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Angler Name : Hector M. Robles
E-Mail : hectormr@monmouth.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 05/31/00
Location: Port Monmouth Pier/Spy House
Fishing Method: Surf/Pier
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16 1/2 to 16 3/4 inches
Bait or Lure: Fresh Searobin strips
Water Depth: 2ft to 3ft????
Water Temp.: 55?????
Information : Went fishing at the pier today, fished from 08:30 till 11:00 a.m. Caught a 16 3/4 inch Fluke at 09:00 while dead sticking a strip of fresh Searobin on a Red beaded hook, at 10:30 added another keeper 16 1/2 while bouncing the sinker by raising the rod tip 2 to 3 inches. Not bad for 2 and 1/2 hours of fishing. Had several hits on the Bunker, but missed a few and caught 2 searobins with the Bunker.

Angler Name : Eddie Black
E-Mail : troll@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: NORESPECT ll
Date Fished: 5/30/2000 5/31/2000
Location: Sandy Hook/Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: na
Bait or Lure: Squid/Spearing
Water Depth: na
Water Temp.: Na
Information : Fished both days and caught blue fish around the 4 to six pound area on the 30th using bucktails ans steel. On the 31st fished again for fluke and caught several newar the hook and had only two keepers. The tide went slack and the fish stoped biting.

Angler Name : Doug Graves
E-Mail : douglas.e.graves@lmco.com
Boat Name: Persistence
Date Fished: 5/31/00
Location: Stone Harbor
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 19"
Bait or Lure: Killies
Water Depth: 26 ft
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Drove down to the boat with a buddy of mine so we could work on both our boats. Finished up around 7:00 and the tide was starting to go out. Decided to make a quick run to the 96th street bridge. We fished for about a half hour picked up 17 & 19 inch flukes and a 21 inch weakie. Not a bad payoff for doing a little maintenance.

Angler Name : Dennis Luczajski
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: May 31
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 30 pounds
Bait or Lure: Spoons and Rigs
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Canyon Runner up to the Shrewsbury Rocks on Wednesday and loaded up with big Striped Bass. Trolling in 25-40 feet of water with Shad Umbrella Rigs and White Bunker spoons the Dennis Luczajski charter from Croydon, PA limited out with Bass from 31" to 40" and up to 30 pounds before 9:00 a.m. and included 3 other Stripers between 25 and 30 pounds. Then the fishing got good. From 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. the charter proceeded to release another 15 with at least half of those fish between 34" and 38" and up to 25 pounds. In addition, 5 slot limit Stripers and numerous Bluefish where also boated.

Angler Name : Ed Holmes
E-Mail : hookemtocookem@hotmail.com
Boat Name: TROPHY
Date Fished: 05/31/00
Location: Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: anchored
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 16 to 24 inches
Bait or Lure: ripe shedders
Water Depth: 12 ft.
Water Temp.: 65
Information : Fished the out going tide. Limited out on weaks and caught a few blues. It was a great day for fishing. It really makes a difference when you have the right bate for those weaks. I had to make a 90 mile run one way to get some real shedders, but it was worth it.

Angler Name : Craig Goldberg
E-Mail :
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 5-30-00
Location: manasquan inlet seawall
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 1-3 pounds
Bait or Lure: small and metal
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 55 degrees
Information : Got to the inlet around 4:00 pm, and there was no bite. Took a break, and then the fishing exploded. Caught and released 6 blues in about 50 min. Went home very happy. Good luck out there!!!

Angler Name : Ken
E-Mail : kper@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Atlantic Star
Date Fished: 5/30/00
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Wind-against-tide drift?
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15.5"
Bait or Lure: Spearing,squid & Fin-S Fish
Water Depth: 25'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : 20 kt East wind dominated this afternoon trip. Dozen people on board with average of two keepers.Not even sea robins cooperated very much. Two nice size fluke (3.5 and 4 lbs.) were caught near state marina. I'll wait until weather staightens out. That's the biggest factor right now.

Angler Name : Dan
E-Mail : dperrini@yahoo.com
Boat Name: W.J.III
Date Fished: 5/29/2000
Location: Raratin Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: chunk
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Left the dock at 8am. Had one on during the first drift.That was the only action all day.We ended up fighting the water more than the fish.Good luck.

Angler Name : Captain Bob Balewicz
E-Mail : bob@cornerelo.com
Boat Name: Carcharodon
Date Fished: May 29th
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Fluke
Size: To 5.5 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Squid/Spearing
Water Depth: 4-20'
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Sometimes it doesn't pay to travel too far. Like Captain Pete Barrett says, "don't leave life to find life". After pulling in, I don't know, a hundred (?) sea robins, we got into the fluke big time, limiting out in a couple of hours with the pool winner being a 24", 5.5 lb "fattie". But the best part? We were on the lee side, the drift had us following the beach & drifting over drops & structure from 4-20'. Killer day fishing amid beautiful surroundings.

Angler Name : John Mikorski
E-Mail : john.mikorski@roche.com
Boat Name: Fins on Feathers
Date Fished: 5/29/00
Location: Sandy Hook Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: to 4.5#
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : A bottom fishing trip to Sandy Hook Reef was called due to the wind. We tryed the Fluke instead.....It worked out pretty well, had a limit for four guys drifting mostly from the Bug light toward the Navy pier used Spearing/squid, fluke belly, and bird belly. Some birds, a few small blues ,and a good keeper to throwback ratio helped make the day.

Angler Name : Merle12
E-Mail : Merle12
Boat Name: The Starfich
Date Fished: 5/29/00
Location: wrecks neer Sea Isle
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 30 inches
Bait or Lure: Fin-s and live minnows squid
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : fished 1/2 day got 1 weakfish and 5 tog a great day in genral a little rain on the way back in

Angler Name : Gene K.
E-Mail : Matawan, N.J.
Boat Name: "Shooting Star"
Date Fished: 5-29-00
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16"-20"
Bait or Lure: Killies, Spearing, Squid
Water Depth: 5'-20'
Water Temp.: 59 degrees
Information : Tom and I decided to put a new American Flag on the boat for Memorial Day and try some fishing. 3'-4' waves in the bay but we were still able to get a decent drift working. Caught 20 Fluke, 6 Keepers 1 - 20" and fat. Looked like the weather was clearing up, then it got cloudy windy and choppy again, we decided to call it a day. Went back to his house with the fish and showed his brother (he doesn't eat it). I helped his brother in his big garden and shot the Bull with him, when I left I shook his brothers hand and said "Thank You". I have alot of respect for his brother, he's a Disabled Vietnam Veteran.

Angler Name : Walt Muntzer
E-Mail : wmuntzer@go.com
Boat Name: Flukemeister
Date Fished: 5-29-00
Location: Barnegat Inlet - outside
Fishing Method: Drift w/ 2 sea anchors
Specie: Fluke
Size: 21"
Bait or Lure: flounder belly/spearing
Water Depth: 55
Water Temp.:
Information : Rock and roll for the entire trip. 4-5'ers made me realize is should not have waxed the main deck and seat cushions. Took 1/2dz 3-4lb Sea Bass and 3 keeper Fluke (2 at 21" - 5lb and 4 3/4lb) between 10a and 1:30p when we left the fleet (8 boats). Safe boating.

Angler Name : dan&zac
E-Mail : coastie123@aol.com
Boat Name: beezer
Date Fished: 5/29/00
Location: delaware bay
Fishing Method: blood worms
Specie: Black Drum
Size: ?
Bait or Lure: blood worms
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : we are just out in a 18 foot jon boat we where about 1 mile off shore.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Skylarker II
Date Fished: 5-29-00
Location: Off Sea Bright & Long Branch
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 1-3 Pounds
Bait or Lure: Clam--Squid Strip--Killie
Water Depth: 40 Feet
Water Temp.:
Information : A 12 man charter was down to 7 by the time we pulled the slip at 6:30AM.Once we cleared the inlet the 4-6 seas ( with the occasional 8-10 footer ) brought this number down to basically 3 men fishing along with the captain & mate.Anthony,Ray and myself had a steady pick of sea bass over the first few drops.Out of the 4 remaining souls in the cabin,3 managed to put at least sometime in at the rail fishing while the fourth never saw the light of day. The last drop of the day was the one we were looking for the immediate action with singles and doubles as soon as the bait hit the bottom and within 45-60 minutes,Anthony,Ray and myself filled the barrel. In addition we each caught a ling with Ray adding a short fluke. A plump and almost out of season winter flounder was also caught as wella s two nice tog by the captain. The rough estiamte at the end of the day was 115-120 sea bass,with easily 95 of those being taken by Anthony,Ray and myself.

Angler Name : dave
E-Mail : bkenut10@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5/26-5/29
Location: sod bank and channel edges in townsland inlet
Fishing Method: jiging
Specie: Weakfish
Size: up to 8 pound
Bait or Lure: bucktails and white fin-s combo up to 1 ounce in wieght for the larger fish
Water Depth: 15 ft. plus at the channel drop off
Water Temp.: 54
Information :

Angler Name : Hector M. Robles
E-Mail : hectormr@monmouth.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 05/28/00 - 05/29/00
Location: Port Monmouth Pier /Spy House
Fishing Method: Surf/Pier
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25 inches
Bait or Lure: Bunker chunks
Water Depth: 4FT????
Water Temp.: 55 -58????
Information : Went fishing at 00:30 sunday Morning on th pier and right away caught a small Bluefish, then had nothing, but about 3 sea robins until 02:00, caught another searobin about 05:00 and than another Bluefish after that. My friend Luis Cruz caught a small Blue also. We came back on Monday morning 05/29/00 at 04:30 and I caught another small Blue about 1 1/2 lbs at 05:05 and than i caught my first slot fish/Stripe Bass a 25 inch one on a Bunker chunk at 06:03 and than added another Bluefish. my freind Luis caught 7 Fluke on Bunker he had three keepers between 18 and 19 inches and 4 shorts. The wind was a killer, we had a North East wind in our face all morning,But i finally got my Firt Keeper striper of the Season, thank God they changed the new Striper Law to one fish at 24 to 27.99 and the other one at 28 inches or greater.

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Angler Name : Tom Clark
E-Mail : tc@all-waysadvertising.com
Boat Name: AQUAHOLIC
Date Fished: 5/28/2000
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3 to 6 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Spoons & Diamond Jigs
Water Depth: 26 to40 foot
Water Temp.: 60 degrees
Information : Caught 8 Blues using 2 downriggers and 2 outfits with 4 oz.weights,while trying to catch stripers. Got a late start about 9 AM. Fished until about 1:30 PM and then headed back to port at Shark River. Next weekend will fish Saturday evening and early Sunday morning and will try using wire line rigs with bunker spoons and umbrella rigs. "Tight Lines to All"

Angler Name : Diana Fair
E-Mail : dfair@dvc.com
Boat Name: Lund
Date Fished: 5/28
Location: south side Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: drift/bottom fishing
Specie: Fluke
Size: 4 fat keepers
Bait or Lure: buckhead w/squid .. squid & killy
Water Depth: 14 to 16 feet
Water Temp.:
Information : Put in at 7AM. Water was a tad choppy all morning, but laid down nicely when the sun retreated later on. Quick drifts with a few flatties each pass. Lots of fun and great to be pulling up fluke this early, but most were undersized in length. Brought home 4 beauties including a 5 and a half pounder. Had a ball with some lone cocktail blues that surprised us here and there throughout the day. Followed a sizeable school of foot-long bunker hoping for some more blues action. Didn't get any. Didn't even see any. Thankfully, only one robin all day, but was a monster that made us all laugh. Would've been great to land a flattie that big! Missed all the great weakies from last Sunday. Hope they'll be back before long. Bottom line: fluke still spotty, but the occasional blue makes up for it. Good fishing to you all.

Angler Name : Al
E-Mail : AJTorsiello@aol.com
Boat Name: HOT ROD
Date Fished: Sunday 5/28/00
Location: Tices Shoal BB and 40 Bouys
Fishing Method: jigging and drifting worms
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 27"
Bait or Lure: Fin-S-Fish and worms
Water Depth: 8-10Ft
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Wind was kicking pretty good so we only fished for about 1 1/2 Hrs. Caught 1 nice weakfish and had a few blues hooked up, but the bay was rough and the wind was cold so we called it a day earlier than we wanted. Hope next week is better weather.

Angler Name : Steve Won
E-Mail : soul218880@AOL.com
Boat Name: rental
Date Fished: 5/28/00
Location: Shark River
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15 1/2" to 20"
Bait or Lure: spearing and jig head
Water Depth: 10 feet
Water Temp.: high 60's
Information : Went to shark river on memorial day...rented a boat early and fished the outgoing tide with Nothing more then a spearing on a jig head.....tried by north channel and nothing...moved over to the main channel and found them big time....started hitting the first drift...caught 8 keepers to 3 lbs and went through a ton of shorts....for 4 hours it was non stop....sometimes 3 fish in one drift...tide changed to high and water became tea colored and shut the fishing down...hit a few shorts more and that was it for the rest of the day...tight lines!

Angler Name : Darren Zenatti
E-Mail : d.zenatti@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Just One More
Date Fished: 5/28/2000
Location: sandy hook/nude beach
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32in
Bait or Lure: whole clam
Water Depth: 15 to25 ft
Water Temp.: 62-68 deg.
Information : Started off late,about 8:30,caught a little late but it didn"t matter though.they started at 9:20 with 28 and a 25 in. and went in 15 min runs.They came in arund the smae size,a 30in. was caught then 3 more at 29 to 32 in.Stoped at 12:50pm after making our limit (4 people)and releasing 19 more. A GOOD DAY!

Angler Name : Ron Walker
E-Mail : rwalker@trilogyassoc.com
Boat Name: MegaBite
Date Fished: Sunday, May 28
Location: Delaware Bay
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 2-3lbs
Bait or Lure: shedders
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Planned to fuel the boat and do a little PM, but found calm winds at the dock so decided to fish a couple hours. Had a fairly steady pick of weakies for the two hours I fished. Consider this a bonus trip.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5/28/00
Location: South Side Raritan bay
Fishing Method: Surf/Pier
Specie: Fluke
Size: 13-20 Inches
Bait or Lure: Killie-------Bunker Chunk
Water Depth: 3-6 Feet
Water Temp.:
Information : Once again fished in and around the Port Monmouth Pier and had good action through out the day. Put a total of 8 fluke over the rail with 3 being of legal size ( 16,17 and 20 inches . In addition put 4 blues over the side,3 being in the 1-3 pound class and the fourth being a legitimate 6 pounder.Saw numerous other short & keeper fluke caught as well as a good amount of the smaller bluefish. In a perverous way-I'm kinda happy that I no longer have my boat--otherwise I would have never really known how good a fishery exists right from shore and for alot less $$$$$$.

Angler Name : Mark Kacek
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/28/00
Location: Southeast Wrecks
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 5 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 60 to 75 ft.
Water Temp.: 55 degrees
Information : The Bounty Hunter had the Mark Kacek charter on board for a day of wreckfishing for Jumbo Seabass. Clearing the inlet at 6AM, the northeast wind had the ocean rolling pretty good and it appeared that it would be a tough day for the charter. However, as the day wore on the wind died out considerably and the ocean calmed. Making drops on 5 wrecks in water depths ranging from 60 to 75 ft. we managed to fill the fishbox with nice size Seabass, the largest weighing just over 5 lbs.

Angler Name : anthony d
E-Mail : adaversa@seic.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5/28/00
Location: brigantine beach
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Northern Kingfish
Size: 12 inch
Bait or Lure: worm
Water Depth: 5 feet
Water Temp.: 57
Information : i had a dozen in an hour, and 1 blowfish. tried for stripers but none.

Angler Name : Gary
E-Mail : riverrunner@rocketmail.com
Boat Name: Island Beach State Park
Date Fished: 5/28/00
Location: Area 22
Fishing Method: Bait
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 40 inches
Bait or Lure: Clam
Water Depth: 6'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Strong North East wind in the morning, fish hit at 7:00 a.m. Biggest fish I've got in ten years. 40 inches and 23 pounds, whole clam on the bottom did the trick.

Angler Name : TOM,BOBBI,FRANK,SHARON,HERMAN,ILEANA
E-Mail : bjhtwh@jersey.net
Boat Name: SIXTY
Date Fished: MAY 28,2000
Location: TRIPLE LUMPS
Fishing Method: TROLLING
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 8-12 lbs
Bait or Lure: Pony tails & Spoons
Water Depth: 70-80 ft
Water Temp.: 57.5 F
Information : Trolled the triple lumps for about two hours.Boated 12 bluefish.

Angler Name : Jason
E-Mail : Jayman63@aol.com
Boat Name: Baja
Date Fished: 5\28\00
Location: barnegat ridge
Fishing Method: chumming
Specie: S-Fin Mako Shark
Size:
Bait or Lure: mackeral
Water Depth: 60
Water Temp.: 55
Information : I couldnt decide whehter to go to the 28 mile wreck or the ridge but I went out hoping for at least a blueshark but no sharks at all! I ended up getting a few nice size blues witch will be good for shark bait. I later found out a 350 pound mako was caught at the 28 mile wreck, that figures, it could have been mine! tight lines

Angler Name : Bill Looney
E-Mail : wlooney@home.com
Boat Name: Barking Dog
Date Fished: 5/28/2000
Location: Sandy Hook Channel
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3lbs
Bait or Lure: Bunker Spoon
Water Depth: 25--35 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : We got a late start around 3:00pm. Trolled a small chrome spoon out to the tip of the hook and over flynns with no luck. Frustrated we switched to spearing for some fluke. Still no luck ! Finally, we put on a green bunker spoon and no sooner was it in the water, we had our first bluefish of the day weighing about 3 lbs. Amy our dog was so hungry she was trying to take a bite out of it. we hooked up with two others in the same size and called it a day.

