
Bahrs Landing 11/19/06 11.5lbs. November 3, 2006
Trolling in between
the channels and down the beach is proving to be the most dependable. Umbrella
Rigs with shads or tubes. Live eels in the rip and also in between the channels
are working too. I fished yesterday and had 2 keeper bass a bunch of schoolies
and a ton of bluefish. We were trolling and jigging the outflow pipe off of the
Highlands Bridge in the ocean. The sewage pipe is laid down with a good amount
of rocks providing some of the only structure from the tip of the Hook to the
Shrewsbury Rocks. The bait desperately seek it out and when they do the bass and
blues cruise in and chase them up on the beach. The birds scavaging for scraps
can make the sky white as clouds as they did yesterday when the sun came through
and lit up there wings.
Nov 2 2006 Linda from Sea Bright fishing a beautiful Autumn Monday morning with her husband Ira, had 4 keepers in the box by 8:00a.m. .They were trolling rigs in between the channels on Monday. 'Just One More' fishing report, 11/2/06
The fall striper season is in
full swing! On Tuesday, we had Dave
Taub aboard. And Dave landed the largest striped bass of his
life on an eel. He was impressed it was 38" and 19 lbs. Wednesday we did an
open boat trip. We had aboard Jim, JJ, Joe, ED and Ed's friend. What a trip they
had. From right after leaving the dock, for the next 4 hours, we cast to surface
rolling stripers under the birds !! I lost count after 35 stripers were
caught and released safely. Most were in the 24-26" range. But some larger ones
were kept for the cooler. After the bird action died down, we went eeling. We
landed stripers to 22 lbs. on the
eels!! On the way in, we spotted more birds, but this time they turned out
to be bluefish, we landed some and went in. What a super day, by 11am, we were
fishing in ' T' shirts ! So it is time to catch stripers. I will be runing
more open boat striped bass trips this season, including
a blackfish trip. You'll get the emails. Open dates for the rest of this month
are: Nov. 8,13,14,16,20,21,23,27,28,29,30. I will be home tonight.
908-412-9147. and on the boat the next 4 days or so... 908-472-2684.
www.just1morecharters.com THANKYOU.
CAPT. RICH NEWALLIS JR.
'JUST ONE MORE' SPORTFISHING Wreck fishing is getting better every day. Sea Bass
and Backfish are plentiful. Capt Mike Lamb has been running some open trips on
his Tide Runner docked here at Bahrs Landing. He is a specialist in wreck
fishing and can carry 6 passengers.
Monmouth Beach Cartoppers are holding a Blackfish
Tournament Saturday November 18th. $80.00 per team. 908-910-9789 Call Eric
Lendick for details.
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