Angler Name : Capt.Ron
E-Mail :
Boat Name: FISHERMEN
Date Fished: 10/30/06
Location: ocean
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: calms
Water Depth:
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Information : Started out the morning in the chocolate mess we call the ocean! Water was very dirty from the past few days of weather. Had plenty of bird life, loads of bait, even saw fish rolling on top for a bit....didn't catch any. Went to clamming, the first drop, not a bite. Made a move to the North and pick some nicer fish. Made another drop after that died and caught a few more. Ended up with 8 nice keepers and some shorts. Surprised we caught anything with the looks of the ocean. Andrew Seney, Union Beach landed a beauty at 35 inches, 18 pounds to win the pool. Things should start to happen any day, now that the bait is in the ocean. Capt.Ron

Angler Name : Capt.Ron
E-Mail :
Boat Name: FISHERMEN
Date Fished: 10/26/06
Location: ocean
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
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Information : A touch less wind today,not many fish. Had some life in the bay first thing this morning. Turned out to be all small Blues. Left that and headed down the bach. Still lousy conditions with the tide running into the wind, but we did manage 3 keepers. Went further south, read a nice pile of fish, only to catch 1 keeper. Headed back up to the knoll and Romar...NG the rest of the day.Tom Druckenmiller, Northampton, PA had the big one at 30 inches, 12 pounds. Weekend looks like it's gonna get nasty...hopefully next week things will improve!! Capt.Ron

Angler Name : Anthony C
E-Mail : afc685@netscape.net
Boat Name: Wellcraft 290 Coastal
Date Fished: 10/26/2006
Location: Manasquan south to Seaside
Fishing Method: Drift/Anchor
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 40-65 ft
Water Temp.: 59-61
Information : Whole lot a wind today from the Northwest. Fished clams 1-3 miles out from Manasquan to Seaside from 8am-1pm. Nothing but sandsharks and one small sea robin. Was hoping to liveline some bunker but no sign of baitfish. Heard there are a ton of striped bass off Massachusetts. Will be back out next week.

Angler Name : Dave S.
E-Mail : jigman90@ptd.net
Boat Name: Fisherman
Date Fished: 10-26-06
Location: Raritan bay - Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: drifting and Anchoring
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: clams @jigs
Water Depth: 12-30
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished with Captain Ron on the Fisherman today loads of birds working on rain fish with snappers all around the rain fish in the AM. worked the clam beds lost one good fish, then the winds blew and the day was over! thanks Captain Ron for a great effort!TOTAL 4 Snappers for supper!

Angler Name : Jeff
E-Mail :
Boat Name: J2
Date Fished: 10/26/06
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25 lbs.
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth: 55'
Water Temp.:
Information : Ran out to catch the outgoing this afternoon before the blow starts. Big mass of cocktail blues near the barge and CG station. Drifted the Rip and SH Channel without even a touch. Finally, on a hunch went over to Ambrose and was lucky to find a patch of decent sized stripers near the #3, good bites on every drift although did not mark much on the color scope, landed 6 and lost as many all on eels. Was all by myself, no fleet and good fishing. Largest went 25 lbs.

Angler Name : Capt.Ron
E-Mail :
Boat Name: FISHERMEN
Date Fished: 10/25/06
Location: ocean/bay
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
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Information : Wind, wind and more wind. What can I say, I can't even give you any hope with todays report! Had a ton of birds working in the AM, picked some blues and 2 bass. Incoming tide made it impossible to fish anywhere near the Hook, the knoll or in-between the channels. Tried down the beach, never had a hit. Boats from down South were coming here looking for fish!! Wind was steady 30 with gusts to 35. Supposed to be lousy again tomorrow and Saturday is already calling for 25 out of the SE!!! Not panicking yet ..November was very good last season....capt.ron

Angler Name : Capt.Ron
E-Mail :
Boat Name: FISHERMEN
Date Fished: 10/23/06
Location: ocean
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
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Information : Nothing like a challange...wind 30 knots NW....tide,incoming..need I say more! Had one keeper till around 1pm. Started to pick a few fish on a couple different drops. Not good by an means, but we did manage some keepers along with a 16 pound pool fish....More bait starting to move down the beach, I'm sure by the weekend the jig fish will be ready, especially with the colder weather coming......I have had a couple of customers reply to my rant about the Power Pro..Yes, I was pissed. But I'm even more so now that a couple of guys think it's better to fish on another boat than understand what I go through....Let me just say, for as hard as I bust my @%*ss for my customers and the 110% I put into this everyday I sail, if that's what you feel you have to do, then so be it...I can gaurantee not many others are gonna take care of you the way we do...Yes, there are a few guys who still use that stuff occasionally, but they are customers who have been with me for years and I know, they know what they are doing, still, they have gone back to mono for the Striper fishing. Yesterday, I had a customer with a very nice fish on, the fish headed for the back of the boat...naturally someone had braided line and guess what happened when the fish crossed it..GONE. The guy was not happy..so there you have it, I bent and got burned!!! Capt.Ron

Angler Name : Dave @ Elsie
E-Mail : jigman90@ptd.net
Boat Name: Bookie II
Date Fished: 10-22-06
Location: rips
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 27"
Bait or Lure: eels @ bunker
Water Depth: to - 20
Water Temp.: 61
Information : it was anice evening on the bookie II again the weatherman was wrong wind was only blowing around 5mph when we got out at 4pm everone coming in was telling us about all the bird life well we ran the bay and all the birds were gone so we went and anchored the hook channel with no luck so we went to the rip and bam they were sitting waiting for our offerings every drift for the last hr of light. with no one around. what a beautyful sunset!! and a nice evening of fishing. ps. As for the boat that gave us the bucket of eels !!! and for the guy whom gave me the bunker at the highlands you will be rewarded !!! fisherman that share with others always come out ahead in life!! thanks

Angler Name : Pat Kester
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 10/22/2006
Location: Inshore Wrecks
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: Up tp 3 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 65 to 90 Ft.
Water Temp.: 67 Degrees
Information : The Pat Kester charter was on board the Bounty Hunter for a day of Seabass fishing. Capt. Paul made his way to the south and fished 5 drops. It was tough fishing trying to get thru the small Seabass and Porgies. The charter managed to box just over 50 keeper Seabass. They also kept over a dozen Porgies and 6 Bluefish. We stopped counting the Seabass and Porgy throwbacks at 150. Stripers are moving in. Nov. 7,9,13,& 14 are still available. Interested? Give me a call at 732-323-8700

Angler Name : Capt. Kevin Delanoy
E-Mail : kevin@missmargiefishingcharters.com
Boat Name: MISS MARGIE
Date Fished: 10-22-06
Location: ocean
Fishing Method: wreck
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 3.5lbs
Bait or Lure: clam/peanut bunker
Water Depth: 75-80
Water Temp.: 61
Information : Today we fished the Garden State Reef (North) and had none stop catching all day long. After weeding through some smaller sea bass and porgies the end result was a very good amount of keepers in the cooler as well as a few large bluefish that were caught on live peanut bunker.It looks like it will be a few more weeks before any quantity of keeper blackfish show up.I will start to carry the hard baits and target the blackfish in a couple of weeks.

Angler Name : chris
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/22/06
Location: out of the barn
Fishing Method:
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 0
Bait or Lure:
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Information : No action inshore. A few small pods of unmolested bunker. Very few weakfish to be found. So calm I headed to Barnegat ridge. Dead there as it was 3 weeks before. No Fish!! Headed back to the beach south of the Barn where there was more bunker than the north. No luck with the stripers. The wind picked up big time and we were blown out by 2pm.

Angler Name : Tom B
E-Mail : scullycat@verizon.net
Boat Name: Mikie
Date Fished: 10/22/2006
Location: Asbury to Highlands Bridge
Fishing Method: Jig, live line
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 3-4 lbs
Bait or Lure: penut bunker
Water Depth: 20-35 FT
Water Temp.: 61
Information : Headed North out of Manisquan Inlet as the crowd headed South Saw blues pushing Peanut Bunker into the wash from the North of Asbury to the Red Church. Jigged blues of all sizes but no stripers. Livelined peanuts under the schools, more bluefish. Moved to the rocks and used peanuts to catch some really nice sea bass at the North drop off and gully sections. Ran out of peanuts so headed for the Northern fleet. Amazing reading on the graph but fish had lockjaw. Watched the Freddie C position over heavy concentrations with no results. No fish boated anyaware around us. Went back south and jigged more blues until the South wind blew hard, then headed in. Bad boat fire in the river, big catamaran blew at the fuel dock, crew burned, boat sunk on flats. Use those exhaust fans everybody. Fumes sink in the colder weather. Lets all be safe out there. Tom

Angler Name : Jon Murray
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Endeavor
Date Fished: 10/22/06
Location: 80 miles off of OCMD
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30-45 lbs
Bait or Lure: Ballyhoo, Spreader bars
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 68
Information : John Miller, Matt Konow and myself chartered the Endeavor out of the Ocean City Fishing Center, OCMD to try to get in on the good fall action. Capt. Rob Skillman made the call as we were leaving the dock at 5am to make the long ride to where the best fishing should be and it was worth the ride! We arrived at approx. 9 am and had our first fish on when the second line went in the water. Capt. Rob stayed on the fish and we had our limit before noon and were back at the dock by 3:30. Our mate Steve did a great job of rigging the baits and gaffing every fish that we got to the boat!

Angler Name : Tom Novak
E-Mail : Thomasnov.03@sunymaritime.edu
Boat Name: S. T. Barb
Date Fished: 10/22/06
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26"-27"
Bait or Lure: eels-clams
Water Depth: 15-85ft
Water Temp.:
Information : It just wasn;t a good day...we fished just about everywhere. Started off by the marina under working birds, only blues being caught, saw 2 schoolie bass trolled but it was no hot bite. Ran out to sandy hook channel, nothing. We tried the rips, the knoll, 1 can on the inside of the hook, ambrose channel, even ran out to breezy point. Only had 3 shorts for our efforts today. Gonna stick with fishing the pm for now no since the am bite hasn't been too good lately.

