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Angler Name : Gene Karlson
E-Mail : Matawan, N.J.
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11-29-99
Location: I.B.S.P.
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25"-30"
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 0'-30'
Water Temp.: Chilly
Information : After doing the Thanksgiving weekend Striper get together with my 10 friends on IBSP, I was the one who got the keeper this year. Monday with the wind out of the west I fished for about 2 1/2 hours. I got 3 shorts first, then my 30" 8-9lb Keeper and then a Seagull, yes a Seagull. I thought I had a 50lb Striper on the way the reel sounded as the Seagull got caught in my line. I was able to carefully time the waves as not to drown the Seagull as I brought him to shore and gently remove the 3 wraps of line around the tip of his wing. He didn't seem too happy about meeting me this way but we became friends in each others eyes and he flew away unharmed, a little scared, but unharmed. Another exciting day of fishing, gotta love it!

Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/29/99
Location: OC Jetty
Fishing Method: Plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 35" 15lbs.
Bait or Lure: black bomber / broken back
Water Depth: 3
Water Temp.: 51
Information : Here goes nothing, I have been fishing for last couple of weeks and have caught some small fish and have seen some larger fish when there was bait. The surf was up for the last couple of days and some guys were catching fish here and there but the regulars were sort of thinking it was near the end for beach fishing. Matter of fact, one guy who I seen regularly fishing the beach said that he would only fish this time of year when he sees birds. I took what he said and left it up to what I know. I heard there was still bunker in the back bay. I heard that some guys were picking up fish. I knew the wind was offshore,it was cold, and the bait would be getting blown out of the bay. Also, no one else was fishing. I managed to take a wave in the face that washed down my shirt. I thought that this would probably be one of my last times and maybe the oldtimer was right and that it was nearing the end and I would be wasting my time. 35 inches, and 15 lbs. later I think there are a few days left in the season on the beach.

Angler Name : steve
E-Mail : steven.potochney@gte.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11-27&28
Location: IBSP
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Weakfish
Size: shorts
Bait or Lure: clams,bunker&bombers
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: low - 50's
Information : Fished Island beach saturday night and all day sunday and only caught a few shorts. However, had great company as usual, and enjoyed another fishing marthon! Tight Lines. "URGENT" go to www.soundfishing.com to here about the up coming vote to open the Hudson river to commeriacal striper fishing. I don't need to tell you of the impact this will have on our fishing.

Angler Name : john howell
E-Mail : jfhowell84@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Crack-o-Noon
Date Fished: 11/28/99
Location: Sandy Hook Rips
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 33" 16lbs
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Slow day until the outgoing tide. Caught 5 stripers in total for the day, 4 on two drifts through the first set of rips off Sandy Hook during the out going tide. Eels accounted for three fish. Bunker chunks took two. Trolling seemed to be a waste of time, and we wasted plenty of it waiting for the rips to set up. The two biggest were twins at 33" and 16 lbs.

Angler Name : Emilio Pinho
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-28-99
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 32 inches
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40-60 ft.
Water Temp.: 55 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the Bounty Hunter up to the Shrewsbury Rocks with the Emilio Pinho charter. Trolling one Umbrella Rig with a mix of blue and white and yellow Shads and a second rig with tubes we managed to hook 26 Striped Bass 6 of which went in to the fish box. The fish measured 28 to 32 inches. All the action took place in 40-60 ft. of water.

Angler Name : Charlie Haws
E-Mail : charlie@webspan.net
Boat Name: THE ROAD
Date Fished: 11/28/99
Location: Mantoloking Tower
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: To 33"
Bait or Lure: Blue/White & Black/White Shads
Water Depth: 50-60'
Water Temp.: 54
Information : I turned south out of Manasquan and went to the "Tower". Managed 10 striped bass in about 3 hours of fishing. Seven were 28" or more and three were shorts. Kept one 30"er for dinner. Eight were taken on the trailing shad, seven were caught on blue /white. Some days it is blue and some days it is black; but any day fishing is a great day. See you out there.

Angler Name : Jule Szalay
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/28/99
Location: Manasquan - Pt. Pleasant
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
Bait or Lure:
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Information : There in AM-nothing. Perry-I hoped you stayed home and slept because you didn't miss anything

Angler Name : Frankie Able , Ricky Carrol Sr and JR , Rich Amanda H, Capt Bruce Hrobak
E-Mail : Captwave@aol
Boat Name: Wavedancer
Date Fished: 11/28
Location: Off Manaloaqan to Seaside
Fishing Method: Troll Shad bars and Bunker Spoons
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: All Shorts
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 35 to 65
Water Temp.: 52
Information : Fished on Sunday we had the bass short Striking us we had alot of the tails ripped off the Shads !!!! The rods whould go off if a bass was"nt hooked a rig was checked and sure enough the tails were gone !! We had alot of fun ricky who is 12 caught the first bass my daughter who is 7 caught her 1st Striper !!! Nice day Good Crew !!! Lookin for a nice Large Cow !!!!After this full moon I think we should get a better migration as lastyear!!! Tight Lines Capt Bruce !!

Angler Name : TonyC
E-Mail : headsteel@blast.net
Boat Name: FreddyC
Date Fished: 11/27/99
Location: Sea Brite Reef
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Tautog
Size: 2 to 4 lbs
Bait or Lure: greenies
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Togomania!! Personally had my best togg'en ever. Landed approx. 18 to 20 fish, 8 of 'em in da box. Saw many, many caught. Good number of them 5 to 8 lbs. or better. Crew on the FreddieC gets mucho credit (Duffy) for assisting this tog rookie. Many thanks for a good fall season!!.

Angler Name : glen fritts
E-Mail : glenbarry@webtv.net
Boat Name: runoff
Date Fished: 11/27/99
Location: normandy beach to island beach
Fishing Method: trolling sassyshad & umbrella rigs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts
Bait or Lure: umbrellarigs
Water Depth: 40 to 60 ft
Water Temp.: 54
Information : left manasquan inlet at 6am headed south in rain. Started trolling down by normandy beach in 40 to 50ft. Saw no birds working all day. Read fish but had lockjaw, ended up by island beach. Had 3 shorts, very slow day. Stay North!!

Angler Name : Ken Kurek
E-Mail : kkurek@hometowncomm.com
Boat Name: Kerri - K
Date Fished: 11/27/99
Location: Shreswbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Weakfish
Size: to 33"
Bait or Lure: Shad Rigs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished with Ed Talbot and Charlie Baumgartner at the Shreswbury Rocks. The day started slow with only one keeper in the box by 11:00am. Worked my way North toward the Sandy Hook reef and found keeper fish in 65' of water. Ended the day with 6 keeper bass in the box and a lot of throw backs including two that were keepers.

Angler Name : BILL WHELAN
E-Mail : SALTYDOG1005
Boat Name: SURF
Date Fished: 11/27/99
Location: AVALON / STONE HARBOR
Fishing Method: SURF FISHING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: POPPERS
Water Depth: 2-10
Water Temp.: 54
Information : FISHED ALL OVER THE ISLAND. CAUGHT NOTHING AGAIN! SEA WEED WAS REAL BAD. STRIPERS DONT EAT ON SATURAYS!

Angler Name : John Adamcik
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-27-99
Location: 25-30 mile wrecks
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 4 1/2 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams & Crabs
Water Depth: 90-110 ft.
Water Temp.: 56 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the Bounty Hunter from Clarks Landing Marina out with John Adamcik and members of the East Hanover Tuna Club for a day of wreckfishing. After 3 weeks of Striper fishing it was a pleasant change. Running 26 miles to the Southeast, our first stop in 90 ft. of water produced a bonanza of large Seabass as double headers up to 4 l/2 lbs continuously came over the rail. The second stop in 110 ft. proved just as productive as the large Seabass continued to bite. Mixed in with the Bass were the occasional Blackfish, Ling and Porgy. 10 to 20 ft. above the wreck you could catch all the 1 to 2 lb. Bluefish you wanted. At days end we had filled a very large Igloo cooler with Seabass, Ling, Blackfish & Blues.

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Angler Name : Jeff Austin
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Tuff Life
Date Fished: 11-26-99
Location: Manasquan Inlet
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Up to 34"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 60-70
Water Temp.:
Information : Cleared the inlet right at daybreak, and headed straight out. Loads of fish down deep (40-60 ft.) Conditions were pretty bad, 5-6 ft. swells and rain, but we stuck it out and it paid off. Caught several shorts and 3 nice keepers, the largest one about 35". Left them biting at 11:00 am.

Angler Name : Ernest D. Slaymaker
E-Mail : njfish@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Doris Mae 4
Date Fished: 11/26/99
Location: 25-30 miles off of Barnegat Inlet
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 1/2 lb - 4 lbs
Bait or Lure: clams
Water Depth: 110-125 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Trip started slow with slim "pickins" at the first wreck. Action picked up at the 2nd stop. next wreck provided a few sea bass but not many. After a 45 min. ride to the next and final wreck, action was fast & furious. Unfortunately the majority of fish at the last stop were throw backs.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Prowler
Date Fished: 11-26-99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 16.5 pounds
Bait or Lure: Eels
Water Depth: 15-20 Ft
Water Temp.: ??
Information : A semi-bumpy night on the Knoll with SE winds 15-20 couples with an incoming tide.Intermittent rain showers also made it a little uncomfortable. A light crowd of people-maybe17-20-caught a total of 14 keeper bass. My one striper was 16.5 pounds which lost the pool by ounces.

Angler Name : DENNIS SAMPSON
E-Mail : BARBARA 08 @MSN.COM
Boat Name: "THE GREAT ESCAPE"
Date Fished: NIGHT 11/26
Location: RIP / SWASH CHANNEL
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29" TO 35" 16 1/2 LBS
Bait or Lure: LIVE EELS
Water Depth: 12' TO 40'
Water Temp.: 50.6*
Information : LAST NIGHT OUT FOR THE SEASON I HAD TO END IT ON A GOOD TUNE AND IT WAS ! CALLED, NOTHING BUT KEEPERS BY SANDY HOOK!! WEATHER AND WATER WAS THE PITS ,WHAT ELSE LAST TRIP. THE WIND WAS 20 TO 25 HEAVY RAIN AT TIMES AND SEAS 3'TO 5' BUT THIS MADE FOR GREAT FISHING! STARTED FISHING AT 9:00 PM AND BY 11:30 HAD 5 IN THE BOX. BY 1:30AM HAD OUR LIMIT OF 8 TO 35" 16 1/2 LBS, ALL BUT TWO ABOVE 30".THIS TRIP I HAD THE PLEASURE OF TAKING A FELLOW WORKER FOR THE FIRST TIME AND WATCH HIM BOAT HIS FIRST KEEPER STRIPERS ALONG WITH MY REGULARS TO END WHAT I MUST SAY WAS THE BEST FALL FISHING I EVER EXPERIENCED!!!!!FOR THOSE STILL IN, FISH THE NIGHTS WITH EELS AND MOVE AROUND IF YOU DON'T REED THEM RIGHT AWAY, THEIR THERE AND SO IS THE BIG ONE !!! HAVE A SAFE,HEALTHY,AND PROSPEROUS HOLLIDAY AND NEW YEAR !!! SEE YOU IN THE SPRING! SAFE ON THE SEAS!!!!!! "THE GREAT ESCAPE" PS, MY HOLLIDAY TREAT IS FISH BETWEEN THE RED 6S AND 7S CANS AT THE TOWER,MY LAST THREE TRIPS HERE PRODUCED 23 KEEPERS TO 38 1/2",23 3/4 LBS!!

Angler Name : Tom"BraggnSize"Rabi
E-Mail : rabooo@monmouth.com
Boat Name: Laurie Jean
Date Fished: 11-26-99
Location: Barnegat Inlet
Fishing Method: Drifting Eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: EELS
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Arrived at the Marker 33 area about 9 am. Drifted eels around the sod banks and in front of the lighthouse without a pickup. Continued to drift on the South side, again without success, but saw a keeper take at the very edge of the south jetty by a boat fisherman. Radio was VERY quiet and not many boats fishing. About 12 noon the wind subsided and at 1 pm headed for the barn, SKUNKED for the FIRST time this year. One of our party did happen to "catch" a rod and reel combo that appeared to lost many moons ago. Does that count ???? as a catch ???? Fish "EM UP !! Tom

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Angler Name : Tom Brys
E-Mail : NJStriperCatcher@Aol.com
Boat Name: RippRaft
Date Fished: 11-25-99
Location: Tip of Hook,Nav. & Shrews. Rvrs.
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20-32"
Bait or Lure: Live eels
Water Depth: 10-32'
Water Temp.: 50's?
Information : Left the Oceanic Marina 8:00pm with wind & rain, worked the Shrewsbury till Midnight NADA! Snuck around the tip and 2 drifts = 3 fish 1 keeper. Too rough for the raft so back to the Navesink & Bam! 32" 2nd Drift. 2 more hours = 2 more keepers. The moral of the story is...the fish are where they are, if your not there it's gonna be slow going, but on the fall run, slow going still produces some nice fish!

Angler Name : Mark, Drew, and Chuck
E-Mail : Chuckypete@msn.com
Boat Name: ABC
Date Fished: 11/25/99
Location: 1 mile off holgate
Fishing Method: Trolling and Plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18"-30"
Bait or Lure: assorted lures
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : We started Thanksgiving by going out of Beach Haven inlet and proceeded up the beach to the red tower. We were looking for birds and bass on top of the water - nothing. We then started trolling back toward the inlet. We finally found the bass - they would come up on top of the water for a feww minutes and then go back down. We caught fish with poppers and plugs. The bass were knocking my popper up out of the water. It was a great way to start the long weekend.

Angler Name : Werner & Wolfgang Sprie
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-25-99
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 30"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 55-65 ft.
Water Temp.: 55 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina up to the Shrewsbury Rocks area for the third straight day with the Werner and Wolfgang Sprie charter. Finding heavy bird action in the morning fog, we trolled Shad Umbrella Rigs in the 50 to 60 ft. water. The results, good fishing with 33 Bass landed and all of them released. The largest Bass were in the 30" range. Blue and white and yellow Shads were the colors for today. Top feeding Bass were to busy with rainfish to show any interest in plugs or jigs.

Angler Name : Jule Szalay
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11-25-99
Location: Manasquan to Brick
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie:
Size:
Bait or Lure:
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Information : Saw plenty of people fishing at 7am but no fish. Then it started raining. Time to go eat some turkey. Wind shifted to NE as I was leaving. My guess is that it will pick up in PM

Angler Name : Brian Moleen
E-Mail : bmoleen@dresdner.com
Boat Name: Canyon Dreamer
Date Fished: 11/25/99
Location: Barnegat Inlet
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 29 inches
Bait or Lure: FIN S/POPPERS
Water Depth: 10-30
Water Temp.:
Information : As we broke the Inlet in the early AM in flat calm seas, we headed north and started to troll rigs. I marked a lot of bait with fish around the balls of bait but there was no action. I only heard of a couple small fish that were caught around Seaside Park. After the wind changed a picked up we trolled back to the Inlet to find a massive school of fish in the Inlet feeding on peanut bunker. We through everything in the box to catch anywhere between 30-35 bass in a short time. We had four keepers out of all those fish. Surface plugs seemed to work the best. As soon as the plug hit the water there were fish fighting over it. Jigging even produced a lot of fish. You did not have to stay with the birds. Just drop a jig down to the bottom and wham you had one one. Bubble Gum Fin S seemed to be the ticket. Another great day of bass fishing. Tight Lines.

Angler Name : John Miller
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11-25-99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie:
Size:
Bait or Lure: Plugging
Water Depth:
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Information : Started at 5a.m. south wind rain. Wind turned west north-west NO FISH!

Angler Name : Franki Able ,Capt Bruce Hrobak
E-Mail : Captwave @aol
Boat Name: Wavedancer
Date Fished: 11/25
Location: off mantoloaquan
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: less than28 inch
Bait or Lure: Sassy Shads
Water Depth: up to 65
Water Temp.:
Information : Caught some Stripers on Turkey day a few more trips planned with the crew so we'll be out tthere to get a few Keepers none Today alot of marks !!! And a few moe on but the wind was wiping !!Tight Lines Capt Bruce!!!

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Angler Name : Ed Holmes
E-Mail :
Boat Name: BUTTERS
Date Fished: 11-24-99
Location: Del. Bay
Fishing Method: Anchored
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 44"
Bait or Lure: Bunker heads
Water Depth: 25'
Water Temp.: 53
Information : Started fishing around 10:00 a.m. on my brother's boat. Fog was very heavy. Got chum pot over, baited up, and started chunking. Got first hit in about 15 mins. A 44 incher. Had a few more run offs. The next fish that I landed was a 26" Blue. Fished until 2:00 p.m. Saw a lot of stripper playing around on top of the water but unable to hook the second one.

