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Angler Name : Frank Ruzga
E-Mail : FRViper@aol.com
Boat Name: Sea Viper II
Date Fished: 10-31-98
Location: 1/2 mi. off Manasquan
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 21.4 Lbs.
Bait or Lure: Ava 27
Water Depth: approx. 60'
Water Temp.: approx. 48 deg
Information : Fish was caught on 12 lb line. I used an ugly stick with a Shimano 4000 sm spin reel. The fish was weighed by Artie Calobela at Hoffmans, Brielle. Wind was blowing 25 knots from NW. I hooked the fish off Manasquan and landed it 45 minutes later off of Point Pleasant.
This catch is a new Jersey Coast Shark Anglers club record.
Report submitted by: Frank Ruzga Jersey Coast Shark Anglers Member

Angler Name : Captain Nick
E-Mail : CaptNick00@aol.com
Boat Name: St. Jude
Date Fished: 10-31-98
Location: Sandy Hook Reef
Fishing Method:
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 1#-3#
Bait or Lure: clams, crabs, bergalls
Water Depth: 60-70ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Ran to the Sandy Hook Reef hoping to catch some blackfish but ended up catching a bunch of seabass and porgies. I still think it's a little early for the blackfish. We did catch one but it was real small, 12", so we released it. All in all it was a good sea bass day.

Angler Name : Rich
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Aquaholic
Date Fished: 10/31/98
Location: Cape May Inlet
Fishing Method: Anchored Under Cape May Bridge
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 16 "
Bait or Lure: Weakfish Belly
Water Depth: 25 ft.
Water Temp.: 54
Information : Started out at 4:30 as the sun was going down. Anchored at the bridge at 5:30. Immediately saw weakfish jumping next to the boat. Caught two in the first five minutes and then none for the next two hours. The water was so filled with sea weed, I couldn't keep my hook cleaned off. As soon as my line hit the water, a pile of sea weed attached to the hook. So I went home with two weakies. Thank God for the first five minutes!

Angler Name : paul
E-Mail : hibbitt_paul@bns.att.com
Boat Name: november moon
Date Fished: 10/31/98
Location: belmar to mantoloking
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 16 pounds
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 40 feet
Water Temp.: 4 feet
Information : had nick & russ and their dad's out for some trolling. trolled umbrella's in 40 foot depths from belmar to south mantoloking. boated around 50 large bluefish keeping 9. many double, triple and quadrupal headers. as the sun began to set, the action looked to heat up along the beach. we headed in to 20 feet and trolled up a double header short bass on a red and green rig. also boated one more bluefish.

Angler Name : Bob Maloney
E-Mail : bmaloney@sensar.com
Boat Name: Reel Deal
Date Fished: 10-31-98
Location: Off Margate / Lucy
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15 - 21 1/2
Bait or Lure: Squid / minnow
Water Depth: 20-35
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished from 8:30 to 12:00. Limited out on Fluke. Had a dozen or so throw backs all right around 14 to 14 1/2. Also caught some nice size bluefish. The birds were working all along the beach front early in the morning. All in All a great day,hope the weather keep up.

Angler Name : Andy Flint
E-Mail : aflint@ptc.com
Boat Name: I wear the pants
Date Fished: 10-31-98
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 25 Inches
Bait or Lure: Diamond jigs
Water Depth: 40-60 ft
Water Temp.: 57.2
Information : An abundance of bait and bluefish. Drifted with the fleet off Long Branch for a while, 6-10 lbs blues. Stiff NW wind.

Angler Name : paul
E-Mail : hibbitt_paul@bns.att.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10/31/98
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 40 inches
Bait or Lure: anything you threw
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: 4 feet
Information : fm and i walked onto the beach around 4:30 pm in the middle of an all out blitz. only thing missing was all the birds. if you were there, you know what i'm talking about. there were bass to 40 inches and bluefish to 20 pounds chasing peanut bunker until it got dark. the fishing was fast and furious, and the beach was crowded. anything you threw at them worked (even metal). hell, there were even a couple of guys that were fishing bank sinker with teasers and hooking up on every cast. stayed after dark and continued to pick additional bass and a stray bluefish. must have caught somewhere around 30 fish. it was awesome.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: So-Kool
Date Fished: 10-31-98
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Eels
Water Depth: 16-45 Ft
Water Temp.: 52.2
Information : Got out alittle before sun-up & thought I had an ideal day.But quickly realized that a stiff NW wind at 25 would make for a bumpy & wet day.Direction of the wind coupled with an ebbing tide made for a very fast drift.Fished various areas over 3 hours without any action.Didn't see any other boats doing much of anything & only heard of a few small bass taken off the beach on wire line.

Angler Name : John
E-Mail : hooks@litenet.net
Boat Name: Water Torture
Date Fished: 10-31-98
Location: Manasquan/Pt.Pleasant
Fishing Method: jig/cast
Specie: Bluefish
Size: up to 15lbs.
Bait or Lure: jigs/poppers
Water Depth: 10-50
Water Temp.: 56
Information : Major bluefish blitz from the beach all the way out to 50 feet of water.Great to see the big boys back again.

Angler Name : bill betts
E-Mail : tunabill@mindspring.com
Boat Name: jade
Date Fished: 10-31-98
Location: off dewey
Fishing Method: anchor
Specie: Atlantic Croaker
Size:
Bait or Lure: squid strips
Water Depth: 30ft
Water Temp.:
Information : was going on overnighter for tuna but 28kts winds changed our game plan. caught alot of fish in snotty conditions. we will try again for tuna later.

Angler Name : Jim Balicki
E-Mail : emcjim@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 10-30-98
Location: Sandy Hook at Sea Gull's Rest.
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 21 in. to 25 in.
Bait or Lure: swimming plugs & pencil popper
Water Depth: 0 to 6 ft.
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Loads of peanut bunker close to the beach. Occasionally Stripers and Blues would come in after them. During one flurry, at about 1500, the entire swirling school seemed to made up of stripers. At dusk, it seemed to be mostly blues at the tool gate. Tight lines.

Angler Name : John Gilchrist
E-Mail : jjgaia@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Fun King
Date Fished: 10-30
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24+
Bait or Lure: Plugs, bunkers
Water Depth: 3-20'
Water Temp.: 55
Information : Tough Halloween with all that wind. Ducked inside the Hook to get out of the gale and noticed all the beach boys were hooked up. Threw diamond jigs and pencil poppers w/neg res. Beach boys said "Slow!" Tried swimmers and poppers and watched the fish chasing and taking. Incredible schools of bunker, psychedelic in the clear water. Easy enough to snag a bunker on a single hook and wait for the bass or blue to jump on. What a day! We paid for it, though, on the long wet ride home into the teeth of the wind, in our 18' CC. Can't wait to get back.

Angler Name : rich
E-Mail : rlk42@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-30-98
Location: Sandy Hook, North Beach
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 14in. to 40 in.
Bait or Lure: Surface, crank and live baits
Water Depth: 0-6 ft
Water Temp.: 50's
Information : surf loaded with peanut bunker. Non- stop blitz all day. Strippers to 30 lbs and blues to 17 lbs. Fish still being caught when I left at 5 PM. From what I heard, it lasted two days, Thursday thru Friday! Maybe a once in a life time day!!!!!!

Angler Name : Duff
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/30
Location: Lavalette
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24 -> 27
Bait or Lure: Bomber/teaser
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished the outgoing - Slow Pick. Three shorts - Two on black teasers - One on a yellow bomber.

Angler Name : blackie
E-Mail :
Boat Name: crazydave
Date Fished: 10/30/98
Location: cape may
Fishing Method: wreck
Specie: Tautog
Size: 3 to 10lbs.
Bait or Lure: greencrabs
Water Depth: 40ft
Water Temp.: 61
Information : it was real windy but dave put us on a wreck about 1 mile off the beach where we cauth a limit of tog to 10lbs.

Angler Name : Andy L
E-Mail : Loj78@aol
Boat Name: surf
Date Fished: 10-30-98
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: livelined bunkers
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26"-34"
Bait or Lure: peanut bunker,plugs
Water Depth: 10 ft
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Got a late start this morning (900) and fished the hook till one o'clock. Non-stop striper fishing along the tip all after noon. Huge pods of bunker were right on the beach and there were lteraly hundreds of stripers blitzing. In the center of the pods mostly schoolie bass were feeding. Around the back and edges of the pods there were all larger fish about 35 inches. Best day of surf fishing i ever had!!!!! Myself and one other guy had a field day with these fish catching one on every cast (when the bait was in front of us) and during the periods when the bait was out further or down the beach we caught them on plugs or swimmers. Even left the fish biting (because i had to go to work). I landed at least 25 shorts and 6 keepers. One of the fish had a littoral society tag in it. All went on during incoming tide. Hope this lasts through the month.

Angler Name : ray
E-Mail : finnila.com@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Mo' Money
Date Fished: 10/30/98
Location: Sandy Hook & Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling & Plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26' to 29"
Bait or Lure: tubes, umbrella Rigs, bait &plugs
Water Depth: 3' to 40'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Started trolling at about 7:00 AM by the Sandy Hook bug light. Rounded the Hook and got a 29" bass on a red tube. Went to the Shrewsbury Rocks and all we caught were rocks. As we were returning by the beach at the Hook, there were a lot of action with the surf-fishermen. Trolled closer to the beach and caught another bass. Surf-fishermen were reeling in lots of fish. Went closer to the beach, and tried sandworms and small frozen bunker, with no hits. The wind was stiff from the NW. We got close to the beach, in about 3' of water. We starting using plugs cast parallel to the beach, at a three foot depth. Started getting fish left and right. The visibility was incredible. The bottom could be seen clearly at seven feet, as we were being blown away from the beach. The fish could be seen chasing the plugs as they were pulled through the water. The fish were hitting yellow plugs. One could see them chasing the plugs in groups of 3 and 4. Caught and released a bunch of Stripers and bluefish, and lost three plugs. Had to get under the Oceanport Bridge without an opening, so I had to leave by 2:30 PM. As we got to the Rip, we ran into some serious waves fueled by the wind and tide. I thought that a boat ahead of me, at the Rip, was about to pitch-pole. As we headed home, we tried to follow the Sea Fox, but I couldn't maintain her speed. Rounded the Hook, with by deck awash and took quite a beating, in my 20 footer. One of the most thrilling trips I ever had. Came back with three Stripers and two bluefish, in the box, and release the rest. Hope you're feeling better, and tight lines.

Angler Name : Billy Bodine
E-Mail : rdeluca@ahearnnj.com
Boat Name: Surf
Date Fished: 10/30/98
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Surfcast / Fly
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28
Bait or Lure: Bombers
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 60's
Information : Windy as hell, lots of bait, lots of fish, 2 keepers and some nice big fat blues. A great outing with a great group of friends - Tight lines.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: October 30
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Trolling/Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 5 to 20 pounds
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs/Ava Jigs
Water Depth: 40'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Canyon Runner out again for another shot at Stripers with the Dan Miller charter from Sealy Mattress Co. at put together a solid catch. Trolling and jigging in 30+ knot Northwest winds but enjoying the calm water close to the beach, the charter boat 4 nice Weakfish on jigs in the morning along with tons of Bluefish and a few Short Bass. Trolling later in the day produced several more shorts and keepers up to 20 pounds in addition to dozens and dozens of Bluefish.

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Angler Name : Michael Ogden
E-Mail : Waventure1@aol
Boat Name: Doris O
Date Fished: 10/29/98
Location: Little Egg Inlet
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Live ells
Water Depth: 30ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Not much actin today got into a couple nice blues but the stripers wernt intrested in the 3-4 foot chop i guess.

Angler Name : G Fairbanks
E-Mail : troll@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: NA
Date Fished: 10/29/98
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26 to 32 in
Bait or Lure: Plugs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished end of Sandy hook from 10pm to 03:00 am and caught three stripped bass from 26 inches to a 32 inch keeper. used big plugs. Note fish had twelve small green crabs in it's stomach and a spering or killie. These fish were caught on the in coming tide.