Angler Name : Capt Gennaro Chierchio
E-Mail : GChierchio@optonline.net
Boat Name: 222 Trophy
Date Fished: 10/22/06
Location: Raritan Bay Staten Island side
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 27
Bait or Lure: Shad
Water Depth: 14- 40
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Started out early like yesterday only I put the "Bluefish Jix" on myself. First fish within minutes was a monster blue good fight. After that it was a mix of Stripers all a little short (5 of them) and a couple more blues. The bunker were everywhere at the last of the morning outgoing, birds and boats everywhere chasing them. Of course the boats were cutting each other off trying to get in the mix as I happily went around the edges seaching for a keeper Striper. I guess I got my two yesterday. Still good action out there if you like Blues there were thick as a carpet.

Angler Name : Brendan Lynch
E-Mail : blynch1045@aol.com
Boat Name: Nildalyn
Date Fished: 10 22 06
Location: Flynns Knoll
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32"
Bait or Lure: shad rigs
Water Depth: 24ft
Water Temp.: 58f
Information : Left AH at 2oclock played with some blues in sandy hook bay.Got on the Knoll dropped rigs picked up a bass in about 15 min.Fed rubber shad to blue fish for the next 2hrs.headed home before dark .

Angler Name : CHRIS
E-Mail :
Boat Name: CHICKEN OF THE SEA
Date Fished: 10/22/06
Location: NORTH/SOUTH OF SR INLET
Fishing Method: TROLL
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 38" - 22#
Bait or Lure: SPOON
Water Depth: 35
Water Temp.: 62
Information : HEADED SOUTH IN THE DARK AND IMMEDIATELY FOUND TONS AND TONS OF BAIT WITH ZERO FISH. WENT DOWN TO MANTALOKING AND CAST NETTED SEVERAL HUNDRED PEANUTS -ZERO FISH. OUT TO SEAGIRT REEF - 2 SKATES. - UP NORTH TOWARDS LONG BRANCH AND FINALLY CAUGHT 1 GOOD BASS. WORKED WAY TOO HARD FOR THIS FISH. FLAT SEAS, GOOD COMPANY. GOD BLESS AMERICA AND GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS.

Angler Name : capt.ron
E-Mail :
Boat Name: FISHERMEN
Date Fished: 10/22/06
Location: ocean
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
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Information : Much better fishing today. Had to work several drops from Sandy Hook to the NY side to put a catch together. Rocco Farina, Tom Krakow, and Henry combined for 18 fish between them. Largest of the day was 18 1/2 pounds. Dind't catch any on jigs and didn't see any bird life (any where)......capt.ron

Angler Name : Dennis
E-Mail : thegreatescape25@hotmail.com
Boat Name: "The Great Escape"
Date Fished: 10/21 night
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 35" 14 lbs
Bait or Lure: live eels
Water Depth:
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Information : nice night on the water! had a 14 lb,er on th first drift 11 1/2 lb,er on the second and caught and released 2 more before heading to the dock.you could not ask for a better drift. the conditions were great with a lot of fish stacked up and a lot of bait. looks like the next few days ahead will not be all that great weather wise. safe on the seas!

Angler Name : BUCKTHEFLUKE
E-Mail : BUCKTHEFLUKE@COMCAST.NET
Boat Name: BROWN EYED BABE II
Date Fished: 10-21-06
Location: SQUAN INLET
Fishing Method: JIGGING
Specie: Weakfish
Size: UP TO 24"
Bait or Lure: JIGS & TEASERS
Water Depth: 28'-40'
Water Temp.: 61
Information : WITH THE HARD N.W. WINDS & POOR REPORTS ON THE VHF I DECIDED THE STAY IN THE BEACH. DIDN'T HAVE TO GO FAR. BIRDS WRE WORKING OUT SIDE THE INLET & WEAKS & BLUES WERE CHASING BAIT. AN AVA 67 & TEASER PRODUCED LOTS OF WEAKS & BLUES.CAUGTH ABOUT 60 WEAKS UP TO 24" & 30 SMALL BLUES IN 3 HRS BOB ON THE MISS B.L. THOSE BIRDS & BATS WERE BLOWN OF BY THE STRONG N,W. WINDS.ANOTHER GLORIUOS DAY OF FISHING JOIN THE R.F.A. PEACE!!!

Angler Name : Mike DiRosa
E-Mail : salty26@comcast.net
Boat Name: Regulator
Date Fished: 10/21/06
Location: Mantoloking
Fishing Method: jig
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 1 to 3lbs
Bait or Lure: Mega baits
Water Depth: 15 to 30'
Water Temp.:
Information : Drove down to the beach in the mourning to take a look at sea conditions, with 20 to 30knt winds out of the west I didnt expect what I saw, small fleet tight to the beach with bunker on top everywhere!!! Decieded to head to the boat for a couple hours of live lining. Got out to Mantoloking and still had the bait, snaged a few bunker and fished the schools for a little while with no luck, decided to jig the huge pods on the bottom and found the weakies and blues. The weaks where a little small but had some nice ones mixed in, non-stop action, fish on almost every drop, had a fun couple of hours on the light tackle!!!!! Tommorow the wind should be a little lighter, get out there and get-um!!!!!!!

Angler Name : capt.ron
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Fishermen
Date Fished: 10/21/06
Location: bay/ocean
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
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Information : Only a handfull of keepers today. Saw more Blues around than Bass, and they were tough to catch. Did find a few nicer fish on clams and eels, just not enough. Hard NW wind again didn't make for great conditions. Sunday should be better with the weather....capt.ron

Angler Name : Capt Gennaro J Chierchio & John Oehler
E-Mail : GChierchio@optonline.net
Boat Name: 222 Trophy
Date Fished: 10/21/06
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30 inches
Bait or Lure: Shad
Water Depth: 15 to 45
Water Temp.: 59 degrees
Information : Ran across the bay from Keyport Harbor to Staten Island and had a fish on within minutes. I got it all the way to the boat and the line snapped, lost my new rig and a killer fish. Started all over again and within 15 minutes we were into the Stripers hot! The birds started to arrive and the other boats in the area following them were jigging. We were into the fish every 5 minutes. Brought in a total of 12 Stipers very close to legal (27) and not one Blue. My two keepers were caught at the same time on my rig, it felt like I caught a boot! The wind started to kickup around 10:30 and the Stipers turned off, the birds and the other boats disappeared as quick as they came but we had our share of fun. My best day of the season. Be back tomorrow. Yo Mike where were you today!

Angler Name : Joe Marshall (mate)
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Fintastic
Date Fished: 10/21
Location: everywhere
Fishing Method: run and gun
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: to 16 "
Bait or Lure: the kitchen sink
Water Depth: 83'
Water Temp.: 62
Information : left the dock at a few minutes to 7, no wind, lake atlantic, ran up the beach looking for stripers or weakies, no luck. found bait out the wazzoo, big pod of peanuts right on the beach, but nothing underneath. kept heading south stopping on bait readings caught a fluke and two sea robins, hoped that wasnt it. met up with the fleet off the seaside pier, loads of bait, didnt see any fish caught. headed offshore for sea bass. great readings of sea bass and porgies, dropped the hook and started catching short seabass, took in about 10 feet of anchor line and caught porgies and a few keeper sea bass, pulled in again and caught more bass and a few tog. ended the day with 10 keeper sea bass, 16 keeper porgies, one keeper tog and a snapper blue. great fishing in the morning, slacked off as the front moved in and the wind picked up.

Angler Name : captaincalbelmar@yahoo.com
E-Mail : captaincalbelmar@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Captain Cal
Date Fished: 10/20/06
Location: inshore wrecks
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: to 3lbs
Bait or Lure: clam
Water Depth: 60-90'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : seabass and blackfish are biting on the inshore wrecks. beautiful weather, good ratio of keepers to shorts. shame the blackfish limit isn't higher. They're biting now.

Angler Name : Capt.Ron
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Fishermen
Date Fished: 10/20/06
Location: Everywhere!
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Started the rainy morning out with only 9 customers in the whole harbor. Figured it would be easy after the bite yesterday....Guess what I get for assuming the best? You gest it..a lousy day. Had two patches of fish come up at the change of tide, figured the bite was on..caught a few shorts on two drifts, then the life dissapeared. Went clamming, that was a joke..fished 3 area's not a bite. At 1:45 some life showed between the channels...had fish boiling around the boat, we could count the Stripes on the Bass...caught 2 fish!!! Tossed everything we had at them, jigs, clams, poppers, plugs, everything but the kitchen sink with no luck. To top off the day, just before we got to the slip, the wind blew with gusts to 45 knots!! Don't think my butt didn't tighten up putting the sucker in the slip.........shoud have stayed in bed. Capt.Ron PS: the server for my sight is down if you have tried to get on...hopefully it will be up by tomorrow..

Angler Name : Bob Brazicki and Dave Kalinowski
E-Mail : robert.brazicki@degussa.com
Boat Name: Miss Barnegat Light
Date Fished: Oct 19-20, 2006
Location: Hudson
Fishing Method: Jig and Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40 - 70 lbs
Bait or Lure: Squid , Spot, Butters and Smelt
Water Depth: Very Deep
Water Temp.: Perfect for Tuna
Information : Just returned from yet another great offshore trip on the Miss Barnegat Light. Squeezed the trip in right between weather fronts. Captain and Mates run a class act. My buddy Dave and I combined for 5 yellowfin and 2 longfin. Lost just as many for various reasons. One swordie also caught. Lots of crazy life arounf the boat...a blue heron, some type of bat, several domestic finches. Why are they in the Canyon ?? Live squid #1 bait. 60+ fish boated. A good group of fishermen on the boat who could get the fish to gaff.