Angler Name : Steve Won
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11/24/99
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 33"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 55-65 ft.
Water Temp.: 55 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula ran his Bounty Hunter up to the Shrewsbury Rocks for the second day in a row with the Steve Won charter. The zero visibility fog which plagued us for the last 3 days could not hide the feeding birds because the radar picked them up 4 1/2 miles away. Once again the top feeding Bass would not respond to Jigs, Poppers or Bucktails, however trolling Umbrella Shad Rigs in 55 to 65 ft. of water was the way to go. Four solid hours of action yielded over 50 short Bass between 22 and 27 inches, and 12 keeper Striped Bass up to 33" were put in the fish box. Hot colors today were blue and white and black and white Shads.

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Skipper
Date Fished: 11/24/99
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Tautog
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
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Information : Capt Marc sailed to the Sea Girt Reef for blacks. The light crowd caught blacks all day with a few limit catches. Good size porgys. also. I caught 8 blacks which averaged 3 lbs. I took the pool with a 4 lb black

Angler Name : Humberto Arenas
E-Mail : 6644@msn.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/24
Location: Hoboken (Colgate Pier)
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 37"
Bait or Lure: bunker tail
Water Depth: 6' ?
Water Temp.: ??
Information : Using a 4/0 hook with egg sinker on 12 Lb.test line outgoing tide.

Angler Name : DENNIS SAMPSON
E-Mail : BARBARA 08 @ MSN.COM
Boat Name: " THE GREAT ESCAPE "
Date Fished: NIGHT 11/24
Location: SANDY HOOK AREA
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29" TO 37 1/2" AT 22 3/4 LBS
Bait or Lure: EELS AND WORMS
Water Depth: 25' TO 40'
Water Temp.: 52.4 *
Information : WHAT CAN I SAY ! ONE MORE NIGHT TO FISH AND I COULD NOT ASK FOR BETTER. SLAMED 10 FISH ALL KEEPERS TO 37 1/2" 22 3/4 LBS LOST 3 AT THE BOAT(KEEPERS)BUT THE BEST WAS 4 FISH ON AT ONE TIME, TALK ABOUT EXCITEMENT. MY SONS FRIENDS NEVER CAUGHT STRIPERS LET ALONE KEEPERS IN THEIR LIFE BEFORE ! EVERY BOAT I TALKED TO HAD THE SAME , COOLERS FULL! THE CONDITIONS WERE PERFECT! MY LAST TRIP OUT IS FRI. NIGHT, BOAT COMES OUT SAT.WHAT A GREAT WAY TO END A SEASON. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! THE BIG ONES STILL OUT THERE !! SAFE ON THE SEAS ! "THE GREAT ESCAPE" PS GREG, YOUR MISSING FISHING AT IT'S BEST!!!

Angler Name : Dana & Dale
E-Mail : loco151@excite.com
Boat Name: PIKACHU
Date Fished: 11-24-99
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks / Local Wrecks
Fishing Method: Trolling / Bottom Fishing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 23" to 35lbs Stripers / Up to 10lb Black Fish
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs / Blackfish Rigs
Water Depth: 60'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Trolled in AM SUPER FISHING. 4 keepers to 35lbs. Switched to Blackfishing. Many Fish over 5lbs, 1 10 pounder. Had a GREAT DAY

Angler Name : Frank & Scott Bisceglie
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Surf
Date Fished: 11-23-99
Location: Bay Head Beach
Fishing Method: Plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 35lb & 37lb
Bait or Lure: Black Bombers
Water Depth: na
Water Temp.: 53
Information : Fished at 1st. light Caught 2 huge fish then nothing for 2 hrs.Had lunch [Left over ravioli's from Vitamia..Excellent!!!] Soon after birds started working to the south.Caught 10 more school size fish. Great Day!

Angler Name : Harry Delanoy
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-23-99
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 33"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 55-65 ft.
Water Temp.: 55 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula ran his Bounty Hunter up to the Shrewsbury Rocks area for a day of Striped Bass trolling with the Harry Delanoy charter. Finding a large area of fish top feeding on schools of Rainfish, the jigs and surface popers proved futile as the fish ignored every thing we threw at them. Trolling a Shad Umbrella Rig and a second rig with tubes, in 65 ft. of water, we managed to catch 6 keeper Bass up to 33" releasing another 20+ shorts. For the second day in a row the fishing was done in a zero visibility fog.

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Skipper
Date Fished: 11/23/99
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Tautog
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
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Information : Capt Dom sailed south to the Sea Girt Reef with a medium size crowd. We caught blacks all day. At least a half dozen limits. I caught 6 keepers to about 4 lb. Pool fish was 8 lb. Many porgys also caught.

Angler Name : Jim and Alan
E-Mail : shep9999@home.com
Boat Name: amy sue
Date Fished: 11/22/99
Location: r.b and S.R. south
Fishing Method: casting plugs ands jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 22 inch
Bait or Lure: all plugs
Water Depth: 20-45
Water Temp.: 54:?
Information : After 60 bass ,15 keepers on thurs our eyes were wide open today,however after 6 hours in fog,it never lifted we could only get 4 shorts at SR after seeing birds for 2 minutes...before they disappeared in fog. It lasted all day..Stay in bed tomorrow.

Angler Name : Len Piscatelli
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-22-99
Location: Ocean Beach
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 32"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 60-65 ft.
Water Temp.: 55 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the Bounty Hunter 7 miles south of Manasquan Inlet for a day of Striper trolling with the Len Piscatelli charter. Trolling conditions were difficult in the near zero visibility fog which blanketed the ocean all day. We did however find Bass in 65 ft. of water a mile off the beach. Trolling Shad Umbrella Rigs produced 10 keeper Bass up to 32" along with a dozen short Bass which were released. Blue and white along with yellow Shads did the trick.

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Skipper
Date Fished: 11/22/99
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Tautog
Size:
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Information : Capt Dom sailed south to sea girt reef. Thick fog. Heard the Dauntless and the Paramount. All blacks with a few porgys and sea ball. Made 2 drops. A few caught their limit. I took a limit out of 14 keepers which filled a 48 chest.

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Angler Name : Capt.JimLynch
E-Mail : Finaddict.sportfishing@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: FinAddict
Date Fished: 11/21/99
Location: Shrewsberry Rocks
Fishing Method: Troll Wire
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 36"
Bait or Lure: Sassy shad umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 45 to 60'
Water Temp.: 54F
Information : Fished a half day trip with the Tony Mauro Party from Toms River.Trolled (3)keepers up to 36" along with (6) shorts.Most fish were taken on green/white rigs,on the offshore side of the green can,at the rocks.

Angler Name : chris
E-Mail : BOARDER291@AOL.COM
Boat Name: 25' PROLINE
Date Fished: 20th & 21st
Location: sandy hook-everywhere
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: none
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth: 20-73
Water Temp.:
Information : fished both days-gorgeous out; sunday the watere was flatter than a lake, the only thing bad was we had the wrong tide. fished slack and the outgoing tide, nothing. we made many drifts on close to the beach, one take and i lost it, i nevr should have put the rod in the rod holder, the fish took off!. . . and dropped it. One cool part of the day was seeing a seal, i couldnt believe it. this thing must have weighed 50++ pounds, it was huge, i have heard of seal sightings around the hudson, but right off sandy hook? a hundred yards off the beach in the bay? even thought we did not get any fish it was still a great day

Angler Name : Carl Johnson
E-Mail : NOSPOT2FSH@AOL.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/21/99
Location: WHALE CREEK, Sea Isle City
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 36 inches
Bait or Lure: Jig Head w/4 "Fin-S..Buck Tails
Water Depth: 15 feet
Water Temp.: mid 50's
Information : Set out fishing at 3:00. Made several drifts from Flat Creek to channel marker 337. Drifted between 337 and 339. Sun went down at 5:00, almost high tide. Hooked fish near 337 marker and it took about 20 minutes to bring in 36 inch Striped Bass weighing 22lbs. Caught fish using jig head with 4" FIN-S. Joe and I stayed til fog chased us in around 5:45. If it wasn't for the fog, we would have stayed longer. It was my 1st striper keeper ever. What a thrill it was to bring it on the boat.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Skylarker II
Date Fished: 11-21-99
Location: Sandy Hook Reef
Fishing Method: Anchor
Specie: Tautog
Size: 10 inchs-9 pounds
Bait or Lure: Green Crabs & Fiddler Crabs
Water Depth: 35 Ft
Water Temp.: ??
Information : A 10 man charter yielded 8 keeper blackfish and probably twice as many sublegal tog.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 21
Location: off Pt. Pleasant
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 38"
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 45
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Andrianne DiBlasi charter from Brick, NJ out on the Canyon Runner Sunday and again found acres of Bass finning on the surface but unresposive to lures and jigs. Trolling did produce a decent catch however as 12 keepers were boated on weighted green/white shad umbrella rigs. In addition 20+ shorts were released.

Angler Name : Dan Diana
E-Mail : dannodi@webspan.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/21/99
Location: manasquan inlet
Fishing Method: spinning reel
Specie: American Shad
Size: 14"
Bait or Lure: white rubber grub
Water Depth: 12'
Water Temp.:
Information : caught 4 shad in about 20 minutes off the wall at the inlet. they hit at sundown. went to the north jetty for stripers after dark in the thick fog and found none.

Angler Name : Geoff Taylor
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Surf
Date Fished: 11/21/99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Surf Casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: All types of lures
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Out at dawn, again pretty slow up and down the ocean side beaches. Left about 10am and decided to return for the incomming tide. Finally saw some birds attacking bait in the cove on the North bay end of the Hook. Fished there for about 2 hours and caught 8 bass, all around 20-25 inches. There was very good action even when the birds and bait seemed to have disappeared. All fish caught on artificial bunker rattles....great time.

Angler Name : chuck
E-Mail : jcs53@csionline.net
Boat Name: Carol-e
Date Fished: 11-21-99
Location: 1.5miles off seaside
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28" to 37"
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs and bombers
Water Depth: 60'
Water Temp.: 53
Information : only caught 3 today but all where keepers. 1-28" striper 1-29" and 1-37". black and green worked well. caught the 37" on a black bomber.

Angler Name : Gino Reiana , Frankie able, Capt Bruce Hrobak
E-Mail : Captwave @aol.com/
Boat Name: Tanerz Lurz < Wavedancer
Date Fished: 11/20 / 21
Location: offSeaside and Mantaloaqan
Fishing Method: Trolland Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 39 inchs
Bait or Lure: Shad bars and TanerzBucktails
Water Depth: 35 to 65 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Started out on Sat and did real good we had alot of double headers 2 and 3 at once we also had some real Quaility STripers they were realy fat fish east to west Trolling seemed to work the best we lost a bas eest over 40 lbs the fish somehow twisted the mono, On sunday fish were allover in the am but we fished after 2:00 and got a few up to 35 inchs but that was in 65 ft of water !!!!! On the way in the coast Guard was directing boats in the fog was so thick I was on the 20 foot Ceneter console not the 29 Topaz ,with no RADAR going back was a rael tough job went threw the Canal could barley see the trip across the bay was ok the gps Handheald was actin up so a coarse of 280 was taken to get us home!!! Be real careful with this Weather Tight Lines Capt Bruce !!!

Angler Name : jeff
E-Mail : fishnlines
Boat Name: Pegasus
Date Fished: 11/20-21/99
Location: Off Margate
Fishing Method: Bucks/Poppers and Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 45 ft
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Out with Capt. Jim and friends both days. Saturday we chased the birds and the fleet after 10 am. Lots off marks on the fish finder but only coaxed one shorty to come aboard. I did catch one nice blue though trolling with a popper with a squid teaser. Sundays trip yielded nothing and we abandoned the hunt when heavy fog rolled in. We hoped the Eagles would bring us some exitment but NO LUCK there either. Maybe next week will be better.

Angler Name : Doug
E-Mail : reel1crazy@aol.com
Boat Name: ReelCrazy
Date Fished: 11/21/99
Location: Del Bay Maulmall shoal
Fishing Method: bunker chunk
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 44" 36lbs
Bait or Lure: bunker chunks
Water Depth: 20 foot
Water Temp.:
Information : What a great day after the fog lifted. the bay was as calm as glass. here it it almost the end of Nov and out fishing in a tee shirt, after the tide turned fishing picked up lots of good knock downs and landed my 44 at 1 hr after the change . its all most over for the year See you all out there in the spring

Angler Name : sarah gensheimer
E-Mail : singernumber9@webtv.net
Boat Name: flounderpounder
Date Fished: Nov 21 1999
Location: shark river
Fishing Method: anchored
Specie: Winter Flounder
Size: 16 inches
Bait or Lure: sandworm
Water Depth: 11 feet
Water Temp.: 54
Information : caught 27 fish on incomimg tide....

Angler Name : j.leo
E-Mail : kimnjim@jerseycape.com
Boat Name: isabella rose
Date Fished: 11/21/99
Location: cape may
Fishing Method: everything
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30"
Bait or Lure: everthing
Water Depth: 18'-29'
Water Temp.: 57
Information : fished the 20 min slough did nothing. fished the rips, dirty water, did nothing. on the way in fished a rip at the end of the inlet, bouncing a bucktail off the bottom and wham!!one bass after another. mix of shorts and keepers tight lines

Angler Name : Tom Headley
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-21-99
Location: Ocean Beach
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 39"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 60-65 ft.
Water Temp.: 55 degrees
Information : Capt Paul Regula ran the Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina several miles south of Manasquan Inlet for a day of Striper Trolling with the Tom Headley charter. Trolling Shad Umbrella Rigs in 60 ft. of water we had 35 hook-ups while putting 13 nice keeper Bass up to 39" in the box. All the short Bass which were released were in the 25" to 27" size range.

Angler Name : Sad Striper
E-Mail : fishman@aol.com
Boat Name: CockRobin
Date Fished: 11/21/99
Location: 1-3 miles off beach
Fishing Method: Jig
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32""
Bait or Lure: Ava 47, Jigs
Water Depth: 60-80
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Based on the Fishing report from the Friday Star Ledger & the CockRobins Web page you would of thought this waouls be the weekend. Stripers were every where on Friday Limits for all as per the reports. Well by Saturday & Sunday they were not hungry any longer. No fish at all on Saturday & 1 Striper (32") on Sunday. Either these fish turned off real fast or these reports were real fish stories. Conditions were not the best, to much sun & calm slack tide seas. We did see and follow bird ans saw some fish on the surface. Try again next week

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Angler Name : Ed J
E-Mail : nateej@erols.com
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 11/20/99
Location: Sea Isle
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28" and less
Bait or Lure: Gotcha
Water Depth: 6'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : When I arrived at the beach on Saturday the birds were working real close to shore. Within 20 minutes I caught one 28". After that I caught about 10 more shorts. On Sunday I fished the Delaware river near Salem and caught about 25 in 2 hours. The biggest was only 27", but what a workout!

Angler Name : Jihn
E-Mail : j2flyfsh
Boat Name: _
Date Fished: 11/20/99
Location: Sandy Hook - N. Beach
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: NA
Bait or Lure: Clousers
Water Depth: =
Water Temp.: =
Information : Fished nightfall...only a few shorts were caught but the most amazing thing I saw was a big SEAL about 20 yrds away from me in the surf....dissoriented I'm sure....but after this slow night , so were we.

Angler Name : Ken Kurek
E-Mail : kkurek@hometowncomm.com
Boat Name: KERRI - K
Date Fished: 11/20/99
Location: Shreswbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25lbs.
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Went north and fished the Shresbury Rocks with John Matthews and Ron Biava. Had a good. Boated 5 keepers, one was 25lbs, and released 15 shorts. Wind picked up from the South and we left early.

Angler Name : Tom Rabi
E-Mail : rabooo@monmouth.com
Boat Name: Laurie Jean
Date Fished: 11-20-99
Location: NJ ATLANTIC
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 31 1/2 "
Bait or Lure: shads
Water Depth: 50-60
Water Temp.:
Information : Broke the Manasquan Inlet about 9 am. Seas were a bit sloppy. Wind from the South. Noticed no one fishing around the Inlet. Proceeded to head south, passing boats trolling around Bay Head and South at The Thunderbird. Lots of boats but saw NO fish. Continued south to Ortley and found many more boats including the head boats all not doing anything. Finally reached a large fleet by the SS Piesr and it seemed like this WAS THE PLACE. Lots of knockdowns. Missed the first 4 hookups. The fleet grew SO large it was necessary to move further south. GLAD we did !!! NON STOP action for the next 3 hours. Plenty of markings. Knockdown after knockdown. Best action was in 50-60 ft. of water ALL on white or black and white shad bodies umbrella rigs on wire line with a 15 foot leader with a 6 oz. trolling drail. What a GREAT day. Total 24 bass with 4 keepers. Largest was 31 1/2 incher. Gotta love it. Get out and FISH "EM UP !!!! Tom "BraggnSize" Rabi

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 20
Location: Off Pt. Pleasant
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 37"
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 45
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie of the Canyon Runner encounter acres of Bass just outside and south of Manasquan Inlet with the Pete Monati charter. Unfortunately, as everyone who was trying to cast to these fish found they were unresponsive to lure as they appear to be feeding on tiny rainfish. What we did notice was that on the umbrella rigs that we put 10oz of weight and let out 300 feet of wire while trolling in 45 feet of water did produce strikes from almost entirely keeper size Stripers. The total for the day included 8 keepers to 37" with only 10 shorts. Not the type of fishing we have come accustomed to but not bad.