Angler Name : CAPT. BILL
E-Mail : POLELOCK228@AOL.COM
Boat Name: POLE-LOCK
Date Fished: 5\28\00
Location: 60 FOOT SLOUGH
Fishing Method: BOTTOM
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15 INCHERS
Bait or Lure: SQUID AND MINNO COMBO'S
Water Depth: 29-35FT
Water Temp.: 57DEG
Information : GOT OUT AT 9:30 (LATE CAUSE OF A SPEEDING TICKET ON 347) HIT 7 FISH RIGHT OFF THE BAT AND THEN AT LOW TIDE NOTHING. ABOUT 50 BOATS AND SOME PARTY BOATS BUT DIDNT SEE TOO MANY KEEPERS, BUT ALL IN ALL A NICE DAY..

Angler Name : Dan McGivney
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Megan Beth
Date Fished: 5/27/00
Location: Sandy Hook bay
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 10-12lbs
Bait or Lure: shad rigs
Water Depth: 20-30
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Fished on board the kerri- k out of point pleasant with Capt Ken kurek and managed to catch 5 keeper bass before the bite shut down . Bite only lasted one hour of the incoming tide . We also had a 1/2 dozen bluefish has well.

Angler Name : Tony Dee
E-Mail :
Boat Name: JEEP ON THE BEACH
Date Fished: May 27,
Location: Brigintine Beach North end
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30 inches
Bait or Lure: Bunker chunks
Water Depth: 6 feet tops
Water Temp.: weather said 61 degrees
Information : Started fishing late,about 8am had no action at all until about 10:30,dead low tide ,when we caught one fish 30 inches,maybe it was 9lbs,it was a nice fish,there was nothing happening the rest of day,saw someone else with 3 nice fish,one was over 40 inches. In spite of the on and off rain it was a great day on the beach,GOOD FISHING!!!

Angler Name : Howard
E-Mail : howardr3@cs.com
Boat Name: Ladygodiver
Date Fished: 5-27
Location: wrecks outside Barnegat Inlet
Fishing Method: spear
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 3 pounds
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 20 to 50 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : I haven't filled out a report for a while so I will try to fit several outings in. We dove on several wrecks outside Barnegat Inlet on Sat and saw lots of small and medium sized Blackfish and Seabass on the wrecks. The largest Seabass was about 3.25 lbs and the bigest Blackfish was about 5lbs. The seabass seem to be in pretty solid but I think we have to wait a while for the larger Blackfish to come in close. Just in time for the one fish limit. Well most of the bigger blackfish I saw were full of eggs anyway so I would not have taken them. One interesting note, There was a line of brown water moving south at the rate of about 2 knots. It really ruined the visibility and the stiff current made it difficult to swim to the wreck. Sunday my dad and I went out of Manasquan Inlet for fluke. We caught several shorts as well as the ever present sea robins on killies and Mackrel strips. We had fun but did not catch nearly as many fish as we wanted to. I wonder if the discolored water may have made the fishing a little tougher.

Angler Name : Ken
E-Mail : pigpenken@aol.com
Boat Name: fishnutz
Date Fished: saturday 27 May
Location: Belmar
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 3 keepers
Bait or Lure: killies and cut bait
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 61
Information : summer flounder fishing was not too hot on saturday..We did catch 10 fluke and had 3 keepers.. Just wondering , Does anybody have an opinion on circle hooks. do they reduce the number of gut hooked fish. Do they reduce the percentage of fish hooked when you get a bite.

Angler Name : George Greco
E-Mail : louisgeo1@aol.com
Boat Name: Boat Didley
Date Fished: 05/27/00
Location: Navasink River up river from oceanic bridge
Fishing Method: drift fishing sandworms no weight
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 22"
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 6-10ft
Water Temp.: middle 50's
Information : Drifted the outgoing tide with my wife and son from the "osprey nest buoy to the oceanic bridge got fish on first drift nice 21"weakfish then 2 20" striped bass next drift landed 2 bluefish and another 17" weakfish slowed down at change of tide but on incoming tide landed nice 28" striped bass and another nice bluefish. The key was to fish with no weight and just drift the sandworms. Will try again this sat. Tight lines.

Angler Name : Werner & Wolfgang Sprie
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/27/00
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 15 to 25 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Bunker Chunks
Water Depth: 25 to 30 ft.
Water Temp.: 56 degrees
Information : The Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina had Werner and Wolfgang Sprie on board for our first attempt at chunking Striped Bass this season. Catching the last 2 hours of the morning outgoing tide at the Shrewsbury Rock area we caught 2 Striped Bass. The first a 25 lb. fish, the second a 15 pounder. Both fish were released. The heavy holiday traffic soon put an end to the fishing. So we decided to finish out the day wreckfishing for Seabass. The Seabass catch was only fair as lack of wind and a strong south current shut them down.

Angler Name : Guy
E-Mail : gsacco@earthlink.net
Boat Name: Just Reelin 2
Date Fished: 5/27/00
Location: Flynn's Knoll & Artifical Reef
Fishing Method: trolling & bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: to 3.5lb
Bait or Lure: shads and squid strips
Water Depth: 18-50 ft
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Started the morning trolling for stripers and could only scare up one small bluefish, the chunkers on the knoll didn't seam to have any better luck. Went to the artifical reef off Seabrite and put in a decent catch of seabass the largest about 31/2lb. Did manage to catch one big ling of 4-5lb. Tight Lines.

Angler Name : To "BraggNsize" Rabi
E-Mail : tom@fishbuzz.com
Boat Name: Laurie-Jean
Date Fished: 5-27
Location: Barnegat Bay
Fishing Method: drifted/trolled
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 26"
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : The FishBuzz.com crew fished the BB and the 40 Buoy to take a total of 4 weakies in just 40 minutes. Most fish were in the 26-28 inch range taken on Bubble Gum Finese. Trolled Drones for a hour to no knock downs. Fish 'em up. Tom "BraggNsize" Rabi

Angler Name : Capt. Steve Oravets
E-Mail : tboatsteve@aol.com
Boat Name: Atlantus
Date Fished: 5/27/00
Location: Sandy Hook Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: to 19"
Bait or Lure: squid/spearing
Water Depth: 20'
Water Temp.: 62
Information : Put together a limit of fluke in crowded waters. By mid-afternoon most of the boats were gone. We caught most of the fish later in the day.

Angler Name : jack golightly
E-Mail : jackgo1110@cs.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5/27/00
Location: shark river
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 13"-15"
Bait or Lure: squid/mackeral strips
Water Depth: 10'-30'
Water Temp.: 50s
Information : Day sarted out to be nice but got clouds in late morning.caught alot of throw backs but not even one keeper.fished all the usual spots but didnt get a keeper.everyone was catching fish though you had to weed through the throw backs.will try again next weekend.happy fishing tight lines! \

Angler Name : Capt.Bruce Miller
E-Mail : Captmarlin1@aol.com
Boat Name: "Mirage"
Date Fished: 5/27/00
Location: Spring Lake / Sea Girt Reef
Fishing Method: Rod & Reel
Specie: Fluke
Size: 13" to 15 1/4"
Bait or Lure: Squid,spearing & killies
Water Depth: 20 to 60 ft.
Water Temp.: 60.4
Information : Had mates Mark Fritz,Chad,out fishing for fluke --inshore and offshore. caught quite a few fluke but none were the 15 1/2" minimum.Also had some seabass in the cooler.Found alot of skates inshore and some sand sharks in the deeper water,(not dogfish). At 12:15 we left with 7 other boats to protest the Toxic Mud Dumping.There were about 20 boats from Manasquan Inlet and Atlanic highlands there.Also a few showed up from Sheepshead Bay.Not such a good turn out.The ceremony took place at the Sandy Hook Lighthouse and then we ran to the Mud Dump.I wish alot more boats would have attended this protest to show more interest to the Feds.had TV and newspaper coverage.Well,at least some of us are interested in that awful dumping they are doing to our ocean.Don't forget at election time-VP Gore supported this referendum.

Angler Name : Jon Murray
E-Mail : murray@quadnet.net
Boat Name: Tunnelvision
Date Fished: 5/27/00
Location: ocean off Barnegat
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: to 24"
Bait or Lure: squid/spearing
Water Depth: 55-65
Water Temp.: 58
Information : First trip this year, went to favorite spring fluke hole and it paid off. 10 min. after arriving the first fish was caught,a 20" fluke! After 3 hrs. we had 19 fish in the box, most over 17" and four over 20"! Mom, Dad & my wife Linda all caught nice fish but today was my day for the "pool" fish a 24 incher that weighed 4.2 lbs. Great way to start the season!! Good Luck!!

Angler Name : Mike Eliason
E-Mail : meliason@nothinbut.net
Boat Name: Bubba $ Buck
Date Fished: 5/27/00
Location: Slaughter Beach
Fishing Method: Anchored
Specie: Black Drum
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Clam
Water Depth: 26 feet
Water Temp.: N/A
Information : We anchored up about 8:30 Fri. nite Weather was beautifull. Heard some drum under the boat could not put a hook in one. We headed for home about 630 sat morning. Fins up! Capt Mike

Angler Name : Ed Holmes
E-Mail : hookemtocookem@hotmail.com
Boat Name: TROPHY
Date Fished: 05/27/00
Location: Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: Anchored
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 17 to 24 inches
Bait or Lure: chicken and shedders
Water Depth: 10 ft.
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Fished with my buddy Lester today. We caught 20 weakies, 20 snapper blues, and 2 keeper flounder. We fished a spot where no other boats were around except for buddy that I met thru the Nautical Net, Ron Walker. I'll be glad when I can get some ripe shedder.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5-27-00
Location: Port Monmouth
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Fluke
Size: 12-16 Inchs
Bait or Lure: Killie
Water Depth: 4-6 Feet
Water Temp.:
Information : Took my two children with me today for an afternoon of fishing. Jason was the first to draw action within 10 minutes of setting up with a 15 3/4 inch "over the rail & into the pail " or in the case the cooler.This was oon followed by his second fluke of the day,a 14 inch throwback.next to get the attentionof the fluke was my daughter Jordanne who put another 2 shorts over the rail & back into the bay.And last but not least was dad rounding out the field with a 16 incher.Then the action seemed to die as another 2 hours yielded no bites.However,as we were packing up it seemed that action with cocktail blues in the 1-3 pound class was picking up.

Angler Name : JUNIOR , MAGNUM
E-Mail : EXMAKO@AOL.COM
Boat Name: TAIL CHASER ( W. WILDWOOD)
Date Fished: 5-27-00
Location: 60 FT SLOUGH, DELAWARE BAY
Fishing Method: BOTTOM
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16'' TO 21''
Bait or Lure: SQUID, "BREADED MINNOW"
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : 1ST TRIP OF THE SEASON SO WE COULD GET ALL THE KINKS OUT OF OUR SYSTEM.IT WAS CLOUDY AND SOME DRIZZLE BUT AGOOD DAY. FISHED IN 45 TO 53FT OF WATER AWAY FROM THE FLEET.KEPT 5 FLUKE AND HAD THOWBACKS ON EVERY PASS.ONCE THE TIDE TURNED THE ACTION STOPPED.I THINK THE DOCK DOGS "BREADED MINNOWS" DID THE TRICK. NXT WK WE WILL GET SID AND THE REST OF THE CREW BACK OUT.

Angler Name : CHESTER
E-Mail :
Boat Name: DOWN TIME
Date Fished: 5/27/00
Location: GREAT EGG INLET
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Fluke
Size: 14 TO 18
Bait or Lure: MINOS & SQUID
Water Depth: 8 TO 14 FT
Water Temp.: 60
Information : GREAT DAY CAUGHT A LOT OF THROW BACKS AND FEW KEEPERS. JUST A REMINDER TO MY FELLOW ANGLERS, HANDLETHE FISH AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE AND IF HE'S SWALLOWED THE HOOK SNIP IT AND LET HIM GO. DON'T KILL THE FISH FOR A CHEEP HOOK. GOOD LUCK THIS SEASON.

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Angler Name : Ron Walker
E-Mail : rwalker@trilogyassoc.com
Boat Name: MegaBite
Date Fished: May 26
Location: Delaware Bay
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 2-3lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Acting on a tip from my new fishing buddy Ed, we had a steady pick of Weakfish, small blues and even had a few keeper flounder thrown in. Not a single trash fish and very few throwbacks. It was worth getting rained on! Thanks Ed!

Angler Name : PAPA, CHICKOLET
E-Mail : CJNESTI@HOME.COM
Boat Name: FINANGLER
Date Fished: 5/26/00
Location: SANDY HOOK
Fishing Method: CHUNKING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26" TO 31"
Bait or Lure: CLAMS
Water Depth: 20'
Water Temp.: 62
Information : HAD A GREAT DAY OF CHUNKING.CAUGHT MANY FISH. THE CLAMS TEND NOT TO ATTRACT BLUEFISH.

Angler Name : Captain Bob Balewicz
E-Mail : bob@cornerelo.com
Boat Name: Carcharodon
Date Fished: 5/26
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks & Vicinity
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 25 lbs
Bait or Lure: Manns & Shad Rigs
Water Depth: 8-50
Water Temp.: 59
Information : What a trip! Again and again I say it, the last couple of years have been the best Striper fishery I can remember! We trolled Manns and Shad Rigs on mono and absolutely mauled 'em! The biggest problem we had was the bluefish eating the tails off the shad rigs, but it was worth it! We scored a double header of two keepers (32") on one shad rig, and it felt like there was a shark on the other end! Toughest part was filling the "slot fish" bag limit...there is just too many "big ones"!

Angler Name : Captain Bob Balewicz
E-Mail : bob@cornerelo.com
Boat Name: Carcharodon
Date Fished: 5/26
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks & Vicinity
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 27 lbs
Bait or Lure: Manns & Shad Rigs
Water Depth: 8-50'
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Well, it doesn't get any better. After a killer trip in the morning we were back out for a nighttime shot. Trolling from 6 pm we did not find any of the activity of the morning, but upon nightfall...well, let's just say the 27 pound Stiper we pulled was well worth it! This thing jumped clear out of the water with the Mann 25 in it's mouth TWICE! It was a long run home & a late cleaning at the dock but boy were we proud!

Angler Name : bill s
E-Mail :
Boat Name: city lights
Date Fished: 05/26/00
Location: lower harbor
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16 in and up
Bait or Lure: squid and spearing
Water Depth: 14 to 38ft
Water Temp.: 60 deg
Information : Started out for weaks on the flats but nothing happening. Moved down to gravesend by nortons point and switched to fluke. Ended up with 8 keepers over 16 inches, threw back twice as many as we caught. Moved over to the channel picked up one more about 19 inches. Great day, tight lines

Angler Name : Keith Toboada
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/26/00
Location: Southeast Wrecks
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 4 1/2 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 65 to 90 ft.
Water Temp.: 55 degrees
Information : The Bounty Hunter had the Keith Toboada charter on board for a day of wreckfishing. Continuing to hammer away at the wrecks in 65 to 90 ft. of water southeast of Manasquan Inlet, the fishing was excellent for large Seabass on all 4 wrecks which we fished. It did not take long to again fill the fishbox to capacity and head home with a happy and arm weary charter.

Angler Name : fred hepper
E-Mail : hep@njlender.com
Boat Name: branch office
Date Fished: 5/26/00
Location: Flynn's Knoll (Sandy Hook)
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 40 inches
Bait or Lure: shad umbrella
Water Depth: 25'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Another great day of trolling wire @ the range markers @ Flynn's Knoll. Two keepers with the cow being 40". Mixed in some big blues on strech 25 plugs trolled on mono. Got to get there early. The bite is over by 8:30 - 9:00 am.

Angler Name : Tommy L
E-Mail :
Boat Name: rental
Date Fished: 5-26
Location: raritan bay
Fishing Method: drift/jigging
Specie: Fluke
Size: over 16"
Bait or Lure: spearring
Water Depth: 4-20 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Rented boat out of Highlands w/ two buddies. Caught twelve keepers and @20 throwbacks. Lots of blues around. Various color jigheads tipped w/ spearring worked the best, all around Ammo Pier. Light line and small jigs. White and chartruese worked best.

Angler Name : Jeff
E-Mail :
Boat Name: norma k 3
Date Fished: Friday , May 26 , Night blues
Location: North of manasquan inlet
Fishing Method: Drifting with bunker backs
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2, 12lb +
Bait or Lure: Bunker Backs
Water Depth: On Top
Water Temp.: 54
Information : We hooked into alot of Dogfish. Some blues around. They were very finiky. Light lining was the trick. Also we had and Ocean Sunfish aprox. 200-400lb give us some excitement. One of the anglers hooked into it and it gave him one heck of a fight all to end up with his line breaking. Other than that, the best is yet to come with the bluefishing.