Angler Name : Tom Novak
E-Mail : Thomasnov.03@sunymaritime.edu
Boat Name: S.T.Barb
Date Fished: 10/19/06
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28"-37"
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : My dad and a buddy went out today and fished from 7pm until 10pm, they qworked the channels and the rip and ended up with 10 bass between them.

Angler Name : Dave
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Solty Dog
Date Fished: 10-19-06
Location: Barn Inlet to Man Inlet
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: spoons/umbrella/stretch/rubber
Water Depth: 30-50
Water Temp.: 63
Information : We trolled for over six hours. Out of Barnegat Inlet, in Manasquan Inlet. Plenty of good marks, no bite. We could not even baot a bluefish. Our big hit was a missing tail off a Storm Shad. On the up side, what a day for a boat ride. Seas flat, temp 70, mid-Oct.

Angler Name : Steve
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Miss Maria
Date Fished: 10/19
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Eels,Clams,bunker
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Nice day but no bite. Out of about 100 boats I saw I only saw one fish caught and it was on my boat. I watched atleast 5 charter boats with no action. The one bass caught was on a live eel in the rips.

Angler Name : Dave S.
E-Mail : jigman90@ptd.net
Boat Name: Teal
Date Fished: 10-19-06
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: drifting @ jiging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 27"
Bait or Lure: worms
Water Depth: 14 ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Nice day on the Teal seen lots of fish working managed only 2 shorts and 1 snapper. only 3 shorts for the whole boat very slow for such a beautyful day.

Angler Name : Zack
E-Mail : darksztar@comcast.net
Boat Name: Hightime II
Date Fished: 10/19/06
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24 to 30 inches
Bait or Lure: Bunker Spoons & Stretch 25's
Water Depth: 20 to 25 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Started out late around 8 am. Ran out to the 11a can and found the fleet and birds working out on the other side of the channel. Fished for about 3 hours and managed to catch 6 schoolies, no big fish but lots of action.

Angler Name : Capt.Ron
E-Mail :
Boat Name: FISHERMEN
Date Fished: 10/19/06
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
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Information : Had to make a stop today on the way home from the Shipyard..couldn't pass up the mile and a half of birds working!! Eddie and myself had a ball for 1/2 hour then came home. Mostly bass, but they were under all the bluefish.....Weather sounds good for the next few days, we're pumped up to get it going. Will have clams on the boat as well as jigs. You could always pick up an eel or two in the AM if it looks like will fish the channels Fishing everyday now 7:30 till 2:30pm.....no afternoons..Capt.Ron

Angler Name : Jason Ross
E-Mail : jrizzle9@aol.com
Boat Name: Teal
Date Fished: 10/18/2006
Location: Tip of the hook
Fishing Method: worming & eeling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: upto 13lbs
Bait or Lure: worms mostly
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fishing was very slow in the beginning due till the lack of drift...Finally around 8 PM the bass turned on and the boat had a good bite till they left around 9:45

Angler Name : Dennis
E-Mail : thegreatescape25@hotmail.com
Boat Name: "The Great Escape"
Date Fished: 10/18
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: live eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 39"
Bait or Lure: live eels
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : fished by myself and had my limit of bass in two drifts( 15 minutes). drifted 3 more times caught and released 4 more. in less than 1hr 10 min. was out and back at the dock heading home for the met game. its the best the rip has been in three weeks and getting better! how nice it would be if the boaters went around the rip instesd of through it after each drift. the fish would stay stacked up instead of scattering! safe on the seas

Angler Name : Sid Gold & Tony "O' & Mike "O" & Hot Dog Johnny & Tom of Crunch & Dez
E-Mail : sidgold1@verizon.net
Boat Name: Can Do Too
Date Fished: 10/16 & 17 Overnighter
Location: Hudson Elbow
Fishing Method: chunk and troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: to 70
Bait or Lure: Butter fish and live Squid
Water Depth: 586
Water Temp.: 67.5
Information : Left Brielle around 1:30 arrived at the Elbow around 4:30 after trolling for 1/2 hour and no hits. Dropped the hook. Ahoy Foy captain extraordinaire... started to jig a Real seat tuna jig and showed us all with the first Yellow fin in 15 minutes...( no other jigging produced a fish only squid for bait) Ahoy relaxed after proving himself and refused to give any lesions no more fish until 1:30 AM when the first small Swordfish hit a 30 released him in 20 min and then his brother/sister an hour later... the yellow fin and long fin hit around 4:00 AM we went 7 for 8 and then went dry ... for 2 hours ... a good friend called that he was up to the limit so we went to his area and drifted for another 2 Yellow fin and 2 Long fin... Only disappointment was Hotdog was 0 for 0 on Mahi Mahi... Trip out was on a lake we made 32 knots. Trip back had 4 to 6 foot seas with large swells made only 22 knots for part of the trip... in the bottom of one wave could not see the horizon.... A good last overnight trip. Breaking out the Stripper gear and getting ready for the Bahamas.. Chub Cay and Loblolly

Angler Name : Sam, Joe, Jimmy, Dan, and Matt
E-Mail : messisa2000@yahoo.com
Boat Name: All Hooked Up
Date Fished: 10/15-10/16
Location: Baltimore Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50 lb.
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 600-1500 ft.
Water Temp.: 70.5 down to 67.5
Information : Went 2 for 4 on Yellows with about 3 more runoffs, released 2 small swords, 1 small mako, and a large tiger shark broke us off boatside. Lost our temperature break aroun 11:00PM and never found it again and fished in 67.5 degree water for the rest of the night. Tons of bait and caught about 100 tinker makeral on sabikis until the porpoise scared them away. Less then stellar night out there, I expected a lot more. Headed down to the Cape for some bassin' for the month of Nov., good luck to those who continue in the Canyons.

Angler Name : Joe
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Cut Throat
Date Fished: Hudson
Location: 10/16-17
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: Up to 80 lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished a little east of the very large fleet. Did well at night, releasing 17 fish. But the bite got crazy around daybreak and continued until about 10:30, at which point we ran out of bait. Final tally for the three of us was 38 yellowfin and 15 longfin released, and 4 yellowfin kept. Best canyon season in a long time!

Angler Name : Tom Novak
E-Mail : Thomasnov.03@sunymaritime.edu
Boat Name: S.T.Barb
Date Fished: 10/16/06
Location: sandy hook channel
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30"-26lbs
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : I just got a call from my dad as he was on his way in, the had 6 bass with 2 over 25lbs. The bite was slow when they got out because there was barely any drift but things picked up as the tide started to move.

Angler Name : Paul Pinho
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 10/15-16,2006
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling & Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: Up to 70 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Squid & Sardines
Water Depth: 550 Ft.
Water Temp.: 69 Degrees
Information : The Paul Pinho charter was on board the Bounty Hunter for an Overnighter. Capt. Paul ran out to the Hudson Canyon and set up on the Troll on the East Wall. Pulling Reel Seat Squid Spreader bars and Skirted Balyhoo we went 4 for 6 while landing 1 Longfin and 3 Yellowfin. Anchoring up in 550 ft. of water for the night all our bites came before midnight as we went 4 for 7 on Yellowfin up to 70 lbs. The rest of the night was uneventful as we only had 4 Shark encounters. Stripers are in! Looking for some early Bass action? Give me a call at 732-323-8700.

Angler Name : Joe and Chris
E-Mail : josephtryan@comcast.net
Boat Name: Dee's Nuts
Date Fished: 10/16
Location: Barnegate Light
Fishing Method: Liveline, Chunk'n ,Noggins
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: bunker
Water Depth: 40' to 60'
Water Temp.: 60 degrees
Information : Broke the inlet at 7am Bunker pods everywhere just could not find ANY bass in them. Heard on the radio of bass being picked at here and there, and the classic case of should have been here yesterday. We did manage a few nice blues and a huge school of small weakfish witch was nice to find. All in all a great day on the water.

Angler Name : pete lindia
E-Mail : tunafishing@sprintmail.com
Boat Name: jenny lee
Date Fished: 10/16/06
Location: hudson canyon
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-60
Bait or Lure: sardines
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 66.7
Information : capts mike marvinney and dave bender took peter lindia of bridgewater,nj and friends back out on an overnighter to the hudson canyon monday oct 16th. we chunked seven yellowfins to 70 lbs but never had the fish under the boat for very long. we worked very hard and moved several times just to put that catch together. our plan was to drift the squid boat fleet in the am but the predicted southeast winds for "late" came quite early, the ride home was unpleasant and the inlet was trecherous to say the least. once again there were scattered reports of good catches, the fish seem to be scattered in smaller schools, we are hoping that schools open for business next time we go.

Angler Name : John
E-Mail : rockysdad@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Lynda Mae
Date Fished: 10/16/06
Location: Sandy Hook Reef
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Porgy
Size: Jumbo
Bait or Lure: clam
Water Depth: 50
Water Temp.:
Information : I decided to try the reef for some porgies. We found plenty of jumbo porgies. The lagest was over 18". Scott, Dean and Lou went along for the fun and caught plenty of fish. We did catch a few tiny sea bass and one just short taug. I just wish we had more clams with us. I'll be back with more clams and ready to catch some jumbo porgies.

Angler Name : Nick, Michael, Carlitos, Brian
E-Mail : robert.n.vlachos.jr@marsh.com
Boat Name: MARYKATE
Date Fished: October 15-16, 2006
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll/Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 60 lb
Bait or Lure: spreader bars, skirted ballyhoo, butterfish, squid
Water Depth: various
Water Temp.: 65
Information : We ran out to the East Wall of the Hudson Canyon Sunday afternoon in time for trolling until dusk when we set up to drift and chunk for the night; decided not to anchor due to large numbers of squid boats in the area. We chunked two nice dorado and one yellowfin before it died out on us. We trolled the West Elbow on Monday and caught three yellowfin and then headed home.