Angler Name : rich pompano
E-Mail : oc pash@attworldnet.com
Boat Name: surf
Date Fished: 11/20/99
Location: 39th st. o.c.
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 35 in. 17lbs.
Bait or Lure: gibbs plug
Water Depth: 5 ft.
Water Temp.: 56
Information : birds were working when I arrived at 7:00 am came right up thru the gully between the sandbar and beach. Caught this particular fish around 8:00 am then proceeded to catch 3 more shorts (22-25 inches) had another mini blitz around 11 am after I came back from the Dolphin Dock (where it was measured and weighed). Looking for great fishing this holiday

Angler Name : DENNIS SAMPSON
E-Mail : BARBARA 08@MSN.COM
Boat Name: " THE GREAT ESCAPE "
Date Fished: NIGHT 11/19 --- NIGHT 11/20
Location: SANDY HOOK AREA
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29 1/2 -10 1/2 LBS TO38 3/4 -23 1/2 LBS
Bait or Lure: LIVE EELS / SAND WORMS
Water Depth: 12' TO 35 '
Water Temp.: 49.6*
Information : FRI. NIGHT PICKED UP ONE FISH ON THE FLATS 5 MIN. INTO DRIFT WITH A NUMBER OF PICK UPS BUT ONLY THE ONE KEEPER 29 1/2. SAT. NIGHT WAS THE USUAL WITH FISH ON CONSTANTLY ONLY BOATING FIVE BUT ALL KEEPERS FROM 29 1/2" TO 38 3/4" AT 23 1/2 LBS ONLY TO BE FORCED TO HEAD BACK TO THE DOCK BECAUSE OF FOG SO THICK I COULD NOT SEE THE BOW OF MY BOAT. I'AM STILL WIPING THE SWEAT FROM MY HEAD. STILL GETTING USED TO MY RADAR BUT MY GPS BACK TRACK FEATURE SAVED THE DAY,BOAT,AND MY NERVES.WHAT WAS NORMALLY A 10 MIN. OUT AND 10 MIN. IN TRIP,TURNED INTO AN HOUR AND FIFTEEN MIN TRUELY EDUCATIONAL EXPERENCE BUT ALL IN ALL IT WAS STILL A GREAT TRIP! ONLY A FEW TRIPS LEFT TILL ITS OUT FOR THE WINTER. DON'T LET ANYBODY FOOL YA, THERE STILL HERE,THE BIG ONES STILL OUT THERE!!!! SAFE ON THE SEAS!!!! "THE GREAT ESCAPE" PS, HEY GREG WAS THAT YOU WITH THE HOOK IN YOUR HAND? OUCH !!!

Angler Name : Mike P.
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Queen Mary
Date Fished: 11/20/99
Location: Lavallette to Island Beach
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Ava's 27 - 67
Water Depth: NA
Water Temp.: NA
Information : I made the trip from Baltimore because of the tremendous reports from the middle of last week. It wasn't happening on Saturday. The old stripers had lockjaw. My brother was the smart one. He opted not to make the drive from Pittsburgh. There were 10 guys on the boat and only about 5 fish were caught. There were no keepers. Something shut them down Friday pm and Saturday. It was a very tough day. I appreciate all of the reports that you all submit. It helps me to select the right fishing weekends at the Jersey shore. Unfortunately, this was not one of them.

Angler Name : BILL WHELAN
E-Mail : SALTYDOG1005@AOL.COM
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/20/99
Location: AVALON - STONE HARBOR
Fishing Method: SURF FISHING / JETTIES
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: PLUGS /POPPERS/METAL
Water Depth: 1-12
Water Temp.: 55
Information : FISHED FROM DAYBREAK TO DARK. NO STRIPERS. WITNESSED ONE SEMI-BLITZ IN STONE HARBOR. OUT OF TWO DOZEN FISHERMAN, ONLY SAW ONE STRIPER CAUGHT. HOPE ITS BETTER NEXT WEEKEND!

Angler Name : Lou Truppi
E-Mail : lntassociates@fast.net
Boat Name: Chelsea Lynn
Date Fished: 11/20/99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: To 30"
Bait or Lure: Megabait Jigs
Water Depth: 20 to 35'
Water Temp.: 54%
Information : Of the 30 fish landed the lion's share were caught on jigs! Megabait 3oz herring and bunker colors did the trick.A couple were also landed on Fin S tails w/plain heads,they seemed to want the Megabaits today!!!

Angler Name : Charlie
E-Mail : charlie@webspan.net
Boat Name: THE ROAD
Date Fished: 11/20/99
Location: Brick
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28"
Bait or Lure: Black/White Shads
Water Depth: 60'
Water Temp.: 53.4F
Information : Lou and I turned south leaving the Manasquan Inlet. The fleet was at the pier in Seaside. We tried our luck off Mantoloking with no success. We than turned south and managed a 28" bass off the T-Bird in 60'. We saw birds working offshore in 75' of water with fish breaking. No knock downs. The reason? The fish were large Bluefin Tuna. We broke out the 50T's; but could not get them interested. We are still waiting for the fishing we had last year. I hope it breaks loose soon.

Angler Name : david
E-Mail : kirby1266@aol.com
Boat Name: capt. robbins
Date Fished: 11/20/99
Location: sea isle city
Fishing Method: wreck
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 20 inches
Bait or Lure: mackerel and squid
Water Depth: 100 to 115 ft
Water Temp.: 55
Information : WOW my father and i went to sea isle for a 8 hr. wreck trip and it turned out to be a 10 hr. 32 miles offshore trips that produced our best catch of sea bass for the season. we kept 60 bass and threw back approx. 50 more . EVERYBODY went home with plent of bass. the surprise of the day was went my dad caught a MONK fish. talk about UGLY. CAN'T WAIT TO EAT THAT MONK. great trip with awesome capt. and crew.

Angler Name : Bill VanDusen
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-20-99
Location: Asbury Park
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 31"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 55 ft.
Water Temp.: 54 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had his Bounty Hunter up to the Asbury Park area for a day of Striper trolling with the Bill VanDusen charter. With the S.W. winds slowing down the Bass activity and the absence of bird life north of our inlet we picked away at numerous shorts and managed 3 keeper Bass up to 31" while blind trolling the lumps in 40 to 60 feet of water. Moving up to the area of the Highlands Bridge we worked a small patch of birds and boated 2 more Bass while releasing a dozen short Bass. Umbrella Shad Rigs provided the action in 55 ft. of water.

Angler Name : frank z
E-Mail : fmzman@prodigy.net
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 11/20/99
Location: seagirt
Fishing Method: bait/clams
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 23" - 35"
Bait or Lure: clams
Water Depth: n/a
Water Temp.: unk.
Information : fished the beach at sea girt from 1:00PM until 5:00PM, got the 35" at 4:00PM. the lure fishermen did nothing the entire time. no bait or birds observed the whole day. fishing is over, on to the treestand.

Angler Name : Tim&Harvey&Steve
E-Mail :
Boat Name: "Last Minute"
Date Fished: 11/20/99
Location: Seaside
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28"
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 20-52'
Water Temp.: 52
Information : We started on our journey.We headed South to Seaside.Dropped our lines,in a matter on seconds while letting the line out,"BAM" fish onn.two shorts one 13" the other 19".Started again nothing but shorts for about 2 hours.Then all of a sudden FISH ONN 28" nice fish,so after catching about 10-20 shorts we found the bigger ones and ended up with 3 fish at 28" not bad when there wasn't that many big ones caught,that we could see.Nice Fishing Guys......

Angler Name : Ritch
E-Mail : ritch@atoncomputing.com
Boat Name: just reelin'
Date Fished: 11/20/99
Location: 2 miles off Highlands Bridge
Fishing Method: troll/jig
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20 to 27"
Bait or Lure: green & black tubes
Water Depth: 35' +
Water Temp.: 53
Information : Saw birds working by an anchored freighter off the bridge. Had 37 bass and 2 blues; no keepers. Great day, went home in three hours.

Angler Name : Jule Szalay
E-Mail : jalay477@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11-20-99
Location: Bay Head to Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0'-0"
Bait or Lure: Plugs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Scouted and/or fished the area-heard of 3 shorts. No birds working-saw some bait. Damn south wind! Gonna try again tomorrow

Angler Name : Capt. Mike D.
E-Mail : Anchbomb@Aol.com
Boat Name: Nocturnal
Date Fished: 11/20/99
Location: Manasquan to Bayhead
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28"
Bait or Lure: Shad Umbrellas
Water Depth: 45 to 60ft
Water Temp.: 54 degs
Information : Got out the inlet around 7am and decided to hit south for a change. Laid out first umbrella on wire around Beacon and picked up the first bass within 5 min. Kept heading south and picked up 2 more. Didn't fish for long but got 2 keepers and one short. Good day of fishing!!! Congratulations to Bob Aromando who got his first bass and his first keeper today thanks to Capt. Mike.

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Angler Name : Tom
E-Mail : tcw30@hotmail.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/19
Location: Ocean City
Fishing Method: Bucktailing
Specie: Fluke
Size: 19.5"
Bait or Lure: White Bucktail w/ White Grub
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: upper 40s
Information : Fished the Rush Chattin Bridge at Corsons Inlet after dark. Was bouncing a bucktail on the bottom for stripers and I caught a 19.5 inch fluke. I carefully released it but it sure would have been nice to have a fresh flounder dinner this late in the year. I also got 3 bass ranging from 20 to 27 inches. Tight lines.

Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@yahoo.clom
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/19/1999
Location: OC beach
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: all sizes except keeper
Bait or Lure: Rat L Trap
Water Depth: 5
Water Temp.: 55
Information : I fished all this week from either boat or beach and yesterday the 19th was the DAY! I went to the bank but took my bike with me on the boardwalk. I noticed all of the fleet close to the beach so, I did my business and got my gear. I arrived at the beach at 12:00PM and did not leave till 5:00. I have not seen that much bait since the mullet run. I stayed put, and managed to catch 30 stripers. I was lucky to say the least, I have had a Rat L trap lure in my bag for 3 years and have never caught a thing on it. I saw a guy hook up with three fish one after another, so I put that one on. Every cast was either a bunker on the lure or a bass. What a day!! my arms were aching. It was truly the best place to be. Needless to say I woke up at dawn on Saturday only to catch seaweed. No birds, no bait , nothing business as usual.

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Freddy C
Date Fished: 11/19/99
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Tautog
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Capt Freddy sailed to the Sandy Hook Reef on a calm, mild morning. It was a slow pick for a small group with a few large fish. I had 5 keepers.

Angler Name : Nick Ferrara
E-Mail : jetyjockk@aol,com
Boat Name: Fun King
Date Fished: Friday, 111999
Location: Sandy Hook Rips
Fishing Method: Jigging/Plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 10-30 lbs.
Bait or Lure: jigs,teasers.poppers
Water Depth: unk
Water Temp.: unk
Information : went out with John Gilchrist on his FUNKING. put in at Leonardo, beutiful day. we saw birds working in the morningat Roemers; caught 2 shorts on jigs with teasers. John got a nice big one in the A.M. I got 2 shorts. Road around all day, like everyone else. No birds, no fish. On the way in in the bay, john looked at the fishfinder and found a large school on the bottom. a couple of minutes later; John had the biggest bass of the year in the box. A great day. May get out Thanksgiving weekend, Best Wishes for a Happy Thankgiving, Tight Lines.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 19
Location: off Bay Head
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: u to 36"
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 45
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Pat Ryan charter back out on Friday for another day of Striper fishing and put together another excellent catch. Trolling south of Manasquan Inlet near Bay Head 12 Stripers were boated between 29" and 36". In addition 30+ shorts were released.

Angler Name : joe,wade
E-Mail : cananko@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: joe a
Date Fished: 11-19-99
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: casting plugs and trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 16"to 25"
Bait or Lure: shassy shad umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 33to52
Water Temp.: 47
Information : At day break million of birds right in the bay got seven shorts birds broke up. We went to tip of hook lot more birds started trolling a bunker spoon, sassy rig, could not keep fish off the hooks. 25 shorts, dropped two big boys, dropped 8lb. weak fish at boat. Left them biting had to go to work. STUPID FISHING

Angler Name : Jerry Barton
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-19-99
Location: Asbury Park
Fishing Method: Trolling & Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 35"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40-50 ft.
Water Temp.: 54 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula ran the Bounty Hunter back to the Asbury Park area for a day of Striper trolling with Jerry Barton, Mike Heinrich Sr. and Mike's son Mike Jr. Getting off to a slow start with only short Bass being caught in the A.M. we worked the area up to Long Branch trolling Shad Umbrella Rigs catching and releasing Bass in the 20" to 27" range. By noon we found some good reads back at Asbury Park and managed to put 6 keeper Bass up to 35" in the boat.

Angler Name : bill howard
E-Mail : bill.howard@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: final final
Date Fished: 11/19
Location: 2 miles off a.c.
Fishing Method: casting bucktails
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24 thru 34
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 51
Information : the birds are back .fished schools from 9 a.m. thru 4pm i lost count on the fish . but the big thing was 10 to 20 feet off my boat two times appeared a 25 -30 foot whale. i never saw anything like it before.it appeared that it was feeding on the bait fish.it was amazing.

Angler Name : Greg Heminway
E-Mail : hrsilky@aol.com
Boat Name: Top Shelf
Date Fished: 11/18/99
Location: Holgate
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 34" to 38"
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth: 26'
Water Temp.: 44
Information : Last Friday was awesome and today was just as good. Left the dock at 7:30am for the 2nd half of the outgoing tide. The bite was on!! Had my limit within 20 minutes. Proceeded to catch and release a few more and called it a day. I've heard that the incoming tide has been better lately. I'll have to try that tomorrow!

Angler Name : B ZINETTI
E-Mail : lc1183@home.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 11/18/99
Location: South Seaside Park
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20-36
Bait or Lure: plugs
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Got down there at 2:00 nothing till 3:30 bait came in and the bite was on. lasted for an hour I had two keepers at 28"other guys had some biger but mostly shorts

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Skipper
Date Fished: 11/18/99
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Tautog
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Capt Marc sailed northeast to an area near the Farms. First day after a three day north west gale. First drop produced humpback sea bass - double & triple headers for an average crowd.. We made about 5 drops. Nice blacks caught at the Farms. I caught 3 including a 6 lb pool winner. My daughter, Sue, and I filled a chest with bass and blacks. Many porgys caught, some dinner plate size.

Angler Name : Jon Murray
E-Mail : murray@quadnet.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/18/99
Location: Lavallette
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24"-33"
Bait or Lure: Live Bunker
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: Low 50's
Information : As we were about to leave Betty & Nick's for IBSP, John Bushell Sr. called in to report TONS of BASS from Brick to Lavallette, so off we went. When we arrived the fish were there my friend Bob & I, along with a little help from my wife Linda, proceeded to catch 30 bass including two 33" keepers. Much thanks to BETTY & NICK'S for putting us on the fish!!Again.

Angler Name : Chris J
E-Mail : icytoes@ix.netcom.com
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: Thurs November 18
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 16"-26"in
Bait or Lure: metals
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 53
Information : Wall to wall birds at sun-up: caught a couple of shorts before dawn, then another dozen or so in the first hour after sunrise. Also caught a large shad on a teaser; will have to see if it's time to pull out the really big swimming plugs and go for some decent-sized cows. maybe tonight!!!

Angler Name : Bob Shisler
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-18-99
Location: Asbury Park
Fishing Method: Trolling & Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 36"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs & Jigs
Water Depth: 40-50 ft.
Water Temp.: 54 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula ran the Bounty Hunter back to the Asbury Park area for the second day in a row with the Bob Shisler charter. Trolling in 40 to 50 ft. of water with Umbrella Shad Rigs we put 4 keeper Bass in the fish box while releasing several short Bass. Switching over to Cripple Herring and Dr. Lures Spinner Jigs another 3 Bass up to 32" were quickly jigged along with a couple of dozen shorts while drifting. Going back to the troll another 6 Bass the largest a 36" were put in the box giving us 13 Bass for the day.