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Angler Name : Ed W
E-Mail : 103234.366@compuserve.com
Boat Name: Katy Did
Date Fished: 10-28-98
Location: Manasquan River
Fishing Method: everything
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth: 10-20
Water Temp.: 62
Information : 7:30 to 10:00 PM - Manasquan River, Rt 35 Bridge to railroad bridge - drifted eels, tried worms, metal, plugs, nothing at all. Hickory shad on fin-s by canal. A bad night, but we will keep on trying.

Angler Name : paul
E-Mail : hibbitt_paul@bns.att.com
Boat Name: surf
Date Fished: 10/28/98
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24 - 25
Bait or Lure: plugs
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: 60
Information : fished an area at the hook on 10/28 from 6 - 9 pm. had one fat weakfish around 24 - 25 inches.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: October 28
Location: Mud Hole
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 25 to 50 pounds
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 180'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie and mate Mike Zajak had another good day of fishing in the Mudhole for Bluefins. Fishing with the Rob Bruno charter from Brooklyn, NY on Wednesday, the Canyon Runner caught and released 5 Bluefins and lost 2 others. The tuna weighed between 25 and 50 pounds and put up a great fight on the light tackle we were using. It is amazing that people will refuse to get in on this great fishing only 22 miles from the inlet only because you have to release what you catch. Our worst trip so far has been 4 Bluefins and our best has been 15, most of the fish are better than 30 pounds, the typical size of the longfins we have caught all year in the Canyon and yet there are only 2 or 3 boats out there with us on any given day.

Angler Name : Capt.Jim Lynch
E-Mail : Finaddict.sportfishing@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: FinAddict
Date Fished: 10/28/98
Location: Rocks
Fishing Method: Troll & Jig
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Mix
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40 to 50 '
Water Temp.: 57 F
Information : Fished at the rocks with the Cuccia brothers from Manchester for bass & blues .Put together a mixed bag of seabass,blues,& bass.No keepers yet. Blues and bass on green or red umbrella rigs.Seabass on butterfish.

Angler Name : Warren Avis
E-Mail : captbuck@snip.net
Boat Name: ---------------------
Date Fished: 28 Oct 1998
Location: N.Wildwood,N.J.
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 10#-15#
Bait or Lure: Fresh bunker
Water Depth: ---------------
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : also schoolie stripers at same location

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Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: October 27
Location: Off Spring Lake
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 15 to 35 pounds
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Canyon Runner out on the Striper grounds with the Dr. Massaro charter from Holmdel, NJ on Tuesday October 7 and put together a great catch. Trolling in 40 feet of water the charter boated 75 bluefish and 25 Stripes. 5 of the Bass were brought back to the dock with the largest, taken on a black and green umbrella rig weighing in at 33 pounds. The fish bit all day long and the charter enjoyed another great fall day on the water.

Angler Name : Harley
E-Mail : Harley@adelphia.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-27-98
Location: Barnegat Bay
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 38 inches
Bait or Lure: Eels
Water Depth: 8-20 ft.
Water Temp.:
Information :

Angler Name : Brian Selover
E-Mail : bselover@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Terminator
Date Fished: October 27
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30"-35"
Bait or Lure: Live eels
Water Depth: 48-55
Water Temp.: 57.6
Information : Had Two keepers 30"-35". Near #12 & #14.Lots of boats around, wind calmed down. 1600-1900.Friend of mine had 6 keepers by 1530.

Angler Name : Tom,Bud
E-Mail : jhickey@ptd.net
Boat Name: REEL HICK
Date Fished: 26,27th
Location: The Rip
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 12-28lbs
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth: 12-50 ft.
Water Temp.: upper 50s
Information : Started at 3pm got a 38in 28 pounder on th first drift.We had 3 in the box by 4:15,after that it was only shorts until about 8:45 then my brother got an 18 pounder.Not a bad night. On the 27th we fished The Rip at about 2:30pm,till 7:30 only got 2 skates and a 29in striper.Still would not trade it for a nite at home watching tv.Tite lines!!!

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Angler Name : paul
E-Mail : hibbitt_paul@bns.att.com
Boat Name: surf
Date Fished: 10/26/98
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: n/a
Bait or Lure: plug
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: upper 50's
Information : fished an area at the hook last night from 6 to 9 pm. not even a bump. figured the wind would inspire some action. wind made things tough, but not unfishable.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: October 26
Location: Off Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 35 to 38"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had another good Striper trip as he put the Guy Biondi charter from Rockland, NY into 15 Stripers on Monday 26. Unfortunately only 3 were keeper and all were nice fish weighing between 18 and 25 pounds. However, while a dozen were shorts all of them just missed the 28" limit by no more than 1 inch. The Canyon Runner will be fishing for Stripers and combining these trips with bottom fishing in the afternoon from now until the end of November. While most days are already booked some prime dates and still available including weekends.

Angler Name : Harley
E-Mail : harley@adelphia.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-26-98
Location: Barnegat Bay
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 36 inches
Bait or Lure: Eels
Water Depth: 8-20 ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Had 6 Keeper Bass by the dyke and sod banks drifting eels from 5:00 pm -10:00 pm.The winds really started to blow and messed up the drift so we packed it in .The fish are all nice size no short to speak of.Also one lone weakfish on eel also.Till tomorrow.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: October 25
Location: Off Monmouth Beach
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28 to 38"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie put the Pete Monatee charter from North Cadwell into an excellant catch of Stripers and tons of Bluefish on Sunday October 25 just off the beach between Monmouth Beach and Sandy Hook. Trolling green and black and all red umbrella rigs 20 Stripers were boated and 6 went between 30 and 38". The charter was so excited that they were looking to put together two more Bass trips during the hight of the fall season in November.

Angler Name : Jack Macey
E-Mail : BEgger4886@aol.com
Boat Name: Spunky II
Date Fished: 10/25
Location: Bay Head
Fishing Method: downrigger trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 15, 16lbs
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 43
Water Temp.: 61
Information : went 2 for 7 on rigs

Angler Name : SCOTT COD
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Boat Name: party boat**SEA FOX**
Date Fished: 10/25/98
Location: SE of BA bouy
Fishing Method: bottom rig
Specie: Ling (AKA Red Hake)
Size: 1 to 4 pounds
Bait or Lure: clams and bergall strips
Water Depth: 90 to 110
Water Temp.: 50's
Information : CAPT DON put us on some real good pieces of bottom and the whole boat was pretty much catching plenty of ling. I wound up with 30 to 50 ling a school cod (released) and some short sea bass. Pool winner was a 9 pound white hake.Well thats all to my next trip on this coming sunday,kudos to CAPT. DON AND HIS CREW FOR A GREAT DAY.

Angler Name : dave
E-Mail : grahamd@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: non
Date Fished: 10/25/98
Location: bridge between longport and ocean city
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 2 to 5 lbs
Bait or Lure: fines fish
Water Depth: 20 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished from 12 till 2 am on the outgoing tide. Tried previously with bait with no success so tried fin s fish, 4" silver colored and could not loose, used a 1/4 oz jig head and lowered to the bottom then slowly retreaved, caught 8 week fish one blue and one small striper 15" in just over 2 hours. released the striper. the fish were jumping every where and have been here at night for a few weeks now. dont think it will last much longer. good luck.

Angler Name : Charlie Haws
E-Mail : charlie@webspan.net
Boat Name: THE ROAD
Date Fished: 10/25/98
Location: Off Bayhead South
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: to 22 inches
Bait or Lure: Bucktail/Squid
Water Depth: 30-40 feet
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Drifted off the southern end of Bayhead in 25-60 feet of water. We had fun catching over 100 sea robins and less fun with about thirty skates. I wonder if the NMFS will ever declare sea robins as an under utilized species; and recommend the federal government give low interest loans to the comericials so they can buy specially designed sea robbin catching boats and decimate another species? We came home with 8 nice fat flukes.

Angler Name : Dan
E-Mail : danleston@aol.com
Boat Name: Intruder II
Date Fished: 10-24-98 & 10-25-98
Location: Barnegat BB & BI
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 18 in. and up
Bait or Lure: Pink Fin-s
Water Depth: 10feet
Water Temp.: ??
Information : Fished Saturday and caught only Herring. Fished Sunday and had some nice weeks south of Bouy BB on Pink Fin-s

Angler Name : Alan
E-Mail : homusa@net-lynx.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10/25
Location: Sany Hook
Fishing Method: Fly fishing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: fly
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Flyfished the Sandy hook surf from parking area B up through Chokecherry Beach on Sunday morning from 4:00AM to 8:00. No bait in the wash, no fish sighted. Guys throwing bait and plugs came up empty too. Unlike Jim, I didn't even see any naked people fishing! Just my luck! Anyone doing anything at the Hook on any tackle??

Angler Name : Gary
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Boat Name: Wet Dream
Date Fished: 10/25/98
Location: Point Pleasant
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16-19"
Bait or Lure: Belly Strips
Water Depth: 20-40'
Water Temp.: 61
Information : Drifted between the inlet and the hotel. Caught six fluke, a dozen skates and over 50 sea robins. Fluke seemed to prefer belly strips over spearing.

Angler Name : Bud Flukemore
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Boat Name: Lau-Ryan
Date Fished: 10/25/98
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 17" - 20"
Bait or Lure: Worms
Water Depth: 35-45
Water Temp.: ?????
Information : Fished Bouy 18, limited out by 9:30 am. Hot Bite was before 8 am and before all the traffic started. Thank's to moving the clocks back.

Angler Name : bob zega
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/23+10/25
Location: sandy hook-1st parking lot
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 39" 25lbs
Bait or Lure: red+white gags grabber plug
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : friday night, very calm. caught about 8 skates on sandworms (thanks fred's bait shop for the tip). started plugging @9pm. had one bite and landed my 39" striper at about 9:45pm. one other guy on the beach said he got 2 shorts and that was it. went back sunday night and found a little more wind and a little more surf but no fish. will try again tuesday night.

Angler Name : Harley
E-Mail : harley@adelphia.net
Boat Name: Orion
Date Fished: 10-25-98
Location: Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Up to 38 inches
Bait or Lure: Eels
Water Depth: 8-20 ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : The 3 of us started to drift eels about 5:00 pm and action started couldn`t miss.We had bass up to 38 inches on the drift .All 3 on boat had our limit of stripers.Rick was the man with 5 stripers all keepers.Didnt see a fish brought over the side that wasnt a keeper.Beatiful night.Also a couple of weaks grabbed the eels as well.Seen alot of small blues working the other side of the channel as well.

Angler Name : Chad Brensinger
E-Mail : CWB979@aol.com
Boat Name: OK FOR NOW
Date Fished: 10/25/98
Location: 3-4 miles east of Townsend Inlet, Avalon NJ
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16-18 inches
Bait or Lure: minnows and squid
Water Depth: 50 ft
Water Temp.: 60's
Information : It was a beautiful day for fishing. The water was pretty calm and the fish were biting. We arrived around 11 am and there were about 50 boats in the area. I think we were just an hour too late, but we still caught fish.

Angler Name : NICK & KENNY
E-Mail :
Boat Name: LISA MARIE
Date Fished: OCTOBER 25
Location: MUD BUOY
Fishing Method: ANCHOR & CHUM
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5LBS.-9LBS.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 49ft.
Water Temp.: 61.
Information : Anchored up at the Mud buoy put out the chum slick, we started to catch the bluefish from 5lbs. to 9lbs. Good day almost limited out, good weather nice and warm.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: October 24
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Trolling & Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28 to 32"
Bait or Lure: Unbrella Rigs and Avas
Water Depth: 40'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Todd Rodenbaum charter from Manhattan out on Saturday the 24 on the Canyon Runner and put together a solid catch of a variety of inshore species. Trolling and jigging produced dozens of bluefish and false albacore plus 2 Striper of 28 and 33" and several shorts.