Angler Name : Jake Rypkema and friends
E-Mail : Habanerofishing@aol.com
Boat Name: Habanero
Date Fished: 10/15-10/16
Location: Hudson
Fishing Method: Troll and chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-60
Bait or Lure: Plastics and live squid
Water Depth: 600ft
Water Temp.: 68
Information : The 44ft. Henriques-"Habanero" had Jake Rypkema, Angelo Villani and friends on an overnight to the Hudson. Left BL Sunday and up on the troll on the east side.Went 4 for 4 on longfin and 1 gaff mahi. Saw what we liked on the finder so we dropped the hook. Were just off the fleet. On the chunk picked all night and went 15 for 20 on yellowfin 40-60. with one topping 90. Two mahi 20-25lbs. Released one pup sword. All fish were caught on live squid and sardines. Spent the morning tile fishing in 400 ft. and caught nothing but large bluefish. Yes bluefish on the bottom at the canyon. Great trip. Will be out again on the next window.

Angler Name : mike c
E-Mail :
Boat Name: NanSea II
Date Fished: 10.16.06
Location: Ocean City NJ
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 37" 19lb
Bait or Lure: eel on fish finder rig
Water Depth: 26ft
Water Temp.: 62
Information : First keeper bass for me this fall. Taken on live eel around the Ocean City side of the 9th St Bridge just after sunset and one half hour after change of tide. Nice evening on the water. Great fishing conditions last night.

Angler Name : Capt. Kevin Delanoy
E-Mail : kevin@missmargiefishingcharters.com
Boat Name: MISS MARGIE
Date Fished: 10-16-06
Location: ocean
Fishing Method: wreck
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 4lbs
Bait or Lure: clam/peanut bunker
Water Depth: 70'
Water Temp.: 61
Information : Today was a perfect day to out on the water with calm seas plenty of sun and a great catch of sea bass and porgies.We fished on some rubble today and found larger sea bass and a better amount of larger porgies as well as a few bluefish.At the end of the day the seas were still calm making for a good ride back to clean our catch. Another great day to be on the water.

Angler Name : George Spodak
E-Mail : mbroth1@comcast.net
Boat Name: TENACIOUS
Date Fished: OCT 15-16
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Overnighter
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 65 lbs
Bait or Lure: Sardines/butterfish
Water Depth: 720 ft
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Capt Bernie and Ron Bryan hosted the George Spodak charter from Manalapan NJ for an overnighter in the Hudson Canyon. Afternoon trolling at the tip produced 3 yellowfins so we setup for chunking in that area and boated three small swordfish which were released early. At 10 pm bluefin tuna began biting and continued until 5am. The charter boated and released 20 bluefins from 42 to 46 inches. Shortly after 5 am the yellowfins began biting and the charter boated 9 more yellowfins to 65 lbs until 6:30 am when they stopped biting. We left for home at 8am with the 12 tuna and mahi on ice.

Angler Name : Sap
E-Mail : msclaf6503@aol.com
Boat Name: seven seize
Date Fished: 10/16
Location: hudson
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-60
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Went straight on the chunk at 3 pm and boated 23 yellowfin and 4 longfin by 11 PM. came home in calm ses in AM. All fish caught on butterfly jigs or live squid.

Angler Name : John Pochinski Sr.
E-Mail :
Boat Name: KISS MY BASS
Date Fished: 10/16/06
Location: Bayhead South
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 16-19 inches
Bait or Lure: Ava 17
Water Depth: 20-40 feet
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished with Mark Fichera and George Prezlock.Went out looking for stripers-no action.Switched to weaks and had a BLAST!Non-stop action,caught our limit of nice size fish.Back to the dock by noon,Mark had to sneak back to work.Great morning,super conditions.

Angler Name : Tony Glover
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Megan Beth
Date Fished: 10/15/06
Location: SE Manasquan
Fishing Method: Livrlining
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30lbs
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth: 60
Water Temp.: 61
Information : Started out wreck fishing today and only catching a couple Sea bass and some throw backs ,we got a call from Capt Tom Savastano as he was in to some good Striped bass fishing. Moving into the beach there were pods of bunker all over the place. Working the small pods we boated 7 Bass from 20 to 30 lbs. Great day on the water.

Angler Name : Capt. Kevin Delanoy
E-Mail : kevin@missmargiefishingcharters.com
Boat Name: MISS MARGIE
Date Fished: 10-15-06
Location: ocean
Fishing Method: wreck
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 3lbs
Bait or Lure: clam/peanut bunker
Water Depth: 75-80
Water Temp.: 61
Information : Today's wreck fishing trip was very productive with plenty of fish on the three wrecks we fished.I started fishing fourteen miles East of Barnegat Inlet looking for some larger sea bass but found mostly medium sized fish and alot shorts.I fished two wreck on the way back and had the same results on both.I will try again tomorrow ,hopefully in a calmer ocean.

Angler Name : Lou
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Scurge
Date Fished: 10-15-06
Location: South of manasquan inlet
Fishing Method: live line
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30lbs
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth: 30
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Worked several bunker pods all morning, No Luck!! Stayed with it, found a small pod in the afternoon with Big Bass feeding. Great day on the ocean!!! God Bless America!!!!

Angler Name : John Shipley
E-Mail : saintjude@comcast.net
Boat Name: saint jude
Date Fished: 10/15/06
Location: Mantoloking
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 2@30 and 1@15
Bait or Lure: Bunker livelined
Water Depth: 25
Water Temp.: cooler
Information : Joe, Don and I had a good day drifting livies for stripers when we got into a pod without a dozen boats jockying for position. The thick bunker were mostly holding blues, but when we were able to get underneath them, the linesiders were willing.

Angler Name : Greg
E-Mail : gpavs92@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Storm Front
Date Fished: 10/15/06
Location: Mantoloking to Seaside
Fishing Method: Liveline/Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Bunker/Spoons
Water Depth: 40-65
Water Temp.: 63
Information : Started snagging bunker south of Manasquan. Firts "snagged" bunker turned out to be about a 15lb bluefish. Worked the schools til about 11am, all the bluefish you wanted but no bass for us. Heard a report of guys trolling some bass off the piers so we made the run. Watched 3 boats boat bass right around us but for some reason we couldn't buy a hit from a bass today. Got to love the fall fishing!

Angler Name : Capt.Ron
E-Mail :
Boat Name: FISHERMEN
Date Fished: 10/15/06
Location: ocean
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Had a few fish on Sunday...certainly nothing to brag about. Bounced around a few snags till we found one that had some fish on it. Lost 3 very nice fish..20 plus pounds. Boated a couple keepers and tossed back a dozen all most's. Hard Wind against the tide didn't help us at all, no where to go for perfect conditions. Still early, the best of the fishing didn't happen last season till around the 23 of October and on...Still plenty of bait in the bay along with the bluefish. Will be back for Friday to give it hell!! The afternoons are finished....customers gave up before the fish, so we'll try it again in the spring....On another note I have to start to inforce keeping this Power Pro, Fire wire and what ever else you guys use, off the boat...It took Eddie and myself 2 hours to cut that crap outta my bearings today! Im sure it's also gonna cost me $1800 to replace them tomorrow....I am not a happy Captain!! I bend over backwards for my customers, the least you can do is please try to respect that....please. Also, please get out the heavier rods....there will be days when we have to jig fish with at least 6 oz. jigs. There's nothing worse than watching someone with a noodle-rod bent in half (just from the jig)trying to set the hook on a Striper in a 3 knot tide! You're Killing me! Medium action rods at least....Thanks (sorry for the rant), Capt.Ron

Angler Name : fred peoni
E-Mail : tunafishing@sprintmail.com
Boat Name: jenny lee
Date Fished: 10/15/06
Location: hudson canyon
Fishing Method: troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-70
Bait or Lure: squid
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 68
Information : capts limmy gahm and kevin gerrity took fred peoni sr and jr of spruce run, new jersey and friends on an overnighter to the hudson canyon sunday oct. 15th. the forecast for varable winds never materialized and the guys were in rough seas most of sunday. we trolled six nice yellowfins to 70 pounds, with reel seat gerry garcia bars being the hot lure. at night we only chunked one 60 pound yelowfin, in what was an extremly slow night for us. there were reports of some very good fishing all around us, it just wasn't meant to be.

Angler Name : chuck
E-Mail : debechuck@aol.com
Boat Name: neverenough
Date Fished: 10/15/06
Location: s,manasquan inlet
Fishing Method: livelineing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: live
Water Depth: 20/50
Water Temp.: ?
Information : caught some bait but no fish under any of the pods that I encountered!!!

Angler Name : Zack
E-Mail : darksztar@comcast.net
Boat Name: HighTimes II
Date Fished: october 15,2006
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 40 inches
Bait or Lure: Bunker Spoons & Stretch 25's
Water Depth: 20 to 25 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Started out at 7 am and ran out to the channel. When we got there their where birds working all over the place. Followed the birds around for four hours. Sum total we got 6 Stripers to forty inches and lost two more. There where birds working all over the place at least 6 different groups of bird we really didn't know which way to turn sometimes. Hardly went ten minutes without a fish on. Get out there!

Angler Name : GOOBER
E-Mail : CAYGEL@AOL.COM
Boat Name: HILLBILLY1
Date Fished: 10/15/06
Location: BABALON VALLEY
Fishing Method: CHUNK
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80-130
Bait or Lure: SQUID
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 72.5
Information : HEADED OUT TO THE VALLEY WITH A BUNCH OF TUNA COWBOYS AND TORE IT UP HAD THEM BOILING IN 10 MINS ACTION ALL NIGHT 50+ TUNA MOST OVER 1OO ALSO HAD 210 SWORD AND 2 MAKOS IN THE 100 RANGE AND ADDED A 55 LB WAHOO

Angler Name : Peg
E-Mail : jaspegi3i3@msn.com
Boat Name: Late Meeting
Date Fished: 10/15/06
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks, False Hook and Swash Channel
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: none
Bait or Lure: Eels, clams,worms,bunker and tomato and mozzarella sandwich
Water Depth: 12-60 ft
Water Temp.: 62
Information : Fished Swash Channel and False Hook from 7-10am...NOTHING. Headed south to the Shrewsbury Rocks, had a good catch of Sea Bass until the wind kicked us around. Headed back to Sandy Hook Channel where the winds were worse. Tried fishing for an hour....NOTHING AGAIN. Came home and cleaned our seabass and wondered where all the stripers were hitting. After seeing all the reports, they weren't around this weekend.

