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Angler Name : Bob Maloney
E-Mail : bmaloney@sensar.com
Boat Name: Reel Deal
Date Fished: 11/30
Location: Oceancity, NJ
Fishing Method: Casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20" - 35"
Bait or Lure: Rapala's and top water plugs
Water Depth: 30'
Water Temp.:
Information : Followed the birds from 36 street to 55th most of the morning. Finished the day with 3 Keepers 28, 28, 35. Had to catch at least 30 shorts. What a day. Hope the weaqther holds for another couple of trips. Had an eel over the side all day and it wasn't touched.

Angler Name : Gene E. Karlson
E-Mail : Matawan, N.J.
Boat Name: "No Oars"
Date Fished: 11/28-30/98
Location: I.B.S.P.
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Clams, Eels, Lures
Water Depth: 20'
Water Temp.: 50's?
Information : Fished with Jerry, both Daves, Tom, and myself in the Jersey Coast Shark Anglers - 1st Surf Striped Bass Tournament. All we had in the 3 days were about 150 Skates, 10 Sundials, and no Striped Bass. We did see a couple of other fishermen bring in shorts and heard about a 30lb Striper caught even though we didn't see it. In the tournament 1st 2nd & 3rd place went like this after calling JCSA, 1st- 35.8lb, 2nd- 18.6lb, 3rd- 15lb. Will go out this weekend and try another spot where the Stripers might be. Happy Fishing!

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Angler Name : Paul Czaya
E-Mail : pczaya@gpu.com
Boat Name: Risa
Date Fished: 11/29/98
Location: T-Bird - Seaside
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32"
Bait or Lure: bunker spoons
Water Depth: 50-70'
Water Temp.: low 50's
Information : Spent most of the day (10 AM - 3 PM) on the troll. I guess with spoons you don't catch as many fish, but they are consistently bigger. Hooked two 32" keepers and snagged a 27" fish in the dorsal fin area. Got a bit of exercise reeling in that sideways fish with the spoon about 300'. Also boated a good-sized slammer. The first fish (32" keeper) was taken off Seaside in about 65' at around 11 AM. The second keeper was taken off the T-Bird at 3 PM in about 55'. I wished the linesider who followed the second keeper to the boat took the spoon instead. Looked to be quite a few inches bigger. Was a great day! Hope for a few more before winter.

Angler Name : Ernest Deman
E-Mail : ed@stockton.edu
Boat Name: Linesider
Date Fished: Nov 29 1998
Location: Little egg inlet
Fishing Method: drifting eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 45"/weight unknown
Bait or Lure: eel
Water Depth: 25ft
Water Temp.: ?
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Angler Name : "The Brothers" Coulson boys
E-Mail : tcoulson@madge.com
Boat Name: Dances with Clams
Date Fished: 11/29/98
Location: Rip @sandy hook
Fishing Method: plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 31"
Bait or Lure: bombers
Water Depth: 20ft
Water Temp.: ???
Information : Got out at sunrise and worked it hard from Rumson out to the Tip of the hook hit the pockets and found fish in each but the rip had tons o birds and fish on peanuts. Got lots of shorts and one keeper. Went to the reach in the Scud (14ft aluminum) in almost December great day ! To bad brother didn't put a keeper in the boat.

Angler Name : Charlie Haws
E-Mail : charlie@webspan.net
Boat Name: THE ROAD
Date Fished: 11/29/98
Location: Off Lavallette
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: To 35''
Bait or Lure: Plastic
Water Depth: 68'
Water Temp.: 51.9
Information : Got a very late start because everyone had the stomach bug. I decided to go it alone. Once I broke the inlet at about 12:30PM I headed south. Got a report of fish in deeper water around Lavallette. When I got to the area everyone had left; but the fish were still there. By this time the fleet had moved to the T-Bird and it sounded like some were jigging good fish. I caught 18 keeper bass to 35" in just about 2 hours of trolling. Kept two and let the rest go. My best bait was an 11" Rapala and next was a Giant Trembler. Both of these baits do well on Blue Fin Tuna in the early season. I was trolling about 2.8-3.5 Knots. By the way I was about 2 miles offshore. Maybe next time I can get some of my so-called fishing buddies to go!

Angler Name : Steve Magliacane
E-Mail : Eeeeels@aol.com
Boat Name: Water Torture
Date Fished: 11/29/98
Location: ortley, lavalette
Fishing Method: Jig
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 14 - 32"
Bait or Lure: Jig, Plug
Water Depth: 30-65'
Water Temp.: 50's
Information : Jig all we wanted, surface action on redfins. Was like watching Walkers Cay Cronicles,(i could that show no problem) had good time on a good boat with a constipated capatin(50lb johnny). oh boy!!!!!!!!1

Angler Name : CJ and Chuck Walsh
E-Mail : cjw12@acpub.duke.edu
Boat Name: Chuckwagon
Date Fished: November 28 & 29
Location: Cape May Rips, Hereford Inlet
Fishing Method: Bucktailing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20" - 32"
Bait or Lure: White Bucktails with Rubber Trailer
Water Depth: >25
Water Temp.: 53?
Information : Saturday definitely proved to be the tougher of the two days to fish this weekend in the Cape May Rips. Finding clean water, let alone clean water that promoted a good drift. Wind against the tide definitely hurts the chances of putting some bass in the boat, as we discovered on Saturday. Tim Davis, dockmaster at Moran's Dockside Bait and Tackle recommends, "Leave the eels to those who keep stealing ours, bring out the bucktails and the teasers above them." All but one of the 15+ shorts we had in the Rips over the weekend were caught on white one ounce or heavier bucktails with Kalin' Evil Eels with simple bucktail or sassy shad teasers about two feet above them. Early in the AM, try the NW edge of Prissy Wicks, there seems to be a nice edge forming there even when the tide slacks. Sunday, we started at that spot and caught a short there and two shorts out at North Shoal when we were sent racing to the northeast at the report of a blitz at Hereford Inlet. Good Call on going north on this unusually flat and mild day, as we bailed short bass and a few slammer blues for at least ninety minutes before an excess of boat traffic sent the fish down. Today was one of the few days that I have ever wished for a fly rod. Fish were chasing milling pods of peanut bunker, herring and a few sand eels. Casting the same bucktails, Yozuris, Sassy Shads etc. caught fish up top all day long as we picked away after the birds settled down. Even the Jorgenson father-son team caught their first bass and first keeper bass in this frenzy. Crush your barbs, you'll appreciate it when the bass are rolling around your boat and the treble hook has the bass' mouth closed shut. Party boats did a knock up job on the shorts this weekend, I know that the Miss Avalon II had a 41# bass on Friday along with tons of big blues and rat rockfish and then shared the blitz on Sunday with us. If you're bored or pulled your boat, jump on a party boat, good crew, good fishing, good fun and you don't have to clean theThe Crew of the Chuckwagon

Angler Name : Steve
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Boat Name:
Date Fished: Nov 29
Location: bay head
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20-27
Bait or Lure: yo-zuri, bucktails, poppers
Water Depth: 50-60ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Trolled and jigged from 9:00-2:00pm with nothing at all. From 2:00pm to 4:00pm birds started working and we boated at least 25 strippers.

Angler Name : D. Tuliszewski
E-Mail :
Boat Name: 3 of Us
Date Fished: 11/29/98
Location: T-bird to Seaside
Fishing Method: Casting & trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18-26"
Bait or Lure: Avas, Bucktails, Umbrellas
Water Depth: 45-65 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Fishing broke wide open at around 1:00 PM in front of the T-Bird. School size bass were busting peanut bunker and fish were everywhere. Wish I could go tommorrow. Good luck everyone.

Angler Name : Ray
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Boat Name: Skipper
Date Fished: 11-29-98
Location: off monmouth beach
Fishing Method: bottom fishing
Specie: Tautog
Size: 2-6lbs
Bait or Lure: green crabs
Water Depth: 55ft
Water Temp.: 51
Information : slow pick of tog me and my fahter four short s he got a nice 6lb fish was beat out by an 8 lb fish for the pool birds everywhere for the striper and blue fisherman got bit off by some alligators that were cruisin around

Angler Name : Michael Moscufo
E-Mail : MMOSCUFO@pseg.com
Boat Name: Cock Robin - Pt Pleasant
Date Fished: 11/29/98
Location: Seaside to Manasquan Inlet
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts to 36"
Bait or Lure: White Bucktails/porkrind
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Boat sailed south and located fish within 20 minutes. Striped Bass were breaking all over surface, except when some boats would get excited, get too close and spook the fish! The Cock Robin chased fish all day with multiple hook-ups by all 20 fisherman on several ocassions. My son and I appeared to be the only two fisherman using White Bucktails, tipped with White Porkrind tied directly to the line - no snaps no swivels. I believe we out fished most fisherman on the boat 10-1, including the POOL fish, caught by Michael III, a 14.3 lb Striper. Some fisherman did change to bucktails while others remained with metal jigs. Fish were caught by all, but only 5 keeper bass came to the Dock and we came home with two (2). It was a very successful day with over 50 Shorts between the two of us. A good Captain (Ron) and Mate (Bill) who provide a lot of good fishing advise to make it a most enjoyable day. We'll be back in Pt. Pleasant before Christmas to jig a few more Keepers.

Angler Name : paul
E-Mail : hibbitt_paul@bns.att.com
Boat Name: november moon
Date Fished: 11/21 - 11/28/98
Location: ocean county
Fishing Method: surf, boat - troll & jig
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 36 inches
Bait or Lure: plugs, jigs, umbrella rigs & spoons
Water Depth: from surf to 75 feet
Water Temp.: low 50's
Information : fishing report for the week of 11/21 - 11/28 fished the last lady from neptune city at shrewsbury rocks on 11/21 for bass. 5 shorts trolled. switched to blackfish and put 25 keepers in the boat to 8 pounds. thanks capt. ralph. 11/22 - fished from the boat from bayhead to lavallette. not bad jigging action. a few shorts and some blues. ended the day with one other boat off of lavallette in the birds. had about 6 shorts and lost one around 34 inches. 11/23 - fished from the boat off of brick and mantoloking. 2 bass, one 15 1/2 pounds and 4 bluefish. 11/24 - fished the beach at the seaside/ortley boarder. walked on to the start of an all out blitz. first fish was a 33 incher. caught another 20 or so bass with another fish at 29 or 30 inches. left them biting (though it had slowed) as it got dark. 11/25 - fished from the boat again. one keeper off the top of the mast along with a dozen or so short bass and a few blues. can't believe they're still around in 51 degree water. moved up off mantoloking and boated one other keeper around 35 inches and released the rest that were caught here. 11/27 - fished the beach in the afternoon at the top of the mast. wrong place to be. worked my tail off for one short. heard the were fish just outside of range in bayhead. 11/28 - fished from the boat off of mantoloking and ocean beach/chadwick beach. huge schools of bunker, but not many fish on them. jigged one short and had a fish around 34 inches follow the jig to the boat, then swim under it. nice day, but not much action though i marked fish everywhere. i can see why yesterday and today were so good.

Angler Name : Rick Sheetz
E-Mail : RickSheetz@AOL.Com
Boat Name: Land Shark
Date Fished: 11-28-98
Location: Off Atlantic City
Fishing Method: Chasing Birds
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18 " to 39 "
Bait or Lure: Eels,Plugs, Jigs
Water Depth: 30 to 50 ft.
Water Temp.: 47
Information : Fished about 1 mile north and south of AC Inlet. First fish (39") was caught on an Eel 2 minutes after first drop. Chased birds all afternoon and caught 30 Bass. Most fish were caught on Hopkins or Yellow Parachute Jigs with a white pork rind trailer. All keepers weres caught below the small fish on Eels. Lots of Fun.

Angler Name : Jim G.
E-Mail : Jim5465@AOL.com
Boat Name: Bailey's Dream
Date Fished: 11?28/98
Location: Manasquan to Belmar
Fishing Method: Troll & Jig
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 16" - 26"
Bait or Lure: Spoons, umbrellas, jigs, plugs
Water Depth: 25' - 70'
Water Temp.: 50.5
Information : Trolled and jigged from morning until mid-afternoon. Worked our way from Manasquan Inlet north to Belmar trolling with many stops to jig, from close to the beach out to approx. 2 miles. Had lots of stripers, all on jigs, but not a single keeper. Also had shad, herring , bluefish. Lots of birds working all over the place and tons of bait, but from what we could see around us and the radio chatter all day, virtually everything caught was shorts.

Angler Name : Will
E-Mail : Navefisher@aol.com
Boat Name: Fisherman
Date Fished: 11/28/98
Location: Sandy Hook in Ocean
Fishing Method: Bottom fishing
Specie: Ling (AKA Red Hake)
Size: good
Bait or Lure: clams or crabs
Water Depth: 40-80'
Water Temp.:
Information : Short and keeper Blackfish were caught too along with winter flounder, skate, bergall, sea bass, and dogfish. Clams were the best bait but crabs produced most of the Blackfish. The Fisherman, Atl;antic Highlands, is a great boat with a great crew.