Angler Name : Ron Walker
E-Mail : rwalker@trilogyassoc.com
Boat Name: MegaBite
Date Fished: 11-18-99
Location: 14ft - Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 41"
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 20
Water Temp.: 50
Information : Got him in the last 20 minutes. Still can't get more than 1 good fish per trip, but it sure beats the DONUT! Stiper fishing was slow all day in the Bay. Lot's of groaning on the radio. Had a beautiful day of fall fishing, but water is off at the dock, so one or two more trips and time to head for the barn.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 18
Location: Asbury
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 20 pounds
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 55
Information : It just keeps getting better and better. Captains Phil Dulanie and Jim Rivelli (Calypso) had the Pat Ryan charter from Cherry Hill, NJ out on the Canyon Runner Thursday for Stripers and loaded up. Trolling around Asbury/Deal we boated 31 keepers release 15 between 29 and 31 inches. The majority of the keepers we took back to the dock were over 30 inches with the largest 35" and almost 20 pounds. In addition 35+ shorts were released. The action was non-stop and we limited out in 1 1/2 hours and were releasing keepers by 10:00 a.m. While the Bass ate anything we pulled, green/white and black/white shad were the most popular.

Angler Name : Ken
E-Mail : kwidtech@ix.netcom.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11-18-99
Location: North of Manasquan
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 25-35
Water Temp.:
Information : Got out late in the afternoon for some trolling, dropped the rigs in about a mile north of the inlet and had good action all the way up to belmar, all shorts however.

Angler Name : Tim Crann
E-Mail : FinestKind25@aol.com
Boat Name: Finest Kind
Date Fished: 11/18/99
Location: Long Beach Island
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Eels...bucktails
Water Depth: 10-40 feet
Water Temp.: 50 degress
Information : Well, it had to happen....fished from 5am to 12 noon...I marked tons of bait fish all along the beach from Holgate to Harvey Cedars with no luck...Came back to the marina, tied the boat up and headed home...made the mistake of taking a peek at the beach from my truck on the way home.. You know the rest, major blitz on the beach in Beach Haven..too far for the surf casters but had I still been on the boat??????????????? Saturday is the last day, one last trip, then I'm pulling the boat for the season...it's been a good one but too quick...

Angler Name : j.leo
E-Mail : kimnjim@jerseycape.com
Boat Name: isabella rose
Date Fished: 11/18
Location: cape may
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30-32"
Bait or Lure: bucktail
Water Depth: 18'-29'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : fished some rips at the mouth of the inlet, bounced a bucktail off the bottom and wham!! every pass over the rip brought another bass,gene couldn't buy a hit. tight lines

Angler Name : Al Romanelli
E-Mail : AJRJLG@AOL
Boat Name: Miss Shelly
Date Fished: 11/17
Location: Sandy Hook, Monmouth Beach
Fishing Method: Jigs,Flies
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 27'
Bait or Lure: AVS-A47's, Bunker Flies
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished under steady bird action along sandy hook beach from sunrise to 10 AM, caught 17 shorts, only 2 healthy fish in the 27' range, several in the 24'-25', and 8 in the puny range of 17'-19'. Caught 4 on peanut bunker fly imitations and the rest on AVS-A47's. On the way home from the marina spotted bird working at the public beach in Monmouth Beach About 4PM, I could not resist, caught another 5 shorts.

Angler Name : Scott
E-Mail : jeta148@ibm.net
Boat Name: GRAY AREA
Date Fished: 11/17
Location: Sea Girt
Fishing Method: plugs/jigs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-30
Bait or Lure: top water/sassy shads
Water Depth: 10-30
Water Temp.: ?
Information : "STUPID FISHING" is the only way to discribe it.! We found bigger fish under the schools in deeper water. This is the time, bring a kid fishing,you wont regret it. FISH ON

Angler Name : Dave Granholm
E-Mail :
Boat Name: surf - jetty fishing
Date Fished: Wednesday, November 17
Location: Belmar / Shark River inlet
Fishing Method: Cast & retrieve
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20 to 25 inches
Bait or Lure: Fin-S (any size or color)
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.:
Information : WOW!!!!!!!! What a morning!!! I was all alone on the north-side jetty off the Shark River inlet. Stripers were everywhere! Caught bass on nearly every cast between 6AM - 7AM. I was physically wore out! It was pure heaven. Lord, I waited all year for a morning like this. (Now, I'm looking for some keepers!) I pulled 15 to 20 bass over the jetty rocks in 1 hour and lost a half dozen others. Caught everything on one lure.... Fin-S... even though my line broke once (the bass landed in the rocks where I retrieved my lure and the fish.)

Angler Name : Tim & Harvey & Friends
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Last minute
Date Fished: 11/17/99
Location: Pt.Pleasant,Ocean
Fishing Method: Trolling& jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28"-35"
Bait or Lure: umbrella rig & hopkins
Water Depth: 45'
Water Temp.: 52
Information : Looking for birds.Spotted birds off brick beach,dropped lines in and started our troll,"Wham",poles went nuts, fish allllll over the place,Harvey took the pole and reeled in to bass one 28" the other 34" what a blast,2 keepers, in ten minutes.Started again,just kept on nailing the fish,the seas where ruff,and very windy,but didn't care,kept going and Tim caught a 35" on a fresh water pole 10 lb. test it took about 25 min.to land what fight can't wait til tomorrow.Total fish caught 10 fish,10 keepers. Nice fishing guys.........

Angler Name : Frank Lukenda
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-17-99
Location: Asbury Park
Fishing Method: Trolling & Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 44"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs & Jigs
Water Depth: 40-50 ft.
Water Temp.: 54 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the Bounty Hunter up to the Asbury Park/Bradley Beach area for a day of Striper trolling with the Frank Lukenda charter. Trolling Shad Umbrella Rigs and stopping on solid reads and jigging Cripple Herring Jigs, the charter enjoyed one of the better days of the season with 40+ hook-ups while boating 15 keeper Bass.Tom Nichols enjoyed the day by first landing a 44" Bass (27 lbs.) and a 32" Bass at the same time on an Umbrella Rig then quickly followed up a few minutes later landing a 37" Bass weighing 19 lbs.

Angler Name : MIKE
E-Mail : KIDD763
Boat Name: SURF
Date Fished: 11/17/99
Location: SEA GIRT-BELMAR
Fishing Method: LURES
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: EVERYTHING IN THE BAG
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : MAN WHAT A DISAPOINTMENT, READ ABOUT THE BLITZES ON TUES. SO I DROPED MY TOOLS AT NINE AM AND HEADED FOR THE BEACH (ONE HOUR DRIVE) WENT TO BELMAR FIRST FOUND THE BUNKER RIGHT AWAY BUT NO BASS STARTED DRIVEIN SOUTH TILL I SAW SOME BIRDS WORKING ABOUT A MILE OUT.I SPENT THE NEXT SIX HOURS THROWING EVERYTHING IN MY BAG WITHOUT EVEN A BUMP.I SAW MAYBE 12 FISH BEACHED ALL DAY. THEY WHERE THERE BUT VERY HARD TO FOOL.A FEW FISH WOULD COME INTO THE MASSIVE SCHOOLS OF BUNKER OFTEN BUT THEY WOULDN'T HIT WHAT I WAS OFFERING I SAW ONE GUY NEXT TO ME GET A DOUBLE ON A YELLOW SWIMMER WITH NO TEASER SO I TRIED YELLOW AND OF COARSE THEY DIDN'T WANT MY YELLOW SWIMMER! GIVE IT A TRY MAYBE YOU'LL HAVE BETTER LUCK THAN ME!

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 17
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 38"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Just when we thought Tuesday was the best Fall day we were going to have with big Striper Bass Captain Phil Dulanie and Captain Jim Rivelli (Calypso) were pleasantly surprised on Wednesday as the Dennis Luczajko charter from Wayne, PA proved that maybe the best is yet to come. Trolling the Canyon Runner in the area of the Shrewsbury Rocks with shad umbrella rigs we limited out around noon with 16 Striped Bass with the large majority between 32 and 38 inches. In addition we boated 25+ shorts but again could have loaded the boat with shorts to the south but chose to hang out with the big boys.

Angler Name : John Letizia
E-Mail : letj@home.com
Boat Name: surf
Date Fished: 11/17/99
Location: Brick Beach 3
Fishing Method: poppers
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20- 30"
Bait or Lure: Gibbs pencil popper white
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : After first light on the outer bar lots of action but not many fishermen. All lures are working as long as its a popper. Get out there !!!

Angler Name : kirk davis
E-Mail : kirk_davis@hotmail.com
Boat Name: my two sore feet
Date Fished: 11/16-17
Location: off the beach in sea bright
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 22''-31''
Bait or Lure: gotcha jigs...rattletraps
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Surf fishing was fantastic on tues....60 shorts....plus some others got small keeper...weds was a bit slower..maybe 12 fish.. but got 1 10lb keeper...soft plastic shads have been good..as well as rattletraps some days small wooden swimmers also work...tight lines

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Angler Name : Herman
E-Mail :
Boat Name: SLIPPERIES R US
Date Fished: 11/16/99
Location: GE
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-30 inches
Bait or Lure: Bucktail
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Let me tell you guys something, we mugged em out there. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw them stripers splashin all over the inlet. I couldn't keep those damn stripers off my line. Unfortunately I could not catch me a keeper.

Angler Name : Jim Balicki
E-Mail : emcjim@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 11/16/99
Location: Sea Bright Beach
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Up to 29 in.
Bait or Lure: Yourzi
Water Depth: 0 to 6 ft.
Water Temp.: ?
Information : A good day at the beach with 16 Stripers including 1 keeper. The Yourzi was the hot lure for me today -- Before the Yourzi, I tried about 8 various lures with nothing on any of them, even though they were reeled through breaking fish. Sent 6 of the fish back with ALS tags including a 27 incher.

Angler Name : Jim Thompson
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11-16-99
Location: Belmar Beach
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 18" to 30"
Bait or Lure: poppers, plugs finese fish
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Bass blitzed the beach from Belmar to Point Pleasant. The biggest school of fish that I have ever seen, Mostly shorts, but there were tons of fish hitting anything you would throw. I left them blitzing just north of the Manasquan inlet heading south.

Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@yahoo.com
Boat Name: knot mine II
Date Fished: 11/16/99
Location: Ocean City
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-30"
Bait or Lure: 2-3oz. bucktails/finesse or porkrind
Water Depth: 12-20
Water Temp.: 58
Information : The wind was blowing out of the northwest at about 35mph. It was blowing real hard and it was the first artic blast of the year. I broke out my skiing stuff,thermal underwear. We caught about 30 fish with two keepers. Most of the action was by letting the wind blow the boat and dropping the bucktails straight down and letting the wind do the jigging. We went close to the beach and then proceeded to go over the outerbars with the wind pushing us it worked everytime. Also, caught some fish on top with poppers. It was a little crowded at first but I was glad to finally be on the other side of the fence. I could see my fellow beach fisherman looking really disgusted. I personally caught 7 fish with one straighting my barrelswival spring clip. Oh, well they are finally here!!!

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 16
Location: Shrewbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 35"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie once again fishing in the hard Northwesterly winds, had the Dan Black charter from Philadelphia, PA out on the Canyon Runner Tuesday and had the best day of the Fall season thus far with big Bass. Trolling around the Shrewsbury Rocks we quickly limited out with 12 Stripers most between 31 - 35 inches and continued fishing releasing another 4 keepers and 30 shorts in what proved to be non-stop action. We have found that while we could catch unlimited numbers of shorts closer to the inlet we are continuing to run to the Shrewsbury Rocks area as for the last three days we have found the big fish concentrated in one particular area.

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Angler Name : Ed Black
E-Mail : troll@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/15/99
Location: Rumson Bridge
Fishing Method: Bucktails
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : With the boat put to sleep for the winter, tried fishing the bridges. The firts bridge we tried produced nothing, then we went to the Rumson Bridge and I landed a 32 in Stripper. Had a great time getting it in .

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 15
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 34"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 35
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Jim Patterson charter from Abott labs out on the Canyon Runner Monday and had a great day of trolling the linesiders on the Shrewsbury Rocks. Trolling in 40 knot Northwestly winds was a chore but the charter stuck it out and we boated 11 keeepers to 34 inches. In addition a couple dozen shorts were also boating and released. All the action was again on shad umbrella rigs of black/yellow and black/white.

Angler Name : Steve Won
E-Mail : soul218880@AOL.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/14/99
Location: Sandy hook
Fishing Method: Plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 12" to 18"
Bait or Lure: Yozuri
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 50-55 degrees
Information : got out around 2:00 saw a large crowd gathering around the highlands bridge. went to investigate, Saw alot of peanut bunker around the area and a few birds working. about 3:00 birds started to come in. Small blitz occured with alot of schoolies. Caught and relased 5 decent schoolies about 4 lbs on average. By 4:00 the blitz was gone. Fish are there, just have to time it right. One thing that was interesting, taht exact area has been having blitzes consistantly for the past few days in the late afternoon to late night times.

Angler Name : Bill Gray
E-Mail : BGRAY80@AOL.COM
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11-14-99
Location: Bayhead
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26 inches
Bait or Lure: clam
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Hit the beach and found a strong south wind but stuck it out any way. Picked up two bass fishing the bottom with fresh clam. Hopefully things will break open this week with the drop in temperature.

Angler Name : Mike Raimondi
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-14-99
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 33 l/2"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40-60 ft.
Water Temp.: 54 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula ran his Bounty Hunter up to the Shrewsbury Rocks for a day of Striper trolling with the Mike Raimondi charter. First stopping on bird action off Spring Lake in 60 ft. of water the Yellow & Blue Shad Rigs produced a handfull of short Bass. Moving up to the Shrewsbury Rocks the 30 knot Southwest wind made tolling conditions difficult with a constant 4 to 6 ft. sea. l keeper Bass of 33 1/2" along with a bunch of throwbacks was the total on a very windy day.

Angler Name : AL Romanelli
E-Mail : ajrjlg@aol
Boat Name: miss shelly
Date Fished: nov 13,14
Location: sandy hook,raritan bay
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 27
Bait or Lure: avs - A47, FIN-S
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Started out each morning the same , birds working by the navy pier produced 6 shorts on sat, 2 of which measured 27.5. Sun the same drill, resulting in 4 shorts. Each morning the birds were there at sunrise and things quickly shut down by 8:30. While birds were present each day, I did not see as many boiling fish as I had seen during the week. Once things shut down , tried drifting eels and peanut bunker without sucess. Most guys catching the fish after 9 am were trolling with umbrella rigs. Weekdays don't seem to be shuting down as fast as the weekends.

Angler Name : Ken Kurek
E-Mail : kkurek@hometowncomm.com
Boat Name: Kerri-K
Date Fished: 11/14/99
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15lbs.
Bait or Lure: Shad Rigs
Water Depth: 50'
Water Temp.:
Information : Joe McGowan and his brother-in-law, Billy fished with me and my youngest son, Keith. Keith invited Jason, a school friend. Left the dock early and went straight to the rocks. Caught three keepers immediately in 50' water between the buoys. The wind picked up big time out of the South making fishing conditions very difficult and uncomfortable. Just before we were going to leave we hooked up with the biggest fish of the day, a 15 pounder. It was Billy's first keeper fish. He kissed it several times and we got it on film!!