Angler Name : John Gilchrist
E-Mail : jjgaia@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Fun King
Date Fished: 10/ 23&24
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Spinning
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-26
Bait or Lure: Poppers
Water Depth: 5-16'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Friday was windy and cold, caught some small weaks on worms, also some small blues, up the Reach. Around 2 the wind lessened and we ran down to Romers. Found big blues, 10 lbers, and bass on top. Had a great afternoon catching fish on poppers. Went back on Saturday, same time same place, same weather, just a little warmer, but no fish. Managed one blue. Cruised down along Sandy Hook and saw naked people fishing off beach!

Angler Name : Jim S
E-Mail : JCS2156@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/24
Location: pt. pl. canal
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Blackfish
Size: 12-18"
Bait or Lure: green & fiddlers
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Caught slack high tide at canal Sat. aft. Unbelievable fishing! Landed at least 24 blacks in two hours.Took 6 home up to 18". Bigger ones are out there, had my 20 lb line snapped twice. Flounder pole was bent in half. Bring lots of tackle, green crabs seemed to work better. Had a hit on every cast. Will try again tomorrow.

Angler Name : paul
E-Mail : hibbitt_paul@bns.att.com
Boat Name: november moon
Date Fished: 10/24/98
Location: shrewsbury rocks
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: n/a
Bait or Lure: spoons and umbrellas
Water Depth: 26 to 60 feet
Water Temp.: 57.4
Information : headed to the rocks and had a bluefish on as i was putting out the umbrella rig. trolled for quite some time before we got a double header of blues on a rig. heard of a 37 pounder caught by 'two coats'. made a move up towards the highlands bridge with no results. ended the day up off sandy hook. marked huge amounts of bait, but no takers. flat seas made for a nice ride.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: October 23
Location: Off Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Trolling & Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Canyon Runner out on October 23 for the first of many fall Striper trips and the fishing proved as consistant as ever. While most of the Bass boated were shorts a couple keepers to 30" were taken home. In addtion, the Tom O'Brian charter from from Toms River caught and released 50 bluefish and half a dozen false albacore.

Angler Name : mike&terri
E-Mail : trx@snip.net
Boat Name: lady chris
Date Fished: 10-23-98
Location: cape may
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28" +
Bait or Lure: Eels
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : sailed at 7:45a.m. back at dock at 5:00p.m.party boat had seven keeper stripers. cold in the a.m. warmed up later in the day. fished in the rips. good capt. and mate will try again in nov. when the water is colder. overall, the wife and i had a good time. can't wait to go again good luck to all!

Angler Name : mike
E-Mail : MSTR21@AOL.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10/23/98
Location: shrewsbury river (Sandy Hook)
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 15-33in
Bait or Lure: rattle trap lure
Water Depth: 3- 12ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Bass all over the place 2hrs after high tide, Nice sunny day was there 2 hours caught 6 fish kept 1, the bass were also hitting on worms. Had a great time....

Angler Name : Joe Baskinger
E-Mail : Fluke97@AOL.com
Boat Name: Billy-Jo
Date Fished: 10/23/98
Location: Sandy Hook Reef
Fishing Method: Anchored
Specie: Tautog
Size: 14 to 24"
Bait or Lure: Crabs
Water Depth: 42
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Fished from 8 AM to 2 PM. Four guys, got our limit. Largest Black was 9 lbs.Lots of shorts. Caught Seabass too. Anyone want to join a good fishing club? E-Mail me for details.

Angler Name : BOB
E-Mail : www.RHassell@sap.com
Boat Name: Beach
Date Fished: 10/23/98
Location: Stone Harbor
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-30
Bait or Lure: Bucktail
Water Depth: 2-6ft
Water Temp.: 64
Information : Fished surf form 10-1pm had 3 fish 1keeper and lots of 2-6lb bluefish. Bait everywhere. Beautiful day

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: October 21-22
Location: Mud Hole
Fishing Method: Chumming
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 20 to 55 pounds
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 180
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie has been busy fishing the inshore spots as the Canyon fishing has proven too inconsistant to make the trek offshore at this time of year. Inshore however has produced excellant catches of Bluefin with the Joe Capone charter from Montclair on October 21 and with the Chris Mall charter from Manhattan on October 22. Both trips produced 12 to 14 Bluefins each with the fish averaging 20 to 55 pounds. All the fish were chunked on light leader and 20 pound test tackle for a spectacular experience for the charters.

Angler Name : Steve O.
E-Mail : tboatsteve@aol.com
Boat Name: Atlantus
Date Fished: 10/22/98
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 3 to 4 lbs
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 40 ft.
Water Temp.: 60.7
Information : Left the dock at 1400. Wind was howling out of the N.West. Headed up the channel until we marked fish. Found them near buoy # 16. Set the drift and went from fishing to catching within 3 minutes. Short drifts, soon as we lost the marks, catching slowed. Reset the drift, and catching resumed. Caught enough for dinner and left overs, catch and release until our bait ran out. Left them biting and set course for home by 1700. P.S. Those fish ate good!

Angler Name : Tom Fullen
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Dixie III
Date Fished: 10/22/98
Location: Barnegate Bay / off the beach
Fishing Method: Lures / Trolling
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 2 to 6 Lbs.
Bait or Lure: Fin-S fish / Umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 11 to 25 feet
Water Temp.: 64
Information : I took off for my birthday and went to barnegate bay to see if there were any weakfish around, there were, we got our limit of nice weakies between BB & BI in the bay on pink Fin-s fish these things work great we were catching blues, sea bass and Shad mixed in as well! By 9:30 am the bite started to slow and I went outside to try my new wire line setups with umbrella rigs we were catching Blues for 2 hours. Often we caught 2 at a time on the same rig and once we had 4 on the same rig! I almost cancelled the trip due to the cold front. I thought it would not be that good. It was cold as a witches T-- but it was worth the trip. Happy Birthday to me! Go get em!

Angler Name : escalus
E-Mail :
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 20th and 22nd of oct.
Location: 24th st beach OC
Fishing Method: spining
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5-8 Ibs
Bait or Lure: spoons, bucktail.
Water Depth: shore line
Water Temp.: 63 to 65
Information : Slamin two days, nothing but excitmen . Frenzy of blues feeding on small baitfish right on shore. some weekies and even small stripers. If you get this by tomorrow Oct. 23 or 24th and you live by Ocean City NJ get their. Only About 5 to 8 fellow fisherman have been their so far. So hurry because a blitz may leave at any time. Good Fishing.

Angler Name : Jeff Kaczka
E-Mail : jkaczka@erols.com
Boat Name: Jamaica
Date Fished: 10/20-21
Location: Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 25-80lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : 14 passengers caught 24 tuna (yellowfin and longfin). First fish came about 4:30am.....most were after daylight. Seas were rough but all in all a good day.

Angler Name : Tom
E-Mail : tsd71@aol.com
Boat Name: XTC
Date Fished: 10-20-98
Location: mud buoy
Fishing Method: chum and jig
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5-15 lbs.
Bait or Lure: butter fish & diamond jig
Water Depth: 50' ???
Water Temp.: ???
Information : We arrived at Belmar at 7:30 am. Hudson trip was cancelled due to weather so we went for blues. Using a green tailed diamond jig I boated four nice Blues before anyone else had a bight on bait. Once the bait bight turned on I switched to butterfish like ereryone else.We had a fairly steady pic of blues all day. there was five of us fishing and we caught around 40 blues, 2 sea bass, 1 dogfish and a sea gull. my thanks to capt.Jody, the mate brian, and everyone in my party for a great day of fishing.

Angler Name : jim town
E-Mail : dadtown@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/20/98
Location: sea isle city 60th st beach
Fishing Method: cast and retrieve
Specie: Weakfish
Size: weaks to 24, blues to 20 inches
Bait or Lure: fin-s, bucktails
Water Depth: 1 to 6
Water Temp.: 64
Information : from 2:30 to 3 in aft. a feeding frenzy occurred right in the surf. we were catching on every cast-only kept the best of 30 fish-came right up to the beach! a two foot weakie swam between my legs! glad it wasn't a blue

Angler Name : Jim
E-Mail : JCS2156@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/20 5-6:30 pm
Location: Pt. Pleasant canal
Fishing Method:
Specie: Tautog
Size: 8-18 "
Bait or Lure: fiddlers green clam
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : The canal is loaded with small blackfish. You get about 2 hours to fish at slack tides. got about a doxen small ones on light tackle with a couple keepers mixed in. Plan to try again Sat. morn.

Angler Name : Jim Balicki
E-Mail : emcjim@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 10-20 & 10-19
Location: Brick Beach & Mantoloking
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 20 in. to 24 in.
Bait or Lure: Rebel plug & pencil popper
Water Depth: 0 to 6 ft.
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : Missed the 10-20 AM blitz at Pt. Pleasant, but had good action at Brick Beach in the PM. Rebel plug was a good choice when the blues blitzed the wash. When there were no swirls and no bird action, the pencil popper worked well out from the rainfish schools. On 10-19, started early, but no action until about 0900 at Mantoloking. Best action was at Mantoloking from about 1030 to 1330. One 22-inch Striper at about 1600.

Angler Name : Alan
E-Mail : homusa@net-lynx.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10/18 & 10/20
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Flyfishing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: fly
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: too warm!
Information : Fished Sandy Hook on Sunday and again on Tuesday looking for bass on the fly. Found bait both days, rainfish and baby snappers in the wash, but no bigger fish. Literally 100's of guys out Sunday with bait, plugs & fly. I did not see one fish caught from 5:00AM untill I left at 10AM. Tuesday was similar except for less guys out. Bait was there but no fish. I think the water is still too warm. Not that I realy wanted to see them, but wondering where all those blues are. Still thick down at IBSP???

Angler Name : AJE
E-Mail : AERLI@AOL.COM
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-20-98
Location: SHREWSBURY ROCKS
Fishing Method: JIGGING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: bucktails w/ teasers/ BANJO
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : THE FISHING WAS SLOW ON THE RIVER LAST NIGHT UNTILL AN HOUR AND A HALF AFTER THE SLACK AROUND 12:45AM. THE BUNKER WERE EVERYWHERE AND SO WERE THE STRIPERS. CAUGHT FOUR SHORTS WITHIN 1/2 HOUR 25- 27" THAN A NICE KEEPER SOON AFTER. HAD ENOUGH FUN AND WENT HOME TO GET SOME SLEEP.

Angler Name : Andy L
E-Mail : Loj78@aol
Boat Name: jack and jill
Date Fished: 10-20-98
Location: Island beach CG station
Fishing Method: jigs
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5-8 lbs
Bait or Lure: ava a17 and poppers
Water Depth: 15'
Water Temp.: 60's
Information : Fished ibs this morning and loaded the boat with nice sized blues. Fished several hudge pods of fish each being at least an acre wide. From sunup till about 900 they were invading the surf pushing rainfish onto the sand. At times the water was brown because the bait was so thick. Surfcasters were all scoring up and down the beach. With birds flocking everywhere and fish thrashing the surface the ocean was boiling as far as the eye can see. The four of us took 15 fish, but released about 60. Very suprized there were no stripers amongst them.

Angler Name : AJE
E-Mail : AERLI@AOL.COM
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/19/98
Location: SHREWSBURY RIVER
Fishing Method: CASTING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: FROM 5 TO 15 POUNDS
Bait or Lure: JIGS,BOMBERS
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : JAMES YOU MISSED A GREAT NIGHT LAST NIGHT.

Angler Name : Vince
E-Mail : Deftone546@aol.com
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 10/19/98
Location: Manasquan Inlet
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Blackfish
Size: 4lbs
Bait or Lure: Fiddler crab
Water Depth: 10ft
Water Temp.: 65
Information : There was a lot of small blackfish and bergalls. Rigs with 2 or 3 hooks work best.