Angler Name : John Miles
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: May 26
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 26 pounds
Bait or Lure: Shad Umbrellas Rigs
Water Depth: 25-40
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Canyon Runner up to the Shrewsbury Rocks on Friday and rebounded from Thursday's slow catch with a limit of Big Bass. Trolling in 25-40 feet of water the John Miles charter from Philadelphia, PA put 16 Stripers in the boat with 14 over 30". In addition to 4 slot limit Bass we had Bass of 26 pounds, 25 pounds, and 24 pounds. All the fish were taken on Yellow shad umbrella rigs.

Angler Name : Tony Cavallaro
E-Mail : headsteel@blast.net
Boat Name: Freddy C
Date Fished: May 26
Location: Off North Beach, Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: Up to 18 inches
Bait or Lure: Speering/squid
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Took another trip on the Freddy C last Thursday, Beautiful day, a BIT breezy. Made for a good drift. Many fluke were caught, many shorts in the 15 inch range. Boated maybe 20+ fish with 4 going into the box. Largest fish on the boat went maybe 3.5 lbs. Those orange sea birds (robins) were on bad down off of South Beach, hitting hard.

Angler Name : Ed Holmes
E-Mail : hookemtocookem@hotmail.com
Boat Name: TROPHY
Date Fished: 05/26/00
Location: Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: anchored
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 17 to 24 inches
Bait or Lure: chicken and shedders
Water Depth: 12'
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Had a pretty good day. Fished the incoming tide. Had a mixed bag, weakfish, blues, and flounder. The weather was great for fishing, had about 1' seas. Going to try for DRUM tomorrow.

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Angler Name : Hector M. Robles
E-Mail : hectormr@monmouth.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 05/24/00 - 05/25/00
Location: Spy House Pier/Port Mommouth
Fishing Method: surf/pier
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth: 3 ft - 4ft
Water Temp.: ???????
Information : went fishing at the Spy house Pier in Port Monmouth on 5/24/00, fished from 08:30 a.m. till 11:00, caught one Fluke 18 inches on a squid strip at 09:00, another guy i met there Rod, caught a two keeper Fluke 15 1/2 and 16 1/2 inches and i helped him land a 28 inch Stripe Bass with my net, he was so happy that he gave me his two fluke, the next day on Thursday 05/25/00 i went back to the same Pier fished from 09:30 till 12:00 p.m. and had about 7 Bluefish and lost about 5. I caught them all on bunker chunks, could not get a hit on the lures. There were birds working the pier since i got there, but i did not see any bait jumping out of the water or any Bluefish chasing anything, but they were there. I was really trying for Stripebass, but had no luck again.

Angler Name : fred hepper
E-Mail : hep@njlenders.com
Boat Name: Branch Office
Date Fished: 5/25/00
Location: Ssandy Hook (Flynns Knoll)
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 38''
Bait or Lure: Shad Unbrella
Water Depth: 25-30
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Wind out of the west trolling west. Line up the red cans between the red range markers. You should be on the west edge of Flynns Knoll. Green shad umbrella rigs were great. Got 6 keepers, one slammer! Chunked for a while and got another slammer! Several very BIG blue fish. Watch the weather. Got blowing real hard out of the west and got 3-5's quickly. Not a pleasent trip home to Morgan.

Angler Name : Joe D. and Marena
E-Mail : surfishjoe@aol.com
Boat Name: Joey D. Hydrasport
Date Fished: 5/25/00
Location: bay behind longport/margate
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 20in
Bait or Lure: lime bucktail with squid
Water Depth: 10-25
Water Temp.: 58-61
Information : Took the old lady out fishin for a few hours. fished the incoming, wind was not helping us, caught three flounder, one around 19in. Also got one decent weakie.

Angler Name : Ron Burgess
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: May 25
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 15 pounds
Bait or Lure: Shad Rigs
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 58
Information : On Thursday, May 25 Captain Phil Dulanie took out our mate Brad Burgess' family to celebrate their daugthers upcoming wedding on Friday. Hopefully, however, this fishing trip does not foreshadow what will happen at the wedding as this one a trip to forget. Perhaps leaving the dock late had something to due with it but 6 hours of trolling only produced 2 Bass. Moreover, no bluefish were located for the second day in a row.

Angler Name : TOM
E-Mail : W95TOM@AOL.COM
Boat Name: SEA HUNTER - ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS
Date Fished: 5-25-00
Location: EARLE NAVY PIER / RARITAN BAY
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15.5 AND UP
Bait or Lure: SPEARING AND SQUID
Water Depth: 15-30 FT
Water Temp.: 60 F
Information : FISHED AGAIN FINALLY WITH CAPT. ROB ON HIS SEAHUNTER FROM ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS....DRIFTED THE AMMO PIER IN A VERY STIFF WNW WIND,,, FLATTIES WERE STILL HUNGRY THOUGH AS AGAIN I HAD MY LIMIT ( 8 ) FISH WITH A POOL WINNER OF ABOUT 3 POUNDS AND MANY AND I MEAN MANY THROUGH BACKS WHICH BODS WELL FOR THE AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER BITE.... ALL FISH CAUGHT ON BOAT BAIT ( SPEARING AND SQUID ) WITH VERY FEW SEA ROBINS COMING ABOARD....AGAIN A VERY PLEASURABLE TRIP, THE CREW WAS GREAT AND CAPT. ROB CONTINUES TO FIND THE FISH WHEN OTHERS FAIL..GIVE HIM A TRY GUYS, YOU WON'T BE DISAPOINTED.....

Angler Name : Greg
E-Mail : VONGAS@aol.com
Boat Name: Wahoo
Date Fished: 5/25/00
Location: Shrewsbury River
Fishing Method: Jig
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 18",20"
Bait or Lure: Jig
Water Depth: 10
Water Temp.:
Information : Got 2 nice weakies in 1 hour of fishing at dusk

Angler Name : Ken
E-Mail : jstp21a@prodigy.com
Boat Name: Explorer
Date Fished: 5/25/00
Location: Barnegat Inlet
Fishing Method: Casting
Specie: Bluefish
Size:
Bait or Lure: ABA # 17, black tube
Water Depth: 20'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Started fishing in the bay, but at 10 AM a buddy radios from the inlet saying that a bluefish blitz had started, so we pull anchor and find about 8 boats chasing several hundred birds scattered around the mouth of the inlet. This really is fun fishing, with lots of action. The fish were 18-22", and hung around for a couple hours, in spite of the 25 - 30 knot west wind that was whipping things up. A #17 AVA with black tube was the hot lure for us.

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Angler Name : Tom&Bud
E-Mail : reelhick@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: REELHICK
Date Fished: 5-24
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: Shorts to 20in
Bait or Lure: Green crabs and squid
Water Depth: 45-52 ft.
Water Temp.: 60 degrees
Information : We must have got 60,got 26 keepers to 4 lbs.We also saw a ocean sunfish ,It let us get right up to it,got some good photos,it must have bee 300lbs. What a great day we had,this is what it's all about.

Angler Name : larry hansen
E-Mail : mlhansen@optonline.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5/24/2000
Location: shark river inlet
Fishing Method: surf and rocks
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30 inches
Bait or Lure: clams,clams,clams
Water Depth: 4-10 ft
Water Temp.: n/a
Information : started out late about 11:30 am but wanted to catch high tide and a couple of hours of out going. the first cast produced a 30 inch bass. my first keeper of the year. had two more shorts and findly called it a day after only two hours of fishing. guys get out there now bass are all over the place. good fishing

Angler Name : Dan Miller
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: May 24
Location: Sandy Hock
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 30 pounds
Bait or Lure: Shad Umbrellas Rigs
Water Depth: 25-40
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie found the Bass on Wednesday that were scattered the day before. Trolling the Canyon Runner off the tip of Sandy Hock the Dan Miller charter from Sealy Mattress in Middlesex, NJ put together an outstanding catch. Yellow shad umbrella rigs produced 23 Stripers with 19 over 28" while trolling in 25-40 feet of water. The largest Bass were 21, 22, and 29.5 pounds. In opposition to our other trips, however, no bluefish were boated the entire day.

Angler Name : Brian Zemlanicky
E-Mail : Brian.Zemlanicky@fishersci.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5/23/00
Location: beach north of squan
Fishing Method: surf,
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18-29"
Bait or Lure: clams, worms on floater rig
Water Depth: ~3-7'
Water Temp.: mid 50's?
Information : fished the beach at dawn Low tide was about 6:00, i did manage one @ 26" in about 3'foot of water in rough seas, 4-6'. went back out at the high, around noon and had a steady pick with a flurry around3:00pm. many missed fish due to slack from wind(sse @10-20) all in al nine bass twice that number of hits, clams out fished worms 3 to 1 and i had some beautiful worms. oh well.tite lines

Angler Name : Tom Headley
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/23/00
Location: Southeast Wrecks
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 4 1/2 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 80 ft.
Water Temp.: 54 degrees
Information : The Bounty Hunter sailed back to the wrecks Southeast of Manasquan Inlet. After 2 back to back great trips we were looking forward to putting another good catch together for the Tom Headley charter. Despite wind and current conditions which made anchoring correctly a challenge, the fish were eager to bite. Fishing in 80 ft. of water, the bites were fast and furious. We had the fishbox filled to capacity by noon and we called it a day. The larger Seabass, and there were plenty of them, ranged from 2 1/2 to 4 1/2 lbs. If your thinking of trying your hand at some super Seabass fishing now is the time to do it.

Angler Name : Tom Ciccirelli
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: May 23
Location: Reach
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 20 pounds
Bait or Lure: Shad Umbrellas Rigs
Water Depth: 15-20
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Canyon Runner up to the Raritan Reach on Tuesday with the Tom Ciccerilli charter from Howell, NJ and found the Bass to have turned off. Getting a late start and arriving on the grounds at 8:30 no one seemed to have had a Bass yet. Trolling in 15-20 feet of water the Bass eventually turned on but it was not limit type fishing we have been experiencing. Working the area hard all day produced Bass of 12, 15 and 20 pounds in addition to 4 slot limit Stripers and a couple dozen Blues. Bunker Spoons seemed to provide the best action.

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Angler Name : John Dubrowsky
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/22/00
Location: Southeast Wrecks
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 4 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 85 ft.
Water Temp.: 54 degrees
Information : The Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing had the John Dubrowsky charter on board for a day of wreckfishing. Running to the wrecks Southeast of Manasquan Inlet for the second day in a row proved to be a good decision. We found the Seabass right where we left them the day before and they bit as good as they did yesterday. Working in 65 ft. to 85 ft. of water we had half a fishbox of Seabass up to 4 lbs. within the first 2 hours of fishing. Stopping on 3 other wrecks and having a good pick of fish on each enabled us to fill the fishbox by days end.

Angler Name : UPSDave
E-Mail : d.feigenbaum@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Atlantic Star
Date Fished: 5/22/2000
Location: Sandy Hook Bay (Bug light?)
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size:
Bait or Lure: killies
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Another great day on the Atlantic Star. I boated 16 fluke on the morning half day. Unfortunately only one was a keeper. Others were managing about a 40-50 per cent keeper ratio. It was coooold. Tight lines. Dave

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Angler Name : Scott McLachlan
E-Mail : bobbijm2010@aol.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 5/21/00
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26 +
Bait or Lure: Salted Clam / Sand Worm
Water Depth: White Wash
Water Temp.: N/A
Information : Arrived just a few hours before high tide and immediately started hookin into stripers. Had guys to the left and right of our group who were also busy hauling them in. Nice thing they dropped the size down. Total of 9 stripers caught, 4 were legal biggest being 30". Thats two weekends in a row of great striper fishing at the hook. Hope it keeps up for a while. Good luck all.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5/21/00
Location: Spy House Pier
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15 1/2 - 20 Inchs
Bait or Lure: Killie
Water Depth: Less than 10 Ft
Water Temp.:
Information : arrived at the peir with 90 minutes left in the flood tide and had immediate action.Within the first ten minutes of fishing put a 15 1/2, a 16 1/4 and a 20 inch fluke on ice.Added another 3 keeper fluke bettwe 16-18 inchs over thenext hour.Once the tide went slack and began to ebb,the action died quickly as all that bit were sea robins. Single killie dropped over the rail & bounced along the bottom was the ticket.Saw a few other fluke caught along with 4 bluefish and a nic 7 pound weakie.

Angler Name : Anthony
E-Mail : Threes a charm99
Boat Name: "Three's A Charm"
Date Fished: 5/21/00
Location: Lower Bay, just west of gong bouy #19 in western Reach channel
Fishing Method: Drift sand worms
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 18 to23
Bait or Lure: Sand worms, jig head with rubber shad body
Water Depth: 17 to21, deeper in channel
Water Temp.:
Information : caught nice weeks for better part of morning. Also caught MY first Keeper sized Striper, ever. Sure made my day!!!!! :-) Lots of boats getting Blues. Had a great time and no one got sick.. Ha ha

Angler Name : MARK
E-Mail : MCGONEFISHIN@ATT.NET
Boat Name: KARROT TOP
Date Fished: 5/21
Location: WILD WOOD
Fishing Method: BOTTOM
Specie: Fluke
Size: 21"
Bait or Lure: JIG
Water Depth: 10'-22'
Water Temp.: 56
Information : HAD A GREAT DAY FOUR GUYS 18 KEEPER FLUKE 15 1/2"-21" LOTS OF SHORTS. ALSO GOT 15 SNAPPER BLUES CASTING LURES RAINED ALL DAY BUT WHO CARES WE HAD ACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!

Angler Name : libby and sam
E-Mail : libby-v@home.com
Boat Name: family affair
Date Fished: 5/21
Location: keyport
Fishing Method: trolled
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : had a great time our son caught his first keeper striper and had a nice 31 in blue rest were all blues was a good first day out maybe next week the sun will be out.

Angler Name : Billy B
E-Mail : Willreel@aol.com
Boat Name: Mr. Waders
Date Fished: 5-21-00
Location: Corsons
Fishing Method: Spin cast
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 19" to 22"
Bait or Lure: Pink fin-s
Water Depth: 3to 8'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Got 2 hrs before high tide hit first fish at top of high got 6 more on out going few blues 1 herring get out they are in town. Son wish you were with me,

Angler Name : fred hepper
E-Mail : hep@njlenders.com
Boat Name: Branch Office
Date Fished: 5/21/00
Location: Upper Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: schoolie
Bait or Lure: shad umbrella
Water Depth: 20
Water Temp.:
Information : Water really is dirty after the unsettled weather and rain over the last 3-4 days. Fish seem to have scattered a little. Took a few schoolie bass and small blues. Drifted worms for an hour, with no action. All in all a pretty disappointing day after things were building nicly. Hopefully a few days of good weather will get us back on track.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Miss Lynn
Date Fished: 5/21/00
Location: Back Of Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 12 Pounds
Bait or Lure: Bunker Chunks
Water Depth: 20
Water Temp.: 57.4
Information : Had the pleasure of being invited out for a few hours of evening chunking aboard the Miss Lynn.After a short ride,we set up anchor and began to chunk.Had action with bluefish within 15 minutes,but nothing hit & heavy.I managed to lose a decent sized bass 10 feet off the stern.A good bite never really developed and he tried several spots.All four of us did put some bluefish in the boat,but Ray was the only one able to coax a bass aboard.

Angler Name : Mike & Country
E-Mail : n/a
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 5/21/00
Location: Sandy Hook Surf
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0 to 0'
Bait or Lure: Clams & Sandworms
Water Depth: Surf
Water Temp.: Unknown
Information : Nasty damp cold day as we began fishing around noon. Saw 1 keeper caught and 1 that was questionable, but kept anyway. We didn't get any bites and short of the magnitude of sea robins that were being brought in, there really wasn't a heck of a lot of action. Ended our trip at about 4pm. Hope to catch up with them next week.

Angler Name : Will
E-Mail : NJDoradofishing@aol.com
Boat Name: Smuttynose
Date Fished: 5/21/00
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 1 slot fish, 1 short
Bait or Lure: spoons and stretch 25
Water Depth: 25-41'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Hit the Reach Channel for 2 hours at 3:00. First fish was a big Weakfish of 9 pounds then caught many Bluefish, another Weak of 5-6 pounds, and 2 Bass were caught. One was a slot fish and the other was a short. One caught on stretch other on a spoon. I did tag the small Bass so if you find my tag on a 20" fish it might be mine.

Angler Name : Joey D, AB, Jay, and Dr. D.
E-Mail : surfishjoe@aol.com
Boat Name: Jay Bee
Date Fished: 5/21/00
Location: back bay behind Margate
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Fluke
Size: small
Bait or Lure: squid n' minnies and bucktails
Water Depth: 10-40ft
Water Temp.: 56-57
Information : Soaked some baits for flatties this morning, fished the first few hours of the outgoing, four shorts and a 18in keeper was all we got. Had a couple of taylor blues also to mix up the bag. bucktails and squid took most of the fish.

Angler Name : Ralph Autuore
E-Mail : ralphbarb@earthlink.net
Boat Name: Dragon Lady
Date Fished: 5/21/00
Location: Dog Lump
Fishing Method: trolling plugs and spoons
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 0
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 60'
Water Temp.: 53
Information : Draaged lures for a couple of hours. Lots of fish on the scope and even some birds but no takers. Hope the water warms soon.