Angler Name : Bill shillingford
E-Mail : bucktail8@netscape.net
Boat Name: TEN PIN
Date Fished: Nov-12,13,14
Location: Cape May
Fishing Method: Drifting/anchored
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 8-43 pounds
Bait or Lure: eels,,bunker chunks
Water Depth: 18-25
Water Temp.: 56
Information : On Friday hit the rips ,all by ourself on small rip near ferry bouy and caught 24 bass from 29 " to 35" in less than 3 hours,we went up the bay and anchored up near 60ft slough and gaight 9 more on bunker chunks both heads and steaks fish were all over 20 lbs largest 34lbs.Sat hit rips again but strong SW wind prevented good drift into rips but still got 5 from 31" to 37".Sunday wind was howling we went up the bay and anchored up near 60 ft slough in 27 feet of water and caught 11 from 34" to 50" 50" inch fish weighed in at 43 pounds. only kept 7 of all the fish caught balance put back in with a ALS tag to fight another day.Fish only wanted heads on Sunday LARGE heads too.we also lost 4 others with one being a HUGE fish probably 50lbs or larger Capt George Gilbert continues to produce large fish but the anchoring really takes patience as you can go a long time between bites .One trick to keep in mind IF you hooked up on one fish keep other lines out as long as posible as we consistently got a second hook up while fighting first fish Tom Comolli caught the 43 pounder

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Capt John
Date Fished: 11-14-99
Location: Raritan Bay/Upper New York harbour
Fishing Method: Jig
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Schoolies
Bait or Lure: AVA 067s
Water Depth: 75 Ft
Water Temp.: ??
Information : My daughter & i were hoping for another day similar to Friday and with reports of excellant jigging on Saturday we boarded the Capt John with high anticipation.We headed for the same area that they did well in yesterday-the main shipping channel in NY Harbour were the bass were stacked along the bottom and need the heavier AVA 067s to get down.Well what a difference a day makes.There were only 3 schoolie bass jigged the whole day & I was lucky enough to get 1 of them.We also tried various areas in the bay from West Bank,Romers Shoal,Sandy Hook Channel and Old Orchard with no action or bird life.Odd catch of the day was a keeper sized fluke ( released ) which was caught on a sandworm.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 14
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 34"
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigsq
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Captains Phil Dulanie and Joe Dalik (Moondancer) had the Canyon Runner back up to the Shrewsbury Rocks on Sunday with the John Welch charter and had another excellant catch of Stripers. Trolling blue/white shad umbrella rigs in 40 feet of water produced 35+ Stripers with 11 keepers up to 34". The Bass were caught throughout the day on both sides of the tide.

Angler Name : TONY
E-Mail : headsteel@blast.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/13&11/14
Location: Normandy & Brick Beach
Fishing Method: Surf fishing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 4 to 6 pounds
Bait or Lure: Clams & Plugs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Managed to nabb 2 shorts, 4 to 6 pounds. Peanut bunker moving through just beyond to sand bar. Saw maybe a dozen other bass caught, all shorts. Some reports of larger fish, mostly on live peanut bunker. Hard to cast far enough to snag though.

Angler Name : kevin Riegert
E-Mail : KEVRIEGERT@AOL
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/14/99
Location: IBSP
Fishing Method: BAIT
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 27
Bait or Lure: CLAMS
Water Depth: SURF
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Fished island beach this morning and managed only one short. Onlt seen one other bass caught bad day in all

Angler Name : capt pete
E-Mail : petefrompa.net@webtv
Boat Name: lady chriss
Date Fished: 11/14/99
Location: cape may rips
Fishing Method: drift/eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 33/14 39/20
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth: rips
Water Temp.:
Information : Since 11- 10 was a wash tried my luck down cape may and had a good day. capt fred of the miss chris 2 worked the rips hard all day . Caught 2 nice fish while chris the mate had the eagles game on the radio for us. To bad my friend could not land the monster he had on. Great day till then BENT RODS TO ALL

Angler Name : Woo
E-Mail : woofish@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/14/99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Surf Casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18 - 25 inch
Bait or Lure: Lewinskys
Water Depth: 2 - 8'
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished the end of the Hook for 3 hours. Action was slow. Not too many people fish. Started at 3 pm. No fish until it was almost dark. With 3 friends we only took about 10 small bass. From the sound of other reports maybe the majority of the fish and bait has moved south.

Angler Name : Drew
E-Mail : phishcad@aol
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/14/99
Location: sandy hook (horseshoe cove)
Fishing Method: plug
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: mostly shorts
Bait or Lure: green bomber
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : I found bass along horseshoe cove at dawn...at the point and along the rock wall...not a bad morning...landed 10 bass up to 28 inches...mostly shorts...tite lines..no sleep!

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Angler Name : david
E-Mail : kirby1266@aol.com
Boat Name: bonanza
Date Fished: 11/13/99
Location: fortescue
Fishing Method: anchor
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28 inches
Bait or Lure: chunk bunker
Water Depth: 20
Water Temp.: 58
Information : got my first keeper of the year and i run off,only 3 keepers caught on boat. 7 shorts caught an d BIG blue

Angler Name : Jule Szalay
E-Mail : jule@menlo.ioffice.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/13/99
Location: Bay Head
Fishing Method: Surfcasting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Mullet/AK/Plugs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished all morning and "heard" of one short caught further south. Checked out Manasquan,Pt. Pleasant also-DEAD. Sounds like I should have been North @ Hook. Wait 'til next week!

Angler Name : Jose
E-Mail : BRICKHOUSE16@compuserve
Boat Name: Screaming Reel
Date Fished: 11/13/99
Location: Raritan & Goveners Is.
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 2-19lbs.
Bait or Lure: Sassy shad, Mistertwister,Bucktails
Water Depth: 10-40ft.
Water Temp.: 53
Information : Fished Goveners Is. in NY harbor for the incomming tide. Everyone was quite busy. Piles of bass were everywhere. Most fish were short but managed two keepers. Headed south to the knoll, drifted eels and jiged for the remainder of the tide. It payed off with 3 keepers of 11lbs, 14lbs & 19.9lbs. Did'nt notice any bird activity south of the verrazano. Most boats trolling were picking through shorts. Eels and jigs seemed to trick the keepers on the knoll.

Angler Name : Werner & Wolfgang Sprie
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-13-99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: all released
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 25-35 ft.
Water Temp.: 54 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula ran his Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina up to the Sandy Hook area for a day of Striper trolling with Werner and Wolfgang Sprie. Starting at the Shrewsbury Rocks we caught and released 16 Bass. Moving up to the tip of Sandy Hook and working the edges of the channels yielded another 52 Bass all of which were released. Umbrella Rigs with Shads and Crippled Herring Jigs along with Surface Poppers produced the action.

Angler Name : Charlie Haws
E-Mail : charlie@webspan.net
Boat Name: THE ROAD
Date Fished: 11/13/99
Location: Mantoloking
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32"
Bait or Lure: Shads-Black/White, Blue/White 6"
Water Depth: 65'
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Carl, Terry, and Ray joined me on THE ROAD for a day of Stripped Bass fishing. Friday Lou and I managed several short bass. Late on Friday while working a school of bait we hooked a fish that we fought for 30 minutes before the hook pulled. It took 50 pound line off a 113H even while we backed down. Five minutes later we hooked another monster only to pull the hook again! We got to the same area about 10:00AM Saturday. Several other boats were working the area and some birds were also working. Our first troll through the bait produced a 32" Stripper. We continued to work the area about one mile off the beach rest of the day. We ended with three keeper Strippers, several shorts and a couple of bluefish. The school of bait continued to grow; but we did not mark many fish. I hope all we need is some cold weather to push them south.

Angler Name : Ken Kurek
E-Mail : kkurek@hometowncomm.com
Boat Name: Kerri-K
Date Fished: 11/13/99
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks & Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 15lbs
Bait or Lure: Shad Rigs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : John Luchnick and Ed Talbot joined me for a day of Striper fishing. We left the dock early and stopped at the Shrewsbury Rocks, the bite was on when we arrived. Boated one nice size keeper and eight throwbacks before the rest of the fleet arrived and drove the fish down. Went to Sandy Hook channel and caught 5 more keepers and lots of throw backs.

Angler Name : Tim & Tom
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/13/99
Location: Brick Beach
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 31"
Bait or Lure: clam
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Started on our way about 7:00am.Went to Island beach state park threw in a clam,fished for awhile,nothing...Went for a ride north nobody catching nothing...Went as far north as Brick beach,saw a school of bunker,gave it a try, nothing then all of a sudden,"WHAM""WHAM",got a fish shucks 20" tried it again and my friend right next to me yells gaf gaf,?Fought it for about 15 min.31" not bad Tom,great fishing the next one will be bigger... "TIGHT LINES"

Angler Name : Tim Crann
E-Mail : FinestKind25@aol.com
Boat Name: Finest Kind
Date Fished: 11/13/99
Location: Long Beach Island
Fishing Method: Drifting / Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Eels / Bunker Chunks
Water Depth: 5 - 40 feet
Water Temp.: 55 degrees
Information : Started my first drift at 5:30 in Little Egg Inlet....no birds, no fish...Headed north to the Brant Beach Lump and marked tons of baitfish along the way......When I got there most of the boats were trolling with no luck...I tried trolling, eels and bunker chunks with one fish lost halfway up (probably a bluefish).....We covered over 20 miles of ocean and saw not one stinkin bird...I was out this past Monday in the same location and caught several stripers with the most birds I have ever seen, reports had the same situation all week....something shut things down over the weekend....

Angler Name : Capt.Jim Lynch
E-Mail : Finaddict.sportfishing@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: FinAddict
Date Fished: 11/13/99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 28"
Bait or Lure: Sassy shad rigs
Water Depth: 25 to40'
Water Temp.: 52.5F
Information : Fished with the Tom Payne Party from Philly.Caught 25 bass but only one keeper.Trolled Flynn's Knoll & the Sandy Hook Channel.Had steady action all day on green/white & blue/white sassy shad umbrella rigs. Fish still feeding on peanut bunker.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 13
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 32"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Captains Phil Dulanie and James Rivelli (Calypso) had the Canyon Runner up to the Shrewbury Rocks with the Leroy Arms charter from Washington D.C. for a morning of Striped Bass trolling and boated a couple keepers amongst 20 shorts. The action was on blue/white shad umbrella rigs. Tired of trolling the charter wanted to get in some bottom fishing so we set up on the Sea Girt reef and spent the afternoon catch 50+ Porgies, some Sea Bass and 1 keeper Blackfish. The happy charter headed home with a variety of table fare.

Angler Name : Pell Glentz
E-Mail : albatross0099@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Albatross
Date Fished: 11/13/99
Location: rocks
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: shorts-29
Bait or Lure: shad rigs
Water Depth: 50-60
Water Temp.: 54
Information : trolled the rocks with shad rigs 12 shorts 1 keeper.went to sandy hook picked up 1 more keeper by the twin towers.had a spoon out all day NOT 1 HIT all fish on rigs.

Angler Name : kirk davis
E-Mail : kirk_davis@hotmail.com
Boat Name: my two sore feet
Date Fished: 11/9-11/13
Location: sandy hook to long branch
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 21''-26''
Bait or Lure: plastic shad jigs and rattletraps
Water Depth: 6'' tp 6ft
Water Temp.: 54
Information : Loads of shorts off the beach slamming peanut bunker easy fishing right now...20 to 30 fish in 3 or 4 hrs every time out just have to find the birds and the bait...and the fish are there...very few keepers...but they are still fun on 10lb gear.. or as double headers, plug and teaser, on a regular rod just show some respect for these fish...don't kick or shot put them back into the water...they are our future and a lot of fun to boot..tight lines

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Angler Name : Mark Lukenda
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-12-99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 32"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 30-40 ft.
Water Temp.: 54 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula ran the Bounty Hunter up to the Sandy Hook area for a day of Striper trolling with the Mark Lukenda charter. Trolling the edge of Ambrose Channel, using Shad Rigs produced plenty of action with 50+ hookups. Most of the fish hooked measured 20" to 27" in length. Although a good time was had by the charter, we only managed 3 keeper Bass and a half dozen Blues.

Angler Name : DENNIS
E-Mail : BARBARA 08 @ MSN.COM
Boat Name: "THE GREAT ESCAPE"
Date Fished: 11/12 - 8:30 PM TILL 4:00 AM
Location: FLATS ,SDY-HK-CH,AMBROSE CH AND RIPS
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: UP TO 31 3/4 , 14 LBS EVEN
Bait or Lure: WORMS AND EELS
Water Depth: 12' TO 60' +
Water Temp.: 53*
Information : HAD A NOTHER FUN TIME ON THE WATER! MOVED AROUND TO FIND FISH, BUT BOATED FISH EACH TIME! SHORTS(23"+) TO FOUR KEEPERS(29" TO 31 3/4",14LBS). NOT TO MANY BOATS MAKES FOR GOOD FISHING! PULLIN OUT 11/27, TIME FOR THE BIRD! SO STACK THAT FREEZER, IT'S GOING TO BE A COLD WINTER.MAY YOUR HOLIDAYS BE FILLED WITH HEALTH AND JOY AND UNCLE SAM BUY US ALL NEW REELS AND POLES !!! TILL I SEE YOU ON THE WATER IN THE SPRING, SAFE ON THE SEAS! "THE GREAT ESCAPE"

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Freddy C
Date Fished: 11/12/99
Location: Sandy Hook Reef
Fishing Method:
Specie: Tautog
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Took a limit and won the pool with a 6 lb black

Angler Name : Chad Gaspero
E-Mail : Chad_Gaspero@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Hooked Up
Date Fished: 11/12/1999
Location: Cape May rips
Fishing Method: Drifting eels / bouncing bucktails
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Shorts and fish up to 38"
Bait or Lure: Eels/bucktails
Water Depth: ???
Water Temp.: Mid 50s
Information : What a day we had yesterday! Got an early start with Captian John Sowerby going out on his boat, Hooked Up. First impressions count -- his boat is awesome... very clean and comfortable. His mate, Terry, was very knowledgeable and helpful. Got out on the rips and after a few drifts, go into fish. Caught and released lots of stripers up to 38" (kept a few to take home).

Angler Name : C.J.
E-Mail : CJNESTI@HOME.COM
Boat Name: WHITE LIGHTNING
Date Fished: 11/12/99
Location: HUDSON
Fishing Method: CHUNK
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40#TO 60#
Bait or Lure: PEANUT BUNKERS
Water Depth: 450
Water Temp.: 65.8
Information : MIKEY TOOK US MATES OUT ON A FUN FISH.WEATHER WAS NOT THE BEST BUT THE FISHING WAS. 21 YELLOW FIN IN 3 HOURS.WE REELED THESE FISH IN ON EVERYTHING FROM 80 BENT BUTS TO 400 CALCUTTA. THIS WAS A GREAT WAY TO END THE FISHING SEASON.

Angler Name : Dave R
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Striper
Date Fished: 11/12/99
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-28"
Bait or Lure: Plugs
Water Depth: 20-70'
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Fished with two friends Friday on Nelson's 20' Striper. We launched @ 7:30 from Leonardo. Man the water was moving from the day before and the wind was still up but subsiding. We saw birds on boiling bass chasing peanut bunker everywhere. If you could stay w/ the birds you could catch bass - mostly shorts though we did manage 2 keepers. We were surprised and disappointed by the number of boats including the Bounty Hunter which insisted on trolling while you could catch all the bass you wanted casting lures. Many trolling boats and some other boneheads would run through the schools pushing the bass down and away. I guess some guys just like doing things the hard way and don't care much about sport. All told, it was an excellent day on the water - the bay and inlet was alive with fish!

Angler Name : CHRIS
E-Mail : Boarder291@aol.com
Boat Name: 25' proline
Date Fished: 11/12
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 27inches to 34
Bait or Lure: eels eels eels
Water Depth: 30-40ft
Water Temp.: ?? does it matter?
Information : STARTED OFF THE AFTERNOON CHASING A HUGE SCHOOL OF BASS UNDER A MILLION BIRDS A LITTLE WEST OF THE AMMO PIER;AFTER A HALF HOUR OF WATCHING A PARTY BOAT PICK UP A BUNCH OF SMALL BASS AND PICKING UP 1 OURSELVES, WE DECIDED WE WERE WAISTING OUR TIME AND WE WENT DOWN TO THE HOOK O DRIFT SOME EELS, WE WENT TO A SECRET SPOT WHICH ALWAYS SEEMS TO HOLD FISH AND AFTER 5 MINUTES MY SHIMANO CORSIAR STARTED PEELING LINE, THE RESULT; A 34 INCH BASS, WHAT A WAY TO START THE EVENING! AFTER MAKING THE SAME DRIFT MANY TIMES, WE PICKED UP A STEADY AMOUNT OF FISH. AT THE END OF THE EVENING WE HAD 4 FISH IN THE BOX,ALL OVER 29 INCHES, AND LOTZ OF SHORTS RELASED ALSO. P.S I saw many boats keeping short bass; what are u guys doin? The fishery is finally coming back and your taking short fish!

Angler Name : Dom Dimento
E-Mail : Physchjam@aol.com
Boat Name: Maria
Date Fished: 11/12/99
Location: Cape May Rips
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29 - 34 inches
Bait or Lure: live eels
Water Depth: 9 - 34 ft.
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Left the dock at 5:30AM. We met a 4-5ft. swell at the inlet, and it followed us all the way down to the rips, giving us that stop and go effect. Stopped short of prissy wick, where we had some marks, and got the first one right away. Made a few more drifts with no results, so we moved into prissy wick shoal. We enjoyed the steady action thru the flood tide, every drift had either a run off, or a missed hook set, a nibble, or a hook up. Ended the day with a limit catch. Thanks to Fred and Marty's trophy tags, we were able to extend our limit by two fish for a total of 8 keepers, we also had 2 shorts. The best day fishing for stripers in a couple of years.