Angler Name : LU-NA-TIK
E-Mail : REKEZ44@AOL.COM
Boat Name: BIANCA II
Date Fished: 10/18-10/19
Location: 100 SQ.
Fishing Method: CHUNKING
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 70
Bait or Lure: BUTTERFISH
Water Depth: 500
Water Temp.: 65-66
Information : LINES IN AT 7:00 PM, BANG 2 FISH IN THE BOAT. FIGURED IT WOULD BE A SLAUGHTER. NOT A ANOTHER TUNA UNTIL 1ST LIGHT ON A JIG. ALOT OF BLUE SHARKS. NOT MUCH ACTION ANYWHERE FROM THE SOUND OF THINGS.

Angler Name : jon andy mark jimbo
E-Mail :
Boat Name: jonemac
Date Fished: 10/18/98 10/19/98
Location: hudson canyon
Fishing Method: troll chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 45-233
Bait or Lure: plastics live macks/sqid
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 66.6
Information : fished 050 line west side tons of bait. stayed on the chunk well into the a.m. most fish came in between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. including a 233 lb BEAST

Angler Name : kevin cole
E-Mail : shanerman@PRODIGY.NET
Boat Name:
Date Fished: OCT. 18,19
Location: HUDSON CANYON
Fishing Method: CHUNKING
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30-180
Bait or Lure: ANCHOVIES,BUTTERFISH
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 66
Information : THE BITE STARTED ABOUT 6:45 LASTED UNTIL WE PULLED ANCHOR AT 12:30 IN THE AFTERNOON.I LANDED SIX TUNA AND LOST ANOTHER SIX . ALSO HAD THREE ON JIGS BUT LOST THEM HALFWAY UP.

Angler Name : Ray
E-Mail : Finnila.com@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Mo' Money
Date Fished: 10/19/98
Location: Sandy Hook Rip & Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: N/A
Bait or Lure: Sand Worms
Water Depth: 30' to 42'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Started fishing at high tide at the tip of Sandy Hook, for striped bass, for a few hours with no luck. Not a striper seen caught amongst the 20, or so, boats. Headed west along the Raritan Reach for weakfish. Saw indications of fish on the finder, but no luck, until I got to buoys 16 and 20. About 50 boats in the area. The fishing was slow. The drift picked up, and so did the fishing. Caught 6 weakfish, a sundial, a sea robin and 2 blues. The ebb tide slowed down the fishing, until the wind picked up. Caught one more fish, and headed for home at 3:45PM. A nice day in the middle of October. Tight lines.

Angler Name : Andrew
E-Mail : jr655k@hotmail.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/19/98
Location: Deal Long Branch
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: live eel
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished from 730 to about 1045. Hooked into one fish but ran my line around a rock. Water like glass. Saw some guys fishing end of opposite jetty. No action.

Angler Name : Ernie Boss
E-Mail : ernie50@cyberdude.com
Boat Name: NA
Date Fished: 10-18 - 10-19-98
Location: Bay head surf
Fishing Method: plugs and metal
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3-5
Bait or Lure: yo zuri floating minnow & hopkins
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : Sunday started at 10:00am. Blues where so thick I false hooked a couple of them. I caught my first one on a hopkins lure. after that I lost it so I switched to a yo-zuri floating minnow. With the yo-zuri I limited out in an hour. Monday morning I got to the beach at 6:00am. Fished til 8:30 and not even a hit. went back at 5:00pm and still nothing.

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Angler Name : Captain Nick
E-Mail : CaptNick00@aol.com
Boat Name: St. Jude
Date Fished: 10-17 to 10-18
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trollin' and chunkin'
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40#
Bait or Lure: squid
Water Depth: 650'
Water Temp.: 67-68
Information : Left dock at 12:30 with intentions to go to the Lindenkohl canyon but heard real bad reports so we changed direction and headed to the Hudson. Trolled from West Wall to 100 Square, nothing. Drifted the 100 Square throughout the night on the chunk. Caught 2 longfins, 1 yellowfin, 3 swordfish, and then the blue sharks came on, all on the chunk. Had squid under the lights all night. Guys on the West Wall did nothing, had a lot of mackerel there but no fish. Guys at the 100 Square did the best but no big catches. Two of the three swordfish we caught were small, released them, the third one was nice size, about 70#, kept him. Not a bad trip, all in all, 3 tuna and 3 swords.

Angler Name : steve
E-Mail : sb290fish
Boat Name: ask me c
Date Fished: 10/17 - 10/18
Location: hudson canyon
Fishing Method: chunk and troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30-70 lb
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 5oo ft.
Water Temp.: 64
Information : fished west wall 050 and 150. bait all night no action till 5:00 in the morning. then got four. started troll about 8:30 and picked up four more. headed in about 11:00. great last trip of the season.

Angler Name : Gene E. Karlson
E-Mail : Matawan, N.J.
Boat Name: 19' Airslot
Date Fished: 10-18-98
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Fluke
Size: 17 1/2"
Bait or Lure: Killies, Spearing, Squid
Water Depth: 25'
Water Temp.: Cold
Information : Tom and I went out on his boat around 8:00am and fished to about 12:00. Nice day on the water once the sun stayed out although the fishing wasn't great for Fluke. I landed 1 keeper 17 1/2" and got 2 Sea Robins, Tom got 3 Sea Robins one of which was at least 4 lbs, this was the biggest god danm Sea Robin either one of us saw. We were hoping on the way up that it was a Fluke but no such luck. Next trip out I think we're going to get a couple Stripers instead especiallly if it keeps getting colder. Fish On Everyone!

Angler Name : Fred
E-Mail : fred.m.dintino@lmco.com
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 10/18/98
Location: Ocean City NJ 14th St. Pier
Fishing Method: Eels
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 16"
Bait or Lure: Cut Mackeral
Water Depth: 10'
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Blues all over the place. Birds going crazy. We picked seven or eight blues then it all fell apart. Dolphin came through and the wind picked up and that was all she wrote. A little later the funnest thing happened. A woman fishing with a live eel had a good runoff. I was standing next to her rod when it happened. Everyone got excited. As she reeled it in she said, "I feel something like dead weight". She was right. A previously caught and cleaned bluefish became tangled in her rig and she reeled it all the way up. Imagine catching a fish with a head and tail but no FLESH. She was told to spend the rest of the day in the penalty box.

Angler Name : GK
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Impulse
Date Fished: 10/17&18
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-115
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 600-?
Water Temp.: 63-67
Information : Great day Saturday-ugly by 9am Sunday. We caught nothing on the troll either day not even a knockdown. Chunked the west side mouth east of the fleet(why does anyone want to set up that close to another boat?) Nice drift took us deep. Started catching tuna 8-11pm-6 in the boat 40-75lbs. Afew blue sharks thru the late nite. At first light # 7 in the boat-dressed out at 88lbs. Did OK heard they did better Friday nite. I you read these reports & go fishing in the area we fish why don't you help & post a report-maybe we can all help each other from wasting time& perhaps become better fisherman.

Angler Name : DAN MCGIVNEY
E-Mail :
Boat Name: MEGAN BETH
Date Fished: 10/18/98
Location: 5 MILES SE MANASQUAN
Fishing Method: BOTTOM
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 2LBS
Bait or Lure: CLAM
Water Depth: 70'
Water Temp.: 62
Information : FISHED FOR FLUKE IN MORNING AND BOATED A DOZEN KEEPERS ANLONG WITH A DOZEN THROWBACKS.STOPPED ON A WRECK AND HAD A GOOD CATCH OF SEA BASSBEFORE THE WIND CAME UP.

Angler Name : Bone
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/18/98
Location: Midway Beach, S. Seaside Park
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Amberjack
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Observed the fishing from 6:30a to 4p on Sunday. Only one angler came off the beach with fish (2 nice blues). Loads of surfcasters and dozens of boats, including all the party boats from Belmar, Brielle, and Point Pleasant. Didn't see any fish come up over the sides either. I think the southwest wind put a damper on things.

Angler Name : Ritch Charles
E-Mail : ritch@atoncomputing.com
Boat Name: Just Reelin'
Date Fished: October 18, 1998
Location: Red Church & The Snake
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: keepers to 3 lbs.
Bait or Lure: squid & green crabs
Water Depth: 48 and 60
Water Temp.: 61
Information : Good sea bass at Red Church Lump, and even better at the Snake. Many double headers of keeper fish. Find your own broken bottom and stay away from the crowd. Made a quick stop at the southern end of the Clam Beds and took four nice blackfish on green crabs.

Angler Name : Joe
E-Mail : fish8@aol.com
Boat Name: Illusion
Date Fished: 10-17/18
Location: Lindenkohl
Fishing Method: Troll Chunk
Specie: Swordfish
Size:
Bait or Lure: Mackeral
Water Depth: 1100
Water Temp.: 62.5
Information : Trolled the Wilmington got nothing. Ran up to Lindenkohl and setup for night chunking. Got one small sword and a few blue sharks. About 30 boats in fleet and almost no tuna caught. Season may be ending.

Angler Name : bob Lukowski
E-Mail : blukowski@bloomberg.net
Boat Name: Amy Beth
Date Fished: 10-17 to 10-18
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll/Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 210 lb
Bait or Lure: pink zuker feather
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 64
Information : Fished the 100 square area. Boated a 210 lb allison in a hour and a half. Fish caught on a pink Zuker feather. A 50lb longfin and a small 40lb yellowfin caught on the troll. Night chunking produced a small swordfish and lots of blue sharks.

Angler Name : Andy L
E-Mail : Loj78@aol.com
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 10-18-98
Location: sandy hook rip
Fishing Method: bait
Specie: Winter Flounder
Size: 10"
Bait or Lure: peanut bunker
Water Depth: 10 ft
Water Temp.: 60's
Information : Fished the tip of sandy hook with a number of guys and caught two flounders. Water was nice and clear but no action with bluefish or stripers. Guy next to me was using a squid and killie combo and was picking fish every cast. He had at least 15 fish but all were small 10". Plenty of rainfish in the surf and plenty of boats there too.

Angler Name : BRIAN MOLEEN
E-Mail : brian.r.moleen@bankerstrust.com
Boat Name: Cavan Girl
Date Fished: 10/17, 10/18
Location: Island Beach
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 14-18
Bait or Lure: squid
Water Depth: 15-22
Water Temp.: 64
Information : Drifted of the old Coast Gaurd Station in about 22ft of water. Picked some keeper fluke. There were loads of shorts and you had to weed through the sea robins. We kept on moving north and ended up off of seaside but the action was not a good. We then headed to the Barnegat light reef and loaded up with sea bass. At the end of the day we headed for the beach to find 2-4 lb blue up against the beach. We caught 10 to 12 of those and headed for the barn. Sunday was just a sloppy day. Fished just North of the Inlet just to pick a few fluke.

Angler Name : ray
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Nighthawk
Date Fished: 10-18-98
Location: shark river to seaside
Fishing Method: deep jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3-16lbs
Bait or Lure: ava jigs and bucktails
Water Depth: 15-80ft
Water Temp.: 60
Information : I DONT KNOW WHY OR FOR WHAT REASON BUT THE AVERAGE ON THE BOAT RANGED FROM 0-12 FISH PER MAN BETWEEN MYSELF AND THREE OTHERS ONE FISH!!!!! jigged several spots from the mouth of shark river inlet all the way to seaside ehights fish hugged the bottom sporadic all day fish between 3-16lbs the fleet was spot jigging all day on an OUCH note one angler got an ava caught between his nostrils!!! had to cut out early and bring him to the coast guard station in manasquan the captain kept us out later than everyone. A great crew great captain and great crowd made up for a lousy daay of fishin oh yeah on blue that came over the rail looked like he was in a fight with a shark and lost

Angler Name : Tom B
E-Mail : tom_brys@merck.com
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 10-18-98
Location: Raritan River (Highland Park)
Fishing Method: Bucktailin'
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 16"
Bait or Lure: Buck Tail 1oz.
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Caught 1 short on the tail end of outgoing at about 1:30pm Ther're here!!!