Angler Name : Don Yowell
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/21/00
Location: Southeast Wrecks
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 4 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 75 ft.
Water Temp.: 58 degrees
Information : The Bounty Hunter had the Don Yowell charter on board. Running to the wrecks in 75 ft. of water Southeast of Manasquan Inlet we found the Seabass anxious to bite despite the 3 days of Northeast winds and a 3 to 5 foot heave. The first wreck produced 1/2 cooler of Jumbo Seabass up to 4 lbs. and the second drop topped off the box with a non-stop bite of large Bass. We were on our way home by noon with a full box and a happy group of anglers.

Angler Name : Albert Akar, Mike A , Capt Bruce Hrobak
E-Mail : www.captwave@aol.com
Boat Name: TANERZ LURZ (Wavedancer)
Date Fished: 5/21/00
Location: Barnaget Bay
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to # 20 lbs 39 inchs
Bait or Lure: Herring,eels
Water Depth: to 25 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Yesterday we did well with some nice Bass but Today the bass were Bigger but we were also getting some Blues they were ruining our baits !!! I was down deep on the biggest Striper what a fight on 12 lb with a penn 965 we had several nice stripers today weather was"nt too bad kept the traffic down and we were back by 7;30 am Tight lines , Capt Bruce !!!

Angler Name : Kevin Mercer
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: May 21
Location: Reach
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 20 pounds
Bait or Lure: Shad Umbrellas Rigs
Water Depth: 15-20
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Canyon Runner back up to the Reach now that the Northeast winds had died down and put together another solid catch of Bass. with Capt. Jimmy Rivelli of the Calypso helping out the Kevin Mercer charter from Irvington, NJ limited out with Stripers over 28" and released 4 others. Additionally, 4 Stipers between 24" and 28" were also boated. The charter enjoyed constanst action on Bunker Spoons fishing in 15-20 feet of water as in between the Bass, 3 dozen Bluefish were also boated.

Angler Name : DOC,SPUMONE & CHOPPER
E-Mail : dkijowski@mc-2online.com
Boat Name: living on a prayer
Date Fished: 5/21/00
Location: raritan bay
Fishing Method: trolling & chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 33"// 15lbs
Bait or Lure: diving plugs & bunker
Water Depth: 25 to 30 feet
Water Temp.: I personally found out @ end of trip
Information : started trolling @ 6:30 am. did this for about 2hrs.only picking up one small blue.Had some bunker on board so decided to chunk,good move, fish started coming over the side.we ended up with some nice blues & one striper caught by captain tony(spumone). picked up 2 short fluke over @ the tip. started getting snotty so we made our way in. the highlite of the day was back at the dock when KING NEPTUNE & THE BOAT POLE took possession of me. some how i hooked the dock cleat while the boat was in forward motion & didn't let go.losing my balance the rest was history.all i can tell you was the water is the right temp.very lucky,no injuries.i quess there's a fisrt time for everything.never say never. name that day "DOC IN THE BAY"

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Angler Name : Papa Chickolet
E-Mail : cjnesti@home.com
Boat Name: 25 mako
Date Fished: 5/20 /00
Location: Raratian Bay
Fishing Method: chunked
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26"
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth: 20/30'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Fished the outgoing tide at buoy14 reach channel. We had the wind against the tide. All the bluefish you wanted but the stripers were tough.

Angler Name : Eugene Catalano
E-Mail : eugene.catalano@ncr.com
Boat Name: Atlantis Princess/Staten Island
Date Fished: May 20, 2000
Location: S.I./Ammo Pier
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 4LBS
Bait or Lure: Fluke Belly/Spearing/Bucktail
Water Depth: 10/12 ft
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : Out on the Atlantis Princess again.. Another great trip.. Out in the rain with a light crowd but it was well worth it.. Capt. Earl found fish both near Great Kills Harbor and on Sandy Hook. I had fish to 4lbs.. 9 in all.. 5 were short.. Sea Robbins were reaking havic but they kept you busy when the fluke were on a break.. Aside for the weather, It was a great day.

Angler Name : John D
E-Mail : saltline1@aol.com
Boat Name: Witeagle
Date Fished: 5/20
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 26#
Bait or Lure: bunker
Water Depth: 22ft
Water Temp.: 58.5
Information : Wow! What a night. Hit one of my favorite spots back in the bay on the NY side and immediately got into fish @8pm. We never went more than 10 or so minutes without one of us hooking up, and we often had all 3 of us, Justin, Steve and myself, on fish at the same time. Here are the numbers:--the 3 of us got 24(only one short) bass up to 26#, countless blues up to 14#, and one 8# weakie while chunking. ALL of the bass(except for one 27" fish) were between 15-18# with 4 topping 20#. We each kept one of our earlier, non-revivable fish, 20#, 21#, 17#, eagerly to be devoured on the grill. John D

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Angler Name : Bob Garrett
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/19/00
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 36"
Bait or Lure: Spoons & Rigs
Water Depth: 15 to 20 ft.
Water Temp.: 56 degrees
Information : The Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina had the Bob Garrett charter on board. Running up to Raritan Bay on a calm morning the fishing for Striped Bass started off slowly with only a slow pick of Bluefish on Spoons and Shad Rigs. By 10 AM we were in a full blown gale. With N.E. winds to 35 knots, rain and lightning, thats when the Striped Bass decided to come on. After 2 hours we had our limit catch of 9 Striped Bass in the box along with 1/2 dozen Bluefish. Four Bass were released along with another dozen Blues. Needless to say the ride back to Pt. Pleasant was a thrill a minute.

Angler Name : ed holmes
E-Mail : hookemtocookem@hotmail.com
Boat Name: trophy
Date Fished: 05/19/00
Location: delaware bay, ep tower
Fishing Method: anchored
Specie: Weakfish
Size: none
Bait or Lure: chicken breast
Water Depth: 13 ft
Water Temp.: 68
Information : It was a bad day, 3 ft seas, rainy, and cool. Didn't have any luck. Didn't see any fish taken by any of the boats that were around us. Fished the incoming tide. I'm really starting to believe that the full moon has an effect on these weakfish.

Angler Name : matt krol
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5\19/00
Location: pt.plesant side of inlet seawall
Fishing Method: bottom,lures
Specie: Fluke
Size:
Bait or Lure: killie,hopkins
Water Depth: 10ft
Water Temp.: 53
Information : started fishing at 7:00 am. ended at 9:30am. lots of seaweed you could'nt get your bait on the bottom without getting seaweed all over it. not many people fishing. didn't see one fish caught. the only action seen was a shool of blues that was just out of casting reach feeding.

Angler Name : Betty Henzy , Doc, Capt Bruce Hrobak, and mate Rick Carrol
E-Mail : www.Captwave@aol.com
Boat Name: Tanerz Lurz ( WAVEDANCER)
Date Fished: 5/19/00
Location: Barnaget Bay
Fishing Method: Live Lining
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to # 30
Bait or Lure: Herring
Water Depth: to 24 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Had Betty Henzy of Penn Reels out along with her longtime friend Doc,on an am Trip for Stripers . The tide was still on the outgoing stage and as soon as we arrived we has Stripers the first bass was 29 inchs and was doing quite a job on the Herring it Wacked it over 5 times with its tail!!! After that Betty set the hook on the Run She did a great job!!! After that another Bass was again Smacking Betty's Herring and a damm Seagull grabed the bait it droped it and was then Stunned The Striper pounced on that one again and Betty was Hooked UP she again did a great job on landing the bass on a Penn int # 965 !!! with 12 lb line !!! All in all was a great day out they both braved the Harsh weather and caught em up !!!!! Tight Lines Capt Bruce !!!

Angler Name : Bill(bucktail willie)Shillingford
E-Mail : bucktail8@netscape.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: May15th-19th--2000
Location: Corson Inlet Area
Fishing Method: drifting and trolling
Specie: Fluke
Size: 17-20"
Bait or Lure: bucktail (white) squid
Water Depth: 8-12ft
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Found excellent fluke fishing behind Corson Inlet in shallow bays and creeks --limited out with 8 3 days and had 6 keepers a 4th day also found schoolie stripers in the 18" to 24" range end of week weather turn bad with Northeast wind but fish were still there just difficult to get a good drift Fish were all nice and FAT

Angler Name : Dave Babish
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: May 19
Location: Reach
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 20 pounds
Bait or Lure: Shad Umbrellas Rigs
Water Depth: 15-20
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie fought throught the Northeast winds and took the Canyon Runner up to the Reach again on Friday with the Dave Babish charter. Working in 15-20 feet of water the charter limited out with Bass up to 20 pounds and released another 7 keepers before headed back home. In addition 20 blues were boated and released.

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Angler Name : Tim McCoy
E-Mail : Tim9ball@aol.com
Boat Name: ROCK-N-REEL
Date Fished: MAY 18, 2000
Location: Reedy Island range De. river
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 38.08 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth: 12ft.
Water Temp.: 63
Information : 48ins.long, 27in. girth 38.08lbs. cut bunker on fish finder rig. Lost 2 big ones in the morning and hooked up with the biggest fish of my life at about 5:30pm.... Going to have it mounted..Tight lines and good luck....

Angler Name : Anthony
E-Mail : Bayman1999@AOL.com
Boat Name: "Three's A Charm"
Date Fished: 5/18/00
Location: S.I. side of reach
Fishing Method: rubber shad
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 18 to 30 feet
Water Temp.: ?
Information : First outing this year, had some work to do on the boat. Took my cousin and a friend of his. Left inlet and water was surprisinly calm, headed over to S.I. and caught hell. Wind and chop heavy.... Too heavy for some, and the old stomac had enough. Only managed on hit in the short outing, but the blood sure is flowing now. Cant wait for the next trip, and I will stress that only the stronged stomac people come this time. lol By the way, the "friend" is fine and doing well. see ya out there Anthony

Angler Name : RICH EGNATUK
E-Mail : RIGGY@ADELPHIA.NET
Boat Name: ERATAK
Date Fished: 5-18-00
Location: BB BUOY
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 7LBS 5LBS AND 4 SMALLER
Bait or Lure: SANDWORMS AND FINNESE
Water Depth: 12'
Water Temp.:
Information : SLOPPY DAY ON THE BAY GOT REAL WET IN MY CC BOAT BUT DID CATCH FISH ON EVERY DRIFT NOT TO MANY GUYS OUT 2 TO 3 FOOT WAVES AND VERY WINDY FRIEND OF MINE CAUGHT A 8LB BLACK FISH OFF THE BEACH YA NEVER NO

Angler Name : Ben Landis
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: May 18
Location: Reach
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 24 pounds
Bait or Lure: Shad Umbrellas Rigs
Water Depth: 15-20
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Ben Landis charter out to celebrate his upcoming wedding and put the group from Michigan, Ohio and New Jersey into Stripers in the Raritan Reach on Thursday. Trolling in tough conditions with 20-25 knot south winds, the group boated 7 keepers up to 24 pounds. In addition 30 bluefish were boated and released. Most of the action was on shad umbrella rigs in 15-20 feet of water.

Angler Name : Frank S.
E-Mail : frankko66@aol.com
Boat Name: easygo
Date Fished: 5-18-00
Location: raritan bay
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 14 lb.
Bait or Lure: strech 25
Water Depth: 25 ft.
Water Temp.: 54
Information : Trolled off Keansburg for a little more than 2 hours. Came up with 6 blues and 5 lb. weak and 14+ striper. Not bad for a test run. Not many boats out there, wind kicked up in the afternoon and I decided to pack it in. See you out there!!!!!!

Angler Name : mike mcl.
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5/18/00
Location: Corson's Inlet O.C.
Fishing Method: on da feet
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24"
Bait or Lure: bucktail
Water Depth: 5-10 ft.
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Had to fight alot of wind and weed today. Not many people wanting to fish yet so that's great for the ones who do!!!Got a nice shortie after I saw him come up and follow the buck to within 5 feet of me. Didn't get any weakies today but I was using all artificials! Some bait may have brought them onto the hook! Just got the feeling that there are fish in after two jumped out in front close enough to put out my hat and catch them in it!!!!!! FISH AWAY FELLAS!!!

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Angler Name : eric hecht
E-Mail : erichecht@home.com
Boat Name: Tailwalker
Date Fished: 5/17/00
Location: SI side of reach channel
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 8 to 20 pounds
Bait or Lure: fresh and frozen bunker
Water Depth: 20 feet
Water Temp.: 62 degrees
Information : trolled the north side of the channel from 6:30 to 8:30 and only got a couple of little blues. moved west towards staten island and set hook away from the fleet. action started immediately with a 30 incher and a 7 pound weakfish. we finished up around 11:30 with 12 stripers, 4 of them about 20 lbs, 5 about 12 lbs and 3 about 8 lbs, plus about 20 bluefish. not surprisingly, the fresh bunker did much better than the frozen---spend the money if you can or snag em. good luck!

Angler Name : Matt Cordova/ Bill Sherding
E-Mail : mattc@accutest.com
Boat Name: Rubber rocket
Date Fished: 5/17/00
Location: Raritan Reach/ Keyport
Fishing Method: Trolling/casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 10-17 lb
Bait or Lure: stretch 25s and bomber
Water Depth: 20 feet
Water Temp.: --
Information : Fished the incoming water at Raritan reach and had 4 Stripers up to 17 lbs. Must have caught 20 blues from 4-12 lbs as well. Bite stopped in the late morning when the tide turned. Ran over to the mouth of Keyport harbor and tried for weaks with pink rubber jigs and squid. Lots more small blues an a pair of keeper fluke.

Angler Name : Sammy
E-Mail : ucancsam@home.com
Boat Name: Tranquility
Date Fished: 5/17/00
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26-31in
Bait or Lure: fresh bunker
Water Depth: 16'
Water Temp.: N/A
Information : Fished Raritan Bay off Keansburg and just East of Buoy 19. Anchored up and started chunking. Fish hit almost immediately. Got 4 keeper bass and released 5 shorts. Tons of blues!! Great day, get'em while they're hot!!

Angler Name : fred hepper
E-Mail : hep@njlenders.com
Boat Name: branch office
Date Fished: 5/17/00
Location: Flynn's Knoll
Fishing Method: Drifting worms
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30 inches
Bait or Lure: sand worms
Water Depth: 20-25
Water Temp.:
Information : Arrived @ the hook (Flynn's Knoll) 2:00 pm slack tide. took 6 fish @ 30 inches in 20-25 feet of water. Wind @ 20 knots out of the south. 3-4 worms on each rig w/6 oz. of weight on the bottom. No birds all day. Moved up the bay towards keyport and chunked from 5-7 pm. some blues, one monstor blue (hope this is a sign of things to come). Guys @ my marina tell me after dark striper fishing in the deep channels chunking has been good the last few days FYI.

Angler Name : Frank Lukenda
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/17/00
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 37 inches
Bait or Lure: Spoons & Rigs
Water Depth: 15 to 25 ft.
Water Temp.: 57 degrees
Information : The Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina had the Frank Lukenda charter on board. Anxious to get back to the Striped Bass action in Raritan Bay we ran north and were fishing by 6 AM. The first fish was a 35 inch Striped Bass and was in the fish box within 5 minutes of trolling, hitting a Shad Rig. The bite continued until 10 AM. By that time we had put 15 keeper Bass in the fish box along with 9 Bluefish. 3 short Bass were released. The Bass ranged from 28 to 37 inches. The largest Blue tipped the scales at 14 l/2 lbs. All the action was on Spoons and Shad Rigs trolling in 15 to 20 ft. of water.

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Angler Name : John Figueireod
E-Mail : jonfig@xoommail.com
Boat Name: TEAL
Date Fished: 5/16/00
Location: NY Side of Bay
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 1-36 inch, 2 34-inch
Bait or Lure: Bunker Chunks
Water Depth: 50 ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Went aboard the TEAL for my 1st trip this season and caught 3 keepers along with 8 blues. Total keepers caught on the boat - 51!!! Great night of fishing. Bluefish hit until dark and Stripers came battling in.

Angler Name : CJ Walsh
E-Mail : cjw12@acpub.duke.edu
Boat Name: Chuckwagon
Date Fished: Tuesday May 16th
Location: 2FB
Fishing Method: Trolling, Jigging and Chumming
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 8 - 10 pounds
Bait or Lure: Ponytails, Jawbreakers and Mackerel
Water Depth: 60
Water Temp.: 55
Information : What a great day on the water!! Lots of slammer blues gorging themselves on sandeels, squids and herring at 2FB. We caught 'em trolling, chumming and jigging. No other boats around. Anyone heard any drum reports?

Angler Name : Dave
E-Mail : dstucy@hotmail.com
Boat Name: SUNBIRD
Date Fished: 5-16-00
Location: BB
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 2-2 1/2 pounds
Bait or Lure: pink grubs
Water Depth: 8ft
Water Temp.: ??
Information : got 3 weakfish in 15 mins.....then everything just died down...try going out around 4...thats when the action starts....TIGHT LINES TIL THEN!!!

Angler Name : Dave Solt
E-Mail : soltydog@adelphia.net
Boat Name: Solty Dog
Date Fished: 5/16/00
Location: Barnegat Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 3-4 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Bubblegum finesse/sandworms
Water Depth: 11 ft.
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Fished an area just east of "BB". Three weaks and three blues. I have not even caught a weak under 18" in the last three trips out. Hope this size holds; but by June, the spikes usually move in. Good Luck.