Angler Name : Chris
E-Mail :
Boat Name: -
Date Fished: 10/15
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drift/Anchor
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Eel / Clam / Worms
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : With all the reports of rippin'em up at the SHC -headed out to the tip at 5:30a and started drifting b/w bouy #14 & #12 (along with 10 other boats). The rest of the fleet was out by 7:00a. Results-none. By the way, what happened to the 5-10 kt winds? More like 15-20. Add in the traffic and we were tossed around like a rag doll. Tried the calmer ocean side -nothing. For the hell of it, tried Ambrose - what a joke -could hold with 16oz. Anchored in the Knoll with the fleet for the rest of the day, no luck. With all the other boats, I didn't see a bent rod or a wet net the whole day. Headed in at 12:30 with wind burn and checked the boats for bananas. We'll get 'em next time.

Angler Name : BUCKTHEFLUKE
E-Mail : BUCKTHEFLUKE@COMCAST.NET
Boat Name: BROWN EYED BABE II
Date Fished: 10-15-06
Location: MANASQUAN TO SEA SIDE
Fishing Method: JIG LIVELINE & TROLL
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 35LB.
Bait or Lure: SHADS
Water Depth: 65'
Water Temp.: 63
Information : GOT A LATE START. CAME OUT THE INLET TO FIND A PARKING LOT. LOTS OF BOATS JIGGING. CAUGHT 1 SPIKE & HEADED SOUTH. BUNKER EVERY WHERE. TRIED LIVELINING & CHUNKS.JUST SOME BITE OFFS FROM BLUES.WENT TO THE PIERS & TROLLED SHADS IN 65' CAUGHT A TRIPLE CONSISTING OF A 35LB,25LB BASS & A 7LB BLUE. HAD THE USUAL PROBLEM WITH PORT MOTOR SO WE TROLLED BACK TO SQUAN. CAUGHT A 25LB.BASS AT LAVALETTE. NOT A BAD DAY. ANOTHER GLORIOUS DAY AT SEA.!!! JOIN THE R.F.A.

Angler Name : Chris
E-Mail : notredamefan135@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/15/06
Location: Keinsberg
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: none
Bait or Lure: Bunker/Clams/Shads
Water Depth: 10-25 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished for about four hours toady in the back. Had on hit all day, did not see any other fish caught. Very windy but nice day on the water

Angler Name : Capt Gennaro Chierchio
E-Mail : GChierchio@optonline.net
Boat Name: 222 Trophy
Date Fished: 10/15/06
Location: Hook and the Verrazano
Fishing Method: Anchor
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Clams, Peanuts, Worms
Water Depth: 22-60
Water Temp.: 60 Bay 64 Ocean
Information : Hit the Sandy Hook channel and anchored up in 25 feet facing the channel. Caught three skates at the same time after a half hour. The wind started to pick up so I decided maybe some cover would work so I headed to Hoffman Island off the Bridge. The cover worked the fishing still the same. Picked up a big skate and a small shark. Lots of readings but nothing good today. Headed home!

Angler Name : Capt. Darren
E-Mail : CaptDarren@newjerseycharterboat.com
Boat Name: Mary Lou Crew
Date Fished: 10/14/06
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30-40 inches
Bait or Lure: Clams/Worms
Water Depth: 85 feet
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Capt. Darren and mate Phil Mancini had the Mary Lou Crew out for a shot at some fall stripers with the Savas Savadis charter on board. We made our first stop off the tip of Sand Hook and and had the fished stacked up pretty good. We managed to pull several nice fish out of there and had around a dozen shorts. But as soon as the tide slacked and turned to come back in the fishing died! We bounced around for the rest of the afternoon looking for a bite but could not get them going again.

Angler Name : CHRIS
E-Mail :
Boat Name: CHICKEN OF THE SEA
Date Fished: 10/14/06
Location: NORTH/SOUTH SR INLET
Fishing Method: LIVELINE
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: BUNKER/SPOONS
Water Depth: ASSORTED
Water Temp.: 63-64
Information : OUT BEFORE SUNRISE TO TRY FOR SOME BASS. HAD TONS OF BUNKER AND WAS ABLE TO SNAG AND LIVELINE. ZERO FISH - CAUGHT TINY BLUE ON A SPOON AND SAW 1 BASS CAUGHT ON THE LIVELINE. NOT EVEN A RUN OFF. HAS TO BREAK OPEN AS THERE WAS BUNKER FROM SEAGIRT TO LONG BRANCH. FLAT SEAS - GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

Angler Name : Lou Forinza
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Megan Beth
Date Fished: 10/14/06
Location: 17 fathoms
Fishing Method: Chum
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 10lb
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 105
Water Temp.: 62
Information : Lou Forenzi abd crew were aboard the Megan Beth for a day of bluefishing. Stopping at the Mud Bouy it was a very slow bite. By 11:30am we moved over to 17 fathoms. It was slow there as well untill 1:00 Pm the fished turned on and we caught our limit in the last hour. Left them biting and we read fish from top to bottom.

Angler Name : Dave @ Elsie
E-Mail : jigman90@ptd.net
Boat Name: Bookie II
Date Fished: 10-14-06
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: worms and clams
Water Depth: 35-50
Water Temp.: 64
Information : went out in the afternoon only got a couple of good drifts when the wind started to kick so we called it a afternoon. sure wish it was a nice as yesterday. thats fishing!!

Angler Name : Capt Gennaro Chierchio
E-Mail : GChierchio@optonline.net
Boat Name: 222 Trophy
Date Fished: 10/14/06
Location: You Name It
Fishing Method: Anchor or Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Clams, Peanuts and Sandworms
Water Depth: 20 to 55
Water Temp.: 59 Bay 63 Ocean
Information : I was told that they were catching them in the Bay up to 40 inches. So I tried that for an hour, nothing. Ran out to the Highlands Bridge, lots of boats. As I pulled up the boat next to me was dragging in a keeper Striper so I thought OK here we go. NOT! Nothing but skates. Gave that an hour and headed for the channel. Reading were great but the same fish followed me there, Sand sharks and skates! Headed back in to my spot Bug 42 in the bay and by this time the wind had kicked up and the chop was heavy. Managed to anchor but it was the wind against the tide deal with my lines alll over the place. I did get a ton of hits but I found out the they were black fish of which I got one 13 inch number. He went back to his friends and I headed home.

Angler Name : Joe
E-Mail : jobsteer@aol.com
Boat Name: Yankee Bean
Date Fished: 10-14-06
Location: Seaside Piers
Fishing Method: Live Linning
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Biggies
Bait or Lure: Live Bunker
Water Depth: 35 to 55
Water Temp.: 60 Deg.
Information : Unbelievable Day, counldnt get anyone to go with me. My Friend Jimmy's wife said he couldnt go. After having about 4 rigs mauled by huge bluefish, I went to 8 oz. on a fish finder with a leader of 40lbs. Mono. . After rigging live bunker, I went 5 for five with the biggest being at least 40lbs. . Kept one 30lbs. and another 28lbs. for dinner. An absolutely beutiful day as the water was flat and all the boaters where polite. I cant imagine that there would be another day like this for a while. As far as my friend Jim, he's a fag.

Angler Name : Gary Fekete
E-Mail : mbroth1@comcast.net
Boat Name: TENACIOUS
Date Fished: Oct 13-14
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Overnighter
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 75 lb
Bait or Lure: Butterfish/sardines
Water Depth: 600 ft
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Capt Bernie and Ron Bryan hosted the Gary Fekete charter from Byram NJ for an overnighter in the Hudson Canyon. Afternoon trolling on the east wall produced 3 yellowfins and 3 longfins so we decided to setup for the night there. By 10 pm we only had three shark biteoffs and a small mako released so we decided to move further north where the Reel Fever was chunking tuna. Drifting in that area produced 3 more yellowfins and 9 more longfins.We left for home shortly after first light with 18 tuna and mahi on ice. Our thanks to the reel fever for his hospitality!

Angler Name : Tom Novak
E-Mail : Thomasnov.03@sunymaritime.edu
Boat Name: S. T. Barb
Date Fished: 10/14/06
Location: sandy hook-ocean
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: -
Bait or Lure: eels clams
Water Depth: 15-60ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Tried to fish the afternoon, should have stayed home. Couldn't fish the channels it was way too rough and fast. We ran down to the highlands bridge and drifted for an hour and half, no hits so we headed home, only took us about an hour to get in in that nasty stuff...

Angler Name : Dave S.
E-Mail : jigman90@ptd.net
Boat Name: Teal
Date Fished: 10-13-06
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: TO-35"
Bait or Lure: worms and clams
Water Depth: 12-30
Water Temp.: 64
Information : Had a nice day on the Teal I had a couple of keepers and a couple of shorts, Captain realy worked to put fish in the boat. stripers hitting real soft. would recommend fishing this boat again!!! just a BEAUTIFUL day to be fishing and it wasn't to cold!! guess the weatherman was wrong again!

Angler Name : Joe
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Cut Throat
Date Fished: 10/11-10/13
Location: Baltimore Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 60-90 lbs.
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : After looking at the temperature charts, we figured we would have to go far south out of Manasquan to find good water and we were right, as we ran all the way to the Baltimore before finding the kind of water conditions we wanted. Once there, however, it was wide open choas. Three of us had 47 yellowfin to 90 lbs. before the it slowed down around daybreak.

