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Angler Name : Andy L
E-Mail : Loj78@aol
Boat Name: ahab
Date Fished: 10-31-99
Location: reach channel, knoll, and oceanic bridge
Fishing Method: eeling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32"
Bait or Lure: eels, shad jigs
Water Depth: 2-30'
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Fished out of the highlands on sunday. Started at 6:00 and found bass everywhere around the marina and the breaker jetty. Lots of bait, fish moved in and out of the flats fast. Managed 6 schoolie bass and as the boats got on them, they scattered. Went inbetween the o. bridge and n. bridge and eeled one bass 32". Went to the knoll and drifted eels, nothing for 2 hrs. Went to the reach channel, nothing for an hour. Went back to the river under the o. bridge and got another keeper, 31". Still tons of bunkers in the bay and river.

Angler Name : John Shipley
E-Mail : fishb1@aol.com
Boat Name: Saint Jude
Date Fished: 10/31/99
Location: Toms canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-80 lbs.
Bait or Lure: butterfish / live squid
Water Depth: 600 ft
Water Temp.: 62
Information : I got to the tip of the Toms canyon at 2:00 pm and took a right turn following the 100 ftm line southward. When I found a small drop in temp, I slowed down to take some readings on the fish finder. When I finally saw some bait on the recorder, I stopped the boat and told the crew to start throwing chunks. then, literally one minute after the first baited hook hit the water, we had our first fish. from 2:30 to 6:30 pm we had mised yellowfins and albacore non-stop. They were right behind the boat and we had fun feeding them our baited hooks. When the fish boxes were full ( 17 fish total), I ordered a stop to the tuna fishing. the crew was dissapointed... but frankly, some of the reports of catches over 20 fish makes me concerned for the integrity of our peers and the dichotemy of anger towards commercial fishermen and self righteous "sport" commercial fishermen. I never sell fish and always make sure all the fish I take get consumed. It's going to be a long winter... cod and blackfish here I come !!!

Angler Name : Ken
E-Mail : kper@bellatlantic.nte
Boat Name: Sea Horse
Date Fished: 10/31
Location: Sandy Hook Reef/Shrews. Rocks
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 10"
Bait or Lure: clam,green crabs,squid
Water Depth: 25 - 65'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Beautiful day,weatherwise, but pitiful fishing results. Where are the tog? Captain ED tried his best. Pool fish was 2 lb. sea bass,so I guess that sums up the situation for now.

Angler Name : TOM M.
E-Mail : TMASS128@AOL.COM
Boat Name: CAPT. CAL
Date Fished: 10/31
Location: ROCKS 3MI. SOUTH OF INLET
Fishing Method:
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: CLAMS,SQUID
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : CAPT. BROCK FOUND US SOME NICE SEA BASS.IT WAS A LITTLE SLOW OCCASIONALLY,BUT 3 OF US ENDED UP WITH A COOLER FULL OF MOSTLY SEA BASS A FEW PORGIES BUT NO BLACKFISH.WE ALSO SAW THE WHALE ON THE WAY BACK ABOUT 1.5 MI. OFF THE BEACH .WHAT A SIGHT!!!

Angler Name : Steve, Kevin, Larry Mills
E-Mail : Stephen.Mills@wpafb.af.mil
Boat Name: Porta Party
Date Fished: 31 Oct 99
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Trolling, Drifted Eels, Chunked
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30 - 39 inch
Bait or Lure: Bunker, Eels, Umbrella Rigs, Bombers
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Departed Keyport at 0600 hours. Began our trolling just outside of the sailboat moorings heading for the #10 bouy. Trolled about 10 minutes, had a hard hit/hook-up on the left rod. A short time later we netted a healthy 24" striper. Trolled the remainder of the way to the #10 bouy, caught three more shorts. Anchored left of the #10 bouy and began chunking. First hook-up yielded a very large ray, rebaited and bam, we had a double on. Good fighting by Kevin brought a 35" striper to gaff. Larry, still working hard with his fish brought a 30" fish to the net. Fish finder showed fish all over the place, most likely peanut bunker. Nothing for the next 25 minutes. A hard hit on the right pole and a short time later Kevin gaffed my 39" bass. Things slowed so we decided to cover more water and began drifting eels. Caught a number of shorts and one more 32" fish. Both brothers had to work afternoon shifts at their respective jobs so we headed in with fresh fish for the dinner table. Can't wait to get back to NJ for Thanksgiving. Pheasant hunting at Assunpink and more time on the water. Doesn't get any better than that. Out here.

Angler Name : Bob Sprague - Joe Ponticello
E-Mail : Rgspr@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/31/99
Location: Mullica River
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 38 - 40 " - 20-25 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Eel
Water Depth: 3'-30'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Out in the fog at 0600 today. Ran out of the fantastic Chestnut Neck Boat Yard! Drifted a few areas of the river and watched one boat get a couple. Then at 0845hrs, my good friend Joe had a hit!! He played it beautifully!! Let the fish run just far enough, set the hook, and played it to the boat. This fish hit just when we went from 25+ feet to 4 feet. by the time Joe landed the fish, I had to start the engine and move for fear of running aground. This fish was fun to watch being caught, it splashed the surface, it came to the top and just let it's head , dorsal fin, and tail come out of the water, looking like a mini-porpose. what was more fun was watching the release! That and the faces of those on nearby boats as my buddy lowered a nice keeper+ at 20+ lbs back into the river. Good luck to all! Bob.

Angler Name : Fred Giresi
E-Mail : n/a
Boat Name: Night Hawk
Date Fished: 10/31/99
Location: Mud Buoy
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Diamond Jigs/ Bait
Water Depth: 40 feet
Water Temp.: n/a
Information : we took off at 7 am for Stripers... we had a few hookups with one keeper. the blues were responding sparadically to Jigs early, then moved on to bunker. Soon after the Blues died down.. i went to a bottom rig with 2 hooks. I had a lot of fun with some real small Sea Bass and an occasional Porgy. for the most part the trip was active.. but there werent many Stripers to be found.

Angler Name : Bob
E-Mail : BPercopo@aol.com
Boat Name: Outer limits
Date Fished: October 31
Location: Barnagat Light Artificial Reef
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 13" -21"
Bait or Lure: Squid and spearing
Water Depth: 56-60'
Water Temp.: 60 degrees
Information : drifted the artificial reef for about 3 hours and got 7 keeper bass up to 21 inches. Also caught several porgies which kept stripping the bait of the bass hooks. Sections of the reef had only porgies while other had only bass. Almost no garbage fish with only one sea robin caught. Definitely worth the trip on and the weather was great.

Angler Name : George Reed
E-Mail : deerp@eticomm.net
Boat Name: The "Bat Boat"
Date Fished: 10-31-99
Location: Delaware Bay - Off Pierce's Point
Fishing Method: None
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 44 1/2 inches
Bait or Lure: Bunker Head
Water Depth: 12 Feet
Water Temp.: 55 dergrees farenheit
Information : Weather was clear, seas were calm, caught fish just after slack tide.

Angler Name : BRUCE CUMMINGS
E-Mail : CMMH23A@PRODIGY.COM
Boat Name: BONNIE LEE
Date Fished: 10/30-10/31/99
Location: WILMINGTON
Fishing Method: CHUNK
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 45-60 LBS
Bait or Lure: BUTTERFISH
Water Depth: 600'
Water Temp.: 64
Information : Arrived at the Wilmington at 6pm first fish at 6:30. Had our limit of 24 by 12pm. Then the action picked up, between the the six of us we released at least 100 more fish fighting 3-4 at a time from 2am until 8am. Had 15 to 20 fish behind the boat when we left, calm seas and the best trip we ever had. last trip for the year?

Angler Name : Chuck Proto
E-Mail : ccp@netzero.net
Boat Name: Empty Pockets
Date Fished: 10/31/99
Location: Twin Lights - Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24"-28"
Bait or Lure: Shad & Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40-50
Water Temp.: 58-59
Information : Started early saw plenty of birds.Lots of top water action Lot's of Benny's still around. You have to be one if you don't know enough to work the outside of the school instead of blasting right into the middle. Anyway we got plenty of fish including 4 triple headers & 4 double headers . Most being all stripers. By the way one of the triple headers was reeled in by my tired 6yr son CATCH EM UP

Angler Name : Bob Lukowski
E-Mail : blukowski@bloomberg.net
Boat Name: Amy Beth
Date Fished: 10/30 - 10/31
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll/Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-80 lbs
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 700
Water Temp.: 64
Information : Made my last tuna trip for this year to the Wilmington Canyon. We got 1 yellowfin on the troll . Night chunking on the east wall produced 13 yellowfin and 2 albies . This by far was the best trip of the season. Perfect weather and all the tuna you want.

Angler Name : M. Moscufo
E-Mail : MMOSCUFO@pseg.com
Boat Name: Cock Robin
Date Fished: 10/31/99
Location: Ocaen - Various
Fishing Method: Chumming
Specie: Bluefish
Size: not many
Bait or Lure: bait/lure
Water Depth: various
Water Temp.:
Information : Bad day for bluefishing. Morning fog prohibited bird play along the beach resulting in a long boat ride to do some chumming for bluefish. The three locations fished did not produce any significant action. Jigging was not successful and baitfishing provided limited action. 25 anglers with 30-40 fish. I'll wait for the water temp to drop and hopefully school-up the stripers and blues along the beach. Best part of the day was a whale sighted on the 1.5 hour ride back to Pt. Pleasant.

Angler Name : Doug
E-Mail : reel1crazy@aol.com
Boat Name: reelcrazy
Date Fished: 10/31
Location: n/w/horseshoe Del bay
Fishing Method: bunker chunck
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 34" / 42"
Bait or Lure: bunker chunks
Water Depth: 20ft
Water Temp.:
Information : what a day could not of been better.!!!! no one else wanted to go out today,poor babies to tired. so went it alone. could not keep the bait on the hook long enough. lost some big fish today pretty tought trying to handle pole and net great day limited out by 12.30 fished a little longer . lots of large fish today. Sea ya out there

Angler Name : Dan M
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Teal
Date Fished: 10/31/99
Location: Mud buoy/Sandy Hook Reef
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Blackfish
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: green crab/clam
Water Depth: 60-80ft
Water Temp.: 58-60deg
Information : Fished the Teal out of Atlantic Highlands. First drop was at Scotland with some small sea bass and some porgies on a slow pick. Moved out to the mud buoy just outside the bluefish fleet for the same results. Pick of seabass to 12" and porgies to 10". Moved inshore to artifical reef and hooked into some blackfish here until quitting time at 1:30pm. Capt. Dan gave it a good shot the tog just wouldnt cooperate. What happened to all the good bottom fishing reports from this week?!