Angler Name : Tom&Bud
E-Mail : reelhick@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: REELHICK
Date Fished: 5-16
Location: Old Orchard
Fishing Method: Bunker Chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28-44in
Bait or Lure: Frozen bunker
Water Depth: 25ft
Water Temp.: 60
Information : We got out there around 8:00am and could'nt buy a bass, blues drove us nuts.About 1:30 we got 1 bass 28in,shortly after we got a 44in 25lb bass,after that we had quite a few run-offs that seemed like bass.We ran out of bait at 2:30 so that was it .

Angler Name : Dave Tolchin
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: May 16
Location: 25 miles SE of Manasquan
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 4 pounds
Bait or Lure: clams
Water Depth: 90
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie got into some of the best Sea Bass action to date Tuesday on the Canyon Runner putting the Dave Tolchin charter from Sayreville, NJ into non-stop action. Fishing wrecks 25 miles SE of Manasquan Inlet the charter filled the fish box with Sea Bass up to 4 pounds. Most of the action again was on wrecks located in 90 feet of water.

Angler Name : RAY ROGERS CHARTER
E-Mail : just1mor@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: "JUST ONE MORE"
Date Fished: 5/16/00
Location: SANDY HOOK BAY
Fishing Method: CHUNKING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: TO 35",21 LBS.
Bait or Lure: BUNKER
Water Depth: 25'
Water Temp.: 59.2
Information : SUPER DAY FOR THE RAY ROGERS PARTY.WE LIMITED OUT WITH STRIPED BASS IN A LITTLE OVER 2 HOURS.FISH WERE UP TO 35",AND 21 LBS.WE WERE THROWING KEEPERS BACK BY 10 AM.!!! WE ALSO RELEASED SHORTS AND HAD ALL THE BLUEFISH YOU WANTED.WE LEFT THE BASS BITING AND FINISHED UP THE DAY WITH A GOOD CATCH OF FLUKE UP TO 17.5". STRIPER CHUNKNG IS HOT NOW!!

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Angler Name : Tony Cavallaro
E-Mail : headsteel@blast.net
Boat Name: Freddy C
Date Fished: 05/15/2000
Location: Between Keaport and Staan Island
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Up to 15 lbs
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth: around 25 feet
Water Temp.:
Information : Chunking paid off well, all good size fish, shorts were just barely. I got four keeper size fish up to 15 lbs. Two of which are still swimming. Largest fish on the boat was over 20 lbs. Action did not start until around 9:00 pm. Many blues earlier, some up to 10 lbs or better. Waater was full of large bunker. You could feel them hitting your line.

Angler Name : Jason Testa
E-Mail : Aliboba.com@Bell
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: may 15, 2000
Location: Island beach St.Park
Fishing Method: striper jig w/clams
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 33" 17 1/2lbs.
Bait or Lure: clams
Water Depth: 25ft.off beach
Water Temp.: 50-60*
Information : caught a few more keepers than just one but that was the biggest one out of them all.

Angler Name : gary
E-Mail : riverrunner@rocketmail.com
Boat Name: NIKMO
Date Fished: may 15, 2000
Location: barnegat bay
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 16 to 28 inches
Bait or Lure: fin-s fish
Water Depth: 12 foot
Water Temp.: 68 dregrees
Information : myself, keith and mike went for a day on the bay. we started at 6am but the fish didn't start until 10 am at the tide change(going out). use heavy line because there are alot of BIG fish. tight lines.

Angler Name : Bill (buctail Willie)Shillingford
E-Mail : bucktail8@netscape.net
Boat Name: Shadow
Date Fished: May 15,2000
Location: Cape May Rips
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 12-33 pounds
Bait or Lure: live eel
Water Depth: 10-50FT
Water Temp.: 57
Information : After catching fluke in morning I hooked up with Capt George Gilbert on his new boat the SHADOW and we drifted eels on the rips until dark. We go 13 bass from 12 to 33 pounds. At the dock when leaving the morning boats were all complaining about the lack of fish and high wind.Afternoon wind died down and fish came alive Overfalls produced the best bite

Angler Name : Butch
E-Mail : dipiero@prodigy.net
Boat Name: Wanderer
Date Fished: 5/15/00
Location: Navesink River
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 12 lbs
Bait or Lure: Dead Peanut Bunker
Water Depth: 16 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Big blue hit a bunker on a bottom rig. Lots of 2-4lb blues on top. Nice weakfish being caught as well.

Angler Name : TOM
E-Mail : W95TOM@AOL.COM
Boat Name: DREAM BOAT
Date Fished: 5-15-00
Location: SPRING LAKE
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15.5" AND UP
Bait or Lure: SPEARING ETC.....
Water Depth: 30-42 FT
Water Temp.: 56 F
Information : GOT A CHANCE TO FISH ON MY BOSSES NEW BOAT TODAY OUT OF CLARKS LANDING,,TOOK A SHORT RIDE OUT THE INLET TO THE OLD ESSEX HOTEL OFF OF SPRING LAKE,,,4 GUYS FISHED AND WE HAD A FOUR MAN LIMIT NO PROBLEM, THATS 32 KEEPERS GUYS, YOU HAD TO BE IN 30-42 FT OF WATER OFF OF SPRING LAKE OR ALL YA GOT WAS SEA ROBINS, BUT OUT IN THE 30-40 FT THE FLUKE WERE VERY COOPERATIVE,, NICE FISH AND THE SURFACE TEMP WAS STILL A COOL 56 DEGREES,, WE WENT THROUGH 2 PACKS OF SPEARING, 2 PACKS OF SAND EELS. A PINT OF KILLIES AND A SMALL BLOCK OF SQUID,,,,AT THE END WE WERE USING 2-3 LONG PIECES OF SQUID BECAUSE THATS ALL WE HAD LEFT AND THE FLATTIES DIDN'T SEEM TO MIND, LEFT THEM BITING AT 2 PM, WITH A STIFF SOUTH - SOUTH EAST WIND,,,,,

Angler Name : ed h.
E-Mail : not to be distributed
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5-15-99
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24.5 inches
Bait or Lure: sand worms
Water Depth: wash
Water Temp.:
Information : went out with all the positivity one can expect for hot striper fishing. COMPLETELY DEAD until 6 pm after the wind shifted from south/southeast to west/nothwest as quick as a light switch!!!! then, BAM!!!!! it hit like a brick $hit house! i did not get any hits out deep at the drop off (or pocket, if you will) towards the end of the sand bar. although as a last ditch effort, i just lofted my worm out about 30 yard into the surf on the top of the sand bar and that is where it hit. i left shortly after that around 630pm! TIGHT LINES!

Angler Name : Tom,Bud and Frank
E-Mail : reelhick@bellatlantic .net
Boat Name: REELHICK
Date Fished: 5-15
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 10 to 22in
Bait or Lure: Green Crabs
Water Depth: 40-45ft
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Did alot of moving but finally hit the spot.We ended up getting over 60 fish,sea bass,blacks.Kept 22 sea bass and 4 blacks to 5lbs.

Angler Name : Pat McKernan
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/15/00
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28 to 39 inches
Bait or Lure: Spoons & Shad Rigs
Water Depth: 15 to 25 ft.
Water Temp.: 57 degrees
Information : After a great day of trolling on Saturday the Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina headed right back to the Raritan Bay area with the Pat McKernan charter to continue with the hot Striped Bass fishing. Working in depths of water from 15 to 25 ft. and trolling Bunker Spoons and an occasional Shad Rig we put a limit catch of 13 Bass in the boat in 4 hours. The largest a 39 inch fish was taken on a green Bunker Spoon.

Angler Name : Tony Cavallaro
E-Mail : headsteel@blast.net
Boat Name: Freddy C
Date Fished: 05/15/2000
Location: North Beach, Nude Beach, The Rip
Fishing Method: Sperring, Belly
Specie: Fluke
Size: Up to 18 inches
Bait or Lure: Sperring
Water Depth: to 20 feet
Water Temp.: I don't have any idea
Information : Beautiful day out on the Freddy C. Fluke fishing was good. I managed to boat around 12 fish with 6 going back, right back in the box that is! Good ratio of keepers. Some small blue demonds in the mix as well. A number of birds too. Largest fish on the boat maybe went 3.5 lbs.

Angler Name : walter hagaman
E-Mail : saltyd 2744
Boat Name: pole hog
Date Fished: 5/15/00
Location: great bay
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 3/to 4 pounds range
Bait or Lure: bucktail
Water Depth: 5/to6
Water Temp.: 67
Information : geat fising day limited out in three hours

Angler Name : Ed Holmes
E-Mail : hookemtocookem@hotmail.com
Boat Name: TROPHY
Date Fished: 05/15/00
Location: Del. Bay
Fishing Method: Anchored
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 3 to 6 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Bucktails with CHICKEN
Water Depth: 13 ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Started fishing on the high tide. Not much happening. Waited until the tide started going out. Started to pick up a few nice weakies. This is a start.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5/14/00
Location: Port Monmouth Pier
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15.25-23 Inchs
Bait or Lure: Killie,Sandworms,Bunker Chunks
Water Depth: 4-8 Feet
Water Temp.:
Information : Got to the pier alittle after 2PM and fished the last half of the flood tide right through the first 2.5 hours of the ebb.Had action within 30 minutes with a 16.25 inch keeper fluke,quickly followed by a cocktail blue.Nothing for another 45 minutes until I put a fat 23 inch fluke over the rail & into the pail.Action increased with bluefish in the 2-4 pound class until you were getting a hitting with in minutes of casting out.I lost count after 20 cocktails released with onr going 6 pounds.Added another 17 inch keeper fluke to the cooler for a nice supper.Bluefish were takne either bunker chunks or sandworms ( used with the hope of taking any weakfish in the area )--while the fluke would take a single killie that was jigged. A friend of mine who was also there did a good number on the fluke by using a purple worm and squid strip combo on a slow retrieve.

Angler Name : Steve Won
E-Mail : soul218880@AOL.com
Boat Name: rental
Date Fished: 5/14/00
Location: shark river
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Fluke
Size: 13" to 17"
Bait or Lure: white Jig head w/ killie or spearing
Water Depth: 10 to 15 feet
Water Temp.:
Information : started off early in the morning...picked up 3 shorts on the start of the outgoing tide. cuurrent picked up and went to the north channel and they began to hit. later on incoming went to the tennis courts...hit a couple of shorts and saw 1 to 3 lb taylor blues in the mix also..ended the day with about 20 fish and 4 keepers before the wind picked up....all in all a good day

Angler Name : FEULNER JOHN
E-Mail : FEULNERJ@EMAILMSN.COM
Boat Name: GIZMO
Date Fished: 5-14-00
Location: RARITAN REACH
Fishing Method: TROLLING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 12
Bait or Lure: STRETCH 25 WHITE SPOONS
Water Depth: 25-40
Water Temp.: 57
Information : STARTED TROLLING AT 7AM SUNDAY. NICE DAY WEATHER WISE. TROLLED WIRE ON ONE RIG WITH A WHITE SPOON AND TOOK A 30 INCH BASS. TROLLED A STRECTH 25 ON THE OTHER ROD AND HAD A LOT OF BLUES. LOADS OF BUNKERS AT OLD ORCHARD LIGHT AROUND NOON. LATER GIZMO

Angler Name : Pat
E-Mail : shazzazool@hotmail.com
Boat Name: rainbow connection
Date Fished: may 14 2000
Location: raritan bay
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 12 lb
Bait or Lure: night crawlers
Water Depth: 30 ft
Water Temp.: 63
Information : Casted out... within two minutes got the biggest bite i ever seen fought him four three min. Finally got the son of a gun up!!!!!!!

Angler Name : Will
E-Mail : NJDoradofishing@aol.com
Boat Name: Smuttynose
Date Fished: 5/12-5/14
Location: Navesink River, Reach Channel, and Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drifting, Trolling, Casting
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 1-3 pounds
Bait or Lure: squid, spearing, bunker spoons, bomber, 007, stretch 25
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 62
Information : On Friday the Bluefish were in the rivers. Caught about 15 of them in 2 hours on bombers and some on 007. Saturday was okay. A lot of Bluefish and no Bass up the Reach. Sunday was great. Caught a 7 pound Fluke, 4 other keepers, shorts, sea robins, bluefish, and sundial flounders. All of this was in 2 hours drifting out by the Tip of the Hook with squid and spearing in 12-13' of water.

Angler Name : Bob Sprague
E-Mail : Rgspr@aol.com
Boat Name: O Yeah !
Date Fished: 05/14/2000
Location: Great Bay - marker 139
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 19"
Bait or Lure: Minnows
Water Depth: 6' - 7'
Water Temp.:
Information : It sure was Mom's day, she caught most of the fish! From 12 noon to 3PM, she caught 4 short fluke, and a 19" Weakfish. My 9 yr. old son Corey ,caught a short fluke and so did 4year old Lauren.

Angler Name : Capt Bruce Hrobak , Rick Carrol ,Mike A , Rickey Carrol
E-Mail : www.Captwave@aol.com
Boat Name: Wavedancer and Tanerz Lurz
Date Fished: 5/13/00 5/5/00 5/14/00
Location: Barnaget Bay !!
Fishing Method: Live Herring and Plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 38 inchs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: to 24 ft
Water Temp.: 63
Information : Caught up the Stripers all 3 days we did very well with bass up 2 38 inchs 12 year Old ricky got a 30 inch Striper on a Herring !! Blues are maurading all over the place and the Weakfish are showing more too !!! Hopefully we will hook up with some real nice bass with the upcoming Moon !!! Tight Lines, Capt Bruce !!!

Angler Name : Bing
E-Mail : riverrunner@rocletmail.com
Boat Name: I.B.S.P.
Date Fished: 5/14/00
Location: Island Beach State Park
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5 Lbs.
Bait or Lure: Mullet Fillets
Water Depth: 6 feet
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Don't beleive all the reports you read. Went down Friday for the evening shift and all day today. One bluefish and 2 Sea Robins. Did not see that much caught up and down the beach. I did see one bass being weighed in. Good luck.

Angler Name : Charlie
E-Mail : lawncar@ptd.net
Boat Name: Freddy C
Date Fished: May 14, 200
Location: Ammo Pier Tip of the Hook
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16"
Bait or Lure: squid
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : I had only one keeper and my buddy Ed had two. Mates seemed more interested in keeping the Captain supplied with bait along with a few of his friends. The boat is losing its charm and appears more like an insiders club than a "true" party boat. Sorry but my $40.00 could have been better spent on another boat and will be in the future.

Angler Name : Dave
E-Mail : DSt7388587@aol.com
Boat Name: My Office
Date Fished: 5/13/2000
Location: GE Inlet
Fishing Method: Bait Casting
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 4-7lbs.
Bait or Lure: Diamonds, Mirrored Trout Spinners
Water Depth: 18-36'
Water Temp.: 56
Information : Bluefish began hitting in inlet 2 hours before low tide, they were feeding on Herring, had to cast and allow lure to settle below bait fish....Birds worked fish also...Fishing lasted until we were out of lures.....Forgot to take wire leader for bait casters....

Angler Name : Mark Grogan
E-Mail : btmfdr@aol.com
Boat Name: Bottomfeeder
Date Fished: 5/13/00
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 4-8lbs
Bait or Lure: Ava's, Umbrella's, Plug's
Water Depth: 8-20ft
Water Temp.: 60 F
Information : Trolled from 8am to 1pm, picked up 40+ blues and one short Striper....

Angler Name : bobby
E-Mail : ojasper@aol.com
Boat Name: hyper striper
Date Fished: 5-13-00
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: troll spoons
Specie: Weakfish
Size: large
Bait or Lure: spoons
Water Depth: 22 feet
Water Temp.: 52
Information : what a day.we had are limit in 3 hours.lagest bass being 20 lbs.not one short was caught.spent the rest of the day catching fluke.14 caught and about the same on shorts.great day,thanks guys.keep up the good work.

Angler Name : Chuck K.
E-Mail : ckoller@dscp.dla.mil
Boat Name: Cheryl Ann
Date Fished: 5/13/00
Location: Cape May Rips
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: eel
Water Depth: 17-25
Water Temp.:
Information : Drifter 2 hours of the outgoing tide, saw 8 caught between 30 and 40 inches. Lost 2 large fish, one very big.

Angler Name : Luigi
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: May 13
Location: Sandy Hook Bay
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2-4 lb
Bait or Lure: Kastmasters
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: High 50's
Information : Loads of blues on the bay side of Sandy Hook around the afternoon high tide, though there were no signs of baitfish or birds working. Fish hit solidly for the entire hour or so that we were there.

Angler Name : Jason "GonZo" Gonzalez
E-Mail : jason_gonzalez@ml.com
Boat Name: Sweet Caroline
Date Fished: 5/13/00
Location: Near Barnegat Inlet (inside)
Fishing Method: bottom & jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: various shorts
Bait or Lure: Clam & Fin-S
Water Depth: 21'
Water Temp.: 56-59
Information : Creeped out of Forked River around 5:15am. Fog thick as pea soup, never burned off. "Felt" our way to the south side of Barnegat Inlet, found a few channel markers and idled in to the sod banks. Lot of boats despite the fog, everyone pulling up stripers - didn't see many keepers though, put a few in the boat on clams - all short. Caught a bonus fluke on opening day, and had a blast with the 3 & 4 lb blues. Kept about a dozen and pitched another dozen back. Looking forward to this weekend -- with less fog hopefully. Where are the weakies????? Tight lines.