Angler Name : Mike Saputo
E-Mail : dsaputo@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 11/12/99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Pluggin'
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Nothin'
Bait or Lure: Popper
Water Depth: 5'-10'
Water Temp.: low 60's
Information : Ran out today around noon, didn't have anything better to do. Got to the beach, tons of fishermen minus the fish. Went all the way out to the point, a few boats drifting, not a fish on shore. Went to the bay side and was greeted by a thousand birds, all working out of casting distance. There was 1 boat on them whom I'm sure slaughtered them. They came within casting distance once and had a monster swirl behind my popper but he didn't take it. They moved back ouyt of range, so i decided to get outta there. As I was driving home over the Highlands bridge, I caught a glimpse of a few boats literally sitting on shore with a few million birds around them. Turned right around got to the beach, and wouldn't you know it, they moved out of casting range. That seems to be the story of my life. The Belmar Princess was all the way up here jigging so that lets you know that there aren't any fish down south......yet.

Angler Name : Al
E-Mail : Ozzie47@aol.com
Boat Name: Gambler
Date Fished: 11/12
Location: Sea Bright-Sandy Hook Beachfront
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20-27.5"
Bait or Lure: Crippled Herring, Avas, crocs,etc...
Water Depth: 20-45'
Water Temp.: 53ish
Information : Took the long ride from Manasquan Inlet, all the way up to the Highlands Bridge area on the outside aboard the Gambler... Got into fish right away as we set up maybe 1/2 mile directly East of the Bridge, and drifted that area the entire day, but we did slip up as far as the Cedars on the Southern part of Sandy Hook.. Bird play was spotty, and the fishing wasn't tremendous, but it was a steady pick for the anglers in the bow.. I boated 6 bass, biggest 27.5", and about 4 or 5 blues in the 4-6lb. class, all on a 4 oz. Crippled Herring.. Quite a few guys came away w/ that forever famous goose-egg, and there were just 3 keepers boated.. High hook probably had 8 bass... Good day, nice weather.. Tight lines..

Angler Name : Capt.Jim Lynch
E-Mail : FinAddict.sportsisng@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: FinAddict
Date Fished: 11/12/99
Location: Flynn's Knoll/Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drift eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 33"
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth: 25-40'
Water Temp.: 52.5 F
Information : Fished with the Jim Frank Party from Mobil Oil for stripers on Friday.Boated 4 keepers and released 4 shorts while fishing Flynns Knoll.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Capt John
Date Fished: 11/12/99
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20-29"
Bait or Lure: AVA 027s,Gibbs Minnow,Surface Poppers
Water Depth: 10-45 Feet
Water Temp.: ?
Information : My daughter and I along with 2 buds hopped aboard the Capt John today for a day of jigging stripers.We were not disappointed as within 20 minutes of leaving the dock we were into fish.Except for a brief lull around the slack tide there was a constant catch of bass.I ended the day with 15 shorts,my daughter got her first keeper bass + 4 shorts,Ray boated 8 shorts & 2 bluefish while Tim got his limit of keepers as well as 7 shorts.

Angler Name : Lou Truppi
E-Mail : lntassociates@fast.net
Boat Name: Chelsea Lynn
Date Fished: 11/12/99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 40"
Bait or Lure: Jigs
Water Depth: 15 /25
Water Temp.: 56
Information : All larger bass out of the 37 we landed were caught deep,most took either fin-s or Megabait jigs,tried surface but caught only two bass!! Larger fish finally showing

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 12
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 32"
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Dave Tolchin charter from Sayreville up to the Shrewsbury Rocks on the Canyon Runner Friday and were back at the dock early with another nice catch of Bass. Trolling umbrella rigs of black/white shad produced all 6 keepers to 32" in 5 hours of fishing. In addition, 30 shorts and numerous Bluefish were boated and released.

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Angler Name : JOHN SANGIOVANNI
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Boat Name: 16' STARCRAFT
Date Fished: 11/11/99
Location: SHARKRIVER NJ
Fishing Method: BOTTOM ANCHOR CHUM
Specie: Winter Flounder
Size: 11" -15"
Bait or Lure: SANDWORM BLOODS
Water Depth: 12-18
Water Temp.: 56-57
Information : Fished North channel and picked up two. Proceeded to Route 71 Bridge and had no luck there. Then we anchored 40 ft. off of tennis courts. There we caught seven more flounders. We fished two hours before high and two hours after high.

Angler Name : RICH EGNATUK
E-Mail : RIGGY@ADELPHIA.NET
Boat Name: PROWLER
Date Fished: 11-11-99
Location: SANDY HOOK
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 3 SHORTS 2 KEEPERS 32 35"
Bait or Lure: LIVE EELS
Water Depth: 15 TO 30
Water Temp.:
Information : FIRST DRIFT GOT FIRST FISH ON BOAT AND TURNED OUT TO BE A GOOD NIGHT FISHING A LITTLE COLD AND WINDY BUT ALL GOT FISH MISSED POOL FISH BY ABOUT A HALF POUND GREAT MATE EDDIE GOOD CAPTAIN FOUND FISH AND HELPFUL

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Angler Name : Dave
E-Mail : dave@erol.com
Boat Name: Sea Star II
Date Fished: 11/10/99
Location: 20 minute slough
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28" - 40"
Bait or Lure: live eels
Water Depth: 60ft
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Boated them early and often. Started around 8 am and then the action stopped during the slack. One hint to all you....use light weight. The eels swim right to the bottom. I was using 1/2oz while everybody was using 2,3,4oz. I had my limit by 10am some didn't catch any.

Angler Name : Dave Griffith & Bill Mulliniks
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-10-99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 33 1/2"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 30-40 ft.
Water Temp.: 55 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina up to the Sandy Hook and Raritan Bay areas for a day of Striper trolling with the Bill Mulliniks & Dave Griffith charter. Trolling Shad Rigs in 25 to 30 ft. of water along the edges of Chapel Hill Channel 4 keeper Bass up to 33 1/2" were boated. The afternoon action took place along the edge of Ambrose Channel where an additional 6 keeper Bass were boated, giving us a total of 10 keeper Bass along with 41 shorts which were released.

Angler Name : Ralph N.
E-Mail : Fishnut257@aol.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 11/10/99
Location: Barnegat bay
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 12.0lbs.
Bait or Lure: bucktails/fin-s
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished early morning during the outgoing tide.Caught 5 bass up to 32 1/2" (12.0lbs.)...two others were 28" and 2 shorts.Released all except the 12 pounder.Had two other fish on...One straightened out the hook on my bucktail during the initial run.Was a great morning......2 other keepers caught by some guys fishing next to me....

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: My Tin Boat
Date Fished: 11/10/99
Location: Navesink River
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
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Information : Some stripers around but not biting. Caught 3/4 bushel of nice size crabs

Angler Name : J. Merrill
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Boat Name: Hyper Striper
Date Fished: 11-10-99
Location: The Sandy hook reef
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Tautog
Size: up to 5 lbs.
Bait or Lure: green crabs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Started out the day with striper action at the mouth of the Shrewsbury river, birds all over the place with bass under the bait. Six of us caught about 30 bass all but two were short. Then we went to the reef for some tauog. the bite was good in morning before the wind picked up. Six of us ended up with 49 keepers. Capt. Pete got us on some good peices.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
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Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 10
Location: Ambrose
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 22 pounds
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 45
Water Temp.: 56
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Canyon Runner back up to the Ambrose Channel on Wednesday with the Dan Miller charter from Seally Mattress as there were no Bass on the Shrewsbury Rocks as the day before. However, once the lines were in the water in the channel the action was non-stop as 35 shorts were boated and release and 10 keepers were brought back to the dock, the largest just over 20 pounds.

Angler Name : Ed Gillin
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Date Fished: 11/10/99
Location: OC Beach
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: plugs
Water Depth: 3ft
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Well, I have reserved that the bass are north of me and south of me. I am in the middle just practicing my casting. My uncle went on his first striper trip and caught two keepers and the boat limited out in the Rips off Cape May good for them. Looks like if you can't beat um join em. Break out the boat and eels here I come.

Angler Name : greg
E-Mail : pickyourown@aol.com
Boat Name: ote
Date Fished: 11/10
Location: keansburg
Fishing Method: boat
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 23-34
Bait or Lure: lure
Water Depth: 10-25
Water Temp.: ??????
Information : Well what can I say other than AWESOME.. sStarted out at six a.m. with thoughts popping some bass. Got to the Keansburg pier and every bird in the world was there. Pulled as close as i could to them and caught a bass on every cast using a popper. Iam no professional just get out there in the morning!!!! I boated 9 shorts and 3 keepers.. had to leave the fish biting cause I hooked my finger with the poppper..doctors had a laugh in the ER but I get the last laugh cause Iam the one who will be eating Striper tonight....EMAIL me to hear the whole story....

Angler Name : Joe Turro
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Boat Name: Fishguy's Edgewater
Date Fished: 11/09/99
Location: Channels & Between/Sandy Hook
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 10 all over 32"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs, Worms, Eels
Water Depth: 25 to 60
Water Temp.: 56
Information : Picked up 3 keepers on the troll in about 10 minutes, fished the side of Sandy Hook Channel and had assorted shorts with every one else, moved to the Rip and saw nothing. Moved to another spot which we had to ourselves and absolutely cleaned up. Caught 7 fish in one hour all over 32" with no shorts! We left the bite with an hour to go on the outgoing (unfortunate cause the big cows probably would have been there at the end). Too bad we could only take 4 fish.

Angler Name : Jon & Jim Murray
E-Mail : murray@quadnet.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/09/99
Location: IBSP
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-30"
Bait or Lure: Bunker, Poppers, & Metal
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 57
Information : Steady pick in the morning & then fast action from 2pm till dark. Combined for 9 bass w/ one 30" keeper & about 10 blues 6 to 15lbs. Great day of fishing with my dad as this was his first BLITZ!!

Angler Name : Al Romanelli
E-Mail : AJRJLG@AOL
Boat Name: Miss Shelly
Date Fished: 11/9
Location: Sandy Hook/Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Jig, Drifting Eels
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 30 - 32
Bait or Lure: Eels, finesse fish,Avs
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Information : Started out at 6:30 AM fishing under birds between Navy pier and the hook, solid action on 25-27 inch fish in this area lasted until 9:30AM. During this 3 hour period I managed to catch 15 shorts on a plain jig head with a finesse fish. Went to the Rip to drift eels for a keeper, and did not get a strike. Went into the Reach and fished under smaller pods of birds then in the morning and caught 4 more shorts on 3 oz jig head and sassy shad fish. Decided to concentrate on getting a keeper, and went to drift eels between the lighthouse and the V Bridge. During my second drift I caught a 30 keeper on an eel, and lost a fish at the boat on an eel. I repeated the drift and caught another keeper 32. On my way back to the dock fished under birds again, Chapel area, caught 3 more on Avs. A great day of fishing and some great weather

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Freddy-C
Date Fished: 11/9/99
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Tautog
Size:
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Information : Fished at Sandy Hook Reef. I had 8 keepers. My 4 lb black won the pool.

Angler Name : Toby Babeuf
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-9-99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 32"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 30-40 ft.
Water Temp.: 58 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had his Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina up to the Sandy Hook area for a day of Striper trolling with the Toby Babeuf charter. Starting on the edge of Ambrose Channel in the morning Shad Rigs produced 5 keeper Bass up to 32". Moving further South to the Highlands Bridge area and working the 40' depths added another 3 Bass along with several Bluefish to the catch. Another 26 short Bass were released. The afternoon 24 knot S.W. winds brought an end to the trolling conditions.

Angler Name : Jay C.
E-Mail : makos4us@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: Nov. 9
Location: sspark
Fishing Method: cast
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29/24
Bait or Lure: redfin
Water Depth:
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Information : Was a nice nite so i decided to head to the beach for 1 hour or so. Plugging with a redfin produced 2 fish. Also heard fish were caught there last night and this morning. Hopefully they are finally funneling down south here. I'll be back tomorrow night in the 70 dgeree temps. Catch 'em up!!

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 9
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling/Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 18 pounds
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 45
Water Temp.: 56
Information : Captains Phil Dulanie and Joe Dalik had the Tom Rhinesmith charter from Scotch Plains, NJ out on the Canyon Runner Tuesday and found the Bass had finally moved down the beach. Stopping short of Ambrose Channel, where we had been fishing, we marked fish at the Shrewsbury Rocks and had a keeper on the first jig thrown in the water. Jigging produced 4 keepers and 15 shorts in just under an hour. Once the action settled we went on the troll and boated an additional 4 keepers to 18 pounds and another 20 shorts. Most of the trolling action was just north of the Rocks and the fish once again went for the shad Umbrella Rigs of black/white and blue/white.

Angler Name : Tom Horinka
E-Mail : thorinka@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Brittinque
Date Fished: 11/09/99
Location: Sandy Hook Bay
Fishing Method: Swimming Plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25'' - 27"
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 8' - 20'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : My friend Mark and I took off from Leonardo Marina around 6am. Did not have to travel far, birds and boiling bass everywhere. We caught approx. 10 fish each and probally missed about 10 each also. Great action - but all shorts, cast from the same mold, approx. 25" - 27". Had to leave at 9am, had to go to work. Left the fish biting - don't you just hate that. I'll give it another try this weekend.

Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/9/99
Location: OC Beaches
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: ZERO!!!!!!!
Bait or Lure: everything in the bag
Water Depth: 4
Water Temp.: 60'S
Information : Here is a word to the wise DO NOT GET UP AT DARK AND FISH TO FIRST LIGHT.I REPEAT DO NOT GET UP AT DARK AND FISH TILL FIRST LIGHT.REASON By the time you have to go to the bathroom or do something else. The bass will be there at quarter to 9 in the AM. No, I am serious the last two days I have gotten up at dark only to come back later 9:00 AM or high tide and wha la!! there are bait and bass all over the beach. So, fish either at complete darkness or during the day because all the other falacies don't work. I might go up at lunch during full sun and 70's air temp that might work... Keep sleeping in till high tide.

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Angler Name : Tim Crann
E-Mail : FinestKind25@aol.com
Boat Name: Finest Kind
Date Fished: 11/8/99
Location: Little Egg Inlet
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 22-34"
Bait or Lure: Metal Jigs and eels
Water Depth: 5-30'
Water Temp.: 55 degrees
Information : Started out on Monday morning 5am, stopped at the rip behind 113 marker and found nothing but heavy cabbage weed. Headed south to the sod banks by the old coast guard station and had a perfect drift, light winds, no weed.....until i saw the birds (thousands of them) hitting the water on the northeast side of the inlet about 1/2 mile NE of G bouy...When i got there, the birds were picking up whole herring out of the water and the first cast with a metal jig landed a bass of 24"...the birds worked for about 2 hours with bass to 26" and a mix of blues (more bass it seemed).....after the birds scattered I drifted an eel and boated a 34" bass....the rest of the day was kind of slow with the occassional bluefish doing a number of the dozen and a half eels i had....If the weather cooperates, I'll be back there this weekend....tight lines.......

Angler Name : John Letizia
E-Mail : letj@home.com
Boat Name: No Worries
Date Fished: 11/8/99
Location: offshore Mantoloking
Fishing Method: poppers
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 33lb 9oz.
Bait or Lure: pencil popper
Water Depth: 65 ft.
Water Temp.: 57
Information : Looking for surface action finally paid off in the afternoon. The birds marked the spot.Lots of blues of all sizes.There are bass too! I caught all the bass on poppers and 12lb. test. .

Angler Name : Tim Swensen
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/08/99
Location: Bay Head/Brick Beach
Fishing Method: Hook line$sinker
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28"
Bait or Lure: live bunker
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Went to bay head to take a look,lots of bait,got my pole, threw out my favorite lure,and on the first cast,20" bass.That made my day.About 11:00am went down to brick, slammed a blue in the ass,right in the ass,8lb.what fight that was,took me 15 min. to land,gave it to someone that was there all day,and he couldn't catch a thing,so I had to put a smile on his face,he was tickled.Then took out my trusty lure,snagged a couple of bunker,and began my challange,waited about an hour got a 28" bass,and just for making one man happy,mother nature made me happy. umm umm good,dinner time oh yeah!!!! tight lines....

Angler Name : Frank Lukenda
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-8-99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 33"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 25 to 40 ft.
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the Bounty Hunter back up to Sandy Hook for the second day in a row for a day of trolling with the Frank Lukenda charter. With the N.W. winds subsiding the fishing improved and was more comfortable. Trolling the edges of Ambrose Channel in 30-40 ft. of water we picked away at the Bass for 6 hours, using umbrella rigs rigged with Shads & Tubes. The days effort produced 12 keeper Bass up to 33" plus 6 Blues along with 39 short Bass which were released.