Angler Name : Brian Moleen
E-Mail : bmoleen@dresdner.com
Boat Name: Tail Chaser
Date Fished: 10/31/99
Location: Flyn's Knoll
Fishing Method: eel/troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32-38
Bait or Lure: eel/rigs
Water Depth: 24-34
Water Temp.: 57
Information : Fished Friday night with no hits at all until the outgoing tide started to run. We fished the sandy hook rip but there was just too many boats running through it. We headed off by ourselves and the first drop we had a 32 inch fish. Next drop we had a short and then it was non stop action for about two hours. We decided to run out late Suday afternoon since we had to yank the boat due to these marinas which make you get out by the 31st. We headed for the hook and as son as we tuned outside the hook there were birds all over the place. We put out spoons with no results, after switching to rigs we had a 25lb fish on the line. The next fish that hit was a runner. We could not get the rod out of the rod holder with the rod doubled over. As I slowed the boat down he through the tube. We will get him tonght. tight lines

Angler Name : Ernest D. Slaymaker
E-Mail : njfish@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Skirt Chaser
Date Fished: 10/31/99
Location: Cape May Rips
Fishing Method: Live-lining Eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29-32 Inches
Bait or Lure: Eels
Water Depth: Variable
Water Temp.:
Information : 3 Anglers on board, 3 Stripers caught. You couldn't ask for a better day weather wise. 2 Fish caught during early AM , Last one caught about noon.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 31 Happy Halloween
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 20 pounds
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 45
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie and mate Al Bond had the Drew Tomaki charter from Collegeville, PA out on the Canyon Runner for Halloween and had a "Hell" of a day. Trolling, quite fittingly in the "eerie" fog for most of the day, the charter non-the-less put a "scare" into the Stripers as 45 Bass were boated. However, most of the fish were shorts. Once we moved off to deeper water, however, we located the bigger fish and ended the day with 8 keepers to 19 pounds. In addition, several dozen bluefish were boated and released.

Angler Name : Drew C.
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/31/99
Location: Staten Island south shore
Fishing Method: casting metals from shore
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: mostly throwbacks, few keepers
Bait or Lure: kastmasters, yozuri surface
Water Depth: 4' to 6'
Water Temp.: n/a
Information : fished last night off Staten Island, followed the bait along the shore and picked away at the bass, majority of throwbacks but did manage to get 4 between 33" to 36". Lots of blues mixed in (2lbs to 7lbs) Trick is to follow the bait.

Angler Name : Rich Quigley Party
E-Mail : BRICKHOUSE16
Boat Name: Screaming Reel
Date Fished: 10/31/99
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: jiging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 3-10lbs.
Bait or Lure: 007's & hopkins
Water Depth: 20-50ft.
Water Temp.: 58.8
Information : Had the Rich Quigley party out today for some Bluefish & Striped Bass fishing. Managed to stay on the fish without any problems. Lots of bait(spearing)& birds to guide us thru a good day. Boated a 50/50 mix of blues & bass in the 3-10lb range. Weather was memerable. Great crew ! Got underway at 1:30 , cleaned up and made it home for the 4pm football game. Tight lines!!!!

Angler Name : a. b. & andy & jay
E-Mail : tunaandy
Boat Name: sea rambler
Date Fished: 30 & 31
Location: wilmington canyon
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 50lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 64
Information : we left margate at 4 and arrived in the canyon at 7 to find 12 boats fishing the east wall and one boat on the west wall. until 10 things were going slow when the tuna's biological clock signaled dinner time. we boated 9 fish and released 18 more. at 2 the engines were fired up and we were on the way in. what a great way to end the fall 99 tuna season.

Angler Name : DAN MCGIVNEY
E-Mail :
Boat Name: MEGAN BETH
Date Fished: 10/27 TO 10/30
Location:
Fishing Method: TROLLING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 21LBS
Bait or Lure: UNBRELLA RIGS
Water Depth: 50
Water Temp.: 59
Information : ON WEDENSDAY 10/27 CAPT. DAN HAD THE MEGAN BETH OUT TO LOCAL WRECKS TO 15 MILES TO PUT TOGETHER A GOOD CATCH OF SEA BASS FOR THE BRIAN MASTERSON GROUP FROM HOWELL NJ. ON SATURDAY 10/30 CAPT DAN ALONG WITH CAPT WAYNE HAD THE MEGAN BETH UP 15 MILES TO THE NORTH TO PUT TOGETHER A GOOD CATCH OF STIPERS FOR THE JIM CHARKEN PARTY FROM DUMONT NJ WITH FISH WEIGHING UP TO 21LBS.

Angler Name : Michael Doebley
E-Mail : mdoebley@webmail.ccp.cc.pa.us
Boat Name: Nevermoor
Date Fished: 10/30/99
Location: Summer Shoal/Overfalls Rips
Fishing Method: eels/jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: na
Bait or Lure: eels/jigs
Water Depth: varies
Water Temp.: 62
Information : Seemd as though there was no fresh bunker to be found in all of Cape May and ended up eeling on the rips. No luck and it was slow all around us. Saw plenty of guys back at the dock with beautiful fish. All of them had been bunker chunking in the bay. Thats where we sill definietly be next week. IMPORTANT REQUEST! PLEASE READ! I AM WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER ON THE DAMAGE LONGLINING IS DOING TO THE TUNA AND MARLIN STOCKS. AS A SOURCE, I WOULD LIKE TO INTERVIEW A CHARTER CAPTAIN WHO HAS AT LEAST TEN YEARS EXPERIENCE FISHING FOR TUNA AND MARLIN. PREFERABLY HAS LOGS OF CATCHES BUT NOT NECESSARY. IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR TIME I WILL OFFER A DAYS LABOR. PLEASE RESPOND TO E-MAIL ADDRESS ABOVE.

Angler Name : Walt Szczerban
E-Mail : wszczerban@ellermedia.com
Boat Name: Reel Fun II
Date Fished: 10-30-99
Location: Prishy Wick
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 15-20 lbs.
Bait or Lure: eels and bunker
Water Depth: 15-25 ft.
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Started out drifting eels in the Cape May Rips. Marked fish all over but had no luck. Decided to run to Brown shoal. Started to drift bunker fillets had a couple of runoffs but still no luck. Went back to the Rips, this time much closer in to shore. Caught two a38" and A 29". Both were caught on Slabs of bunker on circlehooks with florocarbon leaders.

Angler Name : Tim Crann
E-Mail : Philly1697@aol.com
Boat Name: Finest Kind
Date Fished: 10/30/99
Location: Long Beach Island area
Fishing Method: Bait, troll, jigging
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 12-15"
Bait or Lure: mullet, squid
Water Depth: 65'
Water Temp.: 58 degrees
Information : Started out at 6am, drifted eels in the bay behind beach haven/holgate area, no luck and saw one fish boated....hung out there for 1 hour....then headed to the Harvey Cedars Lump for some jigging, marked no fish...caught no fish...headed south to the garden state reef and had a good catch of sea bass and porgies as well as the biggest trigger fish i ever saw...I did see some bluefish cruising around the boat...moved inshore to the lumps off of the beach haven tower area to try some jigging, marked and spotted a ton of baitfish but no luck on the jigs...

Angler Name : matt krol
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/30/99
Location: manasquan inlet seawall
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Fluke
Size: 5 fluke 15"-16"
Bait or Lure: bunker and 2 1/2" grubs
Water Depth: 6ft
Water Temp.: 60
Information : started fishing at 10:30am and stopped at 4:00pm. went fishing in hopes of getting some blues,stripers and weakfish but there were none to be seen. there were plenty of fluke all at good sizes. it is a shame that you can't keep them now or I would have had a nice dinner. also caught about 8 herring. there was plenty of baitfish in the water.

Angler Name : Jim Percarpio
E-Mail : imjfp@prodigy.net
Boat Name: WHY BOTHER
Date Fished: 10/29-10/30
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40 to 60
Bait or Lure: Butter fish
Water Depth: 450
Water Temp.: 62
Information : We left Little Egg Inlet Friday about 12:30 and were in the Wilmington by 3:30. Trolled and did nothing. Tied up and had our first couple of fish before dark.It was steady pickings all night. Ended up with 14 Yellow, 2 Long Fin, 2 swords and 1 8ft. blue shark. It was as good a trip as 3 weeks ago with the seas being perfect this time.

Angler Name : Bob Davis
E-Mail : RWDhancock@aol.com
Boat Name: Sea Devil
Date Fished: 10/29-10/30
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk/Jigging
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50-75lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: 64
Information : Left the dock at 6p.m. with 11 fares thanks to the Salt Water Anglers of Bergen County bringing 5 of them. Arrived at the west wall of the Hudson at 1:30. Captain took it slow to conserve fuel considering he was barely breaking even on this trip with 11 fares. The conditions were like a lake for the entire trip. Had two quick runoffs within 2 minutes then nothing. After 15 minutes all hell broke loose. I limited out in under two hours along with most of the other guys. The current picked up and the tuna shut downn until daybreak where you could see the tuna boiling at the surface about 70 feet back. Started flatlining and had instant hookups with one being a longfin. Couldn't ask for a better trip with great mates and a captain. The Sea Devil is by far the cleanest boat I've ever been on and highly recommend it. Get out there while you still can. Thanks Bob Pennington for taking us out with only 11 fares. Tight Lines

Angler Name : mikie bryan
E-Mail : bkscb4
Boat Name: sea saw
Date Fished: 10/30/99
Location: cape may rips
Fishing Method: live eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 36 ins.
Bait or Lure: 10 in eel
Water Depth: 19-26 ft.
Water Temp.: 55degrees
Information : Couldn't ask for a more beautiful day! Our captain Rick Pace is one of the best captains in the East. I'd like to thank him and his wife Alice for a wonderful weekend.

Angler Name : Mike Yablonsky
E-Mail : surfcaster01@prontomail.com
Boat Name: Mad Gaffer
Date Fished: 10/30/99
Location: Flynn's Knoll
Fishing Method: Troll and cast
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-36"
Bait or Lure: shadman umbrellas and poppers
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Three trips to the suds had left me frustrated. I needed to battle some bass -- and soon. The more I went fishless, the more I wanted to hookup. And I was starting to feel too out of touch with the suds to connect with any certainty. Thinking that a good boat trip would soothe those "gotta hookup soon" jitters, I reserved spots for my friend Sergei and I on the Mad Gaffer. As our trip approached I started to get ancy reading the reports of the action in Raritan Bay. I heard and read a lot about surface feeding bass so I brought a couple of 3700s full of poppers and topwater swimmers plugs and one 3700 of plastic and jigheads. By Friday night, sleep was hard to come by -- I kept waking up to see if it was time to go fishing yet! Saturday morning started out smoothly despite the pea soup fog and a late sunrise. After a short run, Captain Burke picked a trolling lane by radar and we started to set out shad body umbrella rigs on wire. The first umbrella was not even set into the rod holder when a linebacker short nailed the rig. But getting off to a quick start did not set the tone for the day. Trolling in that fog was like stumbling around in a dark closet. After 6 hours, we had maybe 12 fish and only 3 keepers. The radio and cellphones did not tell us that others were doing any better. Then the sun started to make its presence known. By 1pm we were getting warm and by 2 pm we could see the fish feeding on the surface. Now things became interesting. Normally, Captain Burke would be looking to leave the fishing grounds around 2-3pm. But the fishing had been hard and was about to get easy. So the Captain decided that we needed to stay out and catch bass. Once we could see the pods of stripers, trolling became ridiculously easy. One rod would go off followed, within a minute or so, by the other. I had been leaving the task of reeling in the umbrellas to the others and cast swimmers and poppers once the boat stopped to fight the trolled fish. Then it happened. Fish exploded all around the boat while we sat idling. The white Gibbs popper was inhaled after a fish took three swipes at it. "I'm in!" Next thing you know, everyone is digging for poppers. I hung a half a dozen in a bucket to make sure everyone had a chance. Screw the trolling, this is fun! Sergei had never seen bass on the surface, and had never seen a popper. He was so excited I thought he would jump into the sea to tackle the fish. Luckily, that was not necessary. But Sergei did need a lesson in popping. After my third fish and shouting directions to him, I had to take a more direct approach. "Throw it right by mine -- Good. Now do like this -- pop, stop, pop, stop." My popper gets swiped at twice, I pop it small, and it disappears into a swirl. Now Sergei, stunned, does just what I showed him. Three pops later he is in into his first topwater bass. That action was hot for almost two hours and it really made the day for us. We caught over fifty bass from 25 inches to the largest fish of the day, a 20 pounder, that I took on a Yo Zuri Hydro-Tiger popper. Finally, as things slowed, we set a course for home. We came upon some pods of breaking fish during the ride in but we did not need to stop. We had our fun for the day.