Angler Name : George Sarusus
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: May 13
Location: 25 miles SE of Manasquan
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 3 pounds
Bait or Lure: clams
Water Depth: 90
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Canyon Runner out on Saturday with the George Sarusus charter from Scotch Plains, NJ and put together a nice catch of Sea Bass. Hitting only two wrecks on the day due to Saturday Boat traffic on all the wrecks the group put 130 Sea Bass in the boat and released at least another 30. Both wrecks were in 90 feet of water 20 - 25 miles SE of Manasquan Inlet.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Capt John
Date Fished: 5/13/00
Location: Sandy Hook Bay/Port Monmouth Pier
Fishing Method: Drift/Surf
Specie: Fluke
Size: to 19 inchs
Bait or Lure: Killies/Spearing/Bunker Chunks
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Part one of the day was spent on the Capt John in search of fluke.Myself along with Ray,Tim & Kathy all had hopes of at least putting 3-4 fluke on ice.Our frist few drifts were on the ledges between the Bug Light & the Coast Guard Station-most of the larger fluke and probably the majority of the keepers came from here.We next made a few drifts near the rips,here we had the pleasant ( or unpleasant-depending on your point of view )of coming across of school of bluefish in the 2-4 pound class.Some fluke both keepers & shorts were also taken here.next few areas such as off the beach,Sandy Hok Channel or off the ammo pier were either very slow or was turbo sea robin fishing ( Sandy Hook Channel ). I ended the day of the Capt John with only 2 short fluke,1 bluefish and alot of sea robins to my name. Ray & Kathy each got a keeper fluke,as well as Ray & Tim taking a bluefish apiece along with numerous shorts & sea robins. Part two of the day was spent on the Spy House Pier in Port Monmouth.Upon setting up we had immediate action with bluefish. I concentrated on catching bluefish by setting up 2 rods with bunker chunks,while Tim & Kathy set up 1 rod each for bluefish & fluke.Over the course of the next few hours we caught about 25 bluefish in 2-4 pound class with a few pushing 6.Bewteen Tim & Kathy,they put an additional 5 keeper fluke on ice up to 19 inchs,while losing another 3 keepers trying to wing them over the pier railing.

Angler Name : Werner Sprie
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/13/00
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 37 inches
Bait or Lure: Spoons,Plugs,Shads
Water Depth: 15 to 20ft.
Water Temp.: 58 degrees
Information : After 10 successful wreck trips, the crew of the Bounty Hunter decided to shift gears and run north up into Raritan Bay with the Werner Sprie charter. We had heard stories about the hot Striped Bass fishing going on and wanted to get in on the action. It did not take long to land our first Striper of the Season a 36" fish. The action heated up by mid morning as we continously hooked into keeper Bass up to 36 inches, trolling in water depths of 14 to 18 ft. By days end we had caught and released 33 Striped Bass along with a dozen Bluefish.

Angler Name : Scott McLachlan
E-Mail : bobbijm2010@aol.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 5/13/00
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20"-27"
Bait or Lure: Sand Worm / Live Clam
Water Depth: White Wash
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Got there at 7am knowing it was outgoing. Had a huge sandbar off about 30yards. No fish up close so we tossed on the chest waiters and made it out to the bar. Myself and 3 buddies continued to catch stripers,blues/blow fish and pesky sea robins. A total of 11 stripers biggest was 27" (dam). No one else could reach beyond bar so were not catching anything. Few times we all had fish on at the same time! Great day. Good Luck All.

Angler Name : Andy H.
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Jersey Girl
Date Fished: 5/13/00
Location: Sandy Hook Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: up to 4 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Spearing/Squid
Water Depth: 15 - 30 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Fluking was the agenda for Rob Payesko and the rest of the motley crew for his bachelor party. Our first time out (and maybe Rob's last) on the Jersey Girl. Capt. Larry Snow runs a FINE charter (extremely comfortable boat) and the mates were excellent. The Capt. put us into fluke on the first drop and kept us in fish all day (except for a brief slack tide). The pool winner was about 4 lbs and we scored 21 keeper fluke plus 2 blues. Not too many robins, but a good number of shorts. Everyone enjoyed Rob's last day of freedom and our first of many day's of fluking this summer.

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Angler Name : John Byron
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/12/00
Location: Offshore Wrecks
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 2 to 5 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 110 ft.
Water Temp.: 56 degrees
Information : The Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina had John Byron, Jim Ingram and Jason Lynes from Vail, Colorado on board for a day of wreckfishing. Working 4 wrecks in 90 to 115 ft. of water to the Southeast of Manasquan Inlet, we picked large Seabass on all four stops. By days end we had a fishbox full of Bass in the 2 to 5 lb. range along with a couple of Blackfish and a Cod.

Angler Name : Ron Walker
E-Mail : rwalker@trilogyassoc.com
Boat Name: MegaBite
Date Fished: May 12
Location: Del Bay, MiaMaul, #1, EP Tower
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 20"
Bait or Lure: Killies, flounder belly, chicken
Water Depth: 10-20
Water Temp.: 63
Information : Just one keeper, but also a few throwbacks and some snappers. Hurry up weakfish. Did see a couple nice 25# class bass being weighed in.

Angler Name : Shawn Mallory
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: May 12
Location: 20 miles S. of Manasquan
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 4 pounds
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 90
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie took the Canyon Runner back to sea for the 2000 season after completing extensive upgrades on the vessel. Fishing with the Shawn Mallory charter from Middletown, NJ along with his daugther Ashley (11) and her friend Danielle (12) and her father, they work several wrecks in 70 - 90 feet of water and put together a full cooler of Sea Bass. The two girls alone boated over 50 Sea Bass each with the largest around 4 pounds. The best action was in 90 feet of water 25 miles SE of Manasquan Inlet.

Angler Name : Steve Mills
E-Mail : Stephen.Mills@wpafb.af.mil
Boat Name: Porta Party
Date Fished: 9 -12 May 2000
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29 - 41 inches
Bait or Lure: Stretch Baits
Water Depth: 25 - 36 feet
Water Temp.:
Information : In the military, just got back to Ohio from a wonderful leave in NJ. Brothers Larry, Kevin, and my best friend and soon to be spouse Janie spent five hours on 9 May trolling shad color stretch baits in Raritan Bay from the 9 and 10 bouy on out to Flynn's Knoll. Had a fantastic day! Had a few shorts but most were keeper fish ....... in no time at all we had seven fish in the boat. Blues were also cought but released. 10 May was bad ....... weather didn't cooperate, windy and on and off showers. 11 May produced five more keeper fish with a 25 pound hog added to the fish well. 12 May, our final day fishing produced just three keeper fish and a number of throw backs. Had to fight through the blues to get to the bass, no complaints, bass are better eating by far. Had to leave on the 13th but will be back in NJ waters on the 26th, hopefully the fluke and weaks will be cooperative. Till then ...... tight lines.

Angler Name : Ritch
E-Mail : ritch@atoncomputing.com
Boat Name: Just reelin 2
Date Fished: May 12 th
Location: The Reach
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 31"
Bait or Lure: tubes, shads, spoons
Water Depth: 18 to 24 feet
Water Temp.: 60
Information : The first bluefish was one before the rod was in the rod holder. Has 17 stripers and countless blue in 2 hours. Kept 4 bass and some blues for sharking; biggest blue was 21 lbs. Thanks to Capt. Al of the Four A for giving us the wrong bouy numbers.

Angler Name : Dave Solt
E-Mail : soltydog@adelphia.net
Boat Name: Solty Dog
Date Fished: 5/12/00
Location: Barnegat Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 3-5 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Sandworms & Bubblegum finesse
Water Depth: 9-12 ft.
Water Temp.: 69
Information : Seven fish; all keepers; Also caught three small blues on the weakfish rigs. Best day of weak fishing ... size wise, I ever had in the bay. Good Luck.

Angler Name : Joe
E-Mail : urass
Boat Name: Allison Marie
Date Fished: 5-12-00
Location: Delaware Bay, east point
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2-4 lbs
Bait or Lure: chicken in shedder oil
Water Depth: 12'
Water Temp.: 62
Information : Slow day, only caught 2 blues on out going tide. Had 6 Fluke on in coming tide,but only one keeper at 16" Wave height was 2 to 3'on outgoing tide due to wind. But incoming was only about 1'.Started drifting at buoy no.1 towards fortescue, real slow drift due to wind and tide going in oppisite directions. Tight lines.

Angler Name : billy b
E-Mail : billb888@altavista.com
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 5/8 thru 5/12
Location: shrewsbury river
Fishing Method: light tackle spinning
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 2 to 3 lb.
Bait or Lure: jig w/ rubber also drifting sandworms
Water Depth: channel thru the 4 ft. flats
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Early in the week mix of weaks and blues mostly weaks up to 23 in. Later in the week mostly blues up to 6lb. but mostly 2-3lb. size. One fluke drifting killie 22in. about 4-5lb. Plenty of fish there everyday late afternoon and into the dark hours. Don't let a little rain stop you!

Angler Name : HDS
E-Mail :
Boat Name: NA
Date Fished: 5/12/00
Location: Shark River Inlet
Fishing Method: Jetty
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16"
Bait or Lure: spearing
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Fished from 1030 am - 400pm. Caught one blue, one keeper fluke, many small fluke, many sundials. Fished mostly incoming tide. Some guys caught good size fluke. Heard of one guy catching 8 stripers. I saw him leaving with two keepers. He was using clams for bait. Good action all day!

Angler Name : Tony Cavallaro
E-Mail : headsteel@blast.net
Boat Name: Freddy C
Date Fished: 05/12/00
Location: Between The Channels?
Fishing Method: Worms & Chunking Bunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Largest - 20+ pounds
Bait or Lure: Bunker and Worms
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : First trip of the year for me onthe Freddy C. There was a decent Pick of Blues and Bass, but only after dark. Early evening worming was slow. Not much tide movement all night, held bottom with 2 oz. Will be having bass on the barby today. Got one 8 pounder all night. Had fun, Two little guys ( 8 or 9 years old)on the boat had a blast. Each had multiple hook-ups. One landed a nice 7 pound weakfish and the other managed to land a keeper bass after some fanfare and fine teamwork .

Angler Name : Lou Truppi
E-Mail : lntassoc@fast.net
Boat Name: Chelsea Lynn
Date Fished: 5/12/00
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: troll /jig
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 43''
Bait or Lure: spoons/jigs
Water Depth: 20'
Water Temp.: 57%
Information : Trolled 16 of the 18 bass landed. Jigged two on 3oz Megabait jigs,dolphin pattern!The best day for me this season,small fish 10#,largest 35#. All keepers,many 20# class. Kept one badly hooked,all others released! Landed 6 big blues,same methods.

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Angler Name : Drew
E-Mail : phishcad@aol.com
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 5/11/00
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: plug/jig
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2-5lbs
Bait or Lure: plugs, bucktails, finesse, flys
Water Depth: in the wash
Water Temp.: mid 50's
Information : Had bluefish at the tip of sandy hook all throughout the outgoing tide...they will be there again for the next couple days, no doubts..they're baaaaaaaaaack. ;)

Angler Name : TOM
E-Mail : W95TOM@AOL.COM
Boat Name: SEAHUNTER - ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS
Date Fished: 5-11-00
Location: LEONARDO FLATS
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16 " AND UP
Bait or Lure: SPEARING AND GREEN GRUBS
Water Depth: 4FT- 10 FT
Water Temp.: 50'S
Information : ONCE AGAIN FISHED ON CAPT. ROB'S SEAHUNTER,,,,,,HAD MY LIMIT CATCH ON THE MORNING TRIP, THATS 8 TAKE HOME GUYS, AS DID ANOTHER GUY FISHING THE BOW, GREEN GRUB - 2 SPEARING - AND THE LEONARDO FLATS.. ENOUGH SAID,,,,,, GOOD TRIP, GREAT CREW, EVERYONE HAD AT LEAST 4 KEEPERS, POOL WINNER WAS 4 LBS,,,,,,,

Angler Name : Mike Pandiscia
E-Mail : odiemd@tristarsystems.com
Boat Name: Debbie's Dilemma
Date Fished: 05/09/2000
Location: The hook
Fishing Method: Drifted
Specie: Winter Flounder
Size: 10 1/2
Bait or Lure: Worms
Water Depth: 18-26'
Water Temp.: 52 Plus
Information : Hello, Had a great day Tuesday. First went north of the pier. Two flonder,two blues. Ended up by the beach between the hook and the light house. Made our limit and several more blues. Went out at 6:30 AM came back in at 1:30 PM. Also looks like it may be a very good fluke year if everything stays the same. Reported last thursday no action but boy did it change on tuesday. Baked several blues last night., Not as oily as in the past and if you cook it right you will enjoy a good fish dinner. The small blues do cook up great if you spend a little time with them, try it. Safe Fishing, Mike Pandiscia

Angler Name : John Poluchuck
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/9/00
Location: 25 & 40 Mile Wrecks
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 5 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 110-150 ft.
Water Temp.: 54 degrees
Information : The Bounty Hunter had the John Poluchuck charter on board for a day of Wreckfishing. Starting on our first wreck 40 miles to the east of Manasquan Inlet in 150 ft. of water the 25 knot Southwest winds along with the 6 ft. seas made for tough fishing conditions. However, it did not stop the large Ling, up to 5 lbs. from biting. After 2 hours of non stop action the fishbox was half full. Pulling our 2 anchors and moving back into 110 ft. of water, the second wreck offered a continuous bite of Jumbo Seabass up to 5 lbs. This allowed us to fill the fishbox to overflowing within 1 l/2 hours of fishing. Conditions did not improve thru the day as the 5 to 6 foot seas continued for the entire ride back to Manasquan Inlet.

Angler Name : Gene K.
E-Mail : Matawan, N.J.
Boat Name: "Shooting Star"
Date Fished: 5/8-9/00
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26"-35"
Bait or Lure: Lures
Water Depth: 15'-35'
Water Temp.: 54
Information : Fished with my Buddy Tom on his boat Monday and Tuesday. Monday we limited out in 2 hours, Tuesday we limitied out in 1 hour. Threw back many shorts and alot of Bluefish also. Beautiful 2 days on the water, calm as a lake. Still waiting for my 50lber! Good Luck Everyone!

Angler Name : Doug
E-Mail : Stripebas6
Boat Name: Fins on Feathers
Date Fished: May 8
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: Trolling and chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 14 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Bunker spoons and chunks,and blue plugs
Water Depth: 20-34 feet
Water Temp.: up to 58 degrees
Information : We caught 7 keepers on spoons and 2 blues and when we switched to plugs we got 2 shorts and 2 keepers, and a 6 lb. fluke. When we switched to chunking we got 1 keeper and lost a lot.

Angler Name : Fred Dintino
E-Mail : fred.m.dintino@lmco.com
Boat Name: Magic Motion
Date Fished: 5/8/2000
Location: Del River off Tinicum Island
Fishing Method: bottom -- dead sticking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 33"
Bait or Lure: blood worms
Water Depth: 8'
Water Temp.: 63
Information : Slow picken with tide coming in strong. Then big hit with reel taking off. Made one huge run and then had to reel in against the current. Great fight, great fish. Was released after taking pics. Would like to hear, via email, other techniques for catching big stripers in river without using bloods. Congrads to Lynnette who caught Mr. Striper. Was this crew's first big striper in five years.

Angler Name : John Mikorski
E-Mail : john.mikorski@roche.com
Boat Name: Fins on Feathers
Date Fished: 5/8/00
Location: Reach Channel
Fishing Method: Wire line troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 15#
Bait or Lure: Spoons
Water Depth: 28'
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Trolled Bunker Spoons through and around large pods of bunker. We ended up with about 25 Bass, 20 better than 28"s the largest about 15#'s. Toward evening we wormed 4 or 5 also drifting around the bunker schools.

Angler Name : Tom
E-Mail : reelhick@bellatlntic.net
Boat Name: REELHICK
Date Fished: 5-8
Location: 11a to 20 buoy
Fishing Method: bunker chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25-36 in
Bait or Lure: bunker
Water Depth: 18-25ft
Water Temp.: 56-60
Information : Went out at 6:30 start of incoming tide,started chunking at about 7:00 We caught tons of blues 2-5lbs,and stripers 25-36 in. great day ,no wind and warm.All the tackle shops said not to bother chunking, so much for the advice,try it I think it will work.We had non stop action

Angler Name : Ed
E-Mail : Edmcshe@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: may,8
Location: Flynns Knoll
Fishing Method: LIVE LINEING BUNKER
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28 IN
Bait or Lure: LIVE BUNKER
Water Depth: 30
Water Temp.: 63
Information : Left Leonardo at 0700 the bay was more like a lake, the very large bunker were slapping the water and made my frozen mackerel from the week before look "weak" the crew onboard Don and Jerry, used snatch hooks to fill the fish boxs with these fresh STRIPER treats saving the tail hooks for the livewell. we anchored up at the Knoll and on the first drop we had "FISH ON" a nice keeper striper the first of many.We tired of stripers after the Bluefish showed up so it was off to try our luck with Fluke, what a great idea it was.The first drift produced a 4LB fluke 22 inches and the slaughter was on many 17-20 inch fluke out at the tip of the hook we started sitting low in the water with all the fish on board so we proudly headed back to shore for a great dinner. see you next week.