Angler Name : hook
E-Mail : hook@AOL.COM
Boat Name: janice-c
Date Fished: 11/28
Location: Thunderbird
Fishing Method: trolled
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30 inches
Bait or Lure: spoon
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Slaughtered them on Saturday, of course it would've been nice if this site was updated. What's up with that??? Anyway, did real well, hope it keeps up. Tight lines, hook.

Angler Name : Will
E-Mail : Navefisher@aol.com
Boat Name: Fisherman
Date Fished: 11/28/98
Location: Sandy Hook Reef
Fishing Method: Bottom fishing
Specie: Tautog
Size: mostly shorts
Bait or Lure: clam or crabs
Water Depth: 40-80'
Water Temp.:
Information : The Fisherman is a great party boat. Had 3 ling and 1 short Blackfish. Bottom fishing has been slow with lots of garbage fish like dogfish and cunners. Clams caught most of everything inlcuding Flounder, dogfish, sea bass, cunner, blackfish, and ling. Crabs caught the Blackfish. Had to move around a lot to find fish. First drop produced most of the Ling.

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Angler Name : Dave Granholm
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Boat Name: N/A (Rocks & Sand)
Date Fished: Friday 11-27-98
Location: Belmar - Jetties
Fishing Method: Throwin' Lures
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts 18 - 20 inches
Bait or Lure: rubber things with hooks
Water Depth: 10 - 15 feet
Water Temp.:
Information : Just doing some early morning Stripper hunting and caught a few shorts by working my lure deep instead of on the surface. About 5 of us watched what sure appeared to be "whales" moving about a mile off shore. (Is that possible?) We saw numerous blows of spray go 7 to 10 feet in the air... much to high for a splash of a jumping fish. (I went whale watching once in Maine and this sure looked like the same deal.) On the fish side of this story, we did see plenty of surfacing fish about 1/2 mile off shore also.

Angler Name : David
E-Mail : grahamd@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Bandit
Date Fished: 11/27/98
Location: of ocean city
Fishing Method: jig,eels,bucktails
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 30-40ft
Water Temp.: ??
Information : went on an 6 hr trip on the Bandit out of Ocean City Jersey started of cold wet and windy, drove around for 2hrs looking for fish, found birds working of Margate, one guy next to me caught a 31.5 striper, not much else though, moved to of Atlantic City where there were birds working, same guy that caught the striper caught a monster blue bigger than the striper, nothining else caught but a lot of dog fish. the Captain did try all over the place but not a great fishing day.

Angler Name : Bobby-Joe
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Boat Name: Ruffles
Date Fished: 11-27-98
Location: IBSP
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 45-57"
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth: ??
Water Temp.: ??
Information : I was out all day. It was slow in the moring, but picked up around 10am.Netted a 57 incher around 10:20!!Most after that were in the same range. I wish that i had a camera so i could of taken a pic. It was the biggest fish that i ever caught.Try just a piece of bunker and a hook. Leave out in the surf for a little.Hope that you will catch them too!!

Angler Name : Charlie for Andy
E-Mail : chuxters@aol.com
Boat Name: Miss Avalon
Date Fished: 11/27/98
Location: Avalon
Fishing Method: Party Boat!
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 42# - 48" !!!!!!
Bait or Lure: eel
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : I'm reporting for Andy (Big) who still can't think straight but is giving autographs I'm told. Biggest Striper ever caught on the Miss Avalon! A 42 pound 48" mongo! Congratulations Andy and I don't want to here it for ever OK? WOW!

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Boat Name: NANCY B
Date Fished: 11/27/98
Location: 2BS BRIGANTINE
Fishing Method: JIGGING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24"TO26"
Bait or Lure: METAL
Water Depth: 27FT
Water Temp.: 49.5
Information : FISH UNDER BIRDS, ALLIGATOR BLUES MIXED IN. HAD TO LEAVE BY 10 AM AS WIND PICKED UP TO 30 KTS.

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Angler Name : Dan Embon
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Boat Name: Blue Sky
Date Fished: 11/26/1998
Location: Longport, NJ
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30-42"
Bait or Lure: AVA's
Water Depth: 6-15ft
Water Temp.: 52.4
Information : Fished Longport Bridge area with mutch success. Bass all aroung bridge area. Large fish to ... Great action

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Angler Name : JEFF
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Boat Name: HOOKEYE
Date Fished: 11/25/98
Location: MANASQUAN
Fishing Method: TROLLING & YOZURI
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: SCHOOLIES
Bait or Lure: UMBRELLA RIGS AND PLUGS
Water Depth: 40-50 FT
Water Temp.: 51
Information : RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE INLET. BIRDS ALL OVER. CAUGHT SMALL STRIPERS FOR ABOUT 1 AND 1/2 STRAIGHT. DOUBLE HEADERS ON UMBRELLA RIGS. HAD A GREAT TIME. TIGHT LINES

Angler Name : tony b
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Boat Name: re a tony1
Date Fished: 11 25 98
Location: stoneharbor
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 2o '' 28 ''
Bait or Lure: plug
Water Depth: wash
Water Temp.: 50
Information : had a great time after work stayed one houre 8 fish

Angler Name : capt matt duffy and jim campo
E-Mail : nellie3@idt.net
Boat Name: Albatross
Date Fished: 11/25/98
Location: off shark river and spring lake
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 16 to 22 inches
Bait or Lure: rattle traps,bombers,umbrellas
Water Depth: 45ft
Water Temp.: 51.1 to 51.4
Information : Slay day on the Albatross. Fished from 10A.M. to 3P.M. right off the beach. Saw plenty of birds working and marked tons of bait. Hooked up double and triple headers. My brother-in-law Jim was in from Florida and we couldnt have asked for a better November day. Get em while their hot!!! Catch em up!! Tight lines!!

Angler Name : W.L.Avis
E-Mail : captbuck@snip.net
Boat Name: ------------
Date Fished: 25 Nov 1998
Location: N.Wildwood,N.J.
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 32' to 38'
Bait or Lure: Metal and cut bait
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Fished for 4 hrs in morning,hooked up on second cast at the "First pipe" area. Kept 2 large blues,dropped a couple more. Guy throwing plugs on other side of pipe had multiple throwback bass.

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Angler Name : john
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Boat Name: crazydave
Date Fished: 11/24/98
Location: off capemay
Fishing Method: wreck
Specie: Tautog
Size: to 10lbs.
Bait or Lure: greencrabs
Water Depth: 45ft.
Water Temp.: 54deg.
Information : dave put the boat on a wreck about 2miles off capemay where the four of us caught 40 tog from 5to 10lbs.plus some nice seabass

Angler Name : Paul Czaya
E-Mail : pczaya@gpu.com
Boat Name: Risa
Date Fished: 11/24/98
Location: Seaside Heights
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29-34"
Bait or Lure: Reliable bunker spoon
Water Depth: 55'
Water Temp.: about 52 degrees
Information : My brother-in-law Al and I trolled two bunker spoons (both white - one small, other large) and a red tube down the center on a flatline. We caught three keepers: 29", 33" and 34" and no others between 11 AM and 1 PM. THESE WERE THE FIRST STRIPERS I HAVE CAUGHT! We tried jigging near the beach with no luck. Lots of birds and peanut bunker around. The fish caught were outside the main area of bird/bait interaction and in 50-60 feet of water. On the way back to Manasquan we stopped off Mantoloking where there were some boats working on an area of bitds/bait. We put the spoons back in but only hooked into a large slammer. All four fish boated (and a few others that hit) went for the large bunker spoon. Seems like it was all we needed this day. Thanks for the reports - keep 'em coming!

Angler Name : Darren Lucis
E-Mail : lucisd@erols.com
Boat Name: Saxy
Date Fished: 11-24-98
Location: North Wildwood
Fishing Method: drifiting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30+
Bait or Lure: eels, bucktails
Water Depth: 13-30ft
Water Temp.: 54
Information : Winds out of the West at 20kts, made out front calm with 1-2ft waves, Birds in front of the ferris wheel in NWwood gave up a ton of fish, to my surprise they left the eels alone and hit on bucktails!!!also some big blues, my buddy Jeff pulled up a whopper, we weighed it at Budd`s, it was 26.4lb Blue. We had 2 great days there, Follow the Birds!

Angler Name : Mr. Lucky
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Boat Name: Castaway
Date Fished: November 24, 1998
Location: Asbury Park surf
Fishing Method: Pluging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20" to 26"
Bait or Lure: YoZuri and Teaser
Water Depth: Surf
Water Temp.:
Information : Made a quick stop at the beach after work, found the birds working and the Stripers blitzing the beach at First Avenue. Caught 45 to 50 shorts in an hour and a half. A few double headers.What a ball! However, I do wish one would have been a keeper. Well, maybe tomorrow night.

Angler Name : chum slick rick
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Date Fished: 11/24/98
Location: Monmouth
Fishing Method: Fly
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts
Bait or Lure: clousers
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : fished sunup till 8:30, 13 Shorts, another flyrodder caught 34 and was still going when I left. Lots of birds and peanut bunker. Great day. Get it while you can. Tight lines and fast clickin' drags

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Angler Name : RT
E-Mail : RThomp007@aol.com
Boat Name: "FREDDY C" / Leonardo
Date Fished: Evening / November 23
Location: Sandy Hook / Tip
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 4 keepers boated up to 31"
Bait or Lure: EELS
Water Depth: --
Water Temp.: --
Information : Spotty evening / 4 keepers on boat / 6 shorts / nice conditions / incoming high tide /

Angler Name : Bill Rottner
E-Mail : wrottner@mobile.bam.com
Boat Name: TEMPEST
Date Fished: 11/23
Location: Sea Bright
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 16"-36"
Bait or Lure: spoons&plugs
Water Depth: 30-60
Water Temp.:
Information : Apparently we were fishing near the AHAB. Mark and I started in the Reach @ 6:30 am. We saw fish on the finder but no bites. Left for Shrewsbury rocks @8. Saw birds working off of Rumson and dropped lines. Shorts in the morning hours. Too many boats drove fish down and out. Around 1 all boats scattered and we followed the birds off of sea bright. We killed them again. 50 fish total 2 blues and 48 stripers(9 keepers 5-29",2-30",1-32",1-36"). We had four rods hit at the same time, 3 times. The 36" hit on the a surface plug dragged about 2.5 knots. If you wanna go let me know. Hey thanks for the constant stream of good information. Keep it up and release.

Angler Name : GD
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Boat Name: Slacker
Date Fished: 11/23/98
Location: Sandy Hook Reef
Fishing Method: bouncin' sinkers
Specie: Blackfish
Size: shorts to 20"
Bait or Lure: Green crabs
Water Depth: ???
Water Temp.: ???
Information : Another trip on the Freddy-C. The tog pros did fairly decent on just barely legal fish. There was 1 nice 4-4.5 lb pool fish. Guys with less blackfish talent, like yours truly, were able to boat 1 or 2. Capt. Fred made a solid effort to put the boat over the rocks, in a pretty stiff breeze.

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Angler Name : Andy Flint
E-Mail : aflint@ptc.com
Boat Name: I Wear The Pants
Date Fished: 11-22-98
Location: North end Island Beach State Park
Fishing Method: Trolling & Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30 Inches
Bait or Lure: Black umbrella rig and white tailed diamond jigs
Water Depth: 40-60 ft
Water Temp.: 50.9
Information : Caught 17 Stripers, 9 Weakfish and 3 Blues. Only two keeper Stripers. Saw large schools of Peanut Bunker all over. Fantastic weather.

Angler Name : Richard Mulford
E-Mail : rmulford@delanet.com
Boat Name: Lone Wolf
Date Fished: 11/22/98
Location: Herford Inlet, N.J.
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20" to 44"
Bait or Lure: 5 oz Diamond Jig
Water Depth: 10' to 40'
Water Temp.: 52
Information : Had birdplay all day with mostly short bass chasing peanut bunker. We caught many on jigs then switched to 6" Bomber's. Almost every cast resulted into a hookup for over three hours. Moved to deeper water with structure late in the afternoon and caught 4 keepers from 33" to 44" on diamond jigs,

Angler Name : Charlie Haws
E-Mail : charlie@webspan.net
Boat Name: THE ROAD
Date Fished: 11/22/98
Location: Bayhead
Fishing Method: trolling/jigging
Specie: Weakfish
Size: to 27inches
Bait or Lure: Bucktail/mullet
Water Depth: 35 feet
Water Temp.: 53
Information : Fished Sunday afternoon south of Bayhead. Saw strippers killing bunker but all I could catch was bluefish. Tried trolling bunker spoons with no luck. My 28' Bertram just goes too fast on both engines; and too crooked on one! My fish finder showed plenty of nice marks near the bottom. After dropping a bucktail we were rewarded with the biggest weakfish I have ever caught. I sure would like to hook one more bluefin tuna this season.