Angler Name : Scott Bisceglie / Pete Kudlac
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Second Chance
Date Fished: 10-30-99
Location: Sandy Hook Rips/ Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 15 to 20 LBS. Sea Bass 1 to 3 LBS.
Bait or Lure: Sand Worms/ Squid
Water Depth: 55'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Drited the rips for Striped Bass. Scott caught 2 keepers, Pete none. Drifted the rocks for Sea Bass. Had over 100 Keepers.Scott outfished Pete 4 to 1. Scott split the fish with Pete. It's Petes boat.

Angler Name : Doug
E-Mail : reel1crazy@aol.com
Boat Name: Reelcrazy
Date Fished: 10/30
Location: 3mile/ne g1 Del bay
Fishing Method: bunker chunk
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 33inch 17lbs
Bait or Lure: bunker chunks
Water Depth: 20
Water Temp.:
Information : first keeper of the year after lots of shorts .few good weeks still to go .cows should be coming soon lets hope

Angler Name : DENNIS SAMPSON
E-Mail : BARBARA 08 @MSN.COM
Boat Name: THE GREAT ESCAPE
Date Fished: 8:30 PM 10/29 -4:00 AM 10/30
Location: FLATS, CHANNELS AND,RIP
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: LIVE EELS
Water Depth: 12' - 65'
Water Temp.: 55.8
Information : LEFT THE DOCK AT 8:30 PM WAS AT THE FLATS IN 10 MIN.THERE WAS SO MANY BOATS,I THOUGHT IT WAS SPRING FLUKE FISHING AT NIGHT. DIDN'T KNOW WHICH WAS THE NY SKY LINE.SPENT MORE TIME LOOKING THAN FISHING.ONLY HAD FOUR PICKUPS BUT DID NOT BOAT ANY FISH.BOAT TRAFFIC MUST HAVE BEEN A FACTOR. ONLY HAD A HALF DOZEN REEDINGS. HERD THE ROCKS DID WELL. WAS STILL A NICE NIGHT ON THE WATER.EXCUSE ME, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY GREY POEPON! SAFE ON THE SEAS

Angler Name : jcc
E-Mail : n/a
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10-30-99
Location: Barnegat Light Inlet/Beach
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: n/a
Bait or Lure: bunker
Water Depth: 3' to 8'
Water Temp.: 61
Information : The absence of fish was made up for by the outstanding weather conditions. Four of us fished for 4+ hours through high tide off the beach at Barngat Light Inlet using some lures but mostly bunker. Some other fishermen on the beach and lots of boats at the inlet mouth, but few if any fish seen taken. One summer flounder (18") caught and released by our party.

Angler Name : Glenn Kovach
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Searcher
Date Fished: 10-30-99
Location: Hudson Cayon
Fishing Method: Chuncking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 35-50lbs
Bait or Lure: Butterfish & Jigs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 60's
Information : Left the dock Saturday at noon during a beatiful indian summer. Started fishing at sundown on the west wall. Drifted for a while catching a couple of dolfin and 3-4 yellowfin. Then dicided to anchor. Although thier were plenty of fish under the boat we only picked a few. After about a two hour lul with no action at all, it was like someone turned on a switch. Everyone on board was hooking up and throwing Yellowfin and a few Longfin over the rail. All fish were in the 30 to 50 pound class. We were hooking up at all depths from 60 to 180 feet (if you could get your bait down that far without a bite). By 2:00 AM we limited out with 45 Yellowfin, pulled the anchor and headed home. It was like shooting fish in a barrell. If you can still ge out, GO! Happy Halloween

Angler Name : NJDorado
E-Mail : NJDoradoFishing@aol.com
Boat Name: Atlantis
Date Fished: 10/30/99
Location: Shrewsbury River
Fishing Method: Drifting, Casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26"
Bait or Lure: live peanut bunker
Water Depth: 15'
Water Temp.:
Information : Tried by Oceanic Bridge but nothing so moving to Shrewsbury. I had 1 short Bass caught on a live peanut bunker while my friend lost some fish. My fish was 26" and put up a very good fight for the 10 pound tackle which was very fun. Other Bass were caught on plugs nearby.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 30
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling/Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 20 pounds
Bait or Lure: Umbrella rigs /Poppers
Water Depth: 40'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had Mike Zajac-Pt. Pleasant, NJ and Bill Rowan-Middletown, NJ out on the Canyon Runner Saturday in the fog for Stripers and had solid action through-out the day. Trolling from the Shrewbury Rocks up to the Ambrose Channel we boated 40+ Bass with 9 keepers. All of the keepers were caught trolling however we spent a large portion of the day jigging and casting poppers and had great action with all shorts.

Angler Name : Ron Walker
E-Mail : rwalker@trilogyassoc.com
Boat Name: MegaBite
Date Fished: October 30
Location: Horseshoe, Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 47", 34lbs
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth: 20
Water Temp.: 54
Information : After losing 3 runoffs, finally got a hook to stick. Tide was ripping in and with 12lb test, it took almost 20 minutes, but I'm on the board for fall Stripers!!

Angler Name : brian h
E-Mail : jhunderfun@aol.com
Boat Name: Miss Barnegat Light
Date Fished: 10/29 10/30
Location: hudson canyon
Fishing Method: chunk/jig
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30-60 lbs
Bait or Lure: butters/jigging
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Great Trip. after a slow start followed by a slight move fishing was very good...approximately 100 fish on board..if you had a clue fishing was very very good.. morning bite was great as fish were boiling behind the boat after dawn..flat lined anchovies were instant hook up if you could get past the diving birds... great mates ..very professional and deadly with the gaff....

Angler Name : Frank
E-Mail : fkurtz2566@aol.com
Boat Name: MAR-VIC
Date Fished: 10/29/99
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking Butterfish
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-70 pounds
Bait or Lure: Butters
Water Depth: 600 plus
Water Temp.: 61.5
Information : We thought that they might still be there and they were. Ther was only one other boat there. We had our limit in Two hours and wree back at the dock by 5:00 AM.

Angler Name : Scott Bisceglie
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Second Chance
Date Fished: 10-29-99
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 1 to3 pounds
Bait or Lure: Squid
Water Depth: 55'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Tried for striped bass at 5 AM at the rips. Didn't get any. Caught over 100 keeper sea bass, 2 men.

Angler Name : Capt Lou
E-Mail : Osprey30@aol.com
Boat Name: Everythings Rosie"sII
Date Fished: 10/29/99
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 34 inches
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 35 to 60 Feet
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Cleared Manasquan Inlet at dawn and went straight to the Rocks . Water was flat. Set out 2 rigs , one black and white the other green and white. First fish was a 25 inch bass that my buddy Billy Bonham landed. I took the next strike Landed a triple two keepers and a short. No sooner cleared the rig when Bill pulled in a double ,both keepers. For the next couple of hours we landed a total of 14 strippers with 10 keepers . All were released except for the original 4.Fish were hitting both rigs didn't appear to favor either color. Great day, can't wait untill tomorrow.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 29
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks Area
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 25 pounds
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 45
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Mike Sutter charter from Linden, NJ out on the Canyon Runner Friday and had another great day with the Stripers. Trolling in the vicinity of the Shrewsbury Rocks with black and white and blue and white shad rigs we boated 35+ Bass, 21 were keepers however we only kept our limit with the biggest Bass pushing 25 pounds. The action was non-stop all day on the troll. Despite the furious action on the troll, the Bass never came up so that we could cast to them, we even tried jigging while stopped and fighting fish but the Bass only wanted the umbrella rigs.

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Angler Name : MARK MEZZARDI
E-Mail : BBMINORS@AOL.COM
Boat Name: SEA HORSE
Date Fished: OCTOBER 28, 1999
Location: OFF HIGHLANDS
Fishing Method:
Specie: Blackfish
Size: UNDER
Bait or Lure: CLAMS/GREEN CRAB
Water Depth: 50
Water Temp.:
Information : PLENTY OF SMALL SEABASS AND BLACKS. A FEW OF THE BLACKS WERE KEEPERS. PORGYS MIXED IN. PLENTY OF FISH JUST TOO SMALL TO KEEP OR EAT.

Angler Name : Drew
E-Mail : Phishcad@aol
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/28/99
Location: Sandy hook
Fishing Method: fly rodding
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: big ones
Bait or Lure: decievers, clousers(white, blue, green)
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Man, this is horse crap. It's DO or Die at sandy hook, fellas. I fished the entire left side of the tip on outgoing water...and the bug light..watched 2 bass being plucked from the beach and that was ALL!! Dean Nelson slaughtered them up-stream...the fish are in the Navesink...Unless you're absolutely sure their in the surf, pound the river...hard. if you don't hear or smell them,leave.

Angler Name : UPS Dave
E-Mail : d.feigenbaum@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Atlantic Star
Date Fished: 10/28/99
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Blackfish
Size: 6 lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Went out on the Atlantic Star from the Atlantic Highlands. Weather was great. Fishing was very good. I even caught some fish it was so good. The pool winning black fish was about 6 lbs. Lots of sea bass and a few porgies in addition to the black fish. Great trip, great boat, great fun. BTW, the Sandy Hook bay was loaded with stripers.

Angler Name : Jim Balicki
E-Mail : emcjim@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10/28/99
Location: Keansburg Beach
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Up to 35 in.
Bait or Lure: Popper
Water Depth: 0 to 5 ft.
Water Temp.: ?
Information : A good afternoon at the beach with tons of peanut bunker and occasional Bass breaking into them. Caught 8 in about 2 hours. Earlier stops at Clifwwod Beach and Union Beach, previous hot spots, produced nothing. It seems the peanut bunker are moving east and the Bass are following them. No bluefish today, unlike last Friday at Cliffwood Beach where it was all bluefish.

Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/28/99
Location: OCNJ
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: big enough
Bait or Lure: yellow babystriper long A bomber
Water Depth: 3-4ft.
Water Temp.: 60s
Information : I fished the beach at dusk. It was low tide and it was hard to find a good spot with some fish. I cast out and immediately hooked up with a short. He managed to shake free. On my second cast I cast out towards the rip. Slam! a bigger bass took my lure and headed for the other side of the jetty. Needless to say I had two fish on two casts and that was it for the night.