Angler Name : jim
E-Mail : shep9999@home.com
Boat Name: amysue
Date Fished: 5/8/00
Location: keyport,Rip
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: strtch25 assorted
Water Depth: 20-40
Water Temp.: 63.7
Information : Had to do some work on boat first so only got 2 hours in on flood at noon.Wind se,seas calm....nothing! Hardly a fish on screen. After last week was I disa ppointed.Im not an expert,so hang in there.

Angler Name : Emo Merrill
E-Mail : memocindy@gateway.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: Monday 5/8
Location: Middle of Barnaget Bay
Fishing Method: Bubblegum Finesse
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 3 to 7 lbs.
Bait or Lure: jiging
Water Depth: 10 ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Out with cusion vinnie and his son greg to test his new {used ] boat. took along a few poles just in case. Boat ran good, Made a few casts and got into the weaks like never before. Filled everything, just had some for super. One great day.

Angler Name : Kevin
E-Mail : orcuttk1@aol.com
Boat Name: Capt. Robbins
Date Fished: Sunday 5/8/00
Location: inshore - off wildwood?
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 1-4 lbs.
Bait or Lure: squid, macks & snot
Water Depth: 50-70 feet
Water Temp.: 56
Information : Daily News says, "best seabass fishing in years" - yea right! Got to the dock at 5:45 am to get my favorite spot on the boat. 71 other people belived the hype as well. Weather was great although could of used a bit of wind to help drif. Capt. Mike decided to hit the inshore wrecks instead of taking the three hour ride - he felt the deeper wrecks had been pounded enough and that good numbers of seabass would be difficult to produce considering the full boat he had. Stayed inshore and picked for mosst of the day. Some spots were better than other with only certain locations on the boat catching at a time. As usual Capt. Mike tried his best and moved around tot try to get a few fish in everybody's box. My good friend Terry the Mate and Brad were on the ball as always. Ended up with 15 between my brotther and I. Don't know if I missed it or was in the wrong place on the wrong day. At any rate it was a beatiful day and a good time on an excellemt boat. Keep the repots comming.

Angler Name : Steve Fritts
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Run Off
Date Fished: 5/8/00
Location: Sea Girt Reef
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 1.5 to 2.5lbs.
Bait or Lure: crab clam squid
Water Depth: 67feet
Water Temp.: 51.4
Information : Water flat. Best inshore sea bass trip in a long time.A lot of big fish. My son Glen and myself only ones on my boat fill 54 quart cooler in by 1:00

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E-Mail :
Boat Name: Fins on Feathers
Date Fished: May 8
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: Trolling, and chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 14lbs.
Bait or Lure: Bunker spoons and chunks, and plugs
Water Depth: 14-26 ft.
Water Temp.: up to 57 degrees
Information : We caught 6 keepers on spoons and 2 on plugs. When we switched to chunking we got 3 massive skates and 2 keepers. In addition when trolling w/ plugs we got a 6 lb. fluke on top. We also caught 3 blues and a sea robin mixed in.

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Angler Name : Charlie
E-Mail : charlie@webspan.net
Boat Name: THE ROAD
Date Fished: 5/7/00
Location: Sea Girt
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 19.5"
Bait or Lure: squid/sand eel
Water Depth: 35'
Water Temp.: 57F
Information : Lou, AKA Cpt. Fluke, Brad and myself went after the mighty fluke. Cpt. Fluke pulled in four keepers to almost 20' while all I could catch were skates. One was a monster male that put up a great fight; but it was not a fluke! Oh well. See you out there!

Angler Name : steve kaz
E-Mail : stevekaz@snip.net
Boat Name: Shady Grady
Date Fished: 5/7/00
Location: rainbow channel
Fishing Method: bottom/drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 10-20"
Bait or Lure: mack & squid strips
Water Depth: 5-25
Water Temp.: 67
Information : nice day. tons of trash fish out on the bottom. went back into the bay to find the back waters of ocean city full of action. bottom fishing looks pretty good with flounder. blues are hitting a little too. anybody sharking out there yet? mail me!

Angler Name : TOM
E-Mail : W95TOM@AOL.COM
Boat Name: SEA HUNTER - ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS
Date Fished: 5-7-00
Location: BUG LIGHT @ SANDY HOOK
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16 INCHES AND UP
Bait or Lure: SPEARING AND SQUID
Water Depth: 7 TO 40 FT.
Water Temp.: LOW 50'S
Information : WELL GOT OUT SUNDAY, AGAIN ON CAPT. ROB'S SEA HUNTER FROM ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS. FISHED BOTH HALF DAY TRIPS, AND IT TURNED OUT PRETTY GOOD. BAGGED 4 KEEPERS ON THE MORNING TRIP AS ALL 4 WERE OVER 16 INCHES,I HAVE DECIDED THIS YEAR TO KEEP ONLY THOSE THAT ARE 16 INCHES OR BETTER AS I PLAN TO BE OUT ON THE WATER ALOT. ALSO HAD A GOOD 5-6 THROUGH BACKS AND 10,000 SEA ROBINS. THAT SEEMED TO BE THE TRICK, GET PAST THE HUNGRY SEA ROBINS AND HOOK A FLUKE. TRIED SAND EELS, SQUID AND SPEARING, BUT HAD MOST LUCK ON 2 STRIPS OF FLUKE BELLY BOUNCED OFF THE BOTTOM. THE AFTER NOON I PULLED 5 KEEPERS, AND THE LAST HALF HOUR WAS HOT FISHING. ALL ACTION WAS AT THE BUG LIGHT AND TIGHT TO THE BEACH AT THE TIP OF THE HOOK GUYS. WE TRYED A FEW OTHER SPOTS LIKE THE NAVY PIER AND THE NEAR BYE CHANNELS BUT IT TURNED OUT TO BE A DESERT. 9 KEEPERS ON MAY 7TH SEEMS PRETTY GOOD TO ME, THOUGH THE FISH ARE ON THE LEAN SIDE. ONCE AGAIN CAPT ROB WORK THE THROTTLES REAL HARD AND KEPT US ON THE MEAT, HIS CREW DID A FINE JOB AND MADE FOR ANOTHER PLEASANT DAY. I AM NOW AN OFFICAL MEMBER OF THE SEA HUNTER FISHING TEAM. WILL TRY AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY MORNING.. GIVE ROB A SHOT GUYS, HE WILL PUT YOU ON THE FISH.......

Angler Name : TOM
E-Mail : W95TOM@AOL.COM
Boat Name: SEA HUNTER
Date Fished: CORRECTING 5-7-00 REPORT
Location: BUG LIGHT
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16 " AND UP
Bait or Lure: SPEARING
Water Depth: 7-40 FT
Water Temp.: LOW 50'S
Information : JUST WANTED TO SAY THIS BEFORE MY PREVIOUS REPORT OFFENDS ANYONE,MY ERROR AND ABSOLUTLY MY ERROR, IF YOU READ THE REPORT IT SAYS I PULLED 5 KEEPERS IN THE AFTERNOON, NOT KEPT. AGAIN I SAID I WOULD ONLY KEEP 16" OR BETTER, AND OUT OF THE 5 KEEPERS THAT WERE AT LEAST 15.5" ONLY 2 WERE BIGGER THAN 16 SO THATS WHAT WENT IN THE PAIL.ALONG WITH THE 4 IN THE MORNING, SO TAKE HOME WAS ONLY 6 FISH. ONCE AGAIN FELLOW FLUKERS SORRY FOR THE POOR WORDING .....

Angler Name : Joe
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Hooked
Date Fished: 5/7/00
Location: brandywine light
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Winter Flounder
Size: 101/2 17"
Bait or Lure: minnow =squid on feather hooks
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 55
Information : I fished yesterday 5/7, it was a beautiful day but not to many fish. We picked up one flounder the 6 hours we fished. We couldnt get a drift because the tide just didn't want to change. It's still early yet. GOOD FISHING!

Angler Name : Mark Wagner
E-Mail : cokamar@aol.com
Boat Name: Major Decision
Date Fished: 5-7-00
Location: Dog Lump
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3-5 punds
Bait or Lure: plug / spoon
Water Depth: 70 feet
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Trolled the Dog Lump, couldnt keep the blues off my lines. Lot's of fun, I loaded up with enough to supply my future sharking trips.

Angler Name : Bob
E-Mail : bmaloney@sensar.com
Boat Name: REEL DEAL
Date Fished: 5/7/00
Location: Lakes Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3Lb.
Bait or Lure: Bucktail
Water Depth: 12
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Caught the incomming tide, we limited out on bluefish in 3 hours. Caught 1 nice Fluke 21" . Back to the dock by noon.

Angler Name : Ron Matlack
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/7/00
Location: Mid Range Wrecks
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 2 to 5 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 110-130 ft.
Water Temp.: 55 degrees
Information : The Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing had the Ron Matlack charter out for a day of Wreckfishing. The lack of wind continued and anchoring proved to be difficult. Working the wrecks from 100 to 140 ft. deep, we managed 3/4 of a fishbox of Ling and Seabass up to 5 lbs.

Angler Name : Papa,Chickolet
E-Mail : cjnesti@home.com
Boat Name: finangler
Date Fished: 5/7/00
Location: Raratian Bay
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26"-32"
Bait or Lure: chunks
Water Depth: 30
Water Temp.: 64
Information : Caught some nice fish at the top of the tide.Sure was hot.

Angler Name : Tom Van Arsdale
E-Mail : flyfishindad@juno.com
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 5/7
Location: Keyport
Fishing Method: Flyrodding/throwing metal
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 25"
Bait or Lure: Hopkins shorty
Water Depth: 3-6ft
Water Temp.: 63
Information : Hit the beach around 8:30. By 9:30 the blues were going ballistic. My partner got a 25" weakie, and 3 short bass on metal. We both caught loads of blues. They were hitting bait (bunker), metal, and Flies. Any fly that looked like a spearing was a winner.

Angler Name : UPSDave
E-Mail : d.feigenbaum@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Atlantic Star
Date Fished: 5/7/00
Location: Sandy Hook Bay
Fishing Method: power drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 5 pounds or so
Bait or Lure: spearing / squid
Water Depth: shallow
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished the PM trip on the Atlantic Star out of the Atlantic Highlands. Fluke was the target. Spent most of the time close to the Coast Guard station. We averaged about 1 to 2 keepers per person. Fluke action was spotty. Sea Robins were abundant and provided plenty of fun for the kids. UNLIKE LAST YEAR, THE RATIO OF KEEPERS WAS ABOUT 4 OUT OF 5. Last year was about 1 out of 10. Pool fish was aclose to 5 pounder. I predict BIG fluke this year. Tight lines.

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Angler Name : Capt Bob
E-Mail : r.havecker@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: OB-BOB
Date Fished: 05/06/00
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3-5 lbs
Bait or Lure: Bunker Spoon
Water Depth: 17-25 feet
Water Temp.: 57-60
Information : We started out bottom fishing for fluke but it looks like no one told the fluke it was opening day! After lunch we switched over to trolling with bunker spoons and started slow. Then we saw a patch where the bait fish were jumping and gulls were feeding. As soon as we trolled through the area we started getting hit. We found a few more patches and landed a half a dozen blues and two keeper stripped bass. With dinner in the box we decided to go home. All in all it was a very good day! We probably could have landed another 6-10 fish if we stayed out a little longer. But why be greedy!

Angler Name : Mark Piosko
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Caborita
Date Fished: May 6, 2000
Location: Spring Lake
Fishing Method: Bucktailing
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15 1/2 -20"
Bait or Lure: Bucktail w squid strip
Water Depth: 25 -35 ft
Water Temp.: 53-56 degrees F
Information : Headed North out of the Manasquan River to Spring Lake. Had Joe Satkowski and Bill Myshka out with me for the first trip of the season. Had 6 keepers up to 20" and 6 throwbacks. Joe S. had 5/6 keepers and has a big head now. I will deflate that real quick. Great weather and an overall good start to the season. Hopefully as the water warms things will really start to pick up. I'm ready to start live lining bunker for bass.

Angler Name : Joe Nellinger
E-Mail : penn990@aol.com
Boat Name: The Other Women
Date Fished: 5-6-00
Location: Great Bay, Garden State South
Fishing Method: Drift, Wreck
Specie: Tautog
Size: Up to 18"
Bait or Lure: Squid, Clam
Water Depth: 60 ft.
Water Temp.: ????????
Information : We could not have picked a nicer day for the first trip of the year on "The Other Women". We started drifting for flounder at the stakes. Caught 1 15" throw back. Went to Garden State South Reef and anchored over structure. Caught 2 nice sea bass and 3 tog up to 18" along with some throw backs. Not a bad day, not a great day but it was sure nice to be fishing again. Tight line to everyone.

Angler Name : Rich
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/6/00
Location: Southeast Wrecks
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 2 to 6 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 120 ft.
Water Temp.: 53 degrees
Information : The Bounty Hunter had the crew from Henriques Yachts out for a day of Wreckfishing. Despite a total lack of wind offshore which made anchoring virtually impossible, we managed to fill the fishbox with large Ling and Jumbo Seabass in the 2 to 6 lb. range. Finding very little action on the inshore wrecks we moved off to the 120 ft. depths where the Ling and Seabass cooperated.

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Boat Name: MATTY-LYN
Date Fished: 05/6/00
Location: lakes bay (margate)
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size:
Bait or Lure: mackerel
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : fished the incomming tide in the morning caught arond 15 fluke 8 keepers and 5 pound bluefish everywere they eventually became a pest. A great day for fishing, but tons of boa

Angler Name : Glenn Kovach
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Fisherman
Date Fished: 5-6-00
Location: Sandy Hook Reef Area
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Ling (AKA Red Hake)
Size: 1-3lbs
Bait or Lure: Clam
Water Depth: 60'
Water Temp.:
Information : Decided on a coin toss to give bottom fishing a try over Fluke. Anchored, and fished with clam all day, near Sandy Hook reef. I would say the bite was a slow pick to fair at best, but everone went home with at least 6-12 ling. A few Seabass and Blackfish were also boated. Many Eel's & Scates also. All in all not a bad day.

Angler Name : Eric
E-Mail : fluker83@hotmail.com
Boat Name: NA
Date Fished: 5/6/00
Location: eight ave jetti
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Tautog
Size: 22 in
Bait or Lure: clam
Water Depth: around 3ft
Water Temp.: 54
Information : I was fishing for stripers when the black fish hit I got it at dead low tide with size 3/0 bait holder and half a clam. I also got a fluke.

Angler Name : Chuck
E-Mail : nj450@aol.com
Boat Name: wish I had one
Date Fished: 5/6/00
Location: Aberdeen beach
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2-3 lbs
Bait or Lure: crippled herring &bunker chunks
Water Depth: 6-8 feet
Water Temp.: n/a
Information : Fished for first time on beach this year and was surprised to find fish. Got there three hours before high tide got 1st one on metal about 7:30 pm got sec- ond one at about 9pm on bunker. There was a slow pick all around me. while standing in water it was really warm from the sun on saturday. I know it will get betteras the sun warms the water. TIGHT LINES GUYS

Angler Name : Frank Ruczynski
E-Mail : Frnk196@cs,com
Boat Name: Beyond The Reef
Date Fished: 5/6/00
Location: Stone Harbor
Fishing Method: Jigging Plastics
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 8lbs.
Bait or Lure: Bubble Gum Zooms
Water Depth: 20ft.
Water Temp.: 54
Information : Night fishing in Stone Harbor caught 2 keeper stripers,(10lbs.) and 2 schoolies. Caught 1 8lb. weakie and alot of snapper blues.

Angler Name : Mike
E-Mail : Kidd763@aol
Boat Name: don't have a name
Date Fished: 5-6-00
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: live lining bunker
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 34"-38"
Bait or Lure: Live Bunker
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : GOT OUT EARLY SPENT 6 HOURS ON THE WATER WITH MY BUD AND GOT 6 KEEPER BASS ON LIVE BUNKER RELEASED 2 NICE FISH. BAY IS LOADED WITH JUMBO BUNKERS.LAST YEAR WE WHERE NAILING THEM WITH THE SAME TECH. IN JUNE SO WE GOT OFF TO AN EARLY START THIS YEAR.DON'T BE AFRAID TO USE A WHOLE BUNKER THESE FISH WILL GO AFTER THEM AND HAVE NO PROBLEM SWALLOWING THOSE BIG BUNKER ,THATS HOW THEY GOT SO BIG IN THE FIRST PLACE! I HAD A BLUE CUT ONE OF MY BUNKER HE ONLY LEFT THE HEAD ALL THE OTHER HITS WHERE BASS.

Angler Name : Ken
E-Mail : pigpenken@aol.com
Boat Name: fishnutz
Date Fished: 6May00 Saturday
Location: Asbury Park
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: Up to 18 inches
Bait or Lure: Killies searobbins And one sundial
Water Depth: 30
Water Temp.: 50
Information : We had a real nice day. caught about 25 fluke and kept 8 fish. I thought I would see more people on the water.