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: The Skipper
Date Fished: 11/8/99
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Tautog
Size:
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Information : Capt Marc sailed east on a frosty morn and we caught sea bass, porgys and some keeper blacks for a medium crowd. I caught 35 sea bass, 60 porgys and 3 keeper blacks. All on board had buckets & chests full.

Angler Name : steve fox
E-Mail : late4dinner@webtv.net
Boat Name: late for dinner
Date Fished: 11/8/ 99
Location: O C Somers Point
Fishing Method: bucktailing at bridges
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 16 inches t0 26 inches
Bait or Lure: 7 inch finess fish
Water Depth:
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Information : 15 bass up to 26 inches outgoing tide clear water fished the bottom slow with 7 inch finess fish they turned on for 2 hours after the turn of the tide then turned off like a light

Angler Name : Lou Truppi
E-Mail : lntassociates@fast.net
Boat Name: Chelsea/Lynn
Date Fished: 11/8/99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Plugs Poppers Jigs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30''
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 25'
Water Temp.: 57
Information : A freind and I cast Megabite poppers,with little luck,so we switched over to a bunker pattern Megabyte jig and proceeded to connect with about a dozen stripers! We also caught some on a mackerel pattern jig! Lots of surface activity however,all fish taken deep!

Angler Name : Capt. Mike Mulligan
E-Mail : BRICKHOUSE16
Boat Name: Screaming Reel
Date Fished: 11/8/99
Location: Chappel Hill/Raritin
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 16lbs.
Bait or Lure: Sassy Shad
Water Depth: 10-30ft.
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Had no charter today so I decided to fish a little on my own. It was pleasant and peaceful. Plenty of school bass around and I managed to boat a 16lb. bass. I fished for 3 1/2 hours and probably caught 25 - 30 bass. I have fares on - board tomorrow so I hope the good fishing continues. Start Black fishing alot more this week. It's hard to pass up such an easy pick with the Bass. No Blues today !! Tight lines and Screaming Reels !!

Angler Name : Raul Roldan Jr
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Crazy Ricans
Date Fished: 11-8-99
Location: Delaware bay
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24pds,32pds,16pds,14pds
Bait or Lure: bunker
Water Depth: 35ft-39ft
Water Temp.: 58
Information : It wasn't a nice day,the water was rough and it was windy put we manage to get 4 fish in the box. we used Bunker Head Since the Bluefish and get it. lost 3 fishing the 14ft Light Were Chumming Heavily Great Day.

Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/8/99
Location: OC Beaches
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: zero
Bait or Lure: surface and swimming plugs
Water Depth: 3-4ft.
Water Temp.: 60
Information : I did not fish the weekend but it looks like I did not miss a thing.The beach was full of seaweed and I had other obligations. I fished this morning saw some birds working on the outside but other than that it was dead calm with little or no wave action. The wind was out of the west at 5mph. I saw two dolphin at dawn and that was the only real "fish" I saw.

Angler Name : Tom
E-Mail : tcw30@hotmail.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/5-11/7
Location: Corson Inlet Bridge
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20-28"
Bait or Lure: White Bucktail w/ plastic Grub
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished nightime at the bridge (not the toll bridge) at corson inlet for the first few hours of outgoing tide. Each night had a good number of bass. Nothing big but it sure was fun. There were BIG bass busting the surface just beyond the shadows of the lights. Tight lines.

Angler Name : Debbie
E-Mail : Debbiemoyer@excite.com
Boat Name: JAMAICA
Date Fished: Sunday Nov. 7,99
Location: Out of Brielle
Fishing Method: Bait on the bottom
Specie: Ling (AKA Red Hake)
Size: Up to 20"
Bait or Lure: mackerel, squid, clam
Water Depth: 100+'
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : There was a steady blow all day, up to 25-30 knots, seas up to 8+'. Despite the weather, Captain Dale had us over structure the whole day. 1st drop had mostly throw back Sea Bass, so we pulled up anchor for drop #2. Here we found more keepers, mine averaged 14". 6-8 oz of lead held bottom on these two drops. The third drop produced mostly nice size ling, up to 20", and alot of lost rigs grabbed by the sticky bottom. (I lost my whole supply of 10 & 12 oz. sinkers here). For a 4th drop we caught more Sea Bass, and a 5th drop produced decent size Sea Bass and more Ling. Incidentals were a few,(not many),cunners, I saw one dogfish, a few small tog, and a couple bluefish. This was a 14 hour trip, so I was able to enjoy a great pre-dawn, sunrise, and sunset. Also, the wind painted waves, good swells and white caps all about, were healing to my eyes. The gulls grabbed some fish and put on a show, and these things alone were worth the fare. As a bonus I had a fish on my line EVERY time I dropped it down, except for when it got snagged. When the horn sounded I was glad to quit fishing due to an aching old back...so was the guy next to me. The mates were nice to me, the Captain did an admirable job keeping us over structure despite the rough, wind driven seas. I was able to put fish in my freezer and Bless 5 other households with some fresh fish. I added another great memory to my mental video.

Angler Name : sam and libby
E-Mail : eavaughn@aol.com
Boat Name: family affair
Date Fished: nov.6 &7 th
Location: raritain bay
Fishing Method: drifting and trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
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Information : started out before the sun rise then the birds broke ,had three shorts 24, 25 ,and 27 1/4 had had to throw that one back. but they were fun to catch on sunday only had one short 24 in. wind kicked up and was to cold . maybe next week i'll get a keeper, have to keep trying.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 7
Location: Ambrose Channel
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 17 pounds
Bait or Lure: Umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 45
Water Temp.: 56
Information : The Frank Cardaci charter was aboard the Canyon Runner on Sunday and Captain Phil Dulanie with Captain Joe Dalik (Moondancer) helping out in the cockpit put together a solid catch of Stripers. Trolling once again between Ambrose Channel with shad umbrella rigs the charter boated 25 Bass with 8 keepers to 17 pounds as well as a bunch of Bluefish. While a great day was had by all, the 35 knot NorthWest winds produced steep waves at the mouth of Raritan Bay which on the downside made fishing tough. However, on the the upside, the crowd that we were forced to fished in on Saturday was no where to be found and it was like fishing in the middle of the week, "alone again, naturally."

Angler Name : Ken Kurek
E-Mail : kkurek@hometowncomm.com
Boat Name: Kerri-K
Date Fished: 11/7/99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 15lbs
Bait or Lure: Shad Rigs
Water Depth:
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Information : Ed Talbot, John Luchnick and my youngest son, Keith, fished we me on Sunday. It was a very hard blow out of the Northwest and fishing conditions were very tough at the 'Hook. However, we were able to catch five nice size keepers along with several throw backs. We cut our trip short because it was getting impossible and dangerous to work the cockpit of the boat when we hooked up.

Angler Name : GJRICC
E-Mail : gjricc2@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/7/99
Location: Mantoloking
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2-3lb
Bait or Lure: Plugs/teasers
Water Depth:
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Information : Of course I got to the beach 15 min too late. I crested the dunes at 5:15pm and the birds and blues were going nuts. I managed 1 blue after I figured out what they'd bite on. 10 min later the daylight was gone and so were the fish.

Angler Name : Jon & Linda Murray
E-Mail : murray@quadnet.net
Boat Name: Land Yacht
Date Fished: 11/07/99
Location: IBSP
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24" - 29"
Bait or Lure: Live Bunker
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Fished IBSP all day. Snagging bunker & live-lining them seemed

Angler Name : Tom Headley
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 11-7-99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 32"
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 15 to 30 ft.
Water Temp.: 58 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina up to the Sandy Hook area for a day of Striper trolling with a group from Tom Headley Landscaping. Pulling rigs produced a steady pick of Bass in 15 to 30 feet of water. At days end we had seven keeper Bass up to 32" in the fish box along with 4 dozen short Bass which were released.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Capt John
Date Fished: Nov 7
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Jig
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18-34 Inchs
Bait or Lure: Any type of metal jig,poppers,shad tailed jigs
Water Depth: 15-30 Ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : First spotted massive flocks of working birds slightly east of Old Orchard Light.Light crowd on the boat got into immediate action with 2 Oz. metal jigs worked just off the bottom.Guy next to me got his limit within the first 15 minutes.Mixed in with the bass were bluefish in the 2-4 pound class.Both bass & blues were gorged with peanut bunkers-some so freshley eatten that they weren't even digested.As the wind picked up in required heavier jigs to get to the bottom.By the end of the day everyone had at least one keeper bass.

Angler Name : Charlie
E-Mail : charlie@webspan.net
Boat Name: THE ROAD
Date Fished: 11/7/99
Location: South of Manasquan Inlet
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Shads
Water Depth: 30'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Paul, Gabe, and Charlie left Manasquan Inlet and turned south for strippers. All we caught were blue fish; and they sure chew up those shad rigs. This was Gabe's second fishing trip; and he had fun catching. By the way Gabe welds the best Radar Arches in NJ at Metal Creations. Paul make the best canvas at Garden State Canvas. Plenty of bait and even marked some large fish on the bottom. Maybe the cold nights will send them south.

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Angler Name : George
E-Mail :
Boat Name: no name
Date Fished: 11/6
Location: Barnegat Bay
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32-35" 15-18lbs
Bait or Lure: live herring
Water Depth: 8'
Water Temp.: 56
Information : Caught herring at the inlet - livelined after dark - five herring - five bass to 18lbs nice night, warm-no wind, bass breaking water all over the place

Angler Name : scott
E-Mail : ksg1@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: berger
Date Fished: 11\06
Location: chestnut neck
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 45.5 inches 38.6 pounds
Bait or Lure: eel
Water Depth: 25
Water Temp.:
Information : this was the best fishing day of my life. i went with a friend who new all of the hot spots, earlier that week he caght a 32 pounder and i asked to take me fishing. we were there for an hour and hit a couple of his spots and all of sudden whammo a 45.5 inch bass i spazzed. i knocked his rod holder into the water and kicked the eel bucket over. thanx big d

Angler Name : Tim
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/6/99
Location: Brick Beach
Fishing Method: hook line sinker
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 23-28
Bait or Lure: bunker
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Started about 3:00 pm.Snagged some bunker,live lined them, and caught the first bass,in amator of seconds,no keeper, shucks,tried it again,and caught another 28" cool,then baited up again and waited for along time,I thought for sure I wasn't going to catch any,but sure enough,I caught a nice 15lb. blue fish,what a fight,I thought for sure it was a big bass,owe well,maybe next time...Tight Lines..

Angler Name : Ernest D. Slaymaker
E-Mail : njfish@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Miss LBI
Date Fished: 11/6/99
Location: ESE of Barnegat Inlet
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 1/2 > 4 lbs
Bait or Lure: clams / squid
Water Depth: 55 - 85 ft
Water Temp.: 58 degrees
Information : Fairly windy in the am, died down by mid-day. Plenty of Sea Bass to be had by all. A few porgies, bluefish, fluke, bergalls, and dogfish. But the majority , 98%, were Sea Bass. 40 /60 mix of keepers to throwbacks.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov 6
Location: Ambrose Channel
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 22 pounds
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 45'
Water Temp.: 56
Information : Captains Phil Dulanie and Joe LaRosa had the Jersey Shore Diesel charter from Pt. Pleasant, NJ out on the Canyon Runner Saturday and put together a great fall Bass trip. Trolling between the Ambrose Channel for the entire day, we boated 60+ Stripers with 12 keepers. The largest was a fat 34 inch Bass weighing-in at 22 pounds and was caught at the same time as a 31 inch bass on a Black/White shad umbrella rig. In addition, at least a dozen bluefish were also boated and released.

Angler Name : Vincent Dominick
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Suck My Wake
Date Fished: 11/6/99
Location: Manasquan inlet off the jetty
Fishing Method: Bait
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 38lb/47lb
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth: 20'
Water Temp.: 60deg
Information : The action was non-stop from about 1:30am-4:30am Keep your lines tight.

Angler Name : Ken Kurek
E-Mail : kkurek@hometowncomm.com
Boat Name: Kerri-K
Date Fished: 11/6/99
Location: Sandy Hook Area
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 10lbs.
Bait or Lure: Shad Rigs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Rus Kissiam and John Mathews fished with me on the Kerri-K. We worked Flynns Knowl, Roamer Shoal and Sand Hook Channel. We caught four keepers and a lot of throw backs. This was my first trip to Roamer Shoal. I didn't expect the water depth to be that low in some places.

Angler Name : MIKE C.
E-Mail : KIDD763@AOL
Boat Name: IT FLOATS
Date Fished: 11/6/99
Location: SANDY HOOK RIPS-FLYNNS K.
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29"
Bait or Lure: EELS
Water Depth: DEEP
Water Temp.: COLD
Information : GOT A LATE START DUE TO TRUCK PROBLEMS ARRIVED AROUND TEN A.M. AFTER MANY DRIFTS BY THE HOOK AND FLYNNS KNOLL ONLY PICK UP ONE BASS, GOT ROBBED A FEW TIMES BY BLUES.VERY WINDY DAY ON THE WATER WITH LOTS OF BOAT TRAFFIC.WE MIGHT OF HAD A SHOT AT SOME FISH IF WE HAD GOTTEN OUT A LITTLE EARLIER BUT IT JUST WASN'T MEANT TO BE I GEUSS.KIDD OUT.

Angler Name : kingbee
E-Mail : kingbee@mindspring.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 11/6/99
Location: Stone Harbor/Wildwood Bridge
Fishing Method: Casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 27"
Bait or Lure: Heavy Bucktail/Twister Trailer
Water Depth: 5-10 ft.
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Caught two and lost another shortly after dark on the east side of the bridge as the tide ran back out. Don't pay too much attention to the "NO FISHING OR CRABBING" signs-- the cops pretty much left us alone.

Angler Name : HOWIE
E-Mail : REDGROUPER@WEBTV.NET
Boat Name: LUCKY M
Date Fished: 11/6/99
Location: CRYSTAL RIVER
Fishing Method: TROLLING
Specie: Spotted Seatrout
Size: 22"
Bait or Lure: LURE
Water Depth: 20'
Water Temp.: 75
Information : HAD a great fishing trip two weekends in a row last week we caught 8 trout up to 22" and to top that trip off we caught 10 big grouper up to 20 pounds.today we got 15 grouper up to 18 pounds.what a day.what a week.Take a kid fishing.have fun you all

Angler Name : Al
E-Mail : Ozzie47@aol.com
Boat Name: Sea Hunter
Date Fished: 11/6
Location: Raritan/ SH Bays
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20-26"
Bait or Lure: AVA47... Crippled Herring... Crocodiles..
Water Depth: 15-60'
Water Temp.: 57
Information : Had immediate action right off the Ammo Pier, w/ short bass and blues whacking jigs tossed at them.. Followed birds for about an hour in Sandy Hook Bay, then ran down the bay towards Old Orchard, then to the Reach Channel, coming up empty w/ only some huge robins being swung aboard.. Ran all the way back to the hook, and had good action fishing the rip off Sandy Hook Channel for the next 3 hours w/ big jigs, like AVA47 or 67's, 5 oz. Crippled Herrings, and the like.. Wind/tide combo made for a real fast drift.. Drift after drift produced numerous shorts, plus a few keepers.. Finished up the day in the ocean off Ambrose Channel picking at some more schoolies working under birds.. My total for the day was 6 bass, all between 20-26", and one 5 lb. blue.. 5 Keepers were taken on the boat, out of about 35 anglers.. A good portion came up w/ a big goose egg, w/ most anglers catching at least a couple of shorts.. You had to work pretty hard to put a few in the boat today.. tight lines..

Angler Name : chris
E-Mail : boarder291@aol.com
Boat Name: 25' proline
Date Fished: nov 6
Location: bouy 12 sandy hook channel
Fishing Method: drift/jig
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: big shorts
Bait or Lure: bucktails/ava/yo-zuri crystal minno
Water Depth: 30-40ft
Water Temp.: ??
Information : started the morning off chasing the birds with a HUGE school of bass.we got two fish one on a bucktail and the other on a ava, one was 27 inches and the other was 15;a lil guy. After about 20 minutes the fished stopped breaking water and went down with all the damn boats running through the school. We mad a trip up to the reach and saw a large fleet trolling, they picked up some nice fish but we were unfortunate and we did not have the umbrella rigs with rubber shad, the choice of most anglers. The next place we stopped was bouy 12 and 11 which always holds fish. we made one drift and bang, three hook-ups at once. we made that drift 5-6 more times and picked up 2-3 fish each drift. all fish were shorts, 25-27 inches, great day!