Angler Name : RON ANTONELLI
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Benchmark
Date Fished: 10-13-06
Location: North of Hudson
Fishing Method: Troll + chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-60 lbs
Bait or Lure: plastic + sardines + butterfish
Water Depth: 600'
Water Temp.: 70 dgs
Information : Fished with friends, Scott Serafin, Gary Muldovany, Jack Dos Santos, John Lehman, Mike McCarthy, on Nick Neuberg's BENCHMARK. Gave considerable thought to heading South, but Cap't Nick opted to fish a warm area just North of the Hudson. Began trolling at 4pm and caught 2 Longfin + Yellowfin. After setting up for the night, we were inundated by larger than usual Mahi and caught many. From 9pm to 5am we caught 10 more Longfin + 2 more Yellowfin, and heading back to the beach at 6:30......

Angler Name : Tom Novak
E-Mail : Thomasnov.03@sunymaritime.edu
Boat Name: S. T. Barb
Date Fished: 10/13/06
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26"-28lbs
Bait or Lure: clams-worms-eels
Water Depth: 40-75ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Started off slow but after a few drifts we got into fish. Ended up catching 14 fish between myself and a friend. Had 2 fish over 25lbs, largest tipped the scale to 28lbs.

Angler Name :
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-13-06
Location: tip of sandy hook
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 20#
Bait or Lure: clams/sand worms
Water Depth: 45-70 feet
Water Temp.: 62
Information : Fished the tip of the hook from 10-1:30. hooked on right away with stripers. they were between 24 and 34". we drifted clams and sandworms. both worked very well. must have cought and released 30 fish for 4 gu ys. GR8 day. get out there and catch them while they last.

Angler Name : Braden Niper
E-Mail : overthinker13@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Sea Hunter
Date Fished: 10/11
Location: Tip of the Hook
Fishing Method: Worms/Eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 37"
Bait or Lure: Worms
Water Depth: 50'
Water Temp.: ???
Information : Today I made the morning trip on the Sea Hunter with capt Rob and Duffy. Within the first two minutes of bottom time 3 of the 8 fares were into fish. Everyone on board was worming except me, I was fishing eels looking for that bigger fish.(not the brightest idea today). For most of the tide worms was what they wanted. I personally had 7 fish up to 15 lbs (36"). High hook I think had 12. Everyone that wanted their limit had it. I just kept my biggest and let everything else swim away. Pool fish was in the 20 lb range. Awsome fishing for the first half of October in Jersey.

Angler Name : Rob
E-Mail : jonesdq@bc.edu
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Date Fished:
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
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Information : John Bee, that fish you saw jumping was most likely a sturgeon. I saw a similar, 4-5 ft silvery fish free jumping completely out of the water 2 years ago near Old Orchard. Talked to some old salts and some guys at NJDEP and they were pretty convinced it was a sturgeon. Apparantly they jump to shake parasites.

Angler Name : Ken Maher
E-Mail : squonk@optonline.net
Boat Name: Miss Belmar Princess
Date Fished: 10/10 -10/11
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk /Jig
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30-65Lbs.
Bait or Lure: sardines/squid/jigs
Water Depth: 520
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Left Tuesdat night just after five pm and made the hard right out of the inlet to the Wilmington Canyon. Set up in 520 ft and the first Yellowfin came 45 minutes later. The boat totaled about 40 Tuna for the 19 fares of which 2 were longfin and all the rest were yellowfin from 30-65lbs. The 2 Longfin were at least 60 lbs. each. I hooked three and landed two yellowfin. Joe Poye borrowed my swordfish rig/rod a couple of hours before dawn and he wound up nailing a sword of about 70 Lbs. Joe got his limit on yellows. Live squid, sardines and jigs accounted for the fish. I tried for Tilefish early in the morning but no dice. Good crew and a good trip. Get 'em while you can. Tight lines Ken

Angler Name : Tom Novak
E-Mail : Thomasnov.03@sunymaritime.edu
Boat Name: S.T.Barb
Date Fished: 10/10/06
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28"-31"
Bait or Lure: clams
Water Depth: 38-55ft
Water Temp.: 62 F
Information : Just got a call from my dad on the boat, he was heading in after him and a buddy limited out on bass where I have been fishing the last 2 days. No big fish yet but the bass are out there.

Angler Name : Larry Mennella
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 10/9 - 10, 2006
Location: Carteret Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: Up to 60 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Sardines, Butterfish
Water Depth: 475 Ft.
Water Temp.: 70.5 Degrees
Information : Capt. Paul had the Larry Menella charter on board the Bounty Hunter for a Canyon Overnighter. Running out to the Carteret Canyon and setting up in 70.5 degree water, we were disappointed as the water temperature slowly dipped during the night to 67 degrees. We never had a good bite, going 1 for 5 on the Yellowfin. The lone Yellowfin a 60 lb. fish was landed by 16 year old Frankie Mennella, it was his first. 3 hours of Trolling added 1 nice Mahi to the catch. I am now booking Striped Bass & Seabass charters for Oct. & Nov. Interested? Give me a call at 732-323-8700.

Angler Name : Capt. Bruce Miller
E-Mail : cptmarlin1@aol.com
Boat Name: "Mirage" Charters
Date Fished: 10/9 to 10/10/06
Location: NE Toms Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling/chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 75 to 95 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Ballyhoo, artificials, butterfish,live squid
Water Depth: 300 to 641 ft
Water Temp.: 68 to 72.5 degrees
Information : Mirage" Canyon Open Boat report--10/9-10/10/06, Capt.Bruce Miller The Mirage with Capt. Bruce Miller at the helm had another successful Canyon open boat trip. The trip included Mark Meyers, Toms River,NJ, Anthony Costello, Bordentown ,NJ & Joe Cantone, Brooklyn,NY. Trolling around East Toms a 5 mile long weed line was spotted and the lines were set out around 2 PM. Within one-half hour 3 Mahi were landed. The crew decieded to pull in the trolling gear and began baiting the Mahi, which produced another 10 from 3 to 10 lbs. Around 6 PM the Mirage went on the chunk, setting up in blue, 71 degree water. It wasn't till about 8 PM that the first Yellowfin was hooked and boated & this continued up until midnight. The bite slowed and only another 3 YF were boated between midnight & sunrise. Headed back to the barn at 7 AM with our fish flags flying, as usual. Total catch was near a dozen with only one YF lost and 10 Mahi. Working with me were Captain's Tom Walsh & Rich Oris. The Mirage is scheduling just two more open boat trips,Oct.18-19, Oct.25-26 & weather good & enough customers we will go on Nov.1-2 for the day chunk If interested call Capt. Bruce @ 908-278-2415 (cell) or 732-341-5782 (home).

Angler Name : Joe, Jeff, Charlie, Pete, Stan, Tom
E-Mail : mbroth1@comcast.net
Boat Name: TENACIOUS
Date Fished: Oct 9-10
Location: Toms
Fishing Method: Troll, Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 75 lbs
Bait or Lure: Sardines, butters
Water Depth: 670 ft
Water Temp.: 68-70
Information : Capts Bernie Roth and Tiny Miles hosted our second open boat overnighter in the Toms Canyon with Joe, Jeff, Charlie, Pete, Stan, and Tom Afternoon trolling was uneventful and chunking was slow as we only managed to go 3 for 3 on yellowfins to 75 lbs. Morning trolling was also uneventful until we heard Baby Bear Bender go 5 for 6 on the troll and when we joined the party we trolled 6 longfins and 1 yellowfin in our last hour. We left for home at 11:30 with 10 tuna and mahi on ice.

Angler Name : Capt.Frank
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Fishermen
Date Fished:10/10/06
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
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Information : We had a good day striper fishing weather great & bass cooperated wound up with a mix of keepers & shorts.

Angler Name : Sid Gold & Jay Montiverdi & Jim Varga & John Kolvalsky & John Pochihcki JR
E-Mail : sidgold1@verizon.net
Boat Name: Can Do Too
Date Fished: 10/9 & 10 Overnighter
Location: Wilimgton
Fishing Method: Chunk and troll and cast
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40 to 90 `
Bait or Lure: butterfish, sardines
Water Depth: 586
Water Temp.: 71.5
Information : Left Brielle around 2:00 PM for Toms but water was 68 so we continued to Wilmington where temp was 71.5 took better part of 4 ½ hours to get there. Set up chunking after an uneventful troll... Got 4 nice Yellow fin to 80 lbs by 11:00 PM. Then John Jr.s 30 went off !! Had to leave the anchor and follow the fish for over 3 hours and 2 turns by 3 fishermen. Until the large sword fish spit the hook... not a tackle failure but too much fish for a 30 Back on the chunk and another 5 nice size yellow fin... and literally a very large school of Mahi Mahi on the bow... Hot dog Johnny two handed fishing ... rod in each hand ... catching dozens and releasing over 50% lots of fun... Day Break troll no fish... back to the dock in 3 hours Very calm seas home.... going out was a bit rough.... Thanks to Ahoy Foy for another great fishing trip.

Angler Name : Ray
E-Mail : rfinnila@optonline.net
Boat Name: Even Keel
Date Fished: 10/9/06
Location: North of Sandy Hook Channel
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 23" to 29"
Bait or Lure: clams
Water Depth: 40'
Water Temp.: 62
Information : Couldn't get a crew together, so I went alone. Fished from about 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM. Caught eleven, with three at or above 28". A beautiful day!!!

Angler Name : Tom Novak
E-Mail : Thomasnov.03@sunymaritime.edu
Boat Name: S.T.Barb
Date Fished: 10/9/06
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25"-32"
Bait or Lure: clams - sandworms
Water Depth: 20-65ft
Water Temp.: 62 F
Information : Fished just about everywhere in the morning, started off where we caught fish yesterday near the tip of the hook, tried on the knoll, moved to roamer shoal tried the clam beds off the hook, not a fish until 12:30pm....should have slept in late. Ended up catching 9 fish between 2 people. Had lots of hits but fish were very finicky today. It can only get better!!!