Angler Name : Andy L
E-Mail : Loj78@aol
Boat Name: AHAB
Date Fished: 11-22-98
Location: off sea bright
Fishing Method: jiggin
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts
Bait or Lure: white bucktail w/rubber shad
Water Depth: 30'
Water Temp.: 53
Information : Got out to the hook at 8:00 and followed some small schools of bass but didnt have much luck with them. Saw a nice school at 9:30 off of seabright and stayed with them till 2:00. Was the only boat in the area and had no birds working around them. Caught over 50 short from about 12"-26" between the 3 of us. Hit nothing but bucktails. Saw alot of guys trolling but didn't see any fish caught. On the way back to the hook, you could see nothing but birds all over the beach to about 2 miles out. Alot of bass feeding on what looked to be sand eels. Used a a27 and picked up few and everything shut down. Hopefully the bigger fish will arrive soon.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Skylarker II
Date Fished: 11/22/98
Location: Long Branch-South of Sandy Hook Reef
Fishing Method: Anchor
Specie: Tautog
Size: 6 Pounds
Bait or Lure: Greencrabs
Water Depth: 35-50 Ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Weather wise it was a fantastic late November day.Fishing wise it left something to be desired.We fished numerous snags & rockpiles from Long Branch to the Shrewsbury Rocks to just south of the Sandy Hook Reef.And although each piece revealed some life on the sonar machine,the blackfish bite was very slow.Only 6 keeper tog were boated by 9 guys with about a dozen short tog also taken & released. I ended up with the pool winner of 6 pounds.

Angler Name : Mike
E-Mail : waventure1@aol.com
Boat Name: Doris O
Date Fished: 11/22/98
Location: Little Egg Inlet
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Live Ells
Water Depth: 20/30
Water Temp.:
Information : Not a fish in sight

Angler Name : Tom B.
E-Mail : boke@ravens.com
Boat Name: BOKE
Date Fished: Sunday, 11/22
Location: South of Manasquan Inlet
Fishing Method: Trolling and Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-30 in.
Bait or Lure: black umbrellas, ava 07 + 17s
Water Depth: 35-55
Water Temp.: 52
Information : Cleared inlet at 0730 and headed south. Stopped off south Bay Head on good readings but fish wouldn't cooperate. Continued south chasing birds but heavy boat traffic kept breaking up the fish. Set up to troll black umbrellas ahead of fin-s bunkers off Ocean Beach and started picking up 25-30 in. Bass. Off Seaside Pier ran into Bluefish and tripple headered both umbrellas at the same time. Switched to jigging after untangling everything. Green Tails worked best on small avas. Bass and Blues were mixed with the occasional Weakfish. Caught all we wanted from 10 until heading in at 1:30. Biggest Bass 30 in.,Weakfish 26 in., Bluefish 9 lbs. At times fish could be seen chasing Peanut Bunker on top. Readings indicate lots of bait in the Seaside area. Fishing should hold up as long as the bait does. Good Luck to All. TB.

Angler Name : Al
E-Mail : Ozzie47@aol.com
Boat Name: Mohawk III
Date Fished: 11/22
Location: Snake-Shrewsbury rocks
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Tautog
Size: 13-18"
Bait or Lure: green crabs
Water Depth: 30-60
Water Temp.: 50ish
Information : Decided to take a trip for blackfish today, despite the gorgeous weather the fishing was extremely slow.. We made 6 or 7 drops, most yielded shorts and fish that were barely keepers, and plenty of bergalls.. I wound up with one keeper out of 4 fish, and everyone else did about the same, some got a big goose egg.. The pool winner was a whopping 18 incher.. Captain and crew did a great job trying to put us on fish.. That's why it's called fishing and not catching.. Better luck next time!

Angler Name : Ed Black
E-Mail : troll@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: NOName
Date Fished: 11/22/98
Location: Shark River
Fishing Method: bait/sand/blood worms
Specie: Winter Flounder
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished the shark river between the ocean and the rail road bridge and came back with 15 flounder, 2 king fish. also hitting the lines were skates, sea robins. There was plenty of small bait fish in the river. All in all a great day on the river.

Angler Name : Ray
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Skylarker II
Date Fished: 11-22-98
Location: rock piles betwee sandy hook reef and elberon
Fishing Method: bottom fishing
Specie: Tautog
Size: 12-17"
Bait or Lure: green and fiddler crabs
Water Depth: 60-75ft
Water Temp.: 51
Information : fished with capt steve even though we expierienced SLOW fishing still had a great time with the guys. fished a whole bunch of rockpiles got 4 short tog and one keeper heard the boats over the radio all said SLOW fishing but it beats stayin home. tried to jig stripers had one nice run off but nothign to show for it no one else had a bump well capt steve tried his damnedest to get fish but sometimes it bes this way

Angler Name : Tom Fullen
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Dixie III
Date Fished: 11/22/98
Location: Barnegate "Ocean"
Fishing Method: Trolling wire
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 32 inches
Bait or Lure: Umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 38 to 15 feet
Water Temp.: 54
Information : Started out trolling outside the inlet nothing doing. Went down to Harvey Ceaders lump and got nothing there. Went closer to the beach and caught 10 shorts and 2 keepers on umbrella rigs, I had a 20 to 30 Lb. bass on a bunker spoon I was pulling, when I got it to the boat I slacked on the line to net it and it sliped away. It was a good year all the way around. Thanks to all for the honest info. Its time to do all the honey dew projects over the winter, I owe it to my wife, after all summer lasted 8 months this year. See you in the spring........

Angler Name : rick
E-Mail : REBEL2SOLO@AOL.COM
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11-22-98
Location: delaware bay
Fishing Method: chunkin bunker
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 31" to 42"
Bait or Lure: FRESH bunker
Water Depth: 25'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : fished entire out going tide. lots of bait on the recorder, but not that many fish. caught 3 keepers 31", 33", 42" no shorts, most of the fish at the rips were shorts from what we herd on the radio.a good trip for me, I caught the 42 incher.

Angler Name : John
E-Mail : Parrotnct@aol
Boat Name: Miss Belamr
Date Fished: 11/22/98
Location: Sea Bright - Higlands
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Schoolies
Bait or Lure: Ava 47
Water Depth: 20-35 Ft
Water Temp.: 57
Information : Good earlly morning bite. Capt. & crew made right decision heading north out of Belmar inlet. Lots of birds working near Sea Bright inside of the rocks. Followed birds up to Highland lights till around 10:30am. Stripers shut down after 10:30am with the slack tide. Success came with Ava 47 only dropping to bottom and bouncing jig. Light action rod to feel the hits and bottom also helped. No leader or snap. Good day, good capt & crew. PRACTICE CATCH & RELEASE FOR OUR KIDS SAKE!

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Angler Name : Herb
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Triple Nickle
Date Fished: Aug. 21
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 20-90 lbs
Bait or Lure: green machine\bird
Water Depth: 620
Water Temp.: 73
Information : Capt. Rich Edelman took out the DCH party for a day of trolling in the canyon.Day started slow,but then ran into some good water.First fish was 90 lbs.,all others were smaller for a total catch of 17 fish.All in all a great day.Miss Katie should have been out there to enjoy the action.C'mon Bob lets go try to raise some fish on your boat HA HA

Angler Name : Chuck Rup.
E-Mail : kcrupertus.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/21/98
Location: Townsend Inlet
Fishing Method: Surf fishing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: eels and clam
Water Depth: 2-10'
Water Temp.: 53
Information : 0 fish caught after hearing stories of great fish catch throughout the week. Wind was blowing fierce. No one seemed to be catching much. Keep trying to get that big one.

Angler Name : Brian Moleen
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Cavan Girl
Date Fished: 11/21
Location: IBSP/Seaside
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: all shorts
Bait or Lure: rigs/spoons
Water Depth: 35-47
Water Temp.:
Information : Started to troll in the morning off the old coast guard station. Marked a lot a bait and fish but nothing happened for at least an hour or so. I worked that area for a while longer and managed to pick up two shorts about 25 inches. I ran north to the Governors Mansion and had a slow pick of shorts unit about 2o'clock and it was non stop action for about two hours. I dont know how true this is but I heard Sunday was the day to fish that area. I heard a body of fish moved in and they were a little larger than the ones on Saturday (10-30lbs) and also all the weakfish you wanted around 4 o'clock. Tight Lines

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Angler Name : Johnny G.
E-Mail :
Boat Name: RAMROD
Date Fished: Nov. 20, 98
Location: Island Beach State Park
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20-30
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 15-35
Water Temp.: 51
Information : We trolled IBSP from 7-11AM with good success totalling 6 stripers to 30 inches ( 1 keeper ), 6 blues to 4lbs. and 2 shad. The weather was sunny and the swells laid down. Less and less boats now but most seem to be catching.

Angler Name : Victor
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Triple Nickel
Date Fished: 11/20/98
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-38 inches
Bait or Lure: Deep Deep diver
Water Depth: 30 feet
Water Temp.: 48
Information : Started our troll early, 0500 picked our first bass near the range tower. At first light the birds went to work we chased them and produced a keeper bass. We trolled the area till around 1100 . No one around to enjoy the catch . All in all Victor released over 50 bass. Lots of shorts , three keepers . Bob I hope you made it there early to get in on the action!!!

Angler Name : Bobs bait and tackle cape may
E-Mail : bobjo4e@plexi.com
Boat Name: lucky strike
Date Fished: 11-20-98
Location: McCries shoal
Fishing Method: Trolling and jiging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 5-10lbs.
Bait or Lure: Bunker spoons ,umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 25-40ft
Water Temp.: 54.2
Information : Lucky strike sailed again today. Myself and Vinny Modica set out in heavy fog on our way to McCries shoal.Didnt have to go all the way to shoal, found fish about 3mi. off. It again was a mix of bluefish 5-10lbs. and schoolie sized bass. These fish fell to bunker spoons and crippled alwives. Stopped on a large school of bass breaking on the surface, we began bucktailing and jigging bass anywhere from 4-15lbs.REMEMBER BEING IN POSSESION OF STRIPED BASS IN FEDERAL WATERS IS ILLEGAL SO THESE FISH OF COARSE HAVE TO BE RELEASED. This fishing will continue well into dec. so you still have pleanty of time to get em. See ya out there, and good luck BOB

Angler Name : D. Tuliszewski
E-Mail :
Boat Name: 3-Of-Us
Date Fished: 11/20/98
Location: Mantolokin to Seaside
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18-24"
Bait or Lure: red/black umbrella & black/silver bomber
Water Depth: 40-60 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Broke Mansasquan inlet right into a fog bank. Headed south and had reading right at the T-Bird with small packs of birds working. Set out the umbrellas and bomber off the downriggers bumping the bottom. Picked up 6 bass and 2 blues, one was a monster. Fog really moved in around 10:00 am so we headed back in. Needless to say tough finding any working birds. When we marked fish deep we would hook up. NW wind tommorrow should clear things out. Good luck out there.

Angler Name : DSJ
E-Mail : bonefishdj@aol.com
Boat Name: vickster
Date Fished: 11-19/20
Location: cape may
Fishing Method: spinning/fly
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 37 inches
Bait or Lure: spoons/clousers
Water Depth: 30
Water Temp.: 55
Information : fished the rips for 5 drifts and picked up 3 keepers from the bottom whith eels. saw birds so chased them for another 4 hours or so picking up about 40 fish. stripers and blues with two more keeper stripers and blues to 12 lbs. broke many spoons even with 40 lb tippet and one rod. captain jim and his two boys (7yrs/11 yrs) had a great time. next day was very foggy but got 1 1/2 hrs of the same with fish busting all around us. great fun.

Angler Name : tony
E-Mail : tony.riga@gte.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: Nov. 19
Location: Deal
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: ?
Bait or Lure: plugs
Water Depth: 0-5'
Water Temp.: 52
Information : One hit, no fish. 3pm to 5pm. No bait in the water.

Angler Name : ED Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/19/98
Location: Ocean City NJ
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25" - 33"
Bait or Lure: plugs yazuri
Water Depth: 5 feet
Water Temp.: 52
Information : The beach has been quiet down here but the fish have been feeding on Mantis shrimp. I couldn't figure it out until I was show a picture from a friend from Dolphin Dock in Somers Point NJ. Sure enough, he had a caught fish with mantis shrimp in their bellies. Go figure, you guys have sand eels we have mantis shrimp. good luck.

Angler Name : W.L.Avis
E-Mail : captbuck@snip.net
Boat Name: Backlash
Date Fished: 19 Nov.1998
Location: "The Horseshoe" Deleware Bay
Fishing Method: Bunker Chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28" to 37"
Bait or Lure: Fresh Bunker
Water Depth: 24'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Caught 4 keeper bass to 37' plus 8 Slammer blues(15# to20# size). Bay was like a lake and weather was most more like middle October.

Angler Name : fred
E-Mail :
Boat Name: castaway
Date Fished: nov.19
Location: asbury 1st ave jetty
Fishing Method: plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24 to 30 inches
Bait or Lure: plugs and teaser
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : fished from 4p.m. to5p.m caught 2 shorts had six bumps

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Angler Name : Andy L.
E-Mail : Loj78@aol.com
Boat Name: Jack and Jill
Date Fished: 11-18-98
Location: IBSP to seaside
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 31"
Bait or Lure: ava 007 w/green and yellow tails
Water Depth: 60'
Water Temp.: low 50's
Information : Came out of barney and saw no birds working, so headed north and picked a few bass right off the bottom. Got a report from a friend of mine fishing off of seaside and headed north. Saw the birds working on schools of blues mixed sized, and bass. Although mostly shorts, we managed to pick up 4 keepers to 31". Blues were from 4-10 lbs all on jiggs. Fish had full bellies of peanut bunkers and sand eels. Fishing got hot about 10 o'clock which was a change of pace from a few weeks ago when all the fish i got were early in the morning. Fished till about 12:30 with about 30 blues, 4 keeper bass, and about 10 throwback bass. We should all thank our fellow fisherman for taking the time out to write up our reports because I know by reading them and planning we have increased our catch of fish and by going stait to were the fish are and not waste our time. I've caught more bass and blues this year off the surf than i did in the last 3 years. Could be the increase in fish this year, but mainly just follow your reports. We haven't had alot of jerks writing foolish reports like some other sites.Tight lines and good luck.