Angler Name : dennis berns
E-Mail : denberns@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/18/98
Location: capemay toll bridge
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: eel,mullet
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : no boat this day had to fish from the shore.no luck with stripers but caught lots of cocktail blues on mullet filets on the out going tide.

Angler Name : Dave Granholm
E-Mail : insuk@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Skipper - Party Boat
Date Fished: Saturday 10-17-98
Location: Belmar to Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: Up to 2lb 4 oz
Bait or Lure: Squid strips
Water Depth: 30 - 60
Water Temp.: ??
Information : Saturday, went out on the Skipper to bottom fish for Sea Bass. We had regular action all day on squid strips but they were hitting clams a bit also. Everyone on the boat caught fish, but we were all going 8 shorts to 1 keeper. With about 50 to 60 on board, the average take was 3 to 4 keepers and probably 10 - 20 shorts for the day. The pool winner caught a 3+ lb fluke... wouldn't ya know!! I really enjoyed myself with 5 keepers including a good sized 2+ pounder. Tight lines.

Angler Name : Jim Major
E-Mail : jhmajor157@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Surf
Date Fished: 10/17/98
Location: Ortley Beach
Fishing Method: plugs & clams
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 39" - 22.5 lbs
Bait or Lure: clam
Water Depth: 5ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Bass hit at 7 am. Nice fight. Two blues at 5 lb each. One on popper with ultra light.

Angler Name : Dan Leston
E-Mail : danleston@aol.com
Boat Name: Intruder II
Date Fished: 10/17/98
Location: Off Island Beach State Park
Fishing Method:
Specie: Fluke
Size: 18-20 in
Bait or Lure: Spearing/Squid
Water Depth: 30-40
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished Saturday morning off if Island Beach State Park and drifted for Fluke. Lots of Skates and Sea Robins. Kept two nice fluke.

Angler Name : ABRO
E-Mail :
Boat Name: FREDDY C
Date Fished: 10/17/98 AT NIGHT
Location: SANDYHOOK ,BOUY 10 CHANNELS EDGE
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 10 TO 18 LBS. 28 IN. AND UP
Bait or Lure: EELS
Water Depth: 20 to 25 ft.
Water Temp.: warm
Information : drifted channels edge off sandyhook.partyboat freddy c was on fish all night. they are here thats for real. tide was fast at the start! hard holding bottom, but if you didn,t hold bottom you caught nothing. mates were very good on netting fish. about twenty five fish were caught from 7pm to midnight! good trip now it's time to take my boat out! later fisherman, doug!

Angler Name : Dave Ridgway
E-Mail : Davridgway@AOL.com
Boat Name: REEL FUN
Date Fished: 10/17/99
Location: Elephant Trunk & Baltimore Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling & Chumming and Chunking
Specie: Blue Shark
Size: 400 lbs
Bait or Lure: cut mackerel
Water Depth: 680'
Water Temp.: 64/66
Information : Began by trolling at Elepant Trunk about 9AM, small school bluefin tuna were so thick and responsive we couldn't catch anything else. Reeled-in, and went to tip of Baltimore Canyon, where little tunny were jumping trolled lines. Decided to chum and chunk.....Picked-up two nice dolphin, and then a very large blue shark came along the slick, and decided to hang out for the free chum and mackerel chunks. We had her almost eating out of our hands....We decided to bait her, and threw her a half mackerel on 50# stand-up. Hooked-up immediately, and fought boatside for 15 minutes. Released this beautiful fish unharmed....A great, glorious day, seas under 1 foot. Heard nothing on radio out there of yellowfin, albacore, blues, whites etc.

Angler Name : bob zega
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/17
Location: sandy hook "fishing beach"
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: clams
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : fished from 5-830pm; calm surf and slack tide; no fish and no signs of life; if there are any bass out there i'd like to know where they are; tight lines and go yankees

Angler Name : Jim Major
E-Mail : jhmajor157@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Surf
Date Fished: 10/17/98
Location: Ortley Beach
Fishing Method: Clam & Plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 39 inch - 22.5 lbs
Bait or Lure: Clam
Water Depth: 5 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Caught Bass at high tide. Nice fight. Two Blues 5 lb each.

Angler Name : Jeff V, Jim V, Louis V
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Queen Mary
Date Fished: 10-17-98
Location: 1mi. off Seaside
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5-15lbs
Bait or Lure: AVA 27
Water Depth: 65'
Water Temp.: 65
Information : Great day of fishing. My father and uncle caught Blues that weighed 15lbs. Most of the fish weighed 6-8lbs. Little Tuna and Striprs were also caught. Great job by mates and JB.

Angler Name : John Gilchrist
E-Mail : jjgaia@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Fun King
Date Fished: 10-17
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Casting
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 18"
Bait or Lure: Metal
Water Depth: 6-60'
Water Temp.: 61
Information : Fished all Saturday afternoon with my boys and two of their friends. More boating than catching however. Caught a couple of blues in amongst the weak fleet at the Reach, found nothing off the Hook, same at Romers. Stopped by Breezy Point on the way home for nada, finally found birds and busting schools of albies in Gravesend Bay, but no takers. Where's all the suicidal bluefish I keep hearing about?

Angler Name : John Millili
E-Mail : ywyu07a@prodigy.com
Boat Name: BAIT WASTER
Date Fished: 10-17-98
Location: Spencer & Wilmington Canyons
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Big-Eye Tuna
Size: I wish!
Bait or Lure: Green Machines & Spreader Bars
Water Depth: 100 Fa. - 1500 Fa
Water Temp.: low 60s
Information : The Bait Waster trolled for twelve hours in search of any fish. I think the offshore seanon is over, because we didn't see anything. Well, at least the weather was good . . . I'm going Striper fishing next week.

Angler Name : jim c
E-Mail : camppine@sprintmail.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/17/98
Location: great egg inlet
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 18''
Bait or Lure: squid/minow
Water Depth: 30ft to45'ft
Water Temp.: 63
Information : CARL you missed a great day of fishing so smooth you wouldn`t lose you glasses.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Tackle Box Charters
Date Fished: 10/17/98
Location: Tip of Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-36 inches
Bait or Lure: Eels
Water Depth: 45-70 Feet
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Had the opportunity to fish with my friend Capt Phil Scoritino Jr.We left the dock a little after 8PM and was we had lines in off the tip of the Hook 20 minutes later.First few drifts went fishless,but on the fourth drift I put a keeper & a short in the boat and on the next I added another keeper..Things slowed down again and after a few moves we located a good pod of bass and over the next three hours we added 18 stripers to our total catch.15 out of the 21 bass were at or over the 28 inch mark..the smallest being 24 and the largest going 36 and weighing in at 18.8 pounds.All bass were released with the exception of one that was gut hooked & the large one which at 2AM was good enough for fourth place in the Hi-Mar Striper tournament at that time.

Angler Name : John
E-Mail :
Boat Name: boat
Date Fished: 10/17/98
Location: Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30"
Bait or Lure: buner and squid
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : hit the rips in the morning, landed one stripper and lost two. about noon drifted about a mile off the cape may light house using squid. Croakers and fluke hitting. Fluke up to 18", and nice sized croakers. Weather was perfect.

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

Angler Name : paul
E-Mail : hibbitt_paul@bns.att.com
Boat Name: november moon
Date Fished: 10/17/98
Location: shrewsbury rocks
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 4 - 8 pound blues
Bait or Lure: spoons, rigs and plugs
Water Depth: 25 - 50 ft
Water Temp.: 60.6 - 62.1
Information : john, ed and i decided to give the rocks a try for striped bass. got into the area and began trolling by 8 am. first hit was a double header bluefish on a spoon and a stretch 25. continued working the area for bass, but the bluefish were the stars of the day. caught at least 30 of the fiesty 4 to 8 pounders by 12:30. decided to call it a day and make the run back to manasquan inlet. a good day, but none of the right kind of fish.

Angler Name : Joe Luyber
E-Mail : Luybers5@gateway.com
Boat Name: Sandbar
Date Fished: 10-17-98
Location: Off Island Beach State Park
Fishing Method: Boat, casting, trolling & drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29 in
Bait or Lure: Bomber Plug
Water Depth: 12-30ft
Water Temp.: 63
Information : Started fishing in the dark. Caught the bass near the North Jetty at first light. Also, my son had 1 false albacore and we caught 2 nice fluke later in the day. Great way to spend a day with your son.

Angler Name : Al
E-Mail : Ozzie47@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/16-17
Location: Bay Head to SSP
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3-8 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Poppers-metal
Water Depth: 5-15
Water Temp.: 60ish
Information : Fished both Friday and Saturday, from Seaside Park up to Bay Head.. Friday morning, the surf was completely dead in the Seaside area, so I moved up north to Brick beach, just missing a blitz of blues, w/ lots of peanut bunker washed up.. Another move north to Bay Head proved to pay off, as the fish were in the cuts around the jetties.. Caught countless blues on poppers and metal, plus a barely legal 28" striped bass that blasted a redhead popper.. The blues blitzed again Saturday morning from Mantoloking up to Manasquan inlet,fish were everywhere... again countless #'s of fish caught.. Biggest blue for both days went a shade over 8, and the surface poppers severely outfished metal.. Did see some tunny caught, as well as a weakfish or two.. Make sure to cash in on this fishing while it lasts!!

Angler Name : RICH EGNATUK
E-Mail : RIGGY@ADELPHIA.NET
Boat Name: BARRON 2
Date Fished: 10 16 98
Location: OCEON
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Fluke
Size: 2 TO 4 LBS.
Bait or Lure: KILLIE SQUID
Water Depth: 20 50
Water Temp.:
Information : GREAT DAY FISHING FLUKE ARE STILL OUT THERE

Angler Name : Eddie Black
E-Mail : troll@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: NoRespect
Date Fished: 10/16/98
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
Bait or Lure: Worms
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished the raritan Channel around 16 can, using worms and lures, landed tree weaks with a lot of hits most likly Blue fish. Fished from 1 pm to 4pm, great day out there,with a lot of other boats.

Angler Name : W . L . Avis
E-Mail : captbuck@snip.net
Boat Name: Backlash
Date Fished: 16 Oct 1998
Location: Bug Light -Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: Boat
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 36"-38"
Bait or Lure: Bunker heads
Water Depth: 22ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished the ebb tide this morning landed two keeper bass, released a short,and had at four runoffs that dropped the hook. Only bunkerheads are working,bunker steaks will only get you blues and croakers. Cut up the bunker bodies and chunk with them.

Angler Name : DONALD CANNIZZO
E-Mail :
Boat Name: QUEEN MARY
Date Fished: 10/16/98
Location: POINT PLEASANT
Fishing Method: METAL JIGS
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 4LBS TO 14 LBS
Bait or Lure: METAL JIGS
Water Depth: 20ft to 50 ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Bluefish are everywhere. Caught my limit. Also caught a 5 lbs.weak fish and reeling it in a big bluefish bit off its tail . Also caught on board were some stripers ,albacore, and boneto. Lots of action , I recommend Queen Mary they always find the best fishing.

Angler Name : JSpoto
E-Mail : JSpoto6449@aol.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10/15/98
Location: Sea Bright to Elberon
Fishing Method: Plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: n/a
Bait or Lure: Poppers, Bombers, & Yo-Zuri's
Water Depth: N/A
Water Temp.: N/A
Information : Fished from Sea Bright to Elberon, saw plenty of birds working and lots of baitfish in the water, but no fish breaking. Used Bombers, Poppers, and Yo-Zuri plugs from 5PM till 8:30 PM no fish. Did see a guy coming off the beach in Long Branch with at least a 25 pound bass.

Angler Name : Harley
E-Mail : harley@adelphia.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-15-98
Location: Ship Bottom
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Weakfish
Size: Up to 26 "
Bait or Lure: Eel teaser rig
Water Depth: in the wash
Water Temp.:
Information : The weakies were thick in the wash tearing up my eels all morning.Then Mr. Sun came out and spoiled all my fun!!! They wouldn`t take a plug just wanted the teaser.Black seemed to be about the best tried olive and green but seemed to prefer black.Had 1 short bass on a Clam and lotsa dogs and skates.