Angler Name : Tailchaser
E-Mail : ASPENCARPETS@aol.com
Boat Name: Tailchaser
Date Fished: 28OCT99
Location: CAPE MAY
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30" and 38"
Bait or Lure: eel
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Another terrible forecast from our friends @ Mt. Holly NJ. We got on scene @ 0900 ; picked up a Cow (stripper, not a Jughandle chick) and a nice keeper (stripper,not a jughandle chick). Finally, we had to finish off the remaining beer from the season. I wish they didn't put that date on the bottom of the can! Anyway, a very good day considering the forecast called for heavy weather and we didn't stop and buy fresh beer.(budnick- when you get the chance, could you show us how to fish AGAIN?...loser!)

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 28
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks Area
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 33"
Bait or Lure: Jigs
Water Depth: 40'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Tom O'Brien charter out for a day of Striper fishing but instead of the typical trolling umbrella rigs which we have been successful with lately, the charter opted to solely stick with casting and jigging no matter what the outcome. Marking fish all day long we picked at Bluefish, catching a couple dozen and some short Bass all morning. However, once the tide changed the Bass came up and we boated 7 keepers and 10 shorts all on surface lures and shad rigged on jig heads. The biggest of the Bass pushed 20 pounds and provided a great fight on extremely light tackle.

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Angler Name : Eddie Black
E-Mail : troll@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: NORESPECT
Date Fished: 10/27/99
Location: Raratin Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28in
Bait or Lure: Bucktail
Water Depth: 15ft
Water Temp.:
Information : I fished the bay, near staten Island and using a bucktail landed a 29 1/2 in stripped bass in 15 ft of water near a rock pile. It was a great day for it was my first Keeper bass and it was on my birthday.

Angler Name : Eric
E-Mail : yayaginky@aol
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/27
Location: Little Egg Inlet
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: zip
Bait or Lure: eels, bucktails, poppers, umbrellas
Water Depth: 6-90
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Over 100 boats were drifting the inlet yesterday- I only saw 2 bass brought in. The wind blew hard against the tide for most of the day (waves 1-3), too much wind to try the wrecks and reefs. Caught 1 blue on a bucktail, other than that, a long day.

Angler Name : John M & Chuck E
E-Mail : Bearstalker2@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Gambler
Date Fished: 10/26-10/27
Location: West wall hudson canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: High 40s to mid 50s
Bait or Lure: Butterfish- Squid
Water Depth: 550 ft
Water Temp.: 64.8
Information : Capt Mike Bogan took the gambler to the west wall of the hudson 0n10/26&27th. We set up on the anchor at 2;00am There was a slow pick till around 4;30am when all hell broke lose it was none stop fishing till around 8:30am.Their were 16 guys on the boat and everyone limited out the fish were in the high 40s to mid 50s we headed back in at 9:30 1m with sore arms Jeff,Pete,and Dave were excellent mates these guys know there stuff tight lines

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: My Tin Boat
Date Fished: 10/27/99
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Caught no bass but crabbed in the Navisink and caught one bushel of nice size, mostly male, crabs in about three hours.

Angler Name : CHUCK
E-Mail :
Boat Name: THE FROG
Date Fished: 10/27/99
Location: SOMERS POINT
Fishing Method: CHUNKING BUNKER
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28" TO 34"
Bait or Lure: BUNKER
Water Depth: 16'
Water Temp.: 54*
Information : ANCHORDED UP ONE HOUR BEFORE TIDE CHANGE. CAUGHT TWO KEEPERS ON THE TURN. THEN NOTHING

Angler Name : Larry Rosinski
E-Mail : fishinski6@aol.com
Boat Name: Fishinski
Date Fished: 10/25-10/27
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drift/Follow Birds
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 38 inches
Bait or Lure: Jigs, Troll & Bait
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 54 to 58
Information : Sorry I did not get this in sooner, I have been fishing in the AM and PM. While working in the middle. If you want to catch stripers, now is the time. They are in the RIP, and all the way west to Union Beach. Nad on both sides of the bay. We limited out almost every day and evening for the last 3 days. They never want the same offering some try a little of everything. Won't be able to get out today because I broke the Helm yesterday, had to steer the boat by manually turning the engin. The good news is I was'nt alone. Good luck...Hope to see ya out there soon!

Angler Name : kirk davis
E-Mail : kirk_davis@hotmail.com
Boat Name: north star
Date Fished: 10/27
Location: off atlantic city
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 42 keeper to 21''
Bait or Lure: anything
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fishing was pretty good for sea bass on the North Star...had 40 plus keepers..a bunch of shorts..and four fish between 3 and 3 1/2 lbs...captain worked hard..stayed out an hour late..but the fish and game was waiting to check fish...they had one undercover agent on board..and seven other agents there....a big waste of tax dollars they caught a few senior citizens with 9''fish..many of whom thought this was the limit ...they also held those who were law abiding in the parking lot...I was blocked in for forty mins because they would't let someone they were detaining move his car..the captain helped me put the car in neutral and push it out of the way ...so i could start on my 85 mile drive home...all in all..a great day on the boat.. and another strike against the state's enforcement agents for wasting my... f***ing time...I don't like law breakers..by I dislike the anticss of these.. wanna be cops even more..tight lines

Angler Name : Ken Kurek
E-Mail : kekurek@hometowncomm.com
Boat Name: Kerri - K
Date Fished: 10/27/99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Jig and Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20 lb
Bait or Lure: Jigs & Sassy Shads
Water Depth: 20 - 50
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Had a super day fishing for stripers with Lenny Areno, Ed Talbot and John Broda. We left the dock at 6:45am and started fishing at the Shrewsbury Rocks around 8:15am. Read a lot of bait and fish, but they wouldn't take anything. We decided to run to the Hook. It was the right decision. As soon as we entered Sandy Hook bay, we found the birds and we jigged eight shorts. After the bass dispersed we started looking around, we hit paydirt on Flynn's Knoll. We trolled 30 bass to 20lbs keeping only eight and releasing the rest. Most of the fish were keepers. It was none stop action for two and half hours.

Angler Name : MIKE C. &CREW
E-Mail : KIDD763@AOL
Boat Name: IT FLOATS
Date Fished: 10/27/99
Location: FLYNNS KNOLL
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28" TO 42"
Bait or Lure: EELS
Water Depth: VARIED
Water Temp.: COLD
Information : HAD THE FIRST KEEPER ON THE BOAT IN FIVE MINS. THREE KEEPERS ONE SHORT [BY EYE-DIDN'T HAVE A TAPE] AND A 5 LB. BLUE ON THE FIRST DRIFT.THINGS SLOWED DOWN AFTER THAT, ENDED THE DAY WITH FIVE JUMBO BASS TWO RELEASES TWO BLUES AND THE BIGGEST SKATE I'VE EVER SEEN,IT MUST HAVE BEEN THREE FEET FROM NOSE TO TAIL. ALL IN ALL GREAT DAY ON THE WATER ONLY ONE MISHAPP AT LEONARDO RAMP ON THE WAY IN WHILE BACKING THE TRAILER DOWN THE RAMP I WENT TOO FAR AND THE TRAILER WHEELS WENT OFF THE RAMP LUCKLY I HAD TWO 2X12'S WITH ME AND USED THEM TO GET OUT. A WORD OF CAUTION TO ALL BOATERS USEING LEONARDO RAMP THERE ARE TWO RED SIGNS WHERE THE RAMP ENDS DON'T GO PAST THEM.THIS WAS AT DEAD LOW IT'S PROBABLY NOT AN ISSUE ANY OTHER TIME. TIGHT LINES

Angler Name : C Reynolds
E-Mail : captainbulldog@mailcity.com
Boat Name: old kkat
Date Fished: 10 27 99
Location: sandy hook off navy peir
Fishing Method: bombers\ diomandjigs
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : 11:00 am great action.Top & bottom by channel markers, schartruse green. Later surface exploded close to peir mostley shorts but 1 30 incher.

Angler Name : Jeff V
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Nighthawk
Date Fished: 10-27-99
Location: 17 Fathoms
Fishing Method: chum
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 7-16lbs
Bait or Lure: bunker
Water Depth: 105'
Water Temp.: ~60
Information : The Bluefish were large but picky. My uncle, father and I managed a few between 8-13lbs. Some Sea Bass and Dogfish were also caught. Nice day on the water.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 27
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 33"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Chris Wood charter from SG Cowen Securities, Manhattan out on the Canyon Runner Wednesday and put the group into a good catch of Stripers. Trolling Umbrella rigs in 40' of water in the vicinity of the Shrewsbury Rocks, the charter boated 9 Bass between 30"-33" and release several other shorts. In addition a dozen Bluefish were also caught and released. Most of the action was on black and white shad umbrella rigs.

Angler Name : Tim Crann
E-Mail : Philly1697@aol.com
Boat Name: Finest Kind
Date Fished: 10/26/99 3:30pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Little Egg Inlet
Fishing Method: Drifting Eels
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 8-30+ feet
Water Temp.: 56 degrees
Information : Drifted eels for 4 hours inside Little Egg Harbor bay by the 113 buoy rips, then Little Egg Inlet....heard on the radio of a few fish caught but no luck on my end....heavy cabbage weed...I'll give it another shot this weekend....tight lines.........

Angler Name : Tony Cav
E-Mail : headsteel@blast.net
Boat Name: FreddyC
Date Fished: 10/26
Location: Flynn's Knoll
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 6 to 16 pounds
Bait or Lure: Eels
Water Depth: 20 Feet
Water Temp.:
Information : Personally landed 5 fish, from 6 to 16 pounds or there abouts. Fished the incomming tide all night. About 35 to 40 keeper size fish boated plus numerous throw backs. All in all a good night of bass fishing, in spite of the blow.

Angler Name : Ray & Chris
E-Mail : finnila.com@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Mo' Money
Date Fished: 10/26/99
Location: Sandy Hook & Flynn's Knoll
Fishing Method: Trolling & Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24" to 29"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella rigs & live bunker
Water Depth: 20' to 40'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Began trolling at 8:00AM, by the Terminal Channel towards the Hook. Within 20 minutes we had a double-header. Continued along the red side of Sandy Hook Channel towards the Racon towers, the tip of the Hook and south along the beach, and back to the Rip, and caught a few more. Switched to small, live bunker at the Rip, which were deadly, for a while. Kept two bass, released five, and two released themselves next to the boat. It was a bit breezy, but a nice day all the same. Tight lines.

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: The Skipper
Date Fished: 10/26/99
Location:
Fishing Method:
Specie: Porgy
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Capt Marc sailed south off of Bayhead. We caught nice size porgies and some sea bass. I had 40 porgies and 6 sea bass. Huge swell and wind sea on top of that. 30 on board.

Angler Name : a b and jay
E-Mail : abnjsurf
Boat Name: fat hoe
Date Fished: 10/26/99
Location: a c area
Fishing Method: eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-32 inch
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : we fished for a couple hours at the margate bridge and released two shorts. for the outgoing tide we went to carmen's spot to be greeted by one keep and one short. this season is just about to start and we are put a hurting on them rocks!

Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/25/99
Location: OCNJ
Fishing Method: flyfishing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: big enough
Bait or Lure: clouser minnow
Water Depth: 4
Water Temp.: 60's
Information : I thought it would be a good night to flyfish. I saw bait all day and there were gannets spread out throughout the beachfront. The surf had picked up on the incoming tide and when I reached my spot I thought that the waves were getting to big on the incoming tide. I fished my usually spots and decided to give one jetty with bigger surf a try. Guess what... That is where I caught a very large bass that I had on for me to get a very good look at him from the jetty. The problem was I had 4-5ft. set waves crashing in on the jetty and every concievable place where I thought I could possibly land this fish. Needless to say my new flyreel's drag went and I was palm dragging this bass. All in all it was a great fight till a double up wave body slammed my bass into the sand and it was goodbye. I think it was for the better because it was kinda of hairy to get it in. I will take that back Arrrgh!!!!!!!!@#$@$@@$#%$%$^&$%&%&*^^&*

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 25
Location: Mudhole
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: n/a
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 175
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie took one last shot at Bluefin in the Mudhole with Shawn Mallory, the only member of the charter, but to no avail. Chunking all day produced nothing but a few run offs. The rest of the year we will be sticking with the Stripers and enjoying what has already been a great year for Bass, with the best yet to come.

Angler Name : Jeb Bodine
E-Mail : makos02@ibm.net
Boat Name: Atlantis Pincess
Date Fished: 10/25
Location: West Wall Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk/Jig
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50-65
Bait or Lure: Bait
Water Depth: 495
Water Temp.: N/A
Information : Made it out to the canyon for an over nighter for tuna. Fishing was great as soon as we set the hook. limited out in 2 hours. For those who couldnt make it missed a awesome trip. Landed 50-70 lb tuna on a bluefish rig!

Angler Name : Captain John
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Ginger Snap
Date Fished: 10/25
Location: Raratan Bay
Fishing Method: Surface plugs
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 28 to 40 inches
Bait or Lure: eels too
Water Depth: 20ft
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Unbelievable top water action under the birds bass hitting 3 ft from boat as sun went down caught them on eels everywhere everyone triple limited on keepers

Angler Name : DENNIS SAMPSON
E-Mail : BARBARA 08 @ MSN.COM
Boat Name: THE GREAT ESCAPE
Date Fished: 10/24 - 10/25
Location: FLATS/SANDY HOOK RIP
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26 1/2 " TO 44 ", 28 1/2 LBS
Bait or Lure: LIVE EELS
Water Depth: 12' TO 38,
Water Temp.: 57*
Information : WITH ALL REPORTS SAYING NO TO WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS, I WENT WITH MY GUT FEELINGS AND I'AM GLAD I DID. LEFT THE DOCK WITH MY SON AND FRIEND FROM WORK AT 9:00 PM ONLY TO FIND PERFECT CONDITIONS,AND ANOTHER NIGHT FILLED WITH EXCITMENT AND FUN FILLED MEMORIES.WITHOUT ANOTHER BOAT OUT AND THE FLATS AND RIPS TO OURSELVES, THE FIRST FISH WAS BOATED IN 30 MIN.AND IT NEVER STOPPED.RELEASED ALL FISH,TO MANY TO COUNT, BUT FIVE,TWO CAUGHT BY MY FRIEND,38" 18 1/2 LBS,44" 28 1/2 LBS AND THREE BUY MY SON, 30" 12 LBS, 34 1/2" 14 1/4 LBS, 40" 21" 3/4 LBS,WITH TWO OF THE LATTER HITTING THE GRILLS OF MY NEIGHBORS AND THE DOOR BELL RINGING FOR MORE.A GREAT NIGHT OF FISHING BUT A BAD MORNING FOR WORK AS I OVER SLEPT BY AN HOUR, BUT I GUESS THATS LIFE IN THE STRIPER LANE.MADE UP THE TIME TO KEEP THE PEACE, AND THE LATE NIGHTS OPEN FOR MORE FISHING. TILL NEXT TIME, SAFE ON THE SEAS !!!!

Angler Name : Bob Sprague
E-Mail : Rgspr@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/24/99
Location: Mullica River-Great Bay
Fishing Method: Drifting & Anchored
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Eel,Peanut Bunker
Water Depth: 10-30'
Water Temp.: 62
Information : Fished the Mullica near the bay from about 0600 to 0900 hrs. Had one nice run off the broke my buddy Joe's line. At first we were here with only 2 other boat, later in the day there had to be about 20. Tried a few other spots in the bay with no luck. Very windy and cold. Will try againg later this week and weekend. Good luck!

Angler Name : T.Keller
E-Mail : Moneypit46@aol.com
Boat Name: Hell Raiser
Date Fished: 10/24/99
Location: beach haven inlet
Fishing Method: live eels
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 10-30
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth: 25-10
Water Temp.: 55
Information : drifted eels on the bottom, on outgoing tide, picked up one short, the hit a 30 lb fish. New to this game, so not a bad first night out. hope to have new report soon

Angler Name : Jim S
E-Mail : JCS2156@aol.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10/23 10/24
Location: Pt. Pleasant Canal
Fishing Method: on the bottom in the rocks
Specie: Tautog
Size: 12-17
Bait or Lure: fiddlers and green crabs
Water Depth: 10-15 ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Caught the slack high tide on Sat. morning. Caught so many fish my pinky finger was bruised from setting the hook. Pulled in at least 36 blacks and took home three legal ones in 2 hours. Had the wife along so I spent time baiting and tying rigs for her. Went back alone on Sunday and did even better. There are so many fish they were attacking the bait on the way down. went through a lot of bait. These fish should be there for another week or two. I'll be there again this weekend and maybe Friday. Now is the time

Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : Edgillin@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/24/99
Location: OCNJ Beaches
Fishing Method: flyfishing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: o
Bait or Lure: clouser minnow
Water Depth: 3-5
Water Temp.: 64
Information : I went out fishing after a hearty dinner and it was a beautiful full moon. The wind was light out of the SW and the conditions looked unreal for striper fishing. The moon was high and the jetties were lit up so well that I really didn't need a flashlight. I was looking at the moon so intently that I was totally spooked by a stray cat that I nearly stepped on. No, it was not black but black and white. Anyway, with all this beauty and serenity I fished for 2 hours at various locations and Wha la! What a beautiful evening on the rocks...... I called it a day when I was nearly taken out by a wave. Go Yankees.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 24
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 32"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie and mate Mike Zajac had the John Farley charter from Baltimore, Maryland out on the Canyon Runner Sunday Striper fishing and put together a solid catch. Trolling in the vacinty of the Shrewsbury Rocks with Umbrella rigs we boated 20+ Bass and 25+ Bluefish. While only 6 Bass made the 28" limit the action was enough to excite the anglers into making another trip from Baltimore in November to get in on some Thanksgiving Week Striper fishing. The one thing which should be noted is that we were marking fish thick all day but they only bit for a short time. In fact we foul hooked a few Bass in the back, which only proves that they must be stacked-up waiting for the water temp. to drop just a little bit more before they turn-on.

Angler Name : kirk ferrier
E-Mail : kirk@kirkelectric.com
Boat Name: deborahmarie
Date Fished: 10/24/99
Location: 2mi south of the hook
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30"
Bait or Lure: trolling plugs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Ran south to belmar trolled wire saw some birds nothing happened.Ran back north lots of wind.Found the fish 2mi south of hook caught 2 bass and some bluefish all on trolled top water plugs.Rough as hell in the channel going back.

Angler Name : DENNIS SAMPSON
E-Mail : BARBARA 08 @ MSN.COM
Boat Name: THE GREAT ESCAPE
Date Fished: 8:30PM 10/23-1:30 10/24
Location: FLATS AND SANDY HOOK RIP
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: UP TO 38" 20 LBS
Bait or Lure: LIVE EELS
Water Depth: 12' TO 38'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : ANOTHER TRIP WITH MY SON AND A FRIEND WITH HIS 10 YR OLD SON,THE LATTER LOOKING FOR HIS FIRST KEEPER BASS, DROPPED EELS AT 8:30 PM AND HAD FIRST FISH ON IN 15 MIN. THE YOUNG MAN BOATED HIS FIRST KEEPER 29 1/2" 9 1/2 LBS WITH EYES BEEMING. AS USUAL IT WAS ONLY THE BEGINING. NEXT DRIFT HAD TWO SHORTS ,THIRD 1 SHORT, THEN NOTHING FOR A HALF HOUR DECIDED TO MAKE A MOVE AND IT PAYED OFF. FOR THE REST OF OUR TRIP WE SLAMMED 16 FISH ALL OVER 32" TAKING HOME OUR LIMITS PLUS TWO BONUS AND INTRODUCING A YOUNG MAN TO THE EXCITING LIFE OF STRIPER FISHING. WITH THE LAST SHELF IN THE FREEZER FULL ,THE REST OF MY TRIPS WILL BE CATCH AND RELEASE EXCEPT FOR MY GUESTS AND THAT LONG AWAITED TROPHY. FACTORS DO COUNT,SAVE THAT FUEL MONEY FOR BAIT,THE BIG ONES OUT THERE. SAFE ON THE SEAS!!!!!

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Angler Name : Ken Kurek
E-Mail : kekurek@hometowncomm.com
Boat Name: Kerri-K
Date Fished: 10/23/99
Location: Shresbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Live Bait and troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 27 "
Bait or Lure: Shad Rigs
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 58
Information : Fished the Jersey Coast Shark Anglers striped bass tournament with Keith Kurek, Ed Talbot, Mike (Spotto)Reguerra and Bob Mahoney. Had a great time. We caught a lot of bluefish and released four short striped bass.

Angler Name : Mark Lurenda
E-Mail : CaptPaul@BountyHunterCharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 10-23-99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 37"
Bait or Lure: Rigs and Lures
Water Depth: 20 to 40'
Water Temp.: 66 Degrees
Information : With the Mark Lurenda charter returning for the second day of fishing, Capt. Paul Regula ran his Bounty Hunter up to the Sandy Hook area in search of Striped Bass. Timing the tide changes perfectly the action was non stop in water depths of 20 to 40'. Trolling rigs and the stopping to use Jigs and Surface plugs, it did not take long to put a limit catch of Stripers up to 37" in the fish box. Another couple of Bass were released.

Angler Name : Rick Carrol , Howard Stroger,Rich, Capt Bruce Hrobak
E-Mail : Captwave@aol
Boat Name: Tanerz Lurz (wavedancer)
Date Fished: 10/23
Location: Barnaget Bay
Fishing Method: Drift the flats and structure
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to #36
Bait or Lure: Live Eels and Peanut Bunker
Water Depth: 4 to 25 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished the JCSA striped Bass tourny on Sat the winds were wipin it was a fast drift but we left the dock at 3:30 am and picked up Howard at Hoffmans then we checked out and made our southerly journey to the flats of Barnaget Bay we arrived thee it was still dark for a while and on the 2nd drift howard hooked up with a 33 inch Bass we tried a few more drifts and had some hits had some blues reak havic on my eel so we went to another spot and Rick caught a 36 inch bass on a peanut Bunker !! we had a 3rd fish #30 on a live Eel there wasnt anything huge but it beats draggin wire and we weighed in at Hoffmans we still dont know the results we had the 2nd and 3rd largest at weigh in but those hook trollers and Ellers must of got some big ones !!!! Tight Lines to ALL !!! Capt Bruce !!!