Angler Name : GD
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Slacker
Date Fished: 11/18/98
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25" & 27"
Bait or Lure: live eel
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished Raritan Bay on the Freddy-C. New moon. high tide around 8:30. 5 mph east breeze. Fished Romer Schoal & Sandy Hook Channel near the range markers. 1 keeper at romer. 1-2 keepers in the channel. I caught 2 shorts after the tide change. Good boat. Nice night.

Angler Name : bobs bait and tackle
E-Mail : bobjo4e@plexi.com
Boat Name: lucky strike
Date Fished: 11-18-98
Location: 3mi off ww beach
Fishing Method: jiging and trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 5-15lb
Bait or Lure: bunker spoons and bucktails,ava jigs
Water Depth: 30-50 ft
Water Temp.: 54
Information : great day of fishing on the lucky strike started trolling at wildwood lump,caught numerous bluefish 5-12lb.went a little further off and started to connect with some schoolie sized bass 5-7lb. the bass took umbrella rigs,the bluefish stayed on the bunker spoons.after getting tired pulling wire gear we switched to jigs and caught till the tide stoped it had toof lasted three hours non stop. i will be leaving the dock tomorrow am at 8am-9am going right back we are not getting many keepers this way but you can pull fish till your arms get tired.plus the freezer is already full. see ya out thier and good luck .bob

Angler Name : chum slick rick
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/18/98
Location: normandy south of point pleasant
Fishing Method: 10wt fly rod
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorties
Bait or Lure: clouser
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Caught 5 short bass on the fly, lots of birds working. Surf was pretty rough, a beautiful day. I wish I could stay unitll sunset, but gotta go to work

Angler Name : buddy L
E-Mail :
Boat Name: almost there
Date Fished: 11-18-98
Location: cape may rips
Fishing Method: ell;s
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 6to30
Water Temp.: 50
Information : female on boat caught nothing

Angler Name : paul
E-Mail : hibbitt_paul@bns.att.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 11/18/98
Location: brick beach
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 20 inches
Bait or Lure: plugs
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: 50's
Information : fished the beach before work from 6:00 until 8:30. caught 4 shorts (between 14 and 20 inches, one tagged) and dropped one other. 3 fish between 7 & 7:30, the other two around 8:00. many birds working. fish (some looked to be decent sized) working outside of the bar. looks to be a good day.

Angler Name : Bob
E-Mail : KaptainBob@aol
Boat Name: Final DecisionII
Date Fished: 11/17/98
Location: Shrewsbury Rock
Fishing Method: Jigging/trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 14-20"
Bait or Lure: Wire w/red umbrella & A-27 with black and red tubes
Water Depth: 30-40'
Water Temp.: low 50's
Information : Fished several hours in the late morning to mid afternoon, lots of bait in the water, ton of birds working the area. Boated 14 strippers (no keepers) in about 3 hours. I'm happy will be back for more before the season is over

Angler Name : tom c
E-Mail : lofi@webtv.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/17/98
Location: manasquan river
Fishing Method: bait-n-bobber
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 16-25"
Bait or Lure: sand worms 6ft below bobber
Water Depth: 6 to 10 ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : fished from a dock 1/2 hour before high tide in the evening. had first fish on as soon as the bait hit the water! it was non-stop for an hour landed about 15 stripers in that time. then a curiuos but dumb fisherman, plowed right into my area(with his boat) to ask what i was catching. well, all action stopped. nothing after that. but what the hell, i was out of bait anyway and had an awesome night out on my dock.

Angler Name : Ken G
E-Mail : jstp21a@prodigy.com
Boat Name: Explorer
Date Fished: 11-17-98
Location: IBSP
Fishing Method: Trolling, Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 30-50'
Water Temp.: 52
Information : Trolled from Barnegat to the bathing beach, 9AM to Noon, with umbrella rig and wire, and deep diving plugs. No birds, no bites. Tried jigging and drifing with eels, only a few sand sharks. Light west, then north west wind, but only a few boats in the ocean. Saw lots of birds looking, but nothing doing all day.

Angler Name : Steve Wilpiszeski
E-Mail : swilp@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/17/98
Location: Normandy Beach area
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2-3 lbs
Bait or Lure: Metal
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished from sunup to around 9:30am. A little slow. Bluefish would sporatically move into casting range chasing bait. By the time I reeled one in the rest were gone and it would mean waiting a half hour or so for them to reappear. Managed to land 4

Angler Name : Gene E. Karlson
E-Mail : Matawan, N.J.
Boat Name: "No Oars"
Date Fished: 11-17-98
Location: Keyport
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 14",15 1/2",17 3/4",18 1/2"
Bait or Lure: Worms
Water Depth: 0-15'
Water Temp.: 55?
Information : Day off from work, overcast skies, little drizzle, slight wind, just what the Stripers ordered! I was fishing for about 5 min. when I got my first one. I had about 30 hits but they were very picky today. The largest out of 4 Stripers caught was 18 1/2", all were clean & healthy looking fish, no tags, all were released unharmed. I went through 3 dozen worms in about 2 hours, a lot of fun even though I didn't get my keeper. Watched 1/4 mile thick of birds working out in the bay the whole time I was there, probably where my keeper was also. If I had a cannon I would of reached them. I have to find the monsters soon, Fish On Everyone!

Angler Name : Bill Rottner
E-Mail : wrottner@mobile.bam.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/16
Location: Rumson
Fishing Method: Trolling/eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18lbs
Bait or Lure: umbrella
Water Depth: 30-50
Water Temp.:
Information : Started at the reach landed one short. Action died. Went to the clam beds nothing happening. Ran to Shrewsbury Rocks and spotted about 300 birds working off of rumson. From then on the fishing was outstanding. We landed 33 Stripers (3 keepers) and 15 Blues in 2 1/2 hours.

Angler Name : paul
E-Mail : hibbitt_paul@bns.att.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 11/16/98
Location: brick beach
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 22 inches
Bait or Lure: plugs
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: 50's
Information : fished the beach before work from 4:50 until 8:45. picked two fish real quick while it was still dark. picked two others between 6:45 and 8:30. all shorts. all between 16 & 22 inches.

Angler Name : Bone
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Boat Name: K-Cat
Date Fished: 11/16/98
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Trolling, Eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 15-34"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rig, Bunker Spoon, Eels
Water Depth: 40'
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished the K-Cat out of the Highlands on Monday. Captain Ken and mate Steve were great. Went out at 5:30 a.m. to fish Raritan Reach Channel. Hundreds of birds working, lots of boats for a weekday. Tried jigging, no good, switched to trolling wire. My buddy caught one keeper - 34". We took about a dozen shorts. Went to the tip of the hook and eeled for a while without success.

Angler Name : J.P.
E-Mail : JBrescia@aol.com
Boat Name: "BIG - T"
Date Fished: 11/15/98
Location: CAPE MAY RIPS
Fishing Method: EELS, BOMBERS
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 14 LBS
Bait or Lure: EELS, BOMBERS
Water Depth: 17 FT
Water Temp.:
Information : GREAT DAY BY THE BAY! EELS ON THE BOTTOM DURING THE MORNING. MANY BASS ALL AROUND. ALSO A FEW BLUES WASTING OUR EELS. ON THE WAY IN ENCOUNTERED BIRDS AND BAIT. THREW OUT SOME SPOONS BUT THE BOMBERS WORKED BETTER. LARGEST BLUE WAS 13 1/2 LBS. WIND WASN'T THAT BAD.

Angler Name : Tom"BRAGGNSIZE"Rabi
E-Mail : rabooo@monmouth.com
Boat Name: BRAGGNSIZE
Date Fished: 11-15-98
Location: Off Island Beach Park
Fishing Method: trolling unbrellas rigs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30"
Bait or Lure: unbrellas
Water Depth: 57 feet
Water Temp.: 53 degrees
Information : SAILED FROM MANASQUAN SOUTH. AT FIRST NOT MUCH BAIT AND NO BIRDS SHOWING. HEAD BOATS JIGGING IN SEASIDE NO BASS SEEN TAKEN. TRIED JIGGING. NO GOOD. CONTINUED TO TROLL FURTHER SOUTH. SPORADIC BAIT.FINALLY GOOD BAIT READINGS OFF BATHING BEACH AND THEN 3 KNOCKS AND THEN A KEEPER AND THEN........WINDS TO 25 MPH AND A ROUGH RIDE INTO bARNEY. OVERALL A GOOD DAY. FISH 'EM UP

Angler Name : Gene E. Karlson
E-Mail : Matawan, N.J.
Boat Name: "No Oars"
Date Fished: 11-15-98
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Clams, Worms
Water Depth: 0-20'
Water Temp.: 55?
Information : Fished the bay side of the Hook. Got there at the peak of high tide and fished the out going tide 6:00am - 10:00am. I had a lot of determination but unfortunitly the Stripers didn't. Not even one hit and no fish.

Angler Name : "DJ" Lancaster
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 15 November
Location: Sea Girt
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Clams&Lures
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished from 10:ooA.M. till 3:00P.M. no fish, no hits. Several others fishing the same area with the same results. very windy, but otherwise a nice day. Quite a few boats out, did'nt see any catching anything.

Angler Name : Jim Major
E-Mail : jhmajor157@hotmail.com
Boat Name: surf
Date Fished: 11/15
Location: Island Beach & Ortley
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts
Bait or Lure: Bomber
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Action early AM. Caught 8 shorts. No sign of bait. Dead in PM with strong west wind.

Angler Name : john sbraga
E-Mail : jsbraga@aol.com
Boat Name: spotted dog
Date Fished: 11/14/98
Location: townsends inlet
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 15 lbs.
Bait or Lure: ava 47 with tubing
Water Depth: 30
Water Temp.: 55
Information : what a day! first drop of ava produced 12 lb blue. second drop 27" bass. continued for 4 hours nonstop.

Angler Name : Steve Zatko
E-Mail : Tbandit@USA.net
Boat Name: Mary C
Date Fished: 11-14-98
Location: Sandy Hook Reef, Rattlesnake
Fishing Method: Anchor
Specie: Blackfish
Size: To 8lbs
Bait or Lure: Green Crabs
Water Depth: 60+
Water Temp.: NA
Information : Excellent day until a brisk S SE wind in the PM. Had no trouble catching the limit for 3 people with most fish in the 3-4 Lb range.

Angler Name : paul
E-Mail : hibbitt_paul@bns.att.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 11/14/98
Location: brick beach
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 23 inches
Bait or Lure: plugs
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: 50's
Information : fished the beach beginning around 5:30 am. caught 6 shorts real quick. action died by 7 am. nothing after that. saw fish working bait outside the bar, but could not reach. returned around 3 pm. wind had changed direction and was roughed up some. saw one school of bait shoot by and had one hit. that was it.

Angler Name : Dave Granholm
E-Mail :
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: Saturday, Nov 14th
Location: Belmar - Jetties
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Winter Flounder
Size: 10 - 15 inches
Bait or Lure: herring
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : After the stippers quit biting (I landed six in the Shark River inlet at sunrise. ) I got interested in watching a guy who was pulling in one winter flounder after another off the jetties in the Belmar area. Several were fishing for the winter flounder but only this one guy was pulling one in every 10 minutes or so. I personally watched him catch about 25+ fish and he must have had 40+ before he left. The difference.... he was using herring instead of the squid that most had. (As luck would have it, I only had sand worms.... and they were expensive and useless!!)

Angler Name : Brian Moleen
E-Mail : brian.r.moleen@bankerstrust.com
Boat Name: Cavan Girl
Date Fished: 11/14/98
Location: Island Beach to Seaside PK
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 8-10
Bait or Lure: Bunker Spoons/Tubes
Water Depth: 24-47
Water Temp.:
Information : Broke Barnegat Inlet and ran north up to the old coast guard station to find a large fleet jigging short bass. We put the lines out and right away we were into the action. Only we had big bluefish slamming out spoons and tubes. We trolled north up to Seaside Park to find the same action. Tons of boats jigging the short bass. We decided to stick with trolling hoping for a larger sized bass. There was no such luck. The bluefish would not stay off our lines. Better luck next time.

Angler Name : John Gilchrist
E-Mail : jjgaia@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Fun King
Date Fished: 11-13&14
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 16-26"
Bait or Lure: Poppers, Fin-S
Water Depth: 12-45"
Water Temp.: 50
Information : Friday was cold, found tons of small bass under birds just south of VZ Bridge. Ran down to Hook and south along beach, stopping here and there to pick up shorts, breaking under birds, on poppers. Ran back up to bridge for a few more rats, quit by 3:30. Saturday was much nicer, cold to start, but when we passed under the bridge, it was like summer, calm, sunny and warm. Same fish, tons of shorts under birds, but they wouldn't eat our poppers. Finally discovered they wanted Fin-S, got about 2 dozen up to 26". Great fun for my boys. Saw a 22 lb bass at the ramp, fellow said he got it on a bucktail close to the ferry docks on Manhattan. Maybe next week.