Angler Name : Ron Walker
E-Mail : rwalker@trilogyassoc.com
Boat Name: MegaBite
Date Fished: 10-14-98
Location: Absecon Inlet, North Rips
Fishing Method: Live Eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20lbs
Bait or Lure: Eels
Water Depth: 20-25
Water Temp.: n/a
Information : Finally got a nice Bass!! Lots of boats by NW wind and outgoing tide combined for a nice long drift ... right over the most productive rips. Even added a few shorts.

Angler Name : GD
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Slacker
Date Fished: 10/13/98
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 18-20
Bait or Lure: sandworms
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Fished Raritan Reach, Bouy 26. Decent body of fish. Caught 6 in 1/2 hour... could have filled the cooler if I hadn't gone to the Rip in a futile search for stripers.

Angler Name : R. Finlay
E-Mail :
Boat Name: NJ-1078CR
Date Fished: 10/12/98
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: Drifting/casting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 16-24"
Bait or Lure: Sandworms, Swedish jig
Water Depth: Unknown
Water Temp.: 11' to 52'
Information : Fished Raritan Reach from buoy 16 back to 30. Limited out with 28 Weaks, Threw back another (8). Used sundial belly to catch (2) fat 17" fluke by buoy 26. Started getting dark. Found blitzing blues 1/4 mile off Keyport. Limited out w/20 blues to 3lbs on Swedish jigs.Threw others back. Best day yet for the season.

Angler Name : John Gilchrist
E-Mail : jjgaia@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Fun King
Date Fished: 10-12-98
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Casting
Specie: Little Tunny
Size: 24"
Bait or Lure: Lure
Water Depth: 5-50'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Had my two kids and two of their friends out for a day in the bay, (no school today, Columbus Day), found FA's everywhere. Andy, (8 y.o.) got one FA and one blue. Others got searobins. I was hoping to find suicidal blues, maybe next time.

Angler Name : Bud Flukemore
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Lau-Ryan
Date Fished: 10/12/98
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 19" - 20"
Bait or Lure: Worms
Water Depth: 25' - 45'
Water Temp.: Unknown
Information : Fished Bouy 18 in reach, everyone in the channel, We went of on the flats just outside the channel and did short drifts over area, Caught 25 keepers and released 15"-16 inchers.

Angler Name : brian
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Tail Chaser
Date Fished: 10/12
Location: Raritan Reach/Ocean
Fishing Method: Worms/Jigs
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished on my friend Kevins boat along with our friend Ronny. We starting fishing around buoy 18 and had some nice weakies and bluefish. After the action died we headed for Shrewsberry Rocks. The bottom was loaded with small sea bass. You really had to pick through the vast schools to get a keeper. WE then trolled that area and picked up a 10lb blue. No stripers yet.

Angler Name : Tom
E-Mail : tsinger@pppl.gov
Boat Name: Bandit
Date Fished: 10/12/98
Location: asbury park
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 20"
Bait or Lure: squid/killie
Water Depth: 32-40
Water Temp.: low 60's
Information : Fishing was considerably slower than on the 9th which was fantastic. conditions were good but the fish seem to be moving out. Quite possible the end is coming. We'll see what this week brings.

Angler Name : Peter V
E-Mail : pevsr
Boat Name: SeaBurt
Date Fished: 10/12/98
Location: Sandy Hook/Reach
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 18-24"
Bait or Lure: Sand Worms/ Plastic
Water Depth: 22-42'
Water Temp.: 66
Information : Save the the Sand Worms - Plastic Fin-S or any jerk bait in red/metal flake or clear with metal flake. On the bottom slow retrieve. Could have loaded the boat. The only problem was bluefish tearing up plastic baits. The tide flow was not that much of a factor. Everybody knows ehere these fish are located. I think I even spotted Columbus yesterday.

Angler Name : Jeff Kaczka
E-Mail : jkaczka@erols.com
Boat Name: Jamaica
Date Fished: Oct 11-12
Location: Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 30-100lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Rough seas but a great day fishing. Bite started about 4:30am and continued until we left (about noon). I caught 2 longfins and a big yellowfin. The total for the boat was about 45 tuna (31 passengers). Great day.

Angler Name : Andy L
E-Mail : loj78@aol
Boat Name: miss Belmar
Date Fished: 10/11-10/12
Location: Hudson Canyon-lindenkohl
Fishing Method: everything
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Butters,macks,anchovies,squid
Water Depth: 600'
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Fished the hudson at 11:30 pm till 11:00 am and caught squat. one of the captains hooked a fish and fought him for about 20 minutes. Saw plenty of bait and birds. Water was green instead of blue and it felt like we were fishing inshore. Forcast said four to six, but it was like 9-12. We even trolled south to the Lindenkohl and saw nothing. Capt. Al tried their best but the conditions were terrible. As we were pullin u the anchor, we saw a lone mahi about 10 lbs.

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Angler Name : Jim Meyer
E-Mail : INMEMFRANK@aol.com
Boat Name: DEBRA ANN
Date Fished: 10/11/98
Location: Hereford Inlet
Fishing Method: Drift and anchor
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 4 -6 lbs
Bait or Lure: Killies,squid strips, croaker strips
Water Depth: 30 -40 ft
Water Temp.: 68
Information : I started out with my 3yr son and 13 yr old neighbor to go stripper fishing in the rips but it was blowing 20 -25 NW. So we headed off to the Hereford inlet untill we marked fish. We caught Werakfish, Fluke, Bluefish and Croaker. We did well on the drift but did better on the hook (the wind was pushing us good) Great Day!

Angler Name : Steve Mahoney
E-Mail : na
Boat Name: na
Date Fished: 10-11-98
Location: Barneget Inlet
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2-3lb
Bait or Lure: Hopkins
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information :

Angler Name : Wayne
E-Mail : Wsonday@gpu.com
Boat Name: Helen's Fury
Date Fished: 10/11/98
Location: Mantoloking
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 4 Lbsl
Bait or Lure: Killie/Fluke Bellie
Water Depth: 30 ft.
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Almost did't get out because of work interfering with my fishing. Left dock @ 2:00pm even after 3 other boats at my dock came back with only blues & no fluke. As soon as I put out my frist rod, I had a legal fluke. By 5:00 I had my limit (in between getting beeped & answering service calls). On the way back in I stopped at the Inlet & dropped one pole with sandworms on for Weaks & nailed a 4 Lb Fluke...gave to a boat next to me. Hope I can get out again soon.

Angler Name : Brian
E-Mail : brian.r.moleen@bankerstrust.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/10, 10/11
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size:
Bait or Lure: plastics
Water Depth: 300
Water Temp.: 63
Information : We left for the hudson Saturday morning in slightly rough seas expecting the weather to get better as predicted. But it did not. We started trolling in the late afternoon. Our first fish was a nice size longfin then a yellow, and then a real nice dolphin around 25-28Lbs. That was the last fish and it was now dark. We dropped the hook and began chunking. It was to rough to even fish. We broke loose from out hook and drifted over the deep and did not even see a fish. There were three other boats with us a they also had zero. At first light we made the decision to head for home in the 8-10 foots seas. It was a long rough ride in cruising at only 10kts.

Angler Name : Alex
E-Mail : isurfer@ix.netcom.com
Boat Name: Tide RUNNER III
Date Fished: 10/11/98
Location: Off Red Church
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 1-4 lbs
Bait or Lure: diamond jig
Water Depth: 40 feet
Water Temp.: ?????
Information : When to red church. Limited out in 20 minutes. After that the fishing sucked. Tight Lines

Angler Name : sam and libby
E-Mail : eavaughn@aol.com
Boat Name: family affair
Date Fished: 10/11/98
Location: raritan bay
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
Bait or Lure: sandworms
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : weather turned out to be ok. caught 12 weaks ,1 sea bass,2 sun dials,and a few sea robins.

Angler Name : Ken Gerecke
E-Mail : kgerecke@prodigy.com
Boat Name: Explorer
Date Fished: October 11, 1998
Location: Barnegat Inlet
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15-19"
Bait or Lure: Killies and Squid
Water Depth: 25-40
Water Temp.: 65
Information : Went down to work on the boat Sun. morning since 20-25 knot winds and a small craft advisory were called for. Bait store said the marine forecast had been wrong all week, and the west wind was not bad. Tried the bay, but by 10 AM whitecaps all around. Went up to the inlet, and saw 2-3 chop outside, not bad. Drifted with some other boats just north of the inlet, from 25' to 40', west wind 15 knots, and picked up a few fluke, skates, and sea robins each drift. We ended up with 15 keepers by 3:00 PM. Nice sunny day, a little windy, but a pleasent surprise to be in the ocean.

Angler Name : Jim
E-Mail : Jim5465@AOL.com
Boat Name: Nighthawk
Date Fished: Oct. 10-11
Location: Hudson Canyon, e.wall & flats
Fishing Method: Chunking at anchor
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Butterfish baited hooks
Water Depth: 400+ ft.
Water Temp.: 66.5
Information : Chunked for yellowfin beginning 11PM Sat. night through 8AM Sunday, 20 guys plus crew fishing. Did not boat a single fish. Had only 2 runoffs which were probably sharks. Very disappointing. NOAA forecast of 4-7 ft. seas was actually 8-12 ft. Even in a 100 ft. boat we got the snot kicked out of us. Should have skipped this trip.

Angler Name : Bone
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/11/98
Location: Midway Beach, S. Seaside Park
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3-6 lb.
Bait or Lure: Hopkins
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 65
Information : Blues blitzed the beach from 6a-6:20a, again between 9:30a-11a, and then again between 3-4:30p. Dozens of anglers, everyone catching fish.

Angler Name : Joe Halosz, Dave Kady
E-Mail : bhalosz@prodigy.net
Boat Name: Hot August Night
Date Fished: 10/11/98
Location: Off Mantoloking
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 22in
Bait or Lure: Squid, mackerel
Water Depth: 28 feet
Water Temp.:
Information : Drifted off Mantoloking, did fairly well with 8 fluke, smallest 18 in. and 4 3lb blues. Tough holding the bottom even with 8 oz.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: So-Kool
Date Fished: 10-11-98
Location: Flynn's Knoll
Fishing Method: Drift & Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Eels,Sandworms,Umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 17-42 Ft
Water Temp.: 59.1-.6
Information : Started off pre-dawn drifting eels & sandworms on the edge of the Knoll.After 6 drifts & no strikes the tide turned and created a sigificant wind against tide situation.Moved to the top of the Knoll where I trolled umbrella rigs for 90 minutes again without any action.

Angler Name : Jim Norris
E-Mail : jnofish@aol.com
Boat Name: surf fishing
Date Fished: 10/11/98
Location: Island beach stare park
Fishing Method:
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5 lbs.
Bait or Lure: herring / redfin
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : blitz on beach you could not do any thing wrong tight lines

Angler Name : Earl
E-Mail :
Boat Name: rusty 1
Date Fished: 10/11/98
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: worming
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 14-26 inches
Bait or Lure: sandworms
Water Depth: 38-43 feet
Water Temp.: low 60's
Information : A good body of Weaks can be found by bouys 18-24 but most of these fish are just keeper size, fish buoys 4-8 for the larger fish. You won't catch as many but they will make up for it in size. Also use a purple metal flake rubber worm it will greatly increase your catch

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Angler Name : Drew
E-Mail : PhishCad@aol
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 10/10/98
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: plug
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 20 pounds
Bait or Lure: poppers, plugs, teasers
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : I hit area c around 5 am...caught 1 bass before daylight, around 8 pounds, on the teaser....As soon as it got light, tremendous pods of baby bunks came in (thanks to the north east wind!) There were so many bass and bluefish in the wash that it was disgusting!....poppers were the ticket....i landed 2 more nice fish after that, biggest was 12 #....i saw a 20# caught as well...the surf was tearing me to shreds so i left early...tite lines!