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 23
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 33"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie & Adam LaRosa with Canyon Runner mates Brad Burgess, Mike Zajac and Billy the Kid took a personal day on the Canyon Runner to fish the Jersey Coast Shark Anglers Striped Bass Tournament. The action was solid as we boated 25+ Stripers with 11 Keepers up to 33" Unfortunately as usual the big one got away. All of the action was on Umbrella rigs trolled in 40' of water around Shrewsbury Rocks. But this was a great sign of what should come for the fall Striper season in November as we marked tons of fish all day.

Angler Name : G. Davis
E-Mail :
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 10/23/99
Location: Sandy Hook Rip
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: plug & teaser
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished the 5:00 AM - 7:30 AM shift. High tide at 7:00 AM, with west winds at 15-20 mph. About 20 guys on the beach. Most caught zip. I saw 1 small striper & 1 small blue get caught. I myself caught 5 sundials on the teaser... not too thrilling. Maybe next trip...

Angler Name : Ernest D. Slaymaker
E-Mail : njfish@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Miss L.B.I.
Date Fished: 10/23/99
Location: Barnegat Light Area
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 1/2 - 3 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams / Squid
Water Depth: 60 - 70 ft.
Water Temp.: 59 Degrees
Information : The water was a bit choppy,but the trip was worth it.Mixed bag of fish. Sea bass, Porgies, Triggerfish, Yellowtail, Pool winner was a large triggerfish. I caught a Fluke about 6 lbs. which had to be returned to the water due to the closing of Fluke season about 2 weeks ago. What a shame, it would have won the pool....

Angler Name : NJDorado
E-Mail : NJDoradoFishing@aol.com
Boat Name: Smuttynose
Date Fished: 10/23/99
Location: Sandy Hook, Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Drifting, Casting, Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 1 keeper ad about 99 throwbacks
Bait or Lure: squid, bunker, bergall strips
Water Depth: 10-40'
Water Temp.: 57
Information : Stopped at Oceanic Bridge nothing. Then going out to the bay stopped and caught 2 Bass, 1 which was a keeper on yellow bucktails. The birds left and so did the fish. I lost a fish because my drag was set too tight. Tried in the Bay but nothing so went down to the Rocks to try jigging or bottom fishing. Found a fleet of boats fishing for sea bass and trolling. Bottom fishing was very productive since 3 people caught over 100 Sea Bass in about an hour. 1 keeper at 15" and some bergalls. They worked excellent as bait. A few Sea Bass just missed being keepers were caught but most were very small.

Angler Name : Rocco Catalano
E-Mail : rocco.catalano@gs.com
Boat Name: TampaVII
Date Fished: 10/23/99
Location: Sandy Hook, The RIP
Fishing Method: Drifted
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 7 to 25lbs
Bait or Lure: eels and Sandworms
Water Depth: 20 to 60ft
Water Temp.: don't know
Information : Started in the rocks in Shrewsbury. Nothing doing. Cap't Gene heard reports of fish in the RIP. Traveled there and caught a few shorts and I caught a 28.5 in keeper. Continued drifting and picked up some keepers thru out the night. Gene kept looking for them and then BAM we started picking up lots of keepers. Eugene Catalano of Staten Island and some guy from Indiana picked up 2 huge keepers approx. 41" and about 25lb on eels. They looked a hell of alot bigger. Cap't Gene of the Tampa is a great warrior and didn't quit till we found them and then he didn't want to leave. BTW, Weather turned out to be great. For those who didn't make it down to the boat missed out on some great fishing. See Tampa web site @ www.tampavii.com and check out his schedule for strippers. You wont be sorry, Great boat with great people running it.

Angler Name : greg
E-Mail : PICKYOUROWN@AOL.COM
Boat Name: ote
Date Fished: 10/23/99
Location: keansburg beach
Fishing Method: boat
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29in
Bait or Lure: poppers and eels
Water Depth: 6ft
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Well I had a rough week. I watched everyone else catch em. But I got mines... At dusk worked the poppers and bingo hooked 3 two shorts. The eels have done nothiong for me so far.

Angler Name : Blake Daniel
E-Mail : fishcaught@aol.com
Boat Name: little boog
Date Fished: 10/23
Location: barnaget inlet
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth: 15to25'
Water Temp.:
Information : fished ocean side of N.jetty from 6:30 to 9:00 nothing.5 other boats,saw one fish caught.

Angler Name : Mark Lurenda
E-Mail : CaptPaul@BountyHunterCharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 10-22-99
Location: 15 to 20 mile wrecks
Fishing Method: Bait
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 4lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clams
Water Depth: 100'
Water Temp.: 64 Degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had his Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina out to the 20 mile wrecks east of Manasquan Inlet for a day of Wreckfishing with the Mark Lurenda charter. Stopping on 3 wrecks in 90 to 100 feet of water, produced a fishbox full of Seabass up to 4lbs. We also boated a mix of Bluefish and Triggerfish. All of the wrecks were teaming with life and the action was non-stop.

Angler Name : CaptNick
E-Mail : CaptNick00@aol.com
Boat Name: Jamaica
Date Fished: 10/21/99-10/22/99
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-70
Bait or Lure: butters, squid
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Boarded the Jamaica and we ran 6 hours to the mouth of the Hudson Canyon. Set up at 12:30am and the action didn't heat up until 3:30am. It was fast and furious then a little lull and then fast and furious until about 8:30am. Limited out by 7:00am, shoud've been limited by about 5:00am but that's fishing. Lost a real nice 100+ pound yellowfin 20 ft. from the boat when it sounded at too steep of an angle under the props. Other than that it was a great trip with calm seas, flat as a lake. Probably about 60 fish total for the boat. I highly recommend the Jamaica, great mates, with a very knowledgeable captain who knows what he's doing.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 22
Location: Mudhole
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 30 pounds
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 175
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Jim Pertusis charter from Linden, NJ out on the Canyon Runner Friday and put together a "Mid Atlantic" Grand Slam. Starting the day in the Mudhole we quickly boated 2 Bluefin around 30 pounds which were released. In addition we had a few Bonita and Bluefish mixed in. Heading inshore when the action died we put out the Umbrella rigs at the Shrewsbury rocks and boated a few Stripers with 2 keepers in only an hour of fishing. On our way home we jig several more bluefish and a Weakfish.

Angler Name : kirk ferrier
E-Mail : kirk@kirkelectric.com
Boat Name: deborahmarie
Date Fished: 10/22/99
Location: 5mi south of hook
Fishing Method: troll wire/cast plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30"
Bait or Lure: umbrella,plugs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : trolled south from the hook ran to some birds caught a keeper on wire.birds crashing everywhere saw guys casting jigs and they could,nt hookup.started casting plugs caught bass and bluefish on every cast but could,nt catch anotherone trolling fish were on top.

Angler Name : Aaron Braunstein
E-Mail : abnjsurf@aol.com
Boat Name: Ollie
Date Fished: 10/22/99
Location: Cape May
Fishing Method: Bunker Chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 41 inches
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth: 20 ft
Water Temp.: 62.5
Information : Catching the last two hours of the incoming tide in a 20 knot wind on a 21 foot center console ended up productive. After one hour of thinking to myself why we came out here my friends Shimano Baitrunner started burning. The unlucky 25 lb striper swallowed a bunker head. We were all very excited!

Angler Name : Tony Cav
E-Mail : headsteel@blast.net
Boat Name: FreddyC
Date Fished: 10/22/99
Location: Flynns Knoll
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 6 to 16 pounds
Bait or Lure: Eels & Sand Worms
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Personally caught 3 bass, one keeper of about 30 inches, taken on an eel & two shorts, about 7 pounds each, one taken on sand worms, one taken on eels. It was a slow night all-in-all, maybe 11 keepers, the largest one being maybe 16 pounds. Most guys were skunked. Fished the outgoing tide from 7:00 pm to 11:15 pm.

Angler Name : Bone
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/21-22
Location: Monmouth Beach/Long Branch
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5-10 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Poppers, Metal
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : On Thursday, bluefish blitzed at around 2:00 p.m. and again around 3:30 with stripers mixed in. Friday, the wind blew from the south and it turned the fishing completely off.

Angler Name : Capt Lou
E-Mail : Osprey 30 @aol.com
Boat Name: Everythings Rosy's II
Date Fished: 10/22/99
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32inches
Bait or Lure: Umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 38ft
Water Temp.: 58.6F
Information : Bad day for fishing for strippers. Only saw 2 boated ours and a short on another boat. We heard that it was nuts at the rocks on thursday. wouldn't you know when we got to fish, the fish were turned off. We got one and luckily it was a keeper. Talking to some fishermen later we learned that the strippers were 10 to 15 feet off the bottom.we were using wire to get the rigs too low the guys who were out on thursday did better using mon Nexy time we will use both.

Angler Name : John Colvin
E-Mail : rtr@sharkrivernj.com
Boat Name: Jessica Michel
Date Fished: 10/21/99
Location: mud hole
Fishing Method: butterfish
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 250lbs
Bait or Lure: butterfish on 30lb leader
Water Depth: 200ft
Water Temp.: 62
Information : great day, left at noon, caught a 30lb tuna at 5:00, hooked up to the big fish @ 6:30 and landed it at 9:00. found anchore ball and got home at 11:00 "very tired"

Angler Name : Garret Jones (a.k.a. Jumbo)
E-Mail : gcj5765@aol.com
Boat Name: Hydra Sport Duck
Date Fished: 10/16,17,20,21/99
Location: Manasquan River, PP canal, Bay Head
Fishing Method: live bait
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 10lbs - 28 lbs
Bait or Lure: eels, worms, peanut bunker
Water Depth: varied
Water Temp.: n/a
Information : Fished first weekend with uncle steve(28 lbs bass) and cousin steve(15 lbs bass) for 14hrs started at 2am caught all the bass by 5am after sunrise went wrecking sea bass bonanza - great day wed caught nice lunker(28 lbs) in canal all alone next day my dad caught his first keeper chunkin bunker in the river. fall fishin frenzie is here! Good Luck!

Angler Name : DENNIS SAMPSON
E-Mail : BARBARA O8 @ MSN.COM
Boat Name: THE GREAT ESCAPE
Date Fished: 10/21
Location: SANDY HOOK AREA
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: UP TO 36"
Bait or Lure: LIVE EELS
Water Depth: 12'-40'
Water Temp.: 58
Information : ANOTHER GREAT NIGHT OUT WITH MY SON. HAD FIRST FISH ON IN TEN MINUTES AND HAD NON STOP ACTION.OUR FIRST BAIT WENT INTO THE WATER AROUND 8:30 PM AND WE WERE HEADING BACK TO THE DOCK BY 11:30 PM WITH OUR LIMIT OF SIX FISH, 29 3/4" TO 36".ADDING ALL THE FACTORS TOGETHER MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE IN YOUR CATCH. DON'T WAIST YOUR FUEL,USE IT WHEN IT COUNTS. ONE MORE SHELF TO GO! SAFE ON THE SEAS!!!