Angler Name : ABRO~
E-Mail :
Boat Name: COCK ROBIN PARTYBOAT!
Date Fished: 11/14/98
Location: POINT PLEASANT, AND SOUTH
Fishing Method: JIGING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32 IN, AND LOWER
Bait or Lure: AVA'S 27 AND 47'S
Water Depth: 20 T0 65
Water Temp.: ?
Information : THE COCK ROBIN AND CREW WERE FANTASTIC! TRY'S HIS HARDEST TO KEEP YOU ON FISH! VERY HELPFUL CREW AND CAPTAIN, I HAVE SEEN NO BETTER! HIGHLY RECOMEND THIS BOAT! 30 T0 40 BLUES WERE CAUGHT --16 1/2 WAS THE BIGGEST! 10 TO 20 STRIPERS WERE CAUGHT---13 TO 15 LBS. WAS BIGGEST STRIPER RATIO--15 THGROWBACKS ABOUT FIVE KEEPERS GREAT TIME WILL BE BACK!

Angler Name : Johnny Kafoni
E-Mail : NoFish@aol.com
Boat Name: Lucky
Date Fished: November 14, 1998
Location: Whipporwill Point
Fishing Method: Drowning eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Two Shorts
Bait or Lure: Drowned eels
Water Depth: 20'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Tried the bay throught the night, until 5 o'clock in the morning. Me and my old fishing buddy Leary. It was my idea. Thought maybe I would catch one looking for a midnight snack, but no luck. Not a good year for me.

Angler Name : Johnny Kafoni
E-Mail : NoFish@aol.com
Boat Name: Lucky
Date Fished: November 14, 1998
Location: Whipporwill Point
Fishing Method: Drowning eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Two Shorts
Bait or Lure: Drowned eels
Water Depth: 20'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Tried the bay throught the night, until 5 o'clock in the morning. Me and my old fishing buddy Leary. It was my idea. Thought maybe I would catch one looking for a midnight snack, but no luck. Not a good year for me.

Angler Name : Bubba
E-Mail : bubbasdrt@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/14
Location: Pt.pleasent
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts
Bait or Lure: yo zori
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Had to find out if the yo zori tales were true.fished with afew other fellas w/clams caught 2 blues& 1 stiper the yo zori took in 3 stripers & lost 2 #@!* happens there worth the money. catch & release

Angler Name : John Brightlinger
E-Mail : NoFish@aol.com
Boat Name: Lucky
Date Fished: November 14, 1998
Location: Whipporwhill Point
Fishing Method: Drowning eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth: shallow
Water Temp.:
Information : Another trip with no fish. Even went out at midnight, figuring that the fish would be looking for a midnight snack, but no luck.

Angler Name : rich
E-Mail : rlk42@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11-14
Location: Sandy hook to Pt. Pleasant
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 23 in
Bait or Lure: swimmer
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 50's
Information : From Sandy Hook to Pt. Pleasant only action was in Pt. Pleasant. Some small schools of peanut bunker along shore, some shorts taken, but not many. No flounder action in Shark River near mouth of inlet. Heavy wind out of the South really screwed things up.

Angler Name : Andy Flint
E-Mail : aflint@ptc.com
Boat Name: I Wear The Pants
Date Fished: 11-14-98
Location: Seaside - Island Beach State Park
Fishing Method: Trolling and jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30 Inches
Bait or Lure: Black umbrella rig and green a47 jigs
Water Depth: 30-50 ft
Water Temp.: 52
Information : Caught 22 bass, most of the bass on the umbrella rig. More boats than fish.

Angler Name : BassMan
E-Mail : andrew_kolen@hq.adp.com
Boat Name: "Honey's Diamonds First"
Date Fished: 11/14/98
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Surfcasting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorty
Bait or Lure: poppers,metals, swimmers
Water Depth: 4-8 feet
Water Temp.: low 50s
Information : Fished 11/14 starting at 1st lot at the Hook from 0545-1000. Guy next to me got a short before sunrise on popper. No other fish. Only minor bird action 1 mile off. Alot of rods. Drove south as far as Deal, no birds working anywhere, no fish! Where's Poppy, my good luck charm, when I need him? A TIP TO GUARANTEE HOOKUPS: Find out where I'll be fishing, then go fish somewhere else!

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Angler Name : Jim G.
E-Mail : MOLLYB@INJERSEY.COM
Boat Name: MOLLY "B"
Date Fished: 11/13/98
Location: IBSP
Fishing Method: TROLL, JIG
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30'
Bait or Lure: UMBRELLA/AVA JIG
Water Depth: 25 TO 35
Water Temp.: ?
Information : RAY, DON AND HIS SON AND I HIT THE WATERS OFF IBSP AT A LITTLE BEFORE EIGHT IN THE MORNING. MUCH TO MY SURPRISE THERE WERE A LOT OF BOATS ALREADY CHASING FLOCKS OF BIRDS AND THROWING METAL.WE SAW LITTLE LANDINGS AND THIS PROMPTED US TO DECIDE TO TROLL UMBRELLA RIGS. THE RIG WASNT IN THE WATER A MINUTE AND WE WERE HOOKED UP WITH A BASS, HE WAS ONLY 25" BUT A WELCOME SIGHT. WE SPENT MOST OF THE TIME TROLLING BUT ON OCASSION WE STOPPED AND JIGGED WITH QUITE A BIT OF SUCCESS. AT ONE TIME KEVIN A MERE LAD OF "ELEVEN" LANDED A TRIPLE HEADER, TWO BLUES AND A STRIPER ON THE SAME UMBRELLA, WHAT A SHOW! WE WOUND UP WITH THIRTEEN NICE BLUES TO EIGHT POUNDS AND A 30" STRIPER, ONE OF PROBABLY 12 LANDED, THE REST WERE THROWBACKS. WE LEFT THE AREA AT AROUND ONE O'CLOCK AND HAD A GOOD DAY OF FISHING! THERE WAS BAIT FISH ALL OVER AND ONE OF THE BLUES HAD SEVEN SMALL FIVE TO SIX INCH BUNKERS IN HIS STOMACH,A SAND EEL AND A RAIN FISH. WE ALSO LANDED LARGE HERRING WITH A BLUE ON THE SAME UMBRELLA. STILL LOOKING FOR ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN ANY WINTER FLOUNDER? GOOD FISHING!

Angler Name : M. Moscufo
E-Mail : MMOSCUFO@pseg.com
Boat Name: Cock Robin
Date Fished: 11/13/98
Location: South of Manasquan Inlet
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30"
Bait or Lure: Bucktail/Porkrind
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Captain left the dock with 10 anglers and ran approx 5 miles south until we found birds working the fish. First and second cast small stripers on a bucktail. During the rest of the day we chased fish all the way down south to Seaside Amusement Pier, with fish breaking water everywhere. Ended the day with 10 medium size bluefish in the cooler and a 30" Bass. Many short bass were returned as well as all the bluefish you could catch. A great day with an excellent Captain and crew. Will be returning shortly, before the Bass head into hibernation for the winter. WHITE Bucktails/porkrind produced over jigs.

Angler Name : Peter Clark
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11-13-98
Location: Pt. Pleasant
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20-28
Bait or Lure: plugs,swimming,floating,jigs
Water Depth: 20 ft
Water Temp.: 50
Information : Fished with my grandfather from 6am till7:30am...saw no schools of bait or fish. Many others waiting in the southern end of Jenkinsons for the arrival of the daily schools. We called it quits, I looked over my shoulder, saw birds in the hundreds. Just as we were ready to cast, some guy in a boat comes 20 ft away from the beach and breaks the school up of bass.BOATERS, U GUYS CANT JUST GO ANYWHERE...IF U R IN YOUR BOAT STAY IN IT...THE SURF IS FOR THE SURF FISHERMEN!

Angler Name : Tom M
E-Mail : TMASS128@aol.com
Boat Name: whitestar (charter)
Date Fished: 11/13/98
Location: wrecks off barneget 3to4 mi. ??
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: clams
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Great day 2 of us ended up with 43 sea bass,4 porgies,1blackfish,and 1ling in the cooler. Quite a few throwbacks and dogfish too. but I'm not complaining.

Angler Name : Tony B
E-Mail :
Boat Name: RiaTony
Date Fished: 11/13/98
Location: Stone Harbor
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-29
Bait or Lure: Blue Bomber Plug
Water Depth: 12"
Water Temp.: 52
Information : Blues and striper blitz! 88th Street Beach, 7am and 4pm all you can catch.

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Angler Name : W.L.Avis
E-Mail : captbuck@snip.net
Boat Name: ---------------------
Date Fished: 12 Nov 1998
Location: The Wildwoods,N.J.
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5# to 14#
Bait or Lure: FRESH Bunker
Water Depth: ------------------------
Water Temp.: -------------------------
Information : Fished flood tide at Cresse Ave. in Wildwood and No. Wildwood,kept 4 blues to 14 # and released 20 blues.

Angler Name : Will
E-Mail : Navefisher@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/12/98
Location: Sandy Hook First Beach
Fishing Method: Beach fishing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 23"
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Slow day only one bass of 23" took a bunker. Talked to another fisherman who only caught 3 bass this whole week while spending over 100 dollars. Beach fishing is slow right now.

Angler Name : CHris
E-Mail : TheMaxx44@aol.com
Boat Name: K Kat
Date Fished: 10-12-98
Location: flynn Knoll to the raritan reach
Fishing Method: trolling to baiting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 21-38inches
Bait or Lure: eels,bunker spoons,and umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 21-37
Water Temp.: ?????????????
Information : Nailed those stripers trolling and baiting. It was great i got my limit.

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Angler Name : Ray
E-Mail : Finnila.com@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 11/11/98
Location: Sandy Hook surf
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: None
Bait or Lure: Bomber plugs & small frozen bunker
Water Depth: Unk
Water Temp.: Unk
Information : The rental for my slip ended at the end of October, so I decided to pull the boat out, and switch to surf-fishing. Fished the North Beach from 1:30PM to 5:00PM. Caught two skates, and nothing else. Only saw one other fish caught. Tight lines.

Angler Name : ed
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/11/98
Location: seaside heights/island beach
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: zero.... skunked
Bait or Lure: peanut bunker/sand worms
Water Depth: big surf holes
Water Temp.:
Information : RISTORI (star ledger) and GEISER (asbury park press) should both be shot! boy did they fool me and all other anglers out today fishing the so-called-red-hot-striper/bluefish action from the past week.... not one fish was caught from as far as the eye can see... a lot of anglers but nothing was biting... some birds working the ocean from about 1/4 of a mile to a mile out... too far to cast... on sunday, (11/8/98), fished the fourth beach at sandy hook and helped one angler land a 39 inch striper on clam... again... nothing caught... just a ton of skate all over the god damn place!!!!!!!!!! (they were p a lot of birds, and bait in the water... good signs but no action... all in all between the two days, a great time in the fresh air and met a lot of great anglers! one thing is for sure fisherman are the NICEST people around... hell... i will be out again... a bad day's fishing is better than a good day at work!!!! tight lines....

Angler Name : mark young
E-Mail : myoung9296@aol.com
Boat Name: weight- n-sea
Date Fished: nov 11,1998
Location: atlantic city inlet
Fishing Method: eels with 1oz slide weghts
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information :

Angler Name : bill shillingford
E-Mail : bucktail8@netscape.net
Boat Name: ten pin
Date Fished: 11/10/98
Location: 20 ft slough Del Bay
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 43 lb
Bait or Lure: bunker chunk
Water Depth: 21
Water Temp.: 52
Information : Capt George of the Ten Pin produced again--4 fish total 2 approx 25 lbs 1 at 10lbs and a 43 pounder chunking on the indoming tide up tp flood

Angler Name : Bill Shillingford
E-Mail : bucktail8@netscape.net
Boat Name: TEN PIN
Date Fished: Nov 6-7-8-9-10
Location: Cape May
Fishing Method: Drifting live eels--bunker chunks
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 12-43 pounds
Bait or Lure: eels and bunker chunks
Water Depth: 12-25
Water Temp.: 53
Information : 72 bass in 5 days---2 days in Cape May rips---2 days on Brown and Brandywine Shoals--1 day in 20ft slough in Del Bay -- Capt George Gilbert still one of the best if not the best striper fisherman on East coast provided an exciting 5 days We got away from the crowds on the weekend by sneaking over to Brown and Brandywine --Rips must have had a 1000 boats drifting --this produced excellent results with all but 3 fish undersize.Chunking produced the biggest with 2 at 30 lbs and one beauty at 43 lbs..Bunker MUST be fresh which is a problem getting ...If you want big stripers now is the time

Angler Name : Tom B
E-Mail : bren123@semcor.com
Boat Name: Wicked Witch
Date Fished: Nov 10,1998
Location: Barnegat Inlet
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 31-33 inches
Bait or Lure: Avia Jig, Rebel, Popper
Water Depth: 40 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Another great fishing trip. Three of us exited the inlet at 0700 and were going to head North to Ortley Beach when a flock of birds showed 3/4 miles off the inlet. By 0830, we had 4 keeper bass (all 31 -34 inches) and some bluefish for smoking. Threw back about 12 shorts and alot of blues. Constant action. The fish were not necessarily with the birds and we were getting them deep as well as on the surface. The hot hooks were sons Tom and Sean. All three types of lures worked well. The weather started to turn nasty so we stuck around catching some more throwbacks and were back at the dock by 1030. During the morning, the fish would run South fast and then turn up again off the inlet. Fishing died off for about an hour during the change in tide and then picked up as strong as ever. We left enough for everyone else, so go have some fun!