Angler Name : tom
E-Mail : sycoboarder58@cs.com
Boat Name: shipwreck
Date Fished: 5-6
Location: great bay and little egg inlet
Fishing Method: hook line and sinker
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3-6 pounds 18-16 inches long
Bait or Lure: mackeral
Water Depth: 6-10 feet
Water Temp.: N/A
Information : The saying early to bed early to rise defenetly aplies here,early in the morning we did realy well bringing in about 12 blue fish over all. Towards mid-day we were catching some blues but also cought sea robin,2 under sized flounder and 2 skate. After about 2:30 in the afternoon everything died down.

Angler Name : tony,ed,stan
E-Mail :
Boat Name: mystic mare
Date Fished: 05/06/2000
Location: tuckerton
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15 1/2- 20 inches/
Bait or Lure: squid ,minnows
Water Depth: 6ft
Water Temp.:
Information : fished from 6am to 4pm drifted around the stakes all day and caught 18 keepers and 4 shorts also caught 2 blue fish great weather ,great time,thats what its all about.

Angler Name : RAY ROGERS/BOB DONAHUE
E-Mail : just1mor@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: "JUST ONE MORE"
Date Fished: MAY 3-6
Location: SANDY HOOK BAY
Fishing Method: BOTTOM
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 15 LBS.
Bait or Lure: BUNKER
Water Depth: 23'
Water Temp.: 53.7 DEGREES
Information : STARTING ON WEDNESDAY,THE RAY AND GEORGE ROGERS PARTY HAD THE LAST WINTER FLOUNDER TRIP OF THE YEAR.19 FAT FLOUNDER WERE LANDED FOR THE TWO ANGLERS.SMALLEST FISH WAS 12" AND THE LARGEST,2 LBS. THREE BUNKER CHUNKING TRIPS FOLLOWED.THURSDAY-SATURDAY.PLENTY OF ACTION AND BASS.THERE WERE SHORT BASS,KEEPERS TO 15 LBS., AND BLUEFISH ALSO.WATER TEMP. IS STILL COLD AT 53.7 DEGREES. WITH THIS HOT WEATHER,THE STRIPER CHUNKING WILL ONLY IMPROVE. TIME TO GO FOR EARLY SEASON FLUKE,AS 5LB'ERS WERE ALREADY LANDED. ALSO PLENTY OF ACTION ON THE REEF WITH LING,BLACKFISH AND SEABASS. TIME TO FILL THE COOLER OUT THERE.

Angler Name : glen&steve
E-Mail : glenbarry@webtv.net
Boat Name: run-off
Date Fished: 5/6/00
Location: sea girt reef
Fishing Method: bottom rigs
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 2.5Ibs
Bait or Lure: squid & clams
Water Depth: 60 to 70ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : IT was a great day with no wind.WE set up on first wreck and hammered the sea bass for a good 3hrs.Slowed down and hit another wreck.It was non-stop action with all nice fish.

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Angler Name : John Mikorski
E-Mail : john.mikorski@roche.com
Boat Name: On The Fly
Date Fished: 5/5/00
Location: Keyport/Keansburg
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 23#
Bait or Lure: S-25's Bunker Chunk
Water Depth: 25'
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Trolled S-25's and Bunker Spoons off Keyport/Keansburg for 1 short and 1 29" keeper. @ the turn of the tide we snagged some bunker, anchored up and started chunking.....nothing like fresh bunker...for next 2 hours picked 9 Bass all keepers to 23#s, only 1 blue about 10#s. Sorry to say the four bass we kept were all females full of eggs, but had nothing in their stomachs.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmannn@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5-5-00
Location: Spy House Pier
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 23 inchs,4 pounds
Bait or Lure: Bunker Chunks & Sandworms
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished the last 2 hours of the flood & first 3 of the ebb tide last night.Although it was slower than anticipated after reading some very favorable reports & talking with a few regulars,some fish were still caught.Bunker chunks seemed to ellict action from bluefish in the 1-2 pound class for others,although a buddy of mine did take a fat schoolie bass on a chunk.I fished with both chunks and sandworms and was reward with 2 skates on chunks but a nice plump 23 inch 4 pound weakie on the sandworms.

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Angler Name : Mike Pandiscia
E-Mail : odiemd@tristarsystems
Boat Name: Debbie's Dilemma
Date Fished: 05/04/2000
Location: The Hook
Fishing Method: Bottom,
Specie: Winter Flounder
Size: 10 1/2
Bait or Lure: worms/chum pot
Water Depth: 20-35'
Water Temp.: 50 Plus
Information : Left Atlantic Highlands Marina 7:30 am. Observed party boats in area 4 Plus hours, Nothing. Went just north of the peir for a while,One Fluke/Back into the water. Ended up by 28 buoy then Kensberg,Trolled and found one striper,short. Weather was great until around 1:30 PM. Wind kicked up from the south when most smaller boats went in. Ended up by the south side of the pier before heading in around 4 PM. Will try again on Tuesday 05/09/2000. Good Luck and will see you in the water. Mike

Angler Name : Brian Zemlanicky
E-Mail : brian.zemlanicky@fishersci.com
Boat Name: freddy
Date Fished: 5/4/00
Location: raritan bay
Fishing Method: drifting/anchored
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18" - 27 1/2"
Bait or Lure: sandworms/clams
Water Depth: 15-20'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : fihed on the freddy c last nite for first stripers of the season.for the first hour the 25 guys on the boat were bailing them and every time you looked at least five guys were hooked up at one point there were ten guys hooked up. all shorts. when it got dark the bite died and capt. jerry anchored and we fished clams no fish were boated while anchored.good fish, nice people good boat and crew. tight lines

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Angler Name : Capt Lou
E-Mail : Osprey30@aol.com
Boat Name: Everythings Rosie's II
Date Fished: 5/03/00
Location: Pt Pleasant Canal
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30 to 34 inches
Bait or Lure: Sand Worms
Water Depth: 19to29 ft.
Water Temp.: 54*
Information : First time out this millenium on Jimmy"s boat. On the first drift,Jimmy hooked up and landed a 34 inch beauty continued on the same drift and were boarded by the Coast Guard for a polite but thorough inspection.Started our second drift and I landed 2 more keepers. I kept one and returned the other, the rain started to pick up so we called it a night. We landed 3 fish no shorts. When we dressed the 2 keepers, the bellies were opened and they both contained clams.Good luck hope this has been helpful and don't forget to payback the Rat Politicians that allowed the dumping.

Angler Name : Ralph Talarico
E-Mail : ONEFISHHARD
Boat Name: Snapper Trapper
Date Fished: 5\3\00
Location: off cliffwood beach
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 4lbs.-5lbs.
Bait or Lure: sandworms and daimondjigs
Water Depth: 8ft.
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : Went out around 4:00p.m.heading for the knoll and the rip for some worming.With that se. wind blowing we never made out there.So we trolled for about an hour and a half with out a hit.Then we picked a couple shorts up off pebble beach on worms.Then saw some birds picking off cliffwood beach.Drited through them and for the next hour caught shorts and nice size weakfish on worms and jigs until dark.Wound up with around 11 shorts and 9 weakfish.

Angler Name : Frank Lukenda
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 5/3/00
Location: Mid Range Wrecks
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 2 to 5 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 120 ft.
Water Temp.: 49 degrees
Information : The Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina had the Frank Lukenda charter on board and the Ling and Jumbo Seabass did not disappoint us. Starting in 150 ft. of 49 degree water we had steady action with Ling in the 2 to 6 lb. class. After filling 1/2 a fishbox we moved into 2 wrecks in 120 ft. of water. The first only yielded a slow pick, however the second was loaded with Jumbo Seabass up to 5 lbs. and enabled us to quickly fill the fishbox. As the 25 knot Southwest winds came on in the afternoon the conditions began to deteriorate so we called it a day.

Angler Name : eddie h.
E-Mail : not to be distributed
Boat Name:
Date Fished: may 3, 2000
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 19 to 25 inches
Bait or Lure: sand worms
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 51 degrees
Information : well... i caught my first four stripers for the 2000 season. what a great day! all on sand worms too! it was quite a bizarre pattern on how i caught them. let me elaborate quickly.... since it is a full moon tonight i figured that my chances are slim that i would catch anything.... on my way i heard on my NOAA radio that at the ambrose tower, the water temp. was 51 degrees... i figured that the temp. was on my side.... right? anyway i started fishing at 3 pm and got my first bite at 4 pm. i was a little too quick on the hook set; although i thought i was getting hits by winter flounder!!! i figured i would let it go after repeated bites and see what would have happen.... BAM!!! THE 25 INCHER HIT!! and so on... but here is the thing... everytime i would bait up and re-cast... just as i set the rod in the sand peg, the pole would go! so... everything 15 minutes that pasted without a bite... i would re-cast in the same spot... or a different spot for that matter and BAM! another short striper! it seemed that they came to the splash sound and instantly hit the sand worm! also... I CASTED WAY OUT! AS FAR AS I COULD TO! i figured with the full moon.... that was the only chance i had! and it paid off too! keep this in mind for the next time there is a full moon.. i hope i helped some of you out..... tight lines...

Angler Name : Tom&Bud
E-Mail : reelhick@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: REELHICK
Date Fished: 5-3
Location: 11A buoy
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25-32in
Bait or Lure: Mann's streach
Water Depth: 20-25ft.
Water Temp.: 54
Information : We went out around 10:00am and fished till 4:30pm.We got 18 18 from 25-32in.It was our second trip,so it was not a bad start to the 2000 season.We were at the 11A buoy about 500 yards from the beach.

Angler Name : TOM
E-Mail : W95TOM@AOL.COM
Boat Name: SEAHUNTER-- ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS
Date Fished: 5-3-00
Location: RARITAN BAY/ EARLE NAVY PIER AREA
Fishing Method: ANCHORED,, CHUM POTS
Specie: Winter Flounder
Size: NICE FATTIES
Bait or Lure: SAND WORMS AND CLAM STRIPS
Water Depth: 15-20 FT
Water Temp.: LOW 50'S
Information : WELL GUYS DID GET BACK OUT ON WEDNESDAY 5-3 MORNING ON THE SEAHUNTER FROM ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS,,,STARTED OUT AT THE USUAL SPOT AT THE NAVY PIER... VERY SLOW FISHING GUYS,,,I DID MANAGE TO TIE FOR HIGH HOOK WITH 5 FAT FISH, BUT IT WAS A CHALLENGE AND IT SEEMS TO BE GETTING HARDER TO GET THE FISH CHEWING,,,THOUGH I REALLY MUST SAY THERE WERE AT LEAST 3 TIMES AS MANY BOATS IN THE AREA THEN THE DAY BEFORE WHICH AMOUNTS TO ALOT OF CHUM IN THE WATER, THE FISH I CAUGHT HAD FULL BELLIES AND REALLY HAD NO BUSINESS EATING ANYMORE, BUT I SOLVED THAT PROBLEM FOR THEM,,LOL,,,,,,,ANYWAY BY THE END OF THE MORNING THE FLEET WAS STARTING TO MOVE FURTHER AND FURTHER FROM THE PIER AND MORE TOWARDS SANDY HOOK, ALSO THERE WERE A FEW NY HEAD BOATS MIXED INTO THE FLEET SO THE FISHING CAN'T BE THAT GREAT ON THE NY SIDE IF THERE WERE MAKING THAT LONG RUN, BEST ADVICE IS TO CHUM HEAVILY WITH CLAMS CHUM AND TO USE A VERY AGRRESIVE BOUNCE ON THE SINKER, GOOD LUCK TO ALL,, WILL START FLUKING ON SUNDAY.........

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Angler Name : NJHAWG
E-Mail : njhawg@adelphia.net
Boat Name: Jersey Buckeye
Date Fished: 4-30-00 - 5-02-00
Location: Barnegat Bay
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 15.8 lbs
Bait or Lure: Herring
Water Depth: 8-22ft
Water Temp.: 50-55
Information : The last few days barnegat bay has been hot by the sod banks and 33 can in oyster creek. The outgoing tide and a live herring = Keeper bass.Today has been the best so far boated 12 fish up to 15.6 lbs. All were keepers.Been real slow on the incoming tide for me all fish after about an hour on the outgoing.Quite a few boats out there trying seems the only ones hooking up were those of us swimming herring.TIL TOMORROW! Tight Lines and Screaming Drags!!

Angler Name : TOM
E-Mail : W95TOM@AOL.COM
Boat Name: SEAHUNTER, ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS
Date Fished: 5-2-00
Location: RARITAN BAY/ NAVY PIER
Fishing Method: ANCHORED, CHUM POTS
Specie: Winter Flounder
Size: JUMBO BAY VARIETY
Bait or Lure: CLAM STRIPS AND SANDWORMS
Water Depth: 15-20 FT
Water Temp.: 52 F
Information : GOT BACK OUT WITH CAPT. ROB AND HIS SEAHUNTER FROM ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS THIS MORNING, THOUGH IT WAS A CLOSE CALL BUT HE GRACIOUSLY DECIDED TO SAIL WITH 5 CUSTOMERS. WELL ONCE AGAIN IT WAS A STOP AT THE NAVY PIER WHICH SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN, AND AGAIN IT TOOK A WHILE TO GET THE FISH A CHEWING, BUT WHEN THEY DID THEY WERE CAUGHT IN SPURTS. ONCE AGAIN I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BAG 10 JUMBO SLOB FLOUNDERS, AND TAKE THE POOL $$$.. ONE OTHER ANGLER HAD 9 AND ANOTHER 6 WHILE THE OTHER 2 HAD 3 OR 4 A PIECE,, CAPT ROB ALSO GOT A RARE CHANCE TO FISH WITH HIS CUSTOMERS AND GOT HIMSELF A NICE BAG OF FILETS FOR DINNER, THOUGH I MUST SAY I DID ACTUALLY WITNESS HIM MISS, THATS RIGHT MISS A FEW FISH,,ALL I CAN SAY IS THERE ARE STILL FLOUNDER AROUND BUT FOR HOW MUCH LONGER IS ANYONES GUESS, AND DON'T FORGET THE FLUKE SEASON STARTS SATURDAY AND THERE WAS ONE FLUKE CAUGHT TODAY ON A PIECE OF CLAM AND RELEASED, CAN'T WAIT TO PUT THEM BABY'S IN THE BUCKET... I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE ALL THE CUSTOMERS ARE WHEN THE FISHING IS DECENT,, SEEMS LIKE EVERYONE SHOWS UP WHEN ITS TO LATE AND THEN NOBODY BELIEVES YOU WHEN YOU TELL THEM YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE THE OTHER DAY...WELL THANX AGAIN SEAHUNTER CREW, MAY BE BACK OUT TOMORROW MORNING BEFORE WORK, BUT I'M DEFINITLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THE WEEKEND...

Angler Name : dave shepherd
E-Mail : shep9999@home.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 5/2/00
Location: keansburg area
Fishing Method: bait
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 8 pounds
Bait or Lure: clams
Water Depth: not deep
Water Temp.: 54.0
Information : My son Dave called me on car phone. He sneaked out of bed with hernia and nailed 8+ pound weakie off Keansburg on clams. Weighed in at Tackle Box. If this system is going to work, we need factual information fast.

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Angler Name : G. Karlson
E-Mail : Matawan, N.J.
Boat Name: "Shooting Star"
Date Fished: 5-1-00
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Lures
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 12lbs - 19.5lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 10' - 35'
Water Temp.: 53-54
Information : Fished with my buddy Tom, had a great day, threw back 4 shorts, got 4 nice keepers (36"-19.5lbs)(34"-18lbs) and 2 @ 30" & 32". The 19.5lber put up one hell of a fight for 15 minutes on light tackle. I'm still wearing a big smile typing this. Went out on Tuesday also but couldn't find any Stripers, only caught 2 Bluefish 6-8lbs. Can't wait for the next trip! Good Luck Everyone!

Angler Name : UPSDave
E-Mail : d.feigenbaum@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Atlantic Star
Date Fished: 5/1/2000
Location: Sandy Hook Ammo Pier
Fishing Method: anchored
Specie: Winter Flounder
Size: to 16 inches
Bait or Lure: worms, clams, red grubs (twisters)
Water Depth: shallow
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished another Monday afternoon (1:30 to 6:00) on the Atlantic Star. Flounder was the target. Same as last week ... flounder were biting until about 4:00-4:30. Then it mostly shut off. I had 8 fish to 2 pounds(16 inches and the pool winner). Two others had 9, another had 7. With 13 people on board that gives you an idea how the fishing was. Red grubs were a definite help. Fish were eating both the clams and the worms. Tight lines.

Angler Name : Greg
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Boat Name: Hyper Striper
Date Fished: 5/1/00
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Trolling and Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25-30"
Bait or Lure: Bunker Spoons
Water Depth: 14-22'
Water Temp.: 52-55
Information : Went out with Capt. Pete and mate Brian. Had flat calm seas in the morning, wind picked-up substantially by the afternoon. Decent pick all day using bunker spoons and jigs. Nice fish, fat and hard-hitting. Ended up with twelve keepers(10-12.5 lbs.), 3-4 keeper throw backs, 5 or so shorts, some with ALS tags. Capt. Pete, Brian and the Hyper striper produce as always, and are highly recommended.

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: The Skipper
Date Fished: 5/1/00
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Capt Dom sailed east. Calm day. Fished for sea bass. I caught 27. Half of them were jumbo hump backs with a lot of blue. Wish you were here?

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