Angler Name : FISHING JUNKY
E-Mail : RINNE23@WORLDNET.ATT.NET
Boat Name: GOLDEN EAGLE
Date Fished: 10/10/98
Location: AVON/BELMAR AREA
Fishing Method: CASTING
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 7-8 LBS.
Bait or Lure: LURE:DIAMOND JIG
Water Depth: 30'
Water Temp.: 60?
Information : WENT OUT WITH 10 GUY'S FROM WORK.EVERYBODY CAUGHT SOME BLUE'S,BUT I HOOKED INTO A NICE ALBY. IT WAS MY FIRST OUTTING.THE FIGHT WAS THE BEST I EVER HAD!HOPE TO DO IT AGAIN REAL SOON. IT FELT LIKE MY ARM'S WERE GOING TO FALL OFF!

Angler Name : Mike M
E-Mail : mmitchell@oda-engr.com
Boat Name: Night Hawk
Date Fished: 10/10/98
Location: Belmar
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2 to 9 lbs
Bait or Lure: Diamond Jigs & Crippled Hearing
Water Depth: 150 ft
Water Temp.: 65
Information : Most of day was sperattic, chasing schools along beach, some spotty areas. Landed 25 bluefish and one 9 lb tuna (Albacore) between three guys. Had to work hard for these fish. Most other fishermen on this boat and other party boats did not do as well. Must have been the weather, passing strom/rain. Bad day for golf anyway!

Angler Name : hito
E-Mail :
Boat Name: carlitos way
Date Fished: 10-10-98
Location: trenton marina
Fishing Method: casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 36 inches
Bait or Lure: chicken liver
Water Depth: 30 feet av.
Water Temp.: n/a
Information : The best fishing started after 5:30pm. I caught six keeper by 6:30 so I went home to cook some escaveche.

Angler Name : Dave Granholm
E-Mail : insuk@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: rental
Date Fished: Saturday October 10th
Location: Belmar - Shark River inlet /bay
Fishing Method: Drift / Troll / Pray
Specie: Tiger Shark
Size:
Bait or Lure: Spearing & Artificials
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Just kidding on the Tiger Sharks. Thought I'd try my luck with a rental in the Shark River inlet and the bay at Belmar. Zero on the winter flounder, and couldn't even scare up small snappers! The ocean was really churning but the inlet was fairly calm. The fishing was dead. Total after 6 hours... one small snapper and one ray. Sure a big change from a few weeks ago when I'd catch "something" about every 10 minutes! Back to the party boats for me.

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Angler Name : Ron Walker
E-Mail : rwalker@trilogyassoc.com
Boat Name: MegaBite
Date Fished: Oct 9, 1998
Location: Absecon Inlet
Fishing Method: Drifting Eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Short
Bait or Lure: Eels
Water Depth: 30
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Finally got off the schneid on stripers on my boat. Got a 22incher drifting the south rip in front of the CG station. Got bless rain suits ... it poured all night.

Angler Name : Eric Majonis
E-Mail : ericmaj@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Fishon
Date Fished: 10-8-98
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 4 - 7 lbs.
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 40 feet
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Started drifting the channels for weaks early.No action until about 10 oclock in the morning.It was a blitz.Steady action for about 3 hours.Then took a ride to the Ambrose channel and caught one fluke that was 23 inches in size.

Angler Name : marc palazzolo
E-Mail : zcoldcut21@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/8/98
Location: manasquan inlet
Fishing Method: plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : fishings great on the incomming tide thursday action was great (weaks,10lb blues and mixed in stripers )

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Angler Name : Harley
E-Mail : harley@adelphia.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-7-98
Location: Ship Bottom
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28 "
Bait or Lure: Clam
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished from 7pm - 12:30 am Didnt get a hit till i took off the floats then it was open season on my clams.Alot of sharks mixed in with the bass and an occasional skate.

Angler Name : joe
E-Mail : mr conductor
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-7-98
Location: surf city lbi
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 4-8 lbs
Bait or Lure: mullet
Water Depth: surf in coming
Water Temp.: 69
Information : well i created a monster. dont buy that stuff about takin a wife fishin she reels em all in. got about 16 all choppers 3-8 lbs. she got 12 me 5. word to the wise dont take her with ya ya just wont get ta reel'em all in.

Angler Name : GD
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Slacker
Date Fished: 10/6/98
Location: Sandy Hook Rip
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30" & 25"
Bait or Lure: sandworm
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 60's
Information : Fished from 6:30pm - 10:00 pm. Incoming tide, day after full moon. Stripers, weaks, and blues were all hitting sandworms. Be sure to measure any fish that you keep... NJ Fish & Game was keeping everybody honest that night.

Angler Name : Eddie Black
E-Mail : troll@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-6-98
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Mullet/plugs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Strippers and Blues are in the surf, all along the ocean side of the hook. Fished from 4pm till about 8 PM. Landed two Strippers just a little short and released. Blue fish all over the surf, feeding on mulllet. Had a nice evening with a lot of action all along the beach

Angler Name : Andy C.
E-Mail : Ajigger@aol.com
Boat Name: scrambled eggs
Date Fished: 10-6-98
Location: Spencer Canyon
Fishing Method: Jigging & Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 70 lbs
Bait or Lure: 14 oz diamond jigs & butters
Water Depth: 71.0
Water Temp.: 550 ft
Information : six yellowfins @ 70 lbs. and six longfins at 50 lbs., most at daybreak... Jigs and live ling off bottom produced zilch!Old, twice defrosted butterfish head chunks did the trick forsix anglers...

Angler Name : Harley
E-Mail : harley@adelphia.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-6-98
Location: Ship Bottom
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: Up to 7.5 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Mullet (whole & filets)
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Blues where thick all morning as you landed them on beach they where spitting up live mullet.Alot of cutoffs BRING WIRE.Had 2 small schoolie bass .Seen 2 keepers in the 20 lb.class hit the beach all on clam with a florida rig.

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Angler Name : Andy Lojek
E-Mail : Loj78@aol.com
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 10-5
Location: sandy hook surf
Fishing Method: first area
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 4 lbs
Bait or Lure: mullet
Water Depth: 8 ft
Water Temp.: upper 60's
Information : Took my cast net out for the first time this season and got into some thick mullet near the highlands bridge. Livelined them in the surf and got 2 nice fluke 22" and 24". Picked up 3 bluefish also on the mullet. Sea was real snotty with the Ne blowing in my face.

Angler Name : Brian Moleen
E-Mail : brian.r.moleen@bankerstrust.com
Boat Name: Tail Chaser
Date Fished: 10/5/98
Location: Sandy Hook Rip
Fishing Method: Drifting eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Went out to the Rips off Sandy Hook. Dunked some eels from 8pm to midnight. Had a few of the eels chopped off by bluefish and lost on small bass. Only heard of one fish caught that night. It was a great night to be out on the water except no fish.

Angler Name : jon
E-Mail : streality@juno.com
Boat Name: 312
Date Fished: 10/5/98
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : with everyone and their brother pounding the sandy hook rip, decided to be a bit original and fish some other areas around the hook. Paid off, with one 29 incher. Only brought 4 eels, went through em in 1/2 hour. Couple of 5 lb weakfish which were released. Hey Jay!

Angler Name : John & Nick
E-Mail : jjgaia@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Golden Eagle
Date Fished: 10 5 98
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 60 lbs
Bait or Lure: Butterfish, mackeral
Water Depth: way deep
Water Temp.: 75?
Information : 19 paying guests for what would ordinarilly be a 30 person trip caught 9 fish, including one nice dolphin. Very slow.

Angler Name : joe
E-Mail : mr conductor
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 10-5-98
Location: surf city lbi
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3-7 lbs
Bait or Lure: mullet
Water Depth: surf low tide
Water Temp.: 65
Information : against better judgement took her (wife) out again she menaged to pull in 7 me just 3 all choppers but fun

Angler Name : T. Wallacae
E-Mail :
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10/4/98 10/5/98
Location: Ocean City, NJ
Fishing Method: Jetties, Inlets & Surf
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15"
Bait or Lure: Clam
Water Depth: 8 ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : The weather this weekend was horrible. Both the surf and Corson's Inlet had a ton of sea weed. Still waiting for strippers to come in!!!

Angler Name : Capt. Manny Canales
E-Mail : canalmd@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Sorry, Charlie
Date Fished: 10/3-10/4/98
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: troll, chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50-80lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 100F
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Capt. Manny Canales had the Sorry, Charlie in the hudson Canyon with the John Horran charter.Fishing was sporadic on the west wall. Boated 4 longfin , 3 yellowfin, and a blueshark, trolling and chunking. John Horran boated a 70lb. longfin, the biggest of the season.

Angler Name : Michael Savage
E-Mail : mksavage@icdc.com
Boat Name: Wreckless
Date Fished: 10/4-10/3
Location: lindenkohl
Fishing Method: troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 100+
Bait or Lure: both
Water Depth: 1000ft
Water Temp.: 71
Information : Started trolling the Canyon at 3:30 pm, water temp was 70.5. Caught first yellowfin at 4:30 2.5 mi down the west wall. Picked up a real nice 40 inch dolphin right after and then another 35lb yellowfin before dusk. Caught one tuna chunking while drifting about 11:30pm and didn't get another bite all night. We picked up another two dolphin on the troll in the morning before heading back. Water temp had risen to 72.5 by the morning as the east wind must have pushed in some warmer water. Wind, rain, and seas blew up long before morning with 4 to 6 seas when I left. Weather report was still saying 5 to 15 kt winds and 2 to 4 foot seas when I got back to dock. Heard one guy got ten tuna and another said he had 20, but we were not so fortunate.

Angler Name : Bubba
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Eileen
Date Fished: 10/4/98
Location: Belmar
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3-5
Bait or Lure: Metal Jigs
Water Depth: 30 Feet
Water Temp.:
Information : The BMS Charter went out on the Eileen out of Belmar and for most of the day it was very very slow fishing. At about 1:00 pm we saw some birds working the water. We got over to them and it was NON STOP Blues action. In an hour and a half we limited out on blues. What started out as a bad trip ended up great. See you out on the water.

Angler Name : Ap & Bp
E-Mail : Outbound44@aol.com
Boat Name: Outbound
Date Fished: 10/3-10/4
Location: Canyon
Fishing Method: troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40/100
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 100ftm
Water Temp.: 71
Information : Fished saturday into sunday and caught 4 longfin on the troll saturday evening then set up for the night. After the first line was set out we were hooked up this bite lasted until 3:00am when we went home with a total of 24 yellowfin 40-100lbs and 4 longfin 40-50lbs.

Angler Name : Andy Flint
E-Mail : aflint@ptc.com
Boat Name: I where the pants
Date Fished: 10-4-98
Location: Shrewsbury - Farms
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 5-7 lbs
Bait or Lure: Trolling Feathers
Water Depth: 50-100 ft
Water Temp.: 64.9
Information : Rough wet day fishing. Water was much cooler than previous week. Did not find the fish until I found warmer water (64.9-65.5).

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Mohawk IV
Date Fished: 10-4-98
Location: Off Elberton & Long Branch
Fishing Method: Anchor
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 1-3 Pounds
Bait or Lure: Clam & Squid Strips
Water Depth: 40-50 Ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Fished with a private charter today.Fished numerous wrecks,rock piles & snags 1 mile off Elberton & Long Branch.Each drop yielded good amounts of sea bass.Once or twice a pod of bluefish would come through,shutting off the sea bass,but also producing a few bluefish for the boat.besides sea bass a few keeper fluke & blackfish were taken.I ended up with 22 keeper sea bass.