Angler Name : RT
E-Mail : RThomp007@aol.com
Boat Name: --
Date Fished: November 10th, 6:30 to 8:30
Location: Entrance / Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: -0-
Bait or Lure: Plugs / poppers / mullet / peanuts
Water Depth: Low tide
Water Temp.: Unknown
Information : Slow morning at Sandy Hook entrance / no fish noted caught as of this morning between 5:45 & 8:15 AM

Angler Name : j collins
E-Mail : stk7124@loki.stockton.edu
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/10/98
Location: corson's inlet
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts
Bait or Lure: zara spook
Water Depth: 2-10'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Caught a few shorts 2 hrs. before low tide. After sunset no hits. Zara spooks work well w/ no wind in the inlet.

Angler Name : Andy Flint
E-Mail : aflint@ptc.com
Boat Name: I wear the pants
Date Fished: 11-9-98
Location: Lavalette-Seaside
Fishing Method: Trolling & Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 34 inches
Bait or Lure: Black umbrella rig/ Diamond jig
Water Depth: 40-65 ft
Water Temp.: 53.8
Information : We caught 8 stripers two of them keepers, the biggest one 34 inches. The Stripers seemed to be hitting either the black umbrella rig or diamond jigs without tails on a slow jig off the bottom. Also, we boated as many bluefish as you wanted including one that was about 14-15lbs. As many boats as birds.

Angler Name : M. Guiliano
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/9/98
Location: Manasquan
Fishing Method: SURF
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: UP TO 22"
Bait or Lure: MOSTLY PLUGS
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : NOTHING IN BELMAR/BRADLEY 1-2 HOURS AFTER DAWN. GOT INTO ALMOST NON STOP ACTION FROM 9-2 AT MANASQUAN. YOU COULDN'T WALK THE BEACH WITHOUT STEPPING THROUGH BEACHED PEANUT BUNKERS. OF THE THIRTY OR SO I CAUGHT, 2/3 WERE BLUES. THREE DOUBLE HEADERS. THE GREATEST FISHING/YANKEE YEAR EVER.

Angler Name : PETE
E-Mail : PMLAU6658
Boat Name: LIGHT TACKLE
Date Fished: 11/9/98
Location: OFF LONGBRANCH
Fishing Method: BOTTOM
Specie: Tautog
Size: 4-6LBS
Bait or Lure: GREENIES
Water Depth: 45
Water Temp.: 52
Information :

Angler Name : Steve Nohere
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Miss Katie
Date Fished: 11/9/98
Location: Shrewsbury to Sand hook
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-28
Bait or Lure: Umbrella
Water Depth: 50
Water Temp.:
Information : Capt. R. Edelman decided to take a quick trip to the Monster Ledge for one last look for Bluefin. As we rounded Sandy Hook saw birds everywhere so put in the light poles with umbrellas and within minutes had two short Bass. Continued out however troll and chunk did not prove promising and the crew decided it would be more fun to go back for Stripers. So made fast trip back to the Shrewsbury Rocks..from there worked our way north to the Range Bouys stopping where ever birds were seen forming...the result was that the last two hours of the trip were spent bringing in Bass, singles doubles triples on light lines with umbrellas mostly short, some barely keepers..with three or four fish on at any given time lost count of how many went back. Crew had a ball.

Angler Name : Tom B
E-Mail : bren123@semcor.com
Boat Name: Wicked Witch
Date Fished: Nov 8,1998
Location: ortley Beach/Lavalette
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Lots of all sizes
Bait or Lure: Avia jig, Bomber, Popper
Water Depth: beach to 60 ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Super day of fishing!!! Seas were calm, and the fish cooperated. Spent 6 hours of non-stop action with stripers and Bluefish. All three lures worked well....the jig worked off the bottom got both bass and blues; the popper and Bomber worked on the surface nailed most of the bass. Ended up the day with 4 keeper bass (largest one was 39+inches/32 pounds -- Why didn't I enter the Forked river Tuna Club Bass Torney this weekend?), and a load of bluefish. During the day, me and my son and his friend boated and released approximately 30 bass(24-27 inches) and untold blues. Saw some first class fishermen out there that day on both the party boats, charters and private boats. Mark your calendar.....they'll be there next year!

Angler Name : WALT LIPSKI
E-Mail : WLipski@AOL.COM
Boat Name: HOOK 'n' I
Date Fished: 11/08/98
Location: 60FT SLOUGH DELAWARE BAY
Fishing Method: CHUNKING BUNKER
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 49" - 48lbs. 8 ozs.
Bait or Lure: bunker chunk
Water Depth: 24 ft.
Water Temp.: 54 degrees
Information : The day started out with two bluefish in the ten pound range and then we had two solid hookups with a 29 and 32 pounder on board by eleven o' clock but then the action slowed down and we didn't get another bite until three o' clock and that fish was lost at the side of the boat which made for a long afternoon, but all was not lost because at four o' clock the big boy hit and really made my day. It took approx. 1/2 hour to land the fish as I was using fifteen pound test and the tide was really ripping.

Angler Name : Michael
E-Mail : Razor155@aol.com
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 11/8/98
Location: Long port jetty
Fishing Method: Bomber, Mullet-4 in.
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18-25 in.
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 10-18
Water Temp.: ???
Information : Me and one other guy. fished the top of the out going tide. It was a pretty nasty day,out there. between the two of us, we manage to land about 10 strippers. Unforately, the were all short.but they were still fun to catch an release. hopefully, will do better next time. Good luck all!

Angler Name : Geoff
E-Mail : vonder@idt.net
Boat Name: Tumble Bum
Date Fished: 11-8-98
Location: South of Manasquan
Fishing Method: bucktail, topwater, fly
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 22-31"
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 0-60
Water Temp.: 55
Information : What a day! Started bucktailing in 60ft off Bayhead on some birds...picked up a 10# weakfish, then got into the bass. A freind called us further south, ended up off the orange fence at Ocean Beach doing work on the bass in 50-60ft. When that slowed, got on the beach where many schools of peanut bunker were being malled by blues and bass. Some schools held more bass, some less. Ended the day with only one keeper after countless shorts, but for the most part they were 22-24", not the little ones. Praying for this to continue!!!

Angler Name : Captain Nick
E-Mail : CaptNick00@aol.com
Boat Name: MJ's
Date Fished: 11-8-98
Location: Sandy Hook Reef
Fishing Method: drop n' lock
Specie: Tautog
Size: 2#-11#
Bait or Lure: green crabs
Water Depth: 50-60
Water Temp.:
Information : Ran to the Sandy Hook Reef. The blackfish are alive and biting! We easily caught out limits of blackfish to 11#, lost a bigger one at the boat. Bent rods and screaming reels to yas!

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Skylarker II
Date Fished: 11-8-98
Location: Off Long Branch
Fishing Method: Anchor
Specie: Blackfish
Size: 4 Pounds
Bait or Lure: Clam Strips.....Green Crabs...Fiddler Crabs
Water Depth: 35-60 Ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Enjoyed another day of bottom fishing with Capt Steve Spinelli aboard the Skylarker II.Made about 8 drops throughout the day,with each yielded some blackfish,sea bass or porgy.I didn't do as well as I did the previous week,but still had some nice filets for the table. By the end of the day I had 1 4 pound blackfish ( the only other blackfish I caught was too small ),a dozen plump sea bass & 2 porgies.

Angler Name : Tom M
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/8
Location: belmar,avon,sandy hook
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0"
Bait or Lure: metals,poppers etc.
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished from 6am to 12 noon didn't catch a thing. lots of fisherman NO fish. Of course four people told me I should have been there yesterday! The story of my life. Drove around looking for the birds. never found'em.

Angler Name : Johnny Mac
E-Mail : mckelvja@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 11/8/98
Location: Pt. Pleasant
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 0"
Bait or Lure: Bunker-squid-clams-metals
Water Depth: 0-10
Water Temp.: 58�
Information : Fished pre-dawn till noon without a hit. Lots of boats south. No birds.I guess it's all or nothing.

Angler Name : AMK
E-Mail :
Boat Name: "Her Diamonds First"
Date Fished: 11/7+11/8
Location: Sandy Hook+LBI
Fishing Method: surfcasting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: zippo
Bait or Lure: everything-bait and lures
Water Depth: 4-10
Water Temp.: low 50s
Information : 11/7 Fished 1st lot on the Hook from 0600-1000. Nada bite, nada fish. Alot birds working a mile off. Alot of rods. 11/8 Fished from Loveladies down to Holgate from 0600-1100. Nada bite, nada fish. Hundreds of rods. No birds working. Poppy just wouldn't give it up! My tip to all to catch fish,"call me and see where I'll be fishing, then go elsewhere!"

Angler Name : Brian Moleen
E-Mail : brian.r.moleen@bankerstrust.com
Boat Name: Tail Chaser
Date Fished: 11/8
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Jigging\Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts
Bait or Lure: ava's
Water Depth: 32-56
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished with Kevin Ardente on the Tail Chaser Sunday morning. We rounded the hook and found some birds working on bait. We picked a few short bass and a bluefish. We followed the birds for a while and continued to pick away at these short bass. The largest being 25 inches. We decided to troll bunker spoons hoping a larger one would hit. No such luck. We made the switch to rigs and started catching again. All shorts again. We all had a blast working these short bass.

Angler Name :
E-Mail : RDWRKR15@aol.com
Boat Name: cescaper
Date Fished: 11/7 - 11/8
Location: cape may rips
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28"
Bait or Lure: live eels
Water Depth: 10-30'
Water Temp.: 52
Information : Tried fishing saturday but was too roughwinds were out of the nw and made everything rough sunday winds calmed down and seas were alright started fishing last 2 hours of the incoming tide and the beginning of the outgoing tide picked up one bass that just barely made the 28" mark and realeased it headed back in cause we ran out of eels blues took a few. caught the only bass on a eel that a blue chomped off part of it. heard about alot of run offs on the radio and a few keepers maybe be back out another day

Angler Name : Ray
E-Mail :
Boat Name: dont really know
Date Fished: 11-8-98
Location: Sandy Hook Reef
Fishing Method: bottom fishing
Specie: Tautog
Size: 12-16"
Bait or Lure: fiddlers greens squid and bloodworms
Water Depth: 55ft
Water Temp.: 50
Information : Fished with my friend joe on his boat went for blackfish but as we turned the point of the hook noticed a large but scattered area of birds abotu 2 miles off the beach follwed them for a bit and i boated 3 nice stripers between 25-27" then we headed to the reef wehn the part boats killed the action ended up picking mostly short bu plentiful blackfish and a porgy and one sea bass 4 of us ended with 14 keepers but i only got one go figure but the bergalls made fishign hell but loved it anyway

Angler Name : CHARLIE
E-Mail : PMclau6658
Boat Name: LIGHT TACKLE
Date Fished: 11-8-98
Location: SHREWSBURY
Fishing Method: TROLLING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28" 30 RATS
Bait or Lure: GREEN UMBRELLAS
Water Depth: 20
Water Temp.: 51
Information :

Angler Name : Andy L.
E-Mail : Loj78@aol.com
Boat Name: surf
Date Fished: 11-8-98
Location: Sandy Hook Rip
Fishing Method: plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 22"-26"
Bait or Lure: yo zuri w/yellow teaser
Water Depth: to 10 ft
Water Temp.: 50's
Information : Got to the rip at first light w/ 2 friends of mine and saw bait fish from the tip s to the false hook. First cast landed a nice short. Birds soon got on the bait fish and a nice striper blitz occured for about an hour. I landed at least 20 with some being doubles on the teaser. Soon after birds moved to about 5 casts off the beach. Stayed for a while and by then ten boats at a time came flying around the hook and broke up the whole school.. Came across a school of peanut bunkers and threw my cast net to catch a couple dozen. Live lined them till about 10 without a tap. With 25 guys on the beach by then, saw only 1 skate reeled in. Does anyone know of a web site for the sandy hook and northern areas?? Please e-mail me.

Angler Name : dave
E-Mail :
Boat Name: dixie
Date Fished: 11/8/98
Location: ibsp
Fishing Method: eyes
Specie: Bluefish
Size: ?????
Bait or Lure: ??????
Water Depth: 40ft
Water Temp.: 52
Information : I was on the beach trying to catch some blues. the blues didn't come up to the beach. there must of been a 1/3 mile of birds out a mile.the most birds that i have ever seen. the guy next to us said that last week he had like 10 blues in the 15 pound range, he said that there was nothing that came up the beach. gonna try on fri it is soposed to be nice. until then hope to catch some

Angler Name : Glenn V, Jeff V
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Queen Mary
Date Fished: 11-8-98
Location: 1mi off Seaside Beach
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 22"-27"
Bait or Lure: AVA 47
Water Depth: 50'
Water Temp.: 51
Information : Fantastic fishing! My brother and I caught about 40 Stripers. Also, caught about 30-40 Bluefish between 4-12lbs. My brother also caught a 6lbs Weakfish. Great day thanks to JB and mates.