Angler Name : Jim Balicki
E-Mail : emcjim@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10/21/99
Location: Cliffwood Beach
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 27 in. to 38 in.
Bait or Lure: popper
Water Depth: shallow
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Loads of peanut bunker in Raritan Bay. At low tide you can wade out right into the schools and watch occasional bass or blues come charging in. Getting one of these gamesters to strike a lure is another matter. After the tide rose quite a bit, a 27-in. striper hit. After tagging and releasing this fish, a 38-in. striper hit. It later weighed in at 20-1/2 lb. at a tackle shop. Next was a 29-in. bluefish that was also tagged and released. Later in the day, toward sunset the peanut bunker continued to run along the beach, but I could not get another strike on the popper. Angler Name : Matt
E-Mail : jackalenterprises@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: Every day this week
Location: Ocean City
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Everything but the kitchen sink
Water Depth: 3-30
Water Temp.:
Information : Cant natch a bass to save my ... well you know. I guess I'll have to do like when I was five... Use BAIT cause artificials aren't working. Maybe the deer will be more cooperative. Gone Hunting!

Angler Name : Capt. Steve Oravets
E-Mail : tboatsteve@aol.com
Boat Name: Atlantus
Date Fished: 10/21/99
Location: West Bank/Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to 34"
Bait or Lure: Spoons
Water Depth: 25 to 30
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Found them stacked up off of West bank, worked them over for a couple hours. Moved to the southwest to check some bird plays,caught em under the birds. A few other boats moved in closer to us but we were still catching. Headed over to the fleet fishing in the reach channel, trolled around, boated a blue. Next went down to shrewsbury rocks and ran into a bluefish frenzy. Pulled in the trolling gear and had some fun casting to the blues. They were blasting metal. 6 to 8 lb. size. Trolling back towards home (northbound) produced one more bass well after sunset. Pulled the gear and ran home in the dark. When we got up by the rip it looked like "take a number fishing" with all the boats drifting in the rip.Back at the dock by 1930. Another great day fishing. Sure beats going to those pesky jobs.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct. 20
Location: Mudhole
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 30 Pounds
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 175
Water Temp.: 62
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Dave Fiegenbaum charter out to Monster Ledge on Wednesday. Fishing on the western edge of the hole only a few Bluefin were hooked with only 1 boated and released. Moreover, the abundance of bait we had for the last two days disappeared. Hopefully this is not the end of the inshore tuna season but it does not look good.

Angler Name : Gene E. Karlson
E-Mail : Matawan, N.J.
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-19-99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Surf Fishing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 4 Between 28"- 34"
Bait or Lure: Worms
Water Depth: 0'-20'
Water Temp.: Nice
Information : After 3 days of surf fishing and not getting any keepers I decided the weather would be just right for the big ones today. My buddy Tom and I went out and when the day was done I got 2 Keepers and so did Tom. Not only did Tom get the 2 biggest but also his 1st Keeper Striped Bass "Congratulations Tom!" Another hurricane on its way and I'll be out again. Go Get Them Everyone!

Angler Name : G. Davis
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Freddy-C
Date Fished: 10/19/99
Location: Sandy Hook Rip
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28-35"
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth: 10-25'
Water Temp.:
Information : I second Tony Cav's report. Not only did most guys have fish... a lot limited out. Excellent night of bass fishing.

Angler Name : Archie
E-Mail : Namvet09@aol.com
Boat Name: Charlie Tuna
Date Fished: 10-19 thru the weekend
Location: Raritan Bay- and beaches along bayshore
Fishing Method: trolling umbrella rigs- popping plugs
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: from shorts to 36"
Bait or Lure: Sassy Shad on trolling rigs- poppers along the beach
Water Depth: 3' to 15' shallow along the beach
Water Temp.: 59 degrees
Information : Tuesday 10-19 limmited out by 9AM for 5 people. Limited out again for another party of 5. Did same on Wed. thru Fri.. Took weekend off from the boat. Fished along Raritan Bay beaches. Caught fish in the morning at sunup and in the afternoon till dark. All fish from the beach were 30" or bigger. Caught on poppers.

Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/19/99
Location: OCNJ
Fishing Method: rod and reel
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 29"
Bait or Lure: black bomber
Water Depth: 3-5
Water Temp.: upper 60s
Information : I fished the morning now it is the night light wind out of the northeast made for some waves that were breaking right into the rocks. I had 3-4 foot waves crashing into rocks right into face. The fish were litrally next to rocks as soon as the wave would break the fish would exit out the back of the wave I was amazed that they could live right there were this 4ft wave was standing up and crashing, spraying water in my face and drenching me for every wave. I managed to get three fish to hit my plug literally on the rocks before the water receded. Then I got frustrated and changed plugs and whipped it out towards a boil and wham! My next trick was to get the fish on the rock pile which was helped by a cleanup set which pushed the fish right on top of the jetty. My first keeper for the year and it was free of parasites and sealice. I was glad to finally catch one that I could put to use. My next trick was to ride my bike down the boardwalk with my pole and fish carried with my bike lock. All in all it looks like it is starting to take down here. Persistence paid off.

Angler Name : DOUG
E-Mail : REELCRAZY1 @AOL.COM
Boat Name: REELCRAZY
Date Fished: 10/19/99
Location: DELWARE BAY /OLD HORSESHOE
Fishing Method: ANCHORE/CHUNCK
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-27
Bait or Lure: BUNKER CHUNKS
Water Depth: 23
Water Temp.:
Information : PICKED TWO SHORTS AFTER TIDE CHANGE. COUPLE OF REALLY GOOD RUN OFFS.STILL LOTS OF CRAOKERS HITTING MORE FLOUNDER THAN I DID ALL SEASON, NOW THATS IT OVER? GO FIGURE STILL A GREAT DAY GOING TO TRY AGAIN IN A DAY OR SO MYBE THE BIG ONE THIS TIME GOOD LUCK AND TIGHT LINES

Angler Name : Tony Cav
E-Mail : headsteel@blast.net
Boat Name: FreddyC
Date Fished: 10/19/99
Location: Sandy Hook Rip
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Up to 15 pounds
Bait or Lure: Eels
Water Depth: 12 to 20 feet
Water Temp.:
Information : Many keepers boated. Just a few shorts. Most guys had fish. Action hot on the outgoing tide. Dead low was at approximatly 10:30 pm.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: October 19
Location: Monster Ledge
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 30 pounds
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 175
Water Temp.: 63
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie and Mate Al Bond had the Shawn Mallory charter from A&K Exchange out on the Canyon Runner Tuesday for a day of inshore Bluefin action. However, the action was not as good as Sunday, possible due to Monday's Northeaster. However a good time was had by all as we did manage to catch and release 3 Bluefin up to 30 pounds and added a few Bonita for the dinner table, losing a few others.

Angler Name : Andy L
E-Mail : Loj78@aol
Boat Name: Miss Belmar II
Date Fished: 10-19-99
Location: farms
Fishing Method: bait,jig
Specie: Bluefish
Size: to 15 lbs
Bait or Lure: bunker
Water Depth: 100'
Water Temp.: 62
Information : Fished tues. with a charter of 13 guys on the MBII. Left belmar at 8:15. Seas were 6' early and then they subsided to 2-3'. Fished with a group of 4 boats from belmar and slaughtered the blues. A fish on every cast tallying over 140 fish for the charter. Fish ranged from 6 to 15lbs with most about 10to12lbs. Everyone got bored of catching so we left early at 1:00.

Angler Name : John Mason
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Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/19/99
Location: Long Beach Island
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Plugs
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Got to the beach around 8:00 am. Fairly strong NE wind in my face, surf was kind of rough. Worked the jetties for an hour or so, no luck. Better luck next time.

Angler Name : Joe Krivenko
E-Mail : krivenko@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: The Skipper
Date Fished: 10/19/99
Location: Red Church
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Boat Bait
Water Depth: who cares
Water Temp.: who cares
Information : Three trips since 10/12/99. I caught no less than 1 bucket of fish - porgies & seabass. Today for a light crowd I caught 120 nice size seabass (4 buckets) Best trip for me in a few years

Angler Name : kirk ferrier
E-Mail : kirk@kirkelectric.com
Boat Name: deborah marie
Date Fished: 10-19-99
Location: rip sandyhook raritan bay
Fishing Method: drift/troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 30
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs/eels
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : fished the rip at 1st light rought as hell no fish for anyone.heard on 68 guys were trolling bass in the bay.fished between the tip and earl caught 1 keeper.the other boats i heard had some nice fish.fished the outgoing.

Angler Name : AL Romanelli
E-Mail : AJRJLG@AOL
Boat Name: Miss Shelly
Date Fished: 10/19
Location: Highlands Bridge/Sandy Hook Rip
Fishing Method: Drifting worms
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Started at the Highlands Bridge at 5AM, that did not produce, I was quite surprised at this due to the fact that it has produced very well during the weekdays over the past couple weeks. Then fished the Rumson Bridge next to a guided boat from Hazlet/The Tackle Box, that didn't produce for me or the pro guided trip. However the presence of this boat confirmed my suspicions that the bait is in the river. However I was curious to venture out to the rip and found zip, no birds, no bait, at least some blue fish would have made it entertaining. For those of you who thought of taking off work on Tues. and didn't you did not miss anything. I did see one short Striper caught whle trolling, the only one I saw caught all day by any boat. Things don't seem right for this time of the year and I'm tired of fishing at night.

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Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/18/99
Location: OCNJ beach
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: surface plugs
Water Depth: 5
Water Temp.:
Information : I fished the AM from dark till first light. It looked promising but, there was no bait to be seen. I saw a dolphin on the outside break and he was alone. Kinda of wierd some days fish are there and others nothing. Saturday went up at dawn and fished till first light then went home. I came back at 9:30 and the fleet and birds were all over the beach. Go figure!!! Till next time.

Angler Name : mike
E-Mail : bmike33@aol
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10-18
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: rod and reel
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 2keepers. 30+
Bait or Lure: sassy shad's
Water Depth: not sure
Water Temp.: who cares
Information : Fishing near the are of the highlands brige has been nothing less than stellar lately. But there is one big problem and that is the bosts drifting methods. They are drifiting under the many segments of the bridge, which is ok, but the turning on their engines and ripping straight through the area they drifted over, and consequently right over the fish. Whoever is driving the boats should learn to use the channel, by the draw bridge. Its just common courtesy. Besides my bickering, I think its important o tell, that sassy shad and fin-s arificial baits have been doing the trick.Just get them to the bottom, and reel them straight up, with an occasional jig.

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Angler Name : George and Michelle Ziminski
E-Mail : Captlfix@AOL.com
Boat Name: Sweet M & M
Date Fished: 10/17/99
Location: Little Egg Inlet
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: to 10 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Bloodworms
Water Depth: 20 to 90 ft.
Water Temp.: 65
Information : Beautiful day on the water, picked several keepers and a number of releases. Also, the mandantory skates and sea robins. 11 year Michelle enjoyed reeling up something on almost every drift while we had enough keeper seatrout for a great dinner.

Angler Name : Walter Metzger
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 10-17
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 31 Inches
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 25-40Ft.
Water Temp.: 66 degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had his Bounty Hunter up to the Shrewsbury Rocks for the first Striper trip of the fall season with the Walter Metzger charter. Trolling produced 11 Striped Bass with 6 shorts and 5 keepers up to 31". Along with the bass we had a half dozen Bluefish.