Angler Name : ken griffin
E-Mail :
Boat Name: super chick
Date Fished: 10-8,9-06
Location: spencer
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 70lb-100lb
Bait or Lure: live squid, mackrel
Water Depth: 145'
Water Temp.: 69.8
Information : started the trip out with a rough ride out to the canyons on sunday night, finally found a little bit warmer water in the spencer canyon and marked some good bait, it was quiet till around 1am then the fish started jumpping in the boat with two and three fish on at a time till 4am then the bit slowed till the end at 6am. there were 12 guys on the boat and we picked up 24 yellow fin and several maui. This was a wonderful trip and i recommend anyone wanting to go on a tuna trip to contact capt. Ted White at barnaget light and make a res.

Angler Name : bob
E-Mail :
Boat Name: princess 3
Date Fished: 10/9/06
Location: toms/ spencer canyon
Fishing Method: chunk troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size:
Bait or Lure: snappers caught on whey out
Water Depth: 397 to 438
Water Temp.:
Information : started at toms hooked up an hour later caught a 19 pound mahi run to spencer and caught 5 yellow and a skipjack biggest fish 90 pounds

Angler Name : Capt. Kevin Delanoy
E-Mail : kevin@missmargiefishingcharters.com
Boat Name: MISS MARGIE
Date Fished: 10-9-06
Location: ocean
Fishing Method: wreck
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 3lbs
Bait or Lure: clam/peanut bunker
Water Depth: 65-80
Water Temp.: 66
Information : Today's wreck fishing trip was very good with a large number of keeper sea bass as well as shorts,porgie fishing was not as good. We fished two spots today with the one further out producing better probably because the water was cleaner the inshore wreck was still riled from the hard NE.At the end of the day we had almost our limit of sea bass and a few large bluefish that were taken off one of the wrecks.It was another great day to be on the water.

Angler Name : JohnBee
E-Mail : Johnjbee@optonline.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/09/06
Location: Off Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25-27
Bait or Lure: Clams, live bunker
Water Depth: 24
Water Temp.: 62
Information : Small on clams, nothing on bunker. Observed jumping fish about 4-5 feet long and tought it was a small marlin, but color was bone white. Maybe someone has an idea, what could that be?

Angler Name : joe zagorski
E-Mail : tunafishing@sprintmail.com
Boat Name: jenny lee
Date Fished: 10/09/06
Location: toms canyon
Fishing Method: troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50-70
Bait or Lure: sardines
Water Depth: 550
Water Temp.: 67
Information : capt's rick petschauer and dave bender took joe zagorski and gerry zagorski with some friends on an overnighter to the toms canyon monday october 9th, 2006 we arrived at dusk so we went right to the chunk. within two minutes we had our first yellowfin in the boat, i told the guys it was either a great sign or bad luck. well, we had only a handful of fish the rest of the night. the forecast called for 20knot northeast for wednesday but we were pleasantly surprised to have flat calm seas. we decided to troll and it turned out to be a great idea. within a mile of where we set up for the night we saw some whales, six rods went off and 10 minutes later we doulbled our catch. for the next few hours we hammered the area boating a dozen huge longfins and one yellowfin. we really lucked out and returned to manasquan with 18 tunas and two nice mahi.

Angler Name : Danny
E-Mail : dpf0225@comcast.net
Boat Name: Glory Days
Date Fished: Monday 10/9/06
Location: Barnegat Inlet to Seaside Pier
Fishing Method: troll, drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 45-60
Water Temp.: 64
Information : Went out this morning with Capt. Jim on 'Glory Days'... Out BI and cruised up to Seaside Pier looking for Birds, nervous water, or some marks on the screen... Stopped a couple of times, but marks were few and far between - got nothing... Cruised up in 45' of water and back at the shore line - nothing. This was what we sort of expected after the washing machine weekend that we just had - will take a few more days for the water to clean up.... Went out to the Barnegat Light Reef for an hour or more and just relaxed in the sun while slow drifting for Sea Bass... Got a couple of taps but no fish... Only saw a couple small fish brought up while we were out there... Absoulutely beautiful day on the water, however, it felt a little like the return of summer... Hopefully something will turn on by this weekend... Danny

Angler Name : Capt. Frank
E-Mail : younggp@aol.com
Boat Name: Fishermen
Date Fished: 10/9/06
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
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Information : Bluefishing was very good Sun pm trip 12 to 15 lbs. Had tough Morning with weaks again but bailed out in afternoon on ebb tide. Will start striper fishing tomorrow .Also Capt.Ron wanted me to remind everyone about next Mon to Thrus 10/16 to 10/19. we will be in shipyard for coast guard inspection & will not be sailing.

Angler Name : Dennis
E-Mail : thegreatescape25@hotmail.com
Boat Name: THE GREAT ESCAPE
Date Fished: 10/9
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29"-33"
Bait or Lure: live eels
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: dropping
Information : It's stock the freezer time. last tuesday landed a 24 lb er and fished the hook for both sides of the tide monday night and took home my limit and caught and released a few more. beautiful night to fish. lots of bait everywhere! I have found the hardest thing to do fishing is dodge boats anchored up in the rip at night! safe on the seas

Angler Name : Capt. Kevin Delanoy
E-Mail : kevin@missmargiefishingcharters.com
Boat Name: MISS MARGIE
Date Fished: 10-8-06
Location: Barnegat Bay
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 0
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 60
Information : I fished the afternoon all over Barnegat Bay out to the inlet trying to catch anything that would bite.It was a nice time to fish the bay but found no bass or weakfish willing to bite in the strong outgoing tide I will wreckfish tomorrow.

Angler Name : Brian Walsh
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Bunnyclark 1
Date Fished: 10/8/06
Location: Raritan Reach channel
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 2 pounds
Bait or Lure: Bait:sandworms
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 67
Information : left dock at 3:00 p.m. and headed toward raritan reach channel. on the way out we were looking for birds but saw none. Started drifting in the channel near buoy no. 4. No bites for a while until around 4:30 when we started getting hits. The only fish we caught were 2 keeper weakfish and a large sea robin. After we caught the fish the fishing was pretty much dead until we left.

Angler Name : Robert x
E-Mail : jonesdq@bc.edu
Boat Name: Vessel X
Date Fished: 10/08
Location: Raritain reach 6-12
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 13"
Bait or Lure: sandworms
Water Depth: channels
Water Temp.: 64
Information : Absolutely dead fishing... drifted channel ledges and caught only 2 fish in about 3+ hours. Changed over to fish for bass with live peanuts at the Rip and Romer, but no luck.

Angler Name : Capt.Ron
E-Mail :
Boat Name: FISHERMEN
Date Fished: 10/08/06
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
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Information : Just as I thought...not a good bite today. Had a few Weakfish in the AM on not much readings. Did see plenty of bait in the bay and off the channel, so maybe when the roll lays down, we'll get another shot at them. Wormed some Stripers, which was a possitive, had a high hook of 4 bass! 3 nice keepers and a handfull of shorts. Much more than I expected after the last 3 days of weather.....Will see what happens the next two days....capt.ron

Angler Name : Capt Gennaro J Chierchio
E-Mail : GChierchio@optonline.net
Boat Name: 222 Trophy
Date Fished: 10/8/2006
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Anchor
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Clams and Peanuts and Shad (fake
Water Depth: 14 to 46
Water Temp.: 65
Information : Weather looked good even the NOOA called for a small craft advisory.(Tired of that site) Water was flat as a lake. Quick trip to the Hook with live peanuts and clams to see if I could stir up the Stripers. Not a hit of anything. Nice trip out and back. Ill be back

Angler Name : Vince Carini
E-Mail : vcarini@aol.com
Boat Name: Corrective Action
Date Fished: 10/8
Location: Reach, Flynns Knoll, rips
Fishing Method: worms
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
Bait or Lure: Worms
Water Depth: 20-40'
Water Temp.: 60-64 F
Information : Zero Weakfish, 3 short Stripers on worms and a Sea Robin who we figure was lost. Looking forward to better bass action as the month continues. The weather turned out to be beautiful. Vince

Angler Name : marty bienacz
E-Mail : tunafishing@sprintmail.com
Boat Name: jenny lee
Date Fished: 10/08/06
Location: lindenkohl
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-60
Bait or Lure: sardines
Water Depth: 550
Water Temp.: 68
Information : capt's jimmy gahm and kevin gerrity took martin bienacz of toms river and friends on an overnighter to the lindenkohl canyon sunday oct 8th. we aited all day for the northeast winds to lay down and headed out a 2pm in about a 6' swell. after not fishing for several days due to the blow we didn't know quite what to expect. the fish bit early and we were 11 for 17 on yellowfins up to 60lbs. we did not have a bite past 1am. we did read the fish in the early moring but they wouldn't eat. we caught several fish on the shimano butterfly jigs.

Angler Name : Tom Novak
E-Mail : Thomasnov.03@sunymaritime.edu
Boat Name: S. T. Barb
Date Fished: 10/8/06
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28"-36"
Bait or Lure: clams - sandworms
Water Depth: 15-70ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Got out around 2pm and headed to the reach and did 2 drifts for weakfish, that was a waste of time. Switched over to bassing near the tip of the hook. After 3 drifts of nothing, we found the bass. Caught 7 bass between my dad and I, had 2 over 35" All fish were caught on clams while drifting, we tried worms but never had a hit. Will be out again tommorrow

Angler Name : Capt Jay
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Cats Ass
Date Fished: 10/5
Location: sh bay
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: worms
Water Depth: 25
Water Temp.: 62
Information : Left Dock 7 am wind 25 knots bay real snotty. Water over the bow out 2 the reach. My cat never takes water. Fished around Ammo Pier got chased by CG no weaks but all the 3-5 blues you wanted lots of birds working caught 50 on light spinner kept 5 not sure why. Sea down by 11 am went to Sandy Hook reef looking for sea bass found one, went back to Romer for bass none,Caught more blues went home tired

Angler Name : Rich
E-Mail : islgirl@aol.com
Boat Name: Island Girl
Date Fished: 10/4/2006
Location: Rockaway Reef
Fishing Method:
Specie: Tautog
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 35
Water Temp.:
Information : We fished the reef today, four keeper nice Blackfish, a dozen shorts and all the porgies you could stand, even keper Porgies ! The fish turn on and off light someon was ringing a bell. Beautiful day on the water.