Angler Name : Lou B
E-Mail : Lbevil@aol.com
Boat Name: Surf
Date Fished: 10-4
Location: Pt Pleasant-Mantaloking
Fishing Method: Metal and poppers
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 1-4 lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished the Pt. Pleasant-Mantaloking beaches Sun. A.M. from 5-8. This was the outgoing tide. There were sporadic blitz's of 1-4 lb blues chasing baitfish right up onto the sand. Caught about a dozen, all released, on metal and teasers (lost several teasers to bite-offs). Then we switched to poppers and caught several more. Love that hit! The largest was about 4 lbs. Plenty of fun. Had an albie caught next to me by a woman dragging the bottom with a small baitfish (she was trying to catch fluke), figures!Fished the Pt. Pleasant-Mantaloking beaches Sun. A.M. from 5-8. This was the outgoing tide. There were sporadic blitz's of 1-4 lb blues chasing baitfish right up onto the sand. Caught about a dozen, all released, on metal and teasers (lost several teasers to bite-offs). Then we switched to poppers and caught several more. Love that hit! The largest was about 4 lbs. Plenty of fun. Had an albie caught next to me by a woman dragging the bottom with a small baitfish (she was trying to catch fluke), figures!

Angler Name :
E-Mail :
Boat Name: WAYNE,S WORLD
Date Fished: 10/3 and 10/4
Location: lindenklaw
Fishing Method: troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50 to 90 lb
Bait or Lure: yellow / green jet heads butter fish
Water Depth: 540
Water Temp.: 71
Information : troll produced 3 long fin 50/80 lb and 1 yellowfin 90 lb.chunk produced 5 more yellowfin in the 50/90 lb range all defore 9.30 pm .mother nature took a turn for the worse wind rain so we headed in about 3.00 am just in time for breakfast.good luck and watch the weather .

Angler Name : John Gilchrist
E-Mail : jjgaia@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Fun King
Date Fished: 10 3 98
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drifting, casting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: Pretty big
Bait or Lure: Worms and poppers
Water Depth: 5-75'
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Fished with my boys and father in law Saturday. Had some worms left from last weekend, and drifted them under the VZ Bridge for five real nice weekies. After boys bored of drifting, headed down to Romers, and found very cooperative and large bluefish. Caught all we wanted on poppers. Stripers were slashing at the lures too, but the blues always managed to get hooked first.

Angler Name : joe
E-Mail : mrconducter@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-3-98
Location: moories inlt.
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 19 - 17 lbs
Bait or Lure: mullet
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: 65
Information : took wife & her bro fishin for first time . she always gave me shit but after a 20 lbr & a 20 min fight she now understands my addiction. now i dont get to bring in any fish. ps dont ever take a wife fishin. just kiddin

Angler Name : RailRat
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Queen Mary
Date Fished: October 3, 1998
Location: Inshore
Fishing Method: Jigs/Bait
Specie: Bluefish
Size: Various
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Moderate Northwest winds. Fished for small Blues in on the beach. The fish were there, however, fished spooked by boat traffic. Caught a few right away, then the fish would sound. After 40 minutes of this hit and miss fishing, the Captain (to his credit) moved further off the beach to 17 Fathoms. Jigs worked best. The blues were bigger. The fishing was steady, but not wild. Finally, a move was made to the Mud Bouy. Once the chum set up, the little Tunny fishing was outstanding. Proper baiting technique was a must for being in on the non-stop action. Although the mates were a little slow in responding to cries for the gaff, the Queen Mary is a fine boat because the skipper works hard to make sure the boat is where the fish are. Further, this boat had a variety of baits available. I recommend this boat to all working men (and women).

Angler Name : Bruce & Gino & friends
E-Mail : zincmine@goes.com
Boat Name: Mitzplitzer
Date Fished: 10-3-98
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 17-24
Bait or Lure: sandworms
Water Depth: 30-40'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Left Keyport 6:30AM. They started hitting in the Reach by 7:00. Had 16 Weaks & one 18" Blue in the box by noon. Lots of bird & surface activity by Keyport Bulkhead - no time to put in a line.

Angler Name : Tim
E-Mail : hunter@nni.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/3/98
Location: ba and mud
Fishing Method: chum
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 6 to 8 lb.
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : good day about 30 fish ps.Can anyone tell me about a Bayliner Trophy model 2509 I am interested in purchasing one I fish out of Sandy Hook NJ I would like to get out to the Hudson canyon. Is this a stable boat. I am going to set it up with twin 120 Force motors also looking for a good price know a good dealer?

Angler Name : HOWIE WILLIAMS
E-Mail : REDGROUPER@WEBTV.NET
Boat Name: SHERRY 1
Date Fished: 10/3/98
Location: GULF
Fishing Method: LIVE & DEAD BAIT
Specie: Cobia
Size: 33 INCH.
Bait or Lure: PIN FISH
Water Depth: 40 FEET
Water Temp.: 80
Information : WATER OFF SHORE OUT 40 MILES WAS CLEAR.CAUGHT 17 GROUPER UP TO 15 LB.BEST TIME WAS AT DEAD LOW TIDE. LOST A LOT OF BIGER FISH IN THE ROCKS.ALSO GOT SOME NICE GRUNTS UP TO 3 POUNDS.IN SHORE WATER RUST COLOR FISHING SLOW.SOME BIG RED FISH COMEING IN TOO THE RIVER.

Angler Name : Bear Sterns - Mat Corrigan party
E-Mail : calypso_charters@msn.com
Boat Name: Calypso
Date Fished: Oct. 3, 1998
Location: 17 Fathoms
Fishing Method: Chumming
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5 to 7lb
Bait or Lure: butterfish, mackerel
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Exciting Bluefis also had False Albacor to add to the action

Angler Name : curt knott
E-Mail : warrior61@erols.com
Boat Name: numbknotts
Date Fished: 10/3/98
Location: LBI
Fishing Method: trolled and drifted
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16-19"
Bait or Lure: sandeels spearing and mullet
Water Depth: 30
Water Temp.: 69
Information : trolled 3 false albacores to 15 lbs then drifted for 7 keeper flounder

Angler Name : Joel
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Tenacious
Date Fished: 10/3/98
Location: Hudson
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Big-Eye Tuna
Size: 200
Bait or Lure: Squid, Butterfish, Mackeral
Water Depth: 650'
Water Temp.: 69
Information : Started chunking at 6:30 p.m. First rod went off at 6:35 p.m. 2 1/2 hours we put a 200 pound Bigeye in the boat on 60 lb. test line. Picked a couple of 50 pound Yellowfin at 1:30 a.m. Then at 3 a.m. we hook into and land a 175 lb. Bigeye. 15 minutes later we hook and land yet another 175 lb. Bigeye. To top it off we then chunk a 225 lb. Allison Yellowfin at 5:00 a.m. Absolutely incredible trip. Total catch was 3 Bigeye, 1 Allison, and 2 Yellowfin (not including a few fish that broke off). We left early because the fish boxes were full but I'm sure we could have chunked a few more if we really tried.

Angler Name : RICH EGNATUK
E-Mail : RIGGY@ADELPHIA.NET
Boat Name: BARRON II
Date Fished: 10-2-98
Location: OCEAN IBSP
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Fluke
Size: 2TO 4 LBS
Bait or Lure: SQUID & KILLIE
Water Depth: 18 TO 25'
Water Temp.:
Information : STRONG WEST WIND MADE FOR COLD FISHING BUT DID GET 8 KEEPERS IN 3 HOURS

Angler Name : Andy Jacoby Party
E-Mail : calypso_charters@msn.com
Boat Name: Calypso
Date Fished: Oct. 2, 1998
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling & Chunking
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 30 to 110lb
Bait or Lure: Trolling Lures & Butterfish
Water Depth: 485
Water Temp.: 68.3
Information : The Calypso arived at the east wall of the Hudson Canyon at 5:30pm and trolled 2 Longfin Tuna before dark. After running back to the west wall to anchor up for the evening Capt. James Rivelli had non-stop ACTION for the Andy Jacoby charter, till 1am when the Boxes were filled with 19 Yellowfin upto 110lbs.

Angler Name : Bill Shillingford
E-Mail : bucktail8.aol
Boat Name: Bucktail willie
Date Fished: 10/1-2/98
Location: Corson Inlet
Fishing Method: slow troll
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 4-8 pounds
Bait or Lure: 3/4 oz white buctail -white worm
Water Depth: 12-16ft
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Trolling slow thru deep holes in ICW behind corsons inlet.dead tides were best and most consistent with dead low better of the 2 2 hours either side of change---early morning and evening always found fish regardless of tide. DOV terrorizer's also excellent bait trolled slow against the tide.

Angler Name : JEAN
E-Mail : JEAN.LEE@MCI2000.COM
Boat Name: NONE
Date Fished: 10/2/98
Location: BRIGANTINE SURF
Fishing Method: JIGS
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 2 - 4 POUNDS
Bait or Lure: 007
Water Depth: 2 - 8 FT.
Water Temp.: 70
Information : SAW THE BIRDS WORKING AND THE WATER WAS BOILING A QUATER OF MILE OFF THE BEACH. STOPPED TO WATCH FOR A WHILE AND NOTICED THE FISH COMING CLOSER. GOT READY TO CAST SOME METAL AT WHAT I THOUGHT WOULD BE BLUES. WHEN THE FISH WERE IN REACH MY FIRST HOOK UP WAS TO MY SURPRISE A WEAKFISH. AS I STOOD IN THE WARM WATER WITH MY SHORTS ON A FEW FISH LATER, SOMETHING I PROBABLY WILL NEVER SEE AGAIN HAPPENED. THE WEAKFISH WERE RUNNING INTO MY LEGS AND THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO NOW HAD GATHERED WERE ACTUALLY TRYING TO GRAB THEM BY HANDS. I STOOD AND WATCHED IN AMAZEMENT AS THE WEAKFISH CHASED THE SPEARING AND LEFT THEM PILED ON THE BEACH. AFTER IT WAS ALL OVER I HAD CAUGHT 10 2-4 POUNDS. SOME LADY VIDEO TAPE EVERYTHING. I WISH I HAD GOTTEN HER NAME SO I COULD GOT A COPY. THE NEXT DAY TALKING TO A FRIEND I LEARNED THE WEAKFISH HAD COMEIN THE FIRST TIME FURTHER SOUTH AND ONE ANGLER CASTING FOR THEM HAD CAUGHT A 35LBS. STRIPER.

Angler Name : Drew
E-Mail : PhishCad@aol
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 10/2/98
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 24-30 inches
Bait or Lure: black 7 inch bomber
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Fished area C in hopes of finding bass. No, bass...but plenty of nice weakfish up to around 10#. Had to work for them, however...All on plugs and teasers...quite a few nice fluke out there as well....tite lines.

Angler Name : DAN MCGIVNEY
E-Mail :
Boat Name: MEGAN BETH
Date Fished: 10/01/98
Location: MUD BOUY
Fishing Method: CHUMMING
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 8 TO 10LBS
Bait or Lure: BUTTERFISH
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 62
Information : ON THURSDAY 10/01/98 FISHED AT THE SHREWSBURY ROCKS AND IT WAS OFF TO A SLOW START. AFTER AN HOUR WE WENT OFF TO THE MUD BOUY AND CAUGHT LIMIT CATCHES OF BLUEFISH BEFORE THE SEA GOT TO ROUGH IN 30KT WINDS .THIS WAS THE SECOND TRIP FOR THE SCOTT SMITH PARTY AND BOTH TRIPS HIS GROUP CAUGHT LIMIT CATCHES.

Angler Name : Matt
E-Mail : Blitz42@webtv.net
Boat Name: ---
Date Fished: 10-1-98
Location: Island Beach-Areas #2 thru #8
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3 to 10-1/2 Lbs
Bait or Lure: Surface Popper & Yo-Zuri Plugs
Water Depth: ---
Water Temp.: 71
Information : Landed 26 Blues 3 to 6 Lbs and a 10-1/2 Lb Slammer. The action started at 8:30 am and lasted till about 1:30 pm when the cold front moved through and the west winds started howling. All the fish were caught from the wash to 30 yards out. I had a great time and so did everyone I talked to.

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