Angler Name : RT
E-Mail : RThomp007@aol.com
Boat Name: "DEFISINSEAS"
Date Fished: Nov. 8th
Location: Guard shack ./ Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: -0-
Bait or Lure: Plugs
Water Depth: 4 / 6 ft.
Water Temp.: Unknown
Information : Very slow morning / only one keeper caught on clam bait.

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Angler Name : Jeff
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Hookeye
Date Fished: 11/7/98
Location: belmar to IBSP
Fishing Method: PLUG AND METALS
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 0
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: BEACH
Water Temp.:
Information : HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE FISHING FROM BELMAR TO IBSP. STOPPED EVERY 2 MILES AND CHECKED OUT THE BEACH NO ONE DOING NOTHING. SOULD HAVE BROUGHT THE BOAT BECAUSE IT LOOKED LIKE THE BLITZ AND BIRDS WERE OUT 300 YARDS.

Angler Name : Jack & Bill
E-Mail :
Boat Name: White Cap
Date Fished: 11/7/98
Location: IBSP & Seaside
Fishing Method: Troll & Jig
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 8-10#
Bait or Lure: Kastmaster Jig, umbrella
Water Depth: 15-60
Water Temp.: 54
Information : Trolled for bass by beach, no go. Resorted to (ugh!) following party boats to find limited blue action. Boated and released several medium blues. Any fish will do at last call. Hope for increased action next week.

Angler Name : B McKey
E-Mail : bmckey13@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Super Chic
Date Fished: 11-7-98
Location: off IBSP
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24"
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 60 Ft
Water Temp.: 50's
Information : very slow day. Trolled from 6:30 - 3:00 boated about 15 short Stripers and 16 blues. Please email me if you know any good spots off the surf in LBI. Thanx

Angler Name : greg
E-Mail : hockeywave@aol.co,
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/7/98
Location: Ocean Grove/Asbury Park
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24"
Bait or Lure: Lure
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Great morning on the beach. Saw birds working in Asubry Park and walked up the beach. Around 7:30 am. Bass were up and down the beach chasing bait fish in the wash. Must have been 30 rods up and down the beach. Lots of fish but did not see anything keepers. Avg. size seemed to be between 24" - 26". Beautiful day !

Angler Name : John Gilchrist
E-Mail : jjgaia@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Fun King
Date Fished: 11-7-98
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Up to 29"
Bait or Lure: Poppers
Water Depth: 16-26'
Water Temp.: 50
Information : Went out Saturday afternoon with my bud Nick. Found schools of working birds all over from tip of Hook to off shore of Bridge. Played run and gun, teasing bass up to our poppers and needlefish. Lots of rainfish, no bunkers. Got quite a few shorts, one for dinner. Wicked cold ride home.

Angler Name : Two T's
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Corsair
Date Fished: 11/7
Location: ocean - Lavalette
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size:
Bait or Lure: ava-27 and deep swimming plug
Water Depth: 60
Water Temp.: 55
Information : After reading about unbelievable fishing, we headed out of BI at 8:15 and set up trolling. One small blue off of bathing beach hit plug. Only hit all day on the troll. Saw boats off of Lavalette and joined them jigging where we got two (4.5 and 12.5 lbs.). Many of the Belmar boats and also a Sheepshead boat were there picking up fish. This must say something about the prospects up north!This might be our last trip of the season . My wife says "summer" shouldn't last 8 Months.

Angler Name : John Deno
E-Mail : denojohn@shu.edu
Boat Name: Airborne
Date Fished: 11/7/98
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 47", 37 lbs
Bait or Lure: Ava 27 w/white tube
Water Depth: 27 ft
Water Temp.: 52
Information : Decided to chase birds and jig after chunking from 3:30 am-7am produced only one 26" bass. Lots of bird activity, but each blast was short lived, producing only one or two schoolies per stop, if that. While on the ocean side of the hook opposite the Highlands Bridge, my light tackle rod(6'6" medium action rod rated for 6-15 lb test and penn reel with 10 lb test) doubled over. After a 20 min battle a beautiful 47" striper hit the deck of the Airborne. Weighed in 7 hrs later, it still pushed the scale down to 37 lbs. I had a very happy birthday that day.

ngler Name : A Philips
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Sea Hunter
Date Fished: 11/7/98
Location: Atlantic Highlands
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29"
Bait or Lure: eel
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Very slow only one keeper caught by my friend Hany Hanna

Angler Name : kenny
E-Mail : s pebble @aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: nov7,1998
Location: belmar
Fishing Method: surf casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 31 inches
Bait or Lure: plugs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : bait and fish all over many hookups fish still on the feed when i left at 900am. a lot of fellow fishermen

Angler Name : Bone
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/7/98
Location: S. Seaside Park
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Other than a brief flurry of activity around dawn, there was a complete lack of action in the Seaside Park - Ortley Beach area. The party boats from Belmar/Pt. Pleasant were there but I saw no fish taken, either from them or the dozens of private boats. Beautiful day, wind appeared to be from the northwest as it was earlier in the week but unfortunately no activity.

Angler Name : HDS
E-Mail :
Boat Name: NA
Date Fished: 11/7/98
Location: Manasquan Inlet
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: spoon/plugs
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Fished from 7am-11am. Not a good day for me. I didn't see anyone catch any blues or bass. Shad was the fish of the day. I had no luck with anything. A couple other guys next to me caught shad and that was it. Everyone seemed to be using spoons. Lots of bait fish in the water. Weather was good.

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Angler Name : Tom Fullen
E-Mail : Tfu2594868@AOL.com
Boat Name: Dixie III
Date Fished: 11/6/98
Location: Barnegate Inlet
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 40 inches
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 8 to 40 Ft.
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Started trolling at 7:00 Am First fish was on as soon as the rig got down, it was a 35 inch bass. The ocean was 3 to 6 feet so I decided to troll the inlet, the action was non-stop for 3 hours lots of doubles with bass and triples with blues. The ocean laid down a bit so I trolled just outside the inlet for a 40 inch 38lb. bass. We ended up with 6 keeper bass and the biggest bonito I ever saw it was 10lbs. It is a great time to break out the wire as more and more cows are showing up. Go get em!

Angler Name : ALEK
E-Mail : JERSEYALS
Boat Name: SEA FOX
Date Fished: 11-6-98
Location: MUD HOLE
Fishing Method: ANCHORED
Specie: Ling (AKA Red Hake)
Size: UP TO 4#'S
Bait or Lure: CLAMS AND FRESH LING STRIPS
Water Depth: 170-205
Water Temp.: ?
Information : WHAT STARTED OUT AS A WINDY AND ROUGH DAY TURNED INTO A VERY NICE ONE. FISHING WAS VERY GOOD THE ENTIRE DAY WITH JUST TWO DROPS BEING MADE AND A FEW ADJUSTMENTS WHILE ON ANCHOR. I FINISHED THE DAY WITH 50 LING WHILE MANY HAD AROUND 30 OR SO. THERE WERE NO CODFISH CAUGHT ON BOARD WHICH SURPRISED ME A LITTLE, WE DID SEE A FLOUNDER AND A FEW SEA BASS.THERE WAS VERY LITTLE DOGFISH ACTION WHICH MADE IT JUST THAT MUCH BETTER. ANYONE WHO FISHES WITH DON KNOWS HE IS ONE OF THE BEST THERE IS SO YOU CAN'T GO WRONG BY TAKING A DAY TO DO A LITTLE BOTTOM FISHING WITH HIM. IF YOU DO GO TELL HIM ALEK SAID HI, I'M IN FLORIDA NOW EXPLORING THE FISHING SCENE HERE.

Angler Name : B. DAVIS
E-Mail : RWDhancock@aol.com
Boat Name: Donna Jean
Date Fished: 11/6/98
Location: Sandy Hook Reef
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Tautog
Size: 4-10lbs.
Bait or Lure: crabs
Water Depth: 47ft.
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Started off very slow with a few drops producing nothing. Found a new piece of bottom about 1:30 p.m. and limited out by 2:15 p.m. We through back fish under 4 pounds with our biggest aroungd 10lbs. Once your crab hit the bottom a blackfish would hit before you had a chance to take up the slack. The blackfish didn't give the bergalls a chance to take your bait. Best day of blackfishing this year. Tight lines!

Angler Name : crab
E-Mail :
Boat Name: surf
Date Fished: November 6, 1998
Location: Pt. Pleasant to Bay Head
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size:
Bait or Lure: plugs, metal
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished from noon to dusk, not even a tap. The only fish I saw caught was a skate, which a guy caught on a piece of squid.

Angler Name : GD
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Slacker
Date Fished: 11/6/98
Location: Cape May Rips
Fishing Method: drifting eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts to 40"
Bait or Lure: live eels
Water Depth: 10-40'
Water Temp.: ???
Information : Took a party boat trip with the Miss Chris II, out of Cape May. NW wind @ 10-20 mph. partly cloudy, upper 40's. high tide @ 9:30 AM. Crowded boat. 7 keepers caught ranging from 28" to 40". 2-3 shorts, also. I was one of the fortunate few... I scratched up a 35". If you plan to take this boat, get there REAL early; they left the dock at 7:15 AM, despite a posted departure time of 8:00.

Angler Name : Dave
E-Mail : david598@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Queen Mary
Date Fished: 11-05-98
Location: Manasquan, Pt Pleasant, Lavallete
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3-15 lbs
Bait or Lure: ava split
Water Depth: 10-50
Water Temp.: ??
Information : Fish on immediately out of the inlet. CPT Riback and mates were awesome. 17 soldiers had a trip of their life. About a dozen short Bass mixed in. What a great day. No if only I can teach the First Sergeant not to try to cast...... Go catch em while they are hot.... Go Army!

Angler Name : oil crew
E-Mail : n/a
Boat Name: Noreaster II
Date Fished: 11/05/98
Location: Cape May
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29 to 35 "
Bait or Lure: Eels
Water Depth: rips
Water Temp.: 54
Information : Another excellent charter on the Noreaster. Captain and mate are excellent and friendly. 6 of us caught a total of 9 keepers with several run offs and a couple of throwbacks. Action all day. Rips were packed with boats and this was a weekday! Cannot imagine the weekend congestion. Several inconsiderate fishermen with no regard for fellow anglers frequently made passes too close to the bite which instantly shut it off - use your head. Highlight of the day was a rookie angler, MC, so concerned with eating his soup he lost a big one that hit his unattended rod. Cold conditions did not hamper this magnificent day. I highly recommend this charter. Jim Frank

Angler Name : JIM S.
E-Mail : JSAPIA@EROLS.COM
Boat Name: NIGHTHAWK
Date Fished: 11\5\98
Location: BAYHEAD
Fishing Method: JIGGING
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5-12 LBS
Bait or Lure: AVA 47 JIGS
Water Depth: 30FT
Water Temp.: 56
Information : HAD A GREAT DAY FISHING ON THE NIGHTHAWK. I'M SURE EVERYONE CAUGHT THERE LIMIT. THERE WERE BLUES EVERYWHERE. THE CAPTAIN DID A GREAT JOB PUTTING YOU RIGHT ON TOP OF THEM. FISHING WAS JUST FANTASTIC. HATS OFF TO THE CAPTAIN AND MATES, THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY THE BEST IN THE BUSNESS.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: November 4
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 5 to 20 Lbs.
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 45'
Water Temp.: 56
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Canyon Runner out to the Shrewsbury Rocks on Wednesday with the Jim Lister charter from Lnychburg, PA. Trolling around the Rocks produced 60 Bluefish and 25 Bass with 4 Keepers up to 33" brought back tothe dock. Most of the action took place on the outgoing tide with the fish hitting Red Umbrella Rigs two at a time.

Angler Name : fm/nj
E-Mail :
Boat Name: surf
Date Fished: 11/04/98
Location: bayhead
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts
Bait or Lure: small plugs/spoons
Water Depth: 1-6
Water Temp.: 59
Information : .....my friend john and i walked on the beach at 1:15 pm wednesday, after playing hookey from w##k, and caught the afternoon bite on an incoming tide....bass, blues, bait and birds all over as far as the eye could see...hooked-up fishermen lined up and down the beach as far as the eye could see...light nw wind, clear waters and bright sunshine made for a perfect daytime bite....big blues in the 5-10# class and bass mostly in the 22-28" range...feeding on heavy concentrations of spearing with occasional schools of peanut bunker coming through....a steady bite for 4hrs and left them bitin'....hated to do it but my friend john is an 'old man' and he was too tired to keep fishing...this fishing is hot...almost too easy, so make hay while the sun shines....