Angler Name : Bob
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Surf
Date Fished: 11/06/1999
Location: Stone Harbor
Fishing Method: Plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Beautiful Day. Not one strike

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Angler Name : Ron Walker
E-Mail : rwalker@trilogyassoc.com
Boat Name: MegaBite
Date Fished: 11-5-99
Location: Horseshoe, Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: Bunker Chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 37" Plus loads of shorts
Bait or Lure: Bunker heads and chunks
Water Depth: 18
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Started the day off with a brisk wind out of the SW and 3ft Del Bay chop. After pounding our way to the shoe, hooked up a nice 37"er. After that, a steady pick of shorts. Weather turned out great. Wind died out, and we were ROASTING in bare chests by 11:00. Wind came up later in the day and we were back to sweatshirts. Gotta grab every possible fishing day until end of the month when 4 months of boat payments without any pleasure start again.

Angler Name : Nick Ferrara
E-Mail : NickMg@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: FREDDIE-C
Date Fished: 11/5/99
Location: Sandy Hook Rips
Fishing Method: Baitfishing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 10-30 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Worms and eels
Water Depth: 10-30
Water Temp.: 50's
Information : Good day on the Freddie-C. A little windy but not bad. Capt. Jerry had to move around, but found the fish. Got 2 on eels; 15 lbs and 18lbs. and 1 lost at the net. It fought real good too, I only wish I could of seen it. Otherwise, a pretty good day(nite). Hats off to the Capt. Jerry Ciriello and the mates (Mike). A job well done!

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Freddy-C
Date Fished: 11/5/99
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Tautog
Size:
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Information : Capt. Freddy sailed to the Snady Hook Reef. I caught 6 blacks including 2 keepers and one 5 pounder to win the pool. Other fares had 2-3 keepers. When I got on board, there was a half drum full of striper racks.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov. 5
Location: Ambrose Channel
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 18 pounds
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 56
Information : On Friday the Alan Funk charter from Livingston, NJ was taken out on the Canyon Runner for a half day of Striper fishing. Capt. Phil Dulanie did not start fishing in between Ambrose Channel until 11:00 a.m. but had 8 keepers and 25 shorts in no time and was back at the dock by 3 p.m. Most of the action was on Black/White shad rigs trolled in 40 feet of water.

Angler Name : DOC & TONY
E-Mail : dkijowski@mc-2online.com
Boat Name: Doc On The Bay
Date Fished: 11-5-99
Location: Sandy Hook area & shrewsbury river
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 41 inches
Bait or Lure: eels & sandworms
Water Depth: 6ft. to 40 ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Started out @ flynns knoll and got into fish as soon as the tide started moving.Wind started to really pick up and the swells just got to be a hassle, to enjoy the fishing. We decided to head on in to the rivers. We hit a couple of holes we know about,one in particular that always holds fish was very good to me that night.With my last eel that was pretty beat-up after having it inhaled a few times already,this 41 incher took it & ran. Turned out to be just about 28 lbs.Tony & I decided to call it a night @ 10:45PM , not because we were tired of fishing but because we ran out of bait. SEE YOU OUT THERE. DOCCO

Angler Name : Capt Lou
E-Mail : Osprey30@aol.com
Boat Name: Everythings Rosie's II
Date Fished: 11/05/99
Location: Rocks/L Branch/Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Weakfish
Size: to 34"
Bait or Lure: Umbrellas and Bunker Spoon
Water Depth: 26 Feet
Water Temp.: 54
Information : My Son-in-law Bill and I went to the Rocks and trolled for 2 hrs without a hit. Ankered andtried for black bass andcought only bergals. started for home and saw birds working close to the beach in Long Branch. We threw everything and got nothing.About 2:30 we headed to the Hook. Made 2 passes from the north shore to the Light and boated 4 strippers. My Marina is closing so it's the surf for me untill march.Good Luck PS does anyone know of a Marina that understands fishermen . My marina caters to the cocktail cruisers that run when the weather cools.

Angler Name : Marty Blonstien
E-Mail : BRICKHOUSE16
Boat Name: Screaming Reel
Date Fished: 11/05/99
Location: Rhomer schoal
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 3-20lbs
Bait or Lure: Jigs ,plugs & Sassy shads
Water Depth: 10-30ft.
Water Temp.: 55.8
Information : Started off with a blow ssw. Settled down at about 9am. Lots of birds over the bait(peanut bunker) and lots of bass underneath them. Non stop action all day. Very few Bluefish boated. 95% bass in the 3-20lb. range. Blue & white sassy shads right off the bottom produced the bigger fish. Birds hovered the water as far as the eyes could see. A real no brainer. Alot of boats from down south in the area. Thight lines & Screaming reel!!!

Angler Name : Dave and Frank
E-Mail : ddjrow@aol.com
Boat Name: Jenny R
Date Fished: 11/5/99
Location: Barnagat Inlet area
Fishing Method: Drift on bottom
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: none
Bait or Lure: Eels, small bunker
Water Depth: 15 - 18'
Water Temp.: na
Information : Fished seven hours and tried all of the usual places. Not a bump. Guess the fish are still north of us. Let's hope they arrive soon.

Angler Name : Mike & Joe
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Gambler
Date Fished: 11/5/99
Location: Point Pleasant
Fishing Method: Casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20" - 27"
Bait or Lure: Metal
Water Depth: NA
Water Temp.: NA
Information : Fished the Gambler for stripers. Had a nice crowd of about 15. Stopped along the beach all the way up to Sandy Hook. No fish were caught until we found the breaking fish (and many other boats) around Sandy Hook. Everyone was casting metal. High hooks on the boat were 5 (I was one of them). Some guys didn't get any. Only 1 keeper at about 30" was caught on the boat. In general, the readings were good up to Sandy Hook but they weren't biting. A few blues were caught in the 6 - 8 pound range. The Capt. and crew did a good job. It might take another week or two to hit the right water temps. Go get 'em.

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Angler Name : lou truppi
E-Mail : lntassociates@fast.net
Boat Name: chelsea/lynn
Date Fished: 11/4/99
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 341/2''
Bait or Lure: megabyte poppers
Water Depth: 30'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Casted megabyte poppers under the birds an a friend nad ilanded over 30 striopers.three keepersup to 341/2'' most attacked our megabyte 2oz sliders bunker and herring pattern.great day!!

Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/4/99
Location: OC Beachfront
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: zero
Bait or Lure: everything in the bag
Water Depth: 4ft.
Water Temp.: 60s
Information : I thought that after the big blow on the outgoing tide would be ideal. AAAAAAAAANGGGGGGGGG!!!!! wrong! I got up at dark dressed with hat and gloves walked 4 blocks, fished 4 blocks and ZERO. The only thing I saw was two other fools who should have stayed in bed also.

Angler Name : mike mclaughlin
E-Mail : mmcl42@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/4/99
Location: ocean city corsons inlet,2nd st bridge
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 60
Information : 11/4/99 fished corsons at bridge in early am dark hours and got a little of the cold air that blew in. Didn't get anything there and then took a walk around the side and out to the front with a big ZZEEERROOO again. Not many lines out when the weather turns!! There was some bird action around but nothing poppin and a pluggin!!! If you think I had a bad day I think that the 2 guys who put their boat on the sandbar in the middle of the inlet REALLY had a bad day!!!!!!

Angler Name : Mike
E-Mail : Razor155@aol.com
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 10/4/99
Location: Ocean City-2nd street toll bridge
Fishing Method: lures
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32"
Bait or Lure: Rat-L-Trap
Water Depth: 4-6ft.
Water Temp.: ???
Information : Fished the out going tide thursday night,right beside the bridge.I was their for about 20mins.And managed to hook into my first keeper.I found a small mullet in his gut,just some thing you may want to keep in mind. Good Luck All.

Angler Name : joe
E-Mail : ive68@aol.com
Boat Name: prowler
Date Fished: nov 4
Location: atlantic highlands
Fishing Method: drifting eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: largest 38 inches
Bait or Lure: eels
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Information : fished in raritn bay caugt 38/30/inches/had one break offthat one felt large 10 keepers on boat some shorts was a good night good crew on boat keep your lines wet.

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Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 11/3/99
Location: OCNJ beach
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: zero
Bait or Lure: everything in the bag
Water Depth: 4ft.
Water Temp.: 60
Information : I fished the incoming tide on the north end of OC. Waves were about 5ft. and winds were out of the south at anywhere from 20-40 mph. Great day to sit at home. It started to ran and and the wind and waves were proving too much. I snagged a skate on the wing and that was the fish of the day. I love the quote "Stripers love noreasters! the worse conditions the better the fishing." yeah right, I will stick to the days when the mullet are running, the water is seventy something, and the bass are at your feet on a bright sunny September day.

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: My Tin Boat
Date Fished: 11/2/99
Location: Navisink River
Fishing Method:
Specie: Winter Flounder
Size:
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Information : Caught one bushel of mostly male medium size crabs before the storm at noon. Duck hunters shooting in AM. Commercial clammers using wet suits had 5 bushels cherrystones. One boat had three winter flounder.

Angler Name : GARRETT JONES (A.K.A. JUMBO)
E-Mail : GCJ5765@AOL.COM
Boat Name: HYDRASPORT DUCK
Date Fished: 11/1 & 11/2
Location: SANDY HOOK & P.P. CANAL
Fishing Method: TROLLING, POPPERS & EELS
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 31 INCHES
Bait or Lure: BLACK & WHITE / BLUE & WHITE SHAD
Water Depth: 40FT & 20 FT
Water Temp.: 58
Information : FISHED MONDAY WENT ALL THE WAY FROM BAYHEAD TO BETWEEN THE CHANNELS AT THE HOOK CAUGHT PLENTY OF BLUES BUT WANTED SOME STRIPERS. FISHED UNTIL 1:30PM UNDERSTAND WE SHOULD HAVE STAYED LONGER AFTERNOON BITE OUTGOING WAS THE TICKET - MISSED IT AGAIN! NEXT DAY FISHED BEFORE THE STORM - 1/4 MILE FROM THE DOCK HOOKED A 31 " BASS IN THE CANAL ON A LIVE EEL - WAY TO GO PUDGY (A.K.A. JIMMY COLLIS) !!

Angler Name : Dave
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Fishery
Date Fished: 11-2-99
Location: LBI
Fishing Method: casting
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 13 lbs
Bait or Lure: metal
Water Depth: 40ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Followed the birds.....for an hour.....didn't get anything....one more cast and i got a 13 pound bluefish.It was the biggest bluefish that i have ever caught...tight lines til then...

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Angler Name : WANDA SIDNEY
E-Mail : just1mor@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: "JUST ONE MORE"
Date Fished: 11/1/99
Location: SANDY HOOK
Fishing Method: TROLLING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18LBS.
Bait or Lure: SHADS
Water Depth: 15-35FT.
Water Temp.:
Information : ON 11/1/99 WE HAD THE WANDA SIDNEY CHARTER OUT TROLLING FOR STRIPED BASS.WE TROLLED RARITAN REACH CHANNEL AND FLYNN'S KNOLL.WE LIMITED OUT WITH 9 STRIPED BASS TO 18LBS.WANDA SIDNEY,AND BROTHER KENNY AND SON LANDED THEIR FIRST KEEPERS EVER.MANY OTHER SHORT BASS WERE RELEASED AND 10 BLUEFISH KEPT ALSO. WE HAD MANY DOUBLES WITH BOTH RODS GOING OFF AT THE SAME TIME. BASICALLY CONSTANT ACTION ALL DAY.BLACK AND WHITE SHADS WORKED REALY WELL. ON THE WAY IN WE SPOTTED BIRDS IN SANDY HOOK BAY AND DID SOME CASTING. BASS WERE CAUGHT JUST UNDER THE 28" LIMIT AND WERE RETURNED SAFELY AND A COUPLE MORE BLUEFISH LANDED. THE FISH HIT BUCKTAILS AND AVAS. LIMITING OUT HAS BEEN THE NORM RATHER THAN THE EXCEPTION LATELY ON THE "JUST ONE MORE". WE EXPECT THIS GOOD FISHING TO CONTINUE THRU THANKSGIVING INTO DECEMBER. THANKYOU. CAPT. RICH

Angler Name : George & Paul Z., Tommy R. and Davey O
E-Mail : Captlfix@AOL.com
Boat Name: Sweet M & M
Date Fished: 11/1/99
Location: Little Egg Inlet
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 35 lbs
Bait or Lure: live eels
Water Depth: 20 to 90 ft.
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Drifted live eels for about an hour with one keeper and several shorts. Of course we lost another (thank you Paul) right next to the boat that was much bigger than the one keeper. All in all a beautiful day on the water.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Nov 1
Location: Between the Channels
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 17 pounds
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Chris Stevens charter from Vally Forge, PA out on the Canyon Runner Monday and got into a good pile of fish. Trolling by the Ambrose channel with black/white and blue/white shad we boated 30+ Stripers with 6 keepers to 17 pounds. Most of the action occurred on the outgoing tide and we read a lot more fish than we hooked. It seems the Bass are feeding on rain fish and are not hitting the shad that readily.

Angler Name : Bob Kinsella
Angler Name : Adam Crouthamel
E-Mail : mako@jerseycape.com
Boat Name: Adam Bomb
Date Fished: 10/29/99 and 11/1/99
Location: Cape May Rips
Fishing Method: Drifting Live Eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28"-42"
Bait or Lure: Live Eels
Water Depth: Variable
Water Temp.: 59.8-61.7 degrees
Information : I had the Adam Bomb out with two other anglers aboard abd fished the incoming tide in the morning on Friday, October 29 and managed to boat seventeen keeper bass with the biggest going 30 pounds. We were working Prissy Wick Shoal along with a few other boats who were also catching fish. It was a fantastic day in the rips. We also fished yesterday, November 1, and were treated to another good, early morning bite at Prissy Wick. Just before dawn and shortly thereafter, we managed to boat nine bass to twenty five pounds. We fished the bottom of the incoming and the bite slowed down considerably once the tide turned and the boat traffic picked up. Fishing was very frustrating in the late morning hours yesterday as boats roared across and down the rips. The importance of keeping your speed to a minimum(5 or 6 knots) while in the rips cannot be overemphasized. There would have been many, many more fish caught if everyone would have took it slow, went around the rips rather than through them, and cooperated with their fellow anglers. This is very important to the quality of fishing for everyone in the rips! Anyway, hopefully the action which we have been seeing will continue through December. Tight Lines, Adam.

Angler Name : Drew C
E-Mail :
Boat Name: don't need it - many fish off beach
Date Fished: 11/1/99
Location: Staten Island - South Beach area
Fishing Method: Casting plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: mostly throwback - lots of blues
Bait or Lure: Adam 1 1/2 ounce
Water Depth: 2-5
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Fished yesterday and this morning off near the South Beach Boardwalk on Staten Island. Managed to land quite a few bass, mostly throwback (2 keepers), lots of blues, and one REALLY NICE weakfish (30 inches), my biggest of the year. Once again, followed the peanuts along the beach, one guy there did have one bass that went 45". Tight lines fellas.

E-Mail : sneakyweak@aol.com
Boat Name: Sneakie Weakie
Date Fished: 11/1/99
Location: Del Bay Horseshoe
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 34in.,36,39,42
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth: 23ft.
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Beautiful day on the water,the bite was slow at first but picked up when the tide started moving in. Best day of the year so far for my favorite fishing buddy my dad and I.

Angler Name : Jim Balicki
E-Mail : emcjim@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 11/1/99
Location: Rairtan Bay, Pebble Beach
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24 in. to 25 in.
Bait or Lure: Popper
Water Depth: shallow
Water Temp.: ?
Information : For most of the day, the report here was the same as for everywhere else in the bay: loads of peanut bunker but no fish. In the later afternoon, however, there were some swirls in the bunker. Landed 2 Bass, shorts, and 3 Bluefish. Not a great catch, but fun on surface poppers and in waders among the fish.

Angler Name : Jim and Dave
E-Mail : Shep9999@home.com
Boat Name: Amy Sue
Date Fished: 11/1/99
Location: Rar. Bay and Sh Rocks
Fishing Method: trolling, plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28 inch.
Bait or Lure: umbrellow ,plugs
Water Depth: 20 -35 ft
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Started out in R,B at 12noon. Nothing.Rip nothing,S Rocks trolling plug,one nice bass ,keeper,lots of blues.Back toi bay, 4 shorts at sundown.Nice day, and tomorrow we wont be eating HAMBURGER.

Angler Name : Wayne Radell
E-Mail : deerp@eticomm.net
Boat Name: The "Bat Boat"
Date Fished: 11-1-99
Location: Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: None
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29 Inches
Bait or Lure: Bunker Head
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
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Angler Name : George Reed
E-Mail : deerp@eticomm.net
Boat Name: The "Bat Boat"
Date Fished: 11-1-99
Location: Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: None
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28 Inches
Bait or Lure: Bunker Head
Water Depth:
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