Angler Name : earthquake
E-Mail : mrtabermiller@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Captain Cal
Date Fished: 10/4/06
Location: Belmar
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Fluke
Size: up to 6 lbs
Bait or Lure: Squid/spearing
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Beautiful day on the water. Still some big fluke to be caught One patron had his limit today - a couple guys had 5 or 6 each, many had 1 or 2. Pool fish were 5 and 6 lbs. Captain Ron says the Cal will sail for fluke till the end of the season on Monday. They'll leave them biting. Then switch to wreck fishing for seabass and porgies.

Angler Name : Sid Gold & Eric Stayley & Rick P
E-Mail : sidgold1@verizon.net
Boat Name: Can Do Too
Date Fished: October 3-4 overnight
Location: south of tom's
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: to 90 lbs
Bait or Lure: Squid / Butter fish / sardenes
Water Depth: 586
Water Temp.: 72.5
Information : Left late at 4:30PM rough seas got to toms at 10:30 PM water cold 68 went south and found 72.5 and dropped the hook at 11:30 PM... only one mahi mahi until 5:15 AM then the Tuna hit fast... went 7 for 12 with several double and tripple hookups... crossed lines cutting off made most of the non catches.. Captain Jim Foy took us back in 3 hours in calm and flat seas... big difference from the trip out......

Angler Name : Danny
E-Mail : dpf0225@comcast.net
Boat Name: CastAway
Date Fished: 10/4/06
Location: Barnegat Light Reef
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: everything
Water Depth: 57
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Took the day off becasue the forecast sounded like a '10'... My friend Bill joined me and we left the dock at 8AM... Headed out BI to BLR to see what was happening out there... Ocean was 2-4 with about 10-14kn wind, drifting at 1.3, water temp was 67... Started drifting for fluke, and was immediatley apparent that it was going to be a sea bass day... Constant non-stop action all morning on every drift.. caught about 40 sea bass and 2 porgies... only kept 4 big sea-bass... There were a lot of blues out on the reef as well - they would periodically bust the surface - but looked like 2-3 pounders... Came inshore to the Coast Guard Station at noon and trolled a little... I never saw so much activity under water before - the sonar was solid for most of the water column with some big fish being marked - of course I only 'saw' them didn't 'catch' any... Looked like weakfish, because we did land one spike - didn't have any time left or would have played in there some more.. Back to the dock at 2PM... Felt like a summer day, except for lack of company out there... counted about 14 boats on the reef, and another 10 by the CGS... It was worth the vacation day - beautiful day on the water... Danny

Angler Name : Dave
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Solty Dog
Date Fished: 10-4-06
Location: Barnegat Reef
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 12"
Bait or Lure: squid/spearing
Water Depth: 47
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Looking for fluke .. lots of small sea bass and sea robins. Bait hit as soon as it touches the bottom. Only managed one keeper sea bass. NO fluke of any size. Trolled back to inlet; one bluefish, looking for false albacore. Water still warm. Forecast of wind and falling temps could change things quick.

Angler Name : capt.ron
E-Mail :
Boat Name: FISHERMEN
Date Fished: 10/04/06
Location: bay
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : First two drifts this morning ended in a DOUGHNUT (O). Thought I was gonna have a pannick attack! Made a few quick adjustments near the channel and we were back in the ballgame. Had to power drift the edge again (all day!!) to put a catch together. Much nicer fish with several 2 to 4 pounders. Everyone on the boat had thier limit again and then some. Never had any wind like they talked about the past few days, it was perfect. Don't know how much longer it will last, the fish are moving further down the channel each day. I'm definatly worried about the N to NE the next two days. Like I said in past reports, that was the end last year...will just have to wait and see.....I will be away Monday the 9th till Saturday the 14th. CaptFrank will be at the helm and I'm sure on the cell phone with me everyday! I have knocked off Friday afternoons, but will fish Saturday and Sunday afternoon this weekend...customers are starting to become scarce. We will be in the Shipyard for C.G. inspection Monday the 16 till Thursday the 19th, I'm positive we'll be fishing for Bass then....Thanks! Capt. Ron

Angler Name : McSalty
E-Mail : aa@bocpartners.com
Boat Name: Antoinette
Date Fished: October 3rd
Location: Carteret
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 60 to 90
Bait or Lure: Sardine, Live Squid, Butter
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 73
Information : Fished with Good Friends Bob Pisano, Capt. Darren Berry and Fatty D Wednesday into Thursday. Dropped the hook in 600 ft of 73 degree water. Marked fish deep and had action shortly after 8pm. Tight lines through sun-up going 15 for 15 on yellowfin and 2 for 2 on longfin (62 and 65lbs) on the boga grip. Great way to spend an 80 degree day in October!

Angler Name : John Vidalis
E-Mail : mbroth1@comcast.net
Boat Name: TENACIOUS
Date Fished: Oct 2-3
Location: Toms
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 60-75+
Bait or Lure: Sardines/Squid
Water Depth: 670 ft
Water Temp.: 71.2
Information : Capts Bernie Roth and Tiny Miles hosted the John Vidalis charter from Jackson NJ for an overnighter in the Toms Canyon. Water was cold where we caught on our last trip and we setup farther south. Caught and released a small sword and had first tuna bite at 11pm. Had difficulty catching squid and relied on sardines at 120 ft to get bites. Charter had constant action till first light with large yellowfins most of which were 75+ lbs and more belligerent than normal. Out of 20 hookups the charter managed to boat 11 and for ist timers they did very well on these brutes. We chunked till 8am but there was no daylight bite.

Angler Name : CHRIS
E-Mail :
Boat Name: CHICKEN OF THE SEA
Date Fished: 10/03/06
Location: NORTH OF SR INLET
Fishing Method: JIG
Specie: Weakfish
Size: SPIKE TO 20"
Bait or Lure: JIGS
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 66 ON TOP
Information : NOAA SUCKS. FORECAST SOUTHWEST WINDS WERE ACTUALLY S/E AND KICKING. COULD NOT GET 6 OUNCE JIGS TO THE BOTTOM. THE READINGS WERE SO GOOD I DECIDED TO ANCHOR AND PROCEEDED TO VERTICAL JIG APPROX 100 WEAKFISH IN THE NEXT 2 HOURS BETWEEN 3 GUYS. KEPT 9 FISH AND LET THE REST GROW UP. GREAT FISHING, SHORT COMMUTE. GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!!!

Angler Name : Charlie
E-Mail : charliehreha@comcast.net
Boat Name: The Fisherman
Date Fished: 10-3-2006
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 13-22
Bait or Lure: sand worms
Water Depth: 20ft
Water Temp.:
Information : This was my first time on The Fisherman, My hat goes off to Capt. Ron and his crew. He put us on the fish all day and joined in netting fish. A real down to earth guy. Even Though (THOU) I own my own boat, I am looking forward to more trips (stripers)on The Fisherman. Keep up the good work and those "now famous" fishing reports.

Angler Name : Gennaro Chierchio
E-Mail : GChierchio@optonline.net
Boat Name: 222 Trophy
Date Fished: 10/3/06
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Peanuts and Clams
Water Depth: 46
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Looked at the upcoming weather and decided to head outfor an evening trip. The water was flat as a lake so I headed out to the tip of the Hook at the Rip it was 2 foot rollers. Dropped my lines and drifted offshore about a mile with a Sand Shark and darkness I bolted for the inshore Marker 42 which has always been good to me. Not a hit. The other boats that I saw where doing nothing. The water was so quite that I could hear people having a party on their boat but could not see the boat. Later they cam towards me and I could see that they were having problems navigating they way home. Hope they made it. Six guys in a 15 foot Boston Whaler?

Angler Name : mike courtney
E-Mail : tunafishing@sprintmail.com
Boat Name: jenny lee
Date Fished: 10/3/06
Location: lindenkohl canyon
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50-70
Bait or Lure: squid
Water Depth: 500
Water Temp.: 71
Information : capt's rick petschauer and dave bender took mike courtney of bayhead and the surf taco boys out to the lindenkohl canyon. we could not find the water we had been fishing so we looked further south, but still came up a bit cooler than we had hoped for. we went back to the scene of the last crime and had fish right away. after boating four fiah right away, it was very slow after that and we came home with seven nice yellowfins to 70 pounds. we had about as many lost including three solid hookups on the butterfly jigs.

Angler Name : capt.ron
E-Mail :
Boat Name: FISHERMEN
Date Fished: 10/03/06
Location: bay
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Morning bite again today, not hot and heavy action, but a nice pick on each drift. A few guys did manage thier limits. Not many bigger fish the past 2 days, and not many fish being caught in the back!! Heard there might be a NE for a couple of days this week...if you remember last year, Oct. 11th was the end of the weakfishing. Had a 4 day NE'ster that chased the bait and the fish out of the bay...we never caught another Weakfish after that. Hope it doesn't happen, but if it does, we go to plan B...If you gotta ask what that is...you don't fish with us. I had two customers correct me on a spelling error they have seen in my past reports..thought it was pretty funny...Seems I have been using THOU for the word THOUGH!!! They thought it was from the bible!!! Sorry, Capt.Ron

Angler Name : chris
E-Mail : fishtheridge@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-3-06
Location: mudhole
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 200-300
Bait or Lure: everything
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 70.5
Information : Heard several rumers about 2-3 hundred pound tuna in the mudhole. Went and marked no large tuna. Caught ling and other bait but the blues kept coming in waves. Such a bad few weeks out there.