Angler Name : paul
E-Mail : hibbitt_paul@bns.att.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 11/4/98
Location: mantoloking and pt. pleasant
Fishing Method: surf plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: n/a
Bait or Lure: plugs
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: 58
Information : fished mantoloking yesterday morning before work. nothing doing. one fish followed my popper. same for mike. had to get to work. heard the fishing was wild again in the afternoon, so i (shhh ... don't tell the boss!) snuck out a little earlier than i should have yesterday. actually, a quite a bit earlier than i should have. made my way to point pleasant, but it was over by the time i got there at 4:30. a move to bayhead around 5:30 produced the same. nice moon rise in the clear skies. gonna try it again today.

Angler Name : Tom "BRAGGNSIZE" Rabi
E-Mail : Telechron2@aol.com
Boat Name: BRAGGNSIZE
Date Fished: 11-4-98
Location: Berkley Beach
Fishing Method: Surf PLug'n
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Poppers/Kastmasters
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Another great November fish'n day athe Jersey Shore. BIG blues continue to please. Saw a fellow fisherman lose his popper to a break off of a BIG SLAMMER only for another fisherman to catch the same fish with the popper in it's BIG PIG mouth.....Bass heard of but not seen...........FISH 'em up

Angler Name : dan embon
E-Mail : deembon@gateway.com
Boat Name: bluesky
Date Fished: 11-04-98
Location: manasquan ridge
Fishing Method: troll/jig
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20-30inches
Bait or Lure: avis/jigs
Water Depth: 44
Water Temp.: n/a
Information : fishing for blues and picked up 5-9 pounders also caught 3 stripers that came to a surprise. one was barely a keeper.

Angler Name : Tom&Bud
E-Mail : jhickey@ptd.net
Boat Name: REEL HICK
Date Fished: 11-4
Location: Chapel Hill
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 15in-22lbs
Bait or Lure: umbrella rig-eels
Water Depth: 35ft
Water Temp.: 56
Information : We started out at 1:30pm drifting eels,nothing,so we decided to give trolling a try(3:30pm),we had a ball.We were going to troll 2 rods,but we did not even have time to set the other rod,every time the rig got down there we had them.The fish were 15-27in but it was alot of fun,we had many doubles& triples,also 3 blues 8-14lbs.All this happened in an hour and a half.At 5:00pm we started eeling again,only got 2 more stripers by 7:00 but they were 15&24lbs(which we returned) had to leave early because of work.It was a great day on the bay.Tite Lines.

Angler Name : Jim Balicki
E-Mail : emcjim@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: Nov. 4 & Nov. 3
Location: Pt. Pleasant, Mantoloking, Manasquan
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24 in. to 32 in.
Bait or Lure: Plugs
Water Depth: 0 to 6 ft.
Water Temp.: ?
Information : On 11/3, it was all Blues for us at Mantoloking. Saw some Stripers caught, but did not get one. On 11/4, fished the afternoon, starting at Pt. Pleasant; 2 Stripers on a Mambo Minnow, then the action stopped. Moved to Manasquan, and got 1 Blue on a Pencil Popper, then 2 Stripers on the Mambo Minnow. The keeper was 32 in., the largest I have ever caught in the surf. Seems there are far less fishermen at Manasquan than at the Pt. Pleasant- Bayhead-Mantoloking stretch. Manasquan is a secret -- shh, don't tell the others.

Angler Name : JSpaits
E-Mail : pipperno1
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/4/98
Location: bayhead
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25-30
Bait or Lure: poppers bombers crippled herring
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 58
Information : arrived 6:30 fish started hitting at 7:00 bass everywhere in the morning.Best day i ever saw in nj.All day long at least a 3 mile strecth of blitzes of and on all day.blues mixed in with bass later in the day.plenty of birds,bait,bass and blues.i got a bird on first cast plugs picked up a lot of bait about 10 stripers and 6 blues. got all of those B's

Angler Name : Warren Avis
E-Mail : captbuck@snip.net
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 04 Nov 1998
Location: N.Wildwood,N.J.
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2 to 10 #
Bait or Lure: Hopkins and fresh cut bunker
Water Depth: -----------------------
Water Temp.: ------------------------
Information : Fish moved in last 2 hrs. of ebb tide and first hour of the flood. Have to cast over the bars to get fish,which is easy at low tide.

Angler Name : Ed
E-Mail : EdLB111
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 11/3/98
Location: Bay Head
Fishing Method: Plugging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: > 10 lbs
Bait or Lure: Yozuri minnow
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 56
Information : Blues! Blues! Blues!..... Dave and I got to the beach @2pm and could see the blitz from the street. There was fish action in the water up and down the beach. Started casting into fleeing bait with no luck, so we took off metal leaders and WHAM! We had strikes on every blitz. Didn't have to move from our original spot, as the action eventually landed directly in front of us. Fished from 2pm - 7pm and landed at least 20 monster blues( plus many shorter fish)and 1 stripper @ 24". What a day!

Angler Name : Jerry
E-Mail : GJG33NJ@AOL.COM
Boat Name: First Choice
Date Fished: 11/03/98
Location: Manasquan Inlet (south)
Fishing Method: Casting Jigs
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5 -7 Lbs
Bait or Lure: Dimond jig /silver metal jig
Water Depth: 30 - 50 Ft
Water Temp.: 48.5
Information : Started out trolling north of the inlet but, headed south when I heard the bluefish were blitzing off of Bayhead. Met up with a group of about (10) boats casting for blues. Caught and released as many bluefish (5 -7 Lbs) as I wanted. Lots of birds and bait in the water. Headed back to the marina about dusk. Nice short day fishing ! Will be back again next week ! Hopefully the stripers will be running !

Angler Name : Donna
E-Mail : BBWWH@aol.com
Boat Name: Freebird
Date Fished: 11-3-98
Location: 1/2 mile off manasquan inlet
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5-7lbs
Bait or Lure: surface popper/ fish
Water Depth: abt 30 ft
Water Temp.: cold
Information : Caught 3 nice sized blues in about an hour then the tide must have changed because then we didn't catch anything else. Found out you do not troll on the top of the water because birds WILL mistake your fake fish lure for a real one. Had to release some sort of ocean bird from the lure. Had the best action about 4 or 5 feet down from the waters surface. Hooked into 4 at that depth, but 2 got away.

Angler Name : JSpoto
E-Mail : JSpoto6449@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/3/98
Location: Bayhead
Fishing Method: Plugging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5 1/2 to 12 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Bombers and poppers
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 60"
Information : Beautiful day to fish! caught fish all day as the blues blitz the beach from sun up to sun down. Hundreds ogf guys were in to fish all at once. It was hard to spot anyone who wasn't hooked up. Plus I left them still biting. Saw a few bass caught but all were shorts, including my own at 25" inches. Tightline ><}}">

Angler Name : Rick
E-Mail : keahi@aol.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 11/3/98
Location: Bradly beach
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28"
Bait or Lure: popper
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: 59*?
Information : one striper caught when sun broke horizon this a.m. not by me..I was too busy fighting 15lb. class blues.Blues were in all a.m. Striper's to follow??? Tight lines....

Angler Name : paul
E-Mail : hibbitt_paul@bns.att.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 11/3/98
Location: mantoloking surf
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 12 pounds
Bait or Lure: poppers
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: 57.5
Information : fished from about 6:15 to 8:15 this morning. nothing doing in the surf until 7:15, but before that there were at least 4 big pods of large fish working offshore. fish moved in around 7:15 and fishing was good until around 8:00. caught 5 blues to 12 pounds and 1 bass at 22 inches. lost 2 fish. mine was the only bass i saw caught. all the rest were bluefish.

Angler Name : TOM "BRAGGNSIZE"RABI
E-Mail : TELECHRON2@AOL.COM
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11-3-98
Location: FUN TOWN PIER SEASIDE PK.
Fishing Method: SURF
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: POPPERS
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : BIRDS...BIRDS...BAIT...BAIT...BIGGGGGGG BLUEFISH TO 10-12 LBS NICE ACTION 11AM -3PM ON AND OFF ...GREAT DAY ON THE BEACH BUT NO BASS TAKEN OR SEEN FISH 'EM UP

Angler Name : Jim Major
E-Mail : jhmajor157@hotmail.com
Boat Name: surf
Date Fished: 11/2/98
Location: Ortley Beach
Fishing Method: Plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 19 lb Blue Fish
Bait or Lure: Bomber
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : BLUE FISH BLUES My wife Carol and son Jimmy enjoyed an afternoon of tight lines at Ortley Beach. The Blitz lasted from 2:00 till dark and most fish were in the 10 lb. range. Jimmy landed a 19 lb Blue Fish which was weighed in at Betty & Nick's. I was at work singing the Blues.

Angler Name : David
E-Mail : grahamd@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: non
Date Fished: 11/2/98
Location: bridge between lonport and oc not toll bridge
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15 16"
Bait or Lure: 4" fin-s-fish
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : dident catch any weekfish but caught 29 herring in 1 1/2 hr i am told they are good for bait, only kept 3 though, the other side of the bridge where still catching week fish to. anyone know if its normall to catch herring in this area.good luck. ps caught them at night on the out going tide.

Angler Name : Al Kozloski
E-Mail : akozols@icdc.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: Nov 1 midnight to 5am
Location: Longport Bridge (not Toll)
Fishing Method: floating jig into shadowline
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 2-3 lbs
Bait or Lure: 6" white worm
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : My brother and I both limited out on weakies in a few hours. Fished from midnight to about 5am. Also caught a few stripers 24-26 inches. Tried using a bunker head for a big striper, but no luck. Four guys showed up about 4am and used a throw-net to catch live bunker(4 inches), and were doing great catching stripers. Not sure if they got any keepers or not.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: November 2
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 5 to 22 pounds
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 30'
Water Temp.: 56
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Canyon Runner out to the Shrewsbury Rocks on Monday with the Randy Folger charter from Middletown, NJ. The trip once again provided plenty of action with Weakfish jigged up to 8 pounds plus Bluefish and 3 keeper Bass plus 10 shorts. All of the Bass action took place on the Shrewsbury Rocks except for the Weakfish which were jigged off of Spring Lake.

Angler Name : NICK & KENNY
E-Mail :
Boat Name: LISA MARIE
Date Fished: NOVEMBER 1
Location: MUD BUOY
Fishing Method: ANCHOR & CHUM
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 7lbs. - 16lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 49 ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Started the day by anchoring at the Mud Buoy. Got the chum slick going, caught 7 bluefish two fishes were 16lbs. O.K. day, got a little windy.

Angler Name : Bob
E-Mail :
Boat Name: The DJ's
Date Fished: 11/1/98
Location: Cape May, NJ
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 7 Keepers
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Discouraged by the wind in the morning Capt Tim and I decided to wait till after it died down in the afternoon to fish. We went out for a few hours. After moving around a bit Tim found a good spot and we caught 7 keeper size stripers. It proved to be worth the wait.

Angler Name : RDG
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Pursuit
Date Fished: 11/1/98
Location: Sea Bright/Monmouth Beach
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20lbs
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 30-50ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Started out late around 9:30am at the SR#1 Can, nothing for hours. Around Noon birds were working 100yards off the beach, moved in and caught a keeper. For the next hour we caught shorts to 25". Had many doubles, one with a large blue on the drop back, and a bass on the rig. Left them biting...can't wait until Wed. for another shot!

Angler Name : Brian
E-Mail : brian.r.moleen@bankerstrust.com
Boat Name: Cavan Girl
Date Fished: 11/1/98
Location: Island Beach/Barnegat Inlet
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 10-16lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 32-40
Water Temp.:
Information : Started the day by trolling of the white house on Island Beach. Right away we had the rods bent over. There was constant action with these big slammer blues all day. Later in the day we picked for sea bass and porgies. It was a little to windy to drift the barnegat light reef. Around 5 or so we started trolling again and we were right back into the action with the blues. We all had a blast. Hopefully next time we will get that cow we are looking for.

Angler Name : Ray
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Skylarker II
Date Fished: 11-1-98
Location: off the red chruch in long branch
Fishing Method: bottom fishing
Specie: Tautog
Size: 12-16"
Bait or Lure: fiddlers bloods clams and greens
Water Depth: 35'
Water Temp.: 50s
Information : Great fishing on a great boat with a great captain. Made three drops on an all day trip got a healthy mix of sea bass porgies and tog fiddlers were teh key myself and a friend combined for 21 tog 10 keepers 30+ sea bass with 9 keepers and 20 porgies. could't ask for a better day i highly reoomend this boat and ouldnt beat the guys on ti either thanx to the skolmann for gettin me two spots

Angler Name : Dick Tuliszewski
E-Mail :
Boat Name: 3-of-Us
Date Fished: 11/1/98
Location: Manasquan Inlet to Red Church
Fishing Method: Live lining
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28-30 inches
Bait or Lure: peanut bunker & eels
Water Depth: 40-50 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Started out in front of Mansquan inlet and had big blues from the get go. Lost a keeper bass at the boat. Headed north to the red church and found bass deep in 50+ ft. Picked up several more big blues and a nice keeper bass. Birds and fish disappeared after 9 am and things really shut down!! Nice day to be on the water.

Angler Name : Dave & Brian Keery
E-Mail : davek@worldwideapparel.com
Boat Name: Easy Go
Date Fished: 11/1/98
Location: Between the channels
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 25
Water Temp.: ??
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