Angler Name : Al Romanelli
E-Mail : AJRJLG@AOL
Boat Name: Miss Shelly
Date Fished: 10/16-17
Location: Shrewsbury River, Sandy Hook Rip
Fishing Method: Drifting Worms
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished from 6AM to noon on Sat 10/16 drifting worms in the RIP with no luck 6AM-9AM, I then fished the Highlands Bridge from 9AM to Noon, this was also unsuccessful due to heavy boat traffic(The Highlands Bridge has been producing during the week when the boat traffic is lighter) Fished on 10/17 for a few hours in the AM in the Shrewsbury River and caught 3 short stripers. While weekend boat traffic does have an affect, the baitfish does not seem as abundant as it should be for this time of the year.

Angler Name : Al
E-Mail : Ozzie47@aol.com
Boat Name: Norma-K III
Date Fished: 10/17
Location: 4-8 miles ESE of Manasquan Inlet
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 10-20" up to 3 lbs.
Bait or Lure: clams
Water Depth: 60-85'
Water Temp.: 64ish
Information : Worked some local rough spots on the AM trip.. First few drops produced loads of porgies, most of which were nice keepers,and a few jumbo seabass.. Finished off the morning catching mostly keeper sized seabass on some bottom in a little deeper water.. I wound up w/ 12 porgies, and 10 fat seabass up to 3lbs.. Good morning, despite the not so nice weather.. tight lines..

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
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Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct. 17
Location: Mudhole
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: up to 60 pounds
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 175
Water Temp.: 63
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie on the Canyon Runner has switched his attention from yellowfin in the Canyon to Bluefin in the Mudhole but has not missed a step. Chunking in the Hole on Sunday in the fog with the Jim Lister charter from Cherry Hill, NJ we were into Bluefin all day. With Captain James Rivelli (Calypso) assisting in the cockpit, the charter boated and released 25 Bluefins. Most of the Bluefins were around 30 pounds but a couple 40 inch and 50+ pounders were also mixed in. In addition, 10 Bonita were boated for the dinner table.

Angler Name : Larry Rosinski
E-Mail : fishinski6@aol.com
Boat Name: Family Tides
Date Fished: 10/16-10/17
Location: Hudson Can. East Wall
Fishing Method: Butter Chunks
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 55 to 90 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butter fish
Water Depth: 490 Feet
Water Temp.: 65.9
Information : Captain Joe took the Fletcher Construction party out to the Hudson Canyon. And what a trip it was, calm water both ways. Captain Joe put us on the tuna right away, started chunking and had our first tuna in the boat before the anchor was set. We had a consistant bite for about 3 hours, boating 10 fish out of 18 hook ups. The author of this report was responsible for loosing 5 fish. The tide went slack and we lost the bite, until about 4:35 AM. Then the tuna came back with vengence and an attitude. Although the fish were the same size, they must have taken a nap and vitamins, because they were killing us. We lost 5 or 6 before we got one in the boat, they biting through the leader and spitting hooks. In the end we boated our limit, but not befor getting beaten up badly by the TUNA. The final score was 15 for us and 28 for the TUNA, but we think 2 or 3 of our losses were sharks, as they invadid our slick late. Overall, if you are looking for a great tuna trip you should contact Captain Joe on the Family Tides, out of the Belmar marina. He and the Mate Rich are truly some of the finest Fishermen I have ever had the good fourtune to fish with.

Angler Name : geneC.
E-Mail : gene.caffrey@wcom.com
Boat Name: na
Date Fished: 10/16/99
Location: Great Egg Inlet
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Weakfish
Size: to 5.8
Bait or Lure: snapper bellies
Water Depth: 18ft
Water Temp.: 69
Information : Arrived at 4:50am with coffee but no bait. Caught snapper blue on small spoon on flats near surf zone. Using bluefish belly as bait, with 1 oz.weight, floater hook, cast out to nav. channel just 25 yards east of OC- Longport bridge. Landed 2 weakies, 3.4 and 5.8b lbs, at near slack tide (low). Great late season fun. Can't wait for the stripers.

Angler Name : KENNY
E-Mail : DEEJAG1
Boat Name: GOLDEN EAGLE
Date Fished: 10-16-99
Location: MUDBOUY
Fishing Method: CHUM\ANCHOR
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5-18 POUNDS
Bait or Lure: SARDINES,BUTTERFISH,BUNKER , HOOK.....LINE....SINKER!!!
Water Depth: ABOUT 100 FT.
Water Temp.: DON'T KNOW
Information : EXCELLENT DAY EVERYONE CATCHING TONS OF FISH. THE CREW AND THE CAPTAIN WERE EXCELLENT. 2 FALSE ALBIES CAUGHT, ONE MAHI MAHI,AND TONS OF BLUES. I HOOKED ON TO A MAHI MAHI BUT LOST IT.

Angler Name : Lou Green
E-Mail : louis_green@ml.com
Boat Name: Green Machine
Date Fished: 10/16/1999
Location: Mud Hole
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 30lbs
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 200'
Water Temp.: 64
Information : A very nice day weather wise but fishing was a pick all day. First stop at monster ledge produced nothing but a shark bite off and some non biting fish breaking near the boat. A move near the lilian produced our first flurry of action with some bonito, false albies and bluefin and a small mako that was tagged. We had several shark bite offs with tuna rigs down deep so while the action is slow put out a shark rig in the 80' range. A late flurry of fish started but we ran out of bait and only broke off a few. Had some brownish algie type stuff at both spots that looked like it was straight out of Raritan bay if you know what I mean. We headed in with a flat ride home.

Angler Name : Emilio Pinho
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 10/15 & 16
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50-80 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish & Squid
Water Depth: 500 ft.
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina to the Hudson Canyon for an overnight chunking trip with the Emilio Pinho charter. The only way to describe the fishing on this night would be "SPECTACULAR". Arriving on the East Wall at 6:30PM and drifting in 500 ft. of 67 degree water we had our first Yellowfin in the boat within 5 minutes. From that point on it was non stop action for 2hrs. 33 tuna up to 80lbs were hooked-up and 24 yellowfin plus 1 longfin were put on ice in the fish boxes. It was the fastest time ever for us to put together a limit catch. After enjoying another great night of fishing aboard the Bounty Hunter, we left for home at 9PM with a very satisfied and happy charter.

Angler Name : Rob
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Boat Name: Deep Adventures
Date Fished: 10/15 - 10/16
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking / Jigging
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-80lbs
Bait or Lure: Butters and Jigs
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Was out over the weekend with a private charter on the Deep Adventures out of Point Pleasant. The weather was great and we had a wonderful ride to the Wilmington Canyon. After arriving it wasn't long and "fish on" was being shouted from nearly everywhere. I personally boated 3 within the hour and then proceeded to help the others catch their limits. While most of our party was chunking with butterfish, I was having tremendous success with a large viking jig at about 100' depth. When you dropped to 100' and jigged about 5 times without a strike you weren't at the right depth and adjustment of ten feet or so almost always generated a strike. We were in the Yellowfin heavy for the whole night. Lot's of fish lost for all sorts of reasons but also lots of sore arms and backs in the AM. Thanks to Capt Dave and the crew on the Deep Adventures can't wait to do it again.

Angler Name : danny
E-Mail : donato49@adelphia.net
Boat Name: NAUTI LADY
Date Fished: 10/16
Location: garden state reef north
Fishing Method: wreck
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: to 4lbs.
Bait or Lure: clam,squid,green crabs
Water Depth: 80 ft.
Water Temp.: 65.6
Information : fished a wreck at artificial reef site and pounded the sea bass all day,caught a few keeper tog too! 3 nice trigger fish also...ended up with about 80 fish and threw about the same back between 3 guys...nice day on the water finally as the sun was out and ocean was calm...anyone seeking seabass and tog should give it a try,just make sure your over structure! tight lines....

Angler Name : matt krol
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Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/16/99
Location: north jetty on mansaquan inlet
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 20 fish 7''-9''
Bait or Lure: zeeks lures
Water Depth: 4-12ft
Water Temp.: 65
Information : went fishing on the jetties between 12:30pm and 4:00pm in hope of catching bluefish and stripers but there was none to be seen. the best I did was a 9" snapper. lots of baitfish and the water clarity was clear. plenty of small seabass for some action.

Angler Name : TONY & ED
E-Mail : HNWMN47
Boat Name: MARYANN
Date Fished: 10-16
Location: TUCKERTON
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: NONE
Bait or Lure: LIVE EELS
Water Depth: 20-40 FT
Water Temp.: ?
Information : DRIFTED ALL DAY AROUND INLET AND G BOUY.THREW DIAMOND JIGS AND BUCKTAILS HOPING FOR SOME WEAKS.COULDN'T GET NOTHING TO BITE.DRIFTED MOST OF THE DAY FOR STRIPERS BUT HAD NO LUCK WE HAD FUN AND THATS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT WILL TRY AGAIN NEXT WEEK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Angler Name : Ray
E-Mail : BigKahuna65@aol.com
Boat Name: Miss Belmar Princess
Date Fished: October 16, 1999
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: chunking/jigging
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50 to 90 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish, Squid, Diamond Jig
Water Depth: 480 ft.
Water Temp.: 68 degrees
Information : Left the dock at 5:00 p.m. and started fishing at approximately 10:00 p.m. Slow at first, but got into a nice bite at 3:00 a.m. Hammered them until 6:00 a.m. Boated 66+ fish up to 90 lbs. which won the pool. Had a great trip with lots of fun for everyone. Weather was nice until 11:00 a.m. and then fog and rain for most of the ride home. Looking forward to doing it again.

Angler Name : vic de moan
E-Mail : johnson@princeton.wireline.slb.com
Boat Name: Golden Eagle
Date Fished: 10/16/99
Location: Belmar
Fishing Method: chumming
Specie: Bluefish
Size: Jumbo size
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth: 100
Water Temp.: 58
Information : I would like to thank the Capt. and mates of the Golden Eagle for a trip that won't soon be forgotten by myself and a few of my friends. Caught fish from the time the horn sounded up to last call. Sizes ranged from 8 to 15 pounds CONSTANTLY, with a few monster blues mixed in. Pool fish weighed a little over 18 pounds.(caught by a member of my party Ken Seefelt) If you want to catch fish the Golden Eagle is the Boat to Fish.

Angler Name : Paul and Stan
E-Mail : pczaya@gpu.com
Boat Name: Risa
Date Fished: 10/16/99
Location: Oil Wreck/Monster Ledge
Fishing Method: Trolling and Chunking
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 6-9 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 150'
Water Temp.: 67 degrees F
Information : We trolled from Manasquan Inlet to the Oil Wreck and caught two bonito (2 & 7 lbs.) on a green/yellow jet. After trolling the area and noting some marks we set up for the chunk. After an hour with no hits on the chunk we trolled over to the Monster Ledge with no hits on the troll. Anchored in 150' we put out a bunker chum bucket and started chunking butterfish. The action was slow but steady with bluefish hookups between 15 and 60 feet. We tried the bottom but caught only large dogfish. Using 50 and 80 lb. leader with no wire on 20-30 lb. class rods we must have lost at least a dozen bluefish due to biteoffs. Stepping up to 50 lb. class rods and going to wire didn't do one of the 50 lb. outfits any good. At about 7 PM (after everyone else left the area) something hit it so hard and fast the butt (wooden) broke at the rod holder and the whole rig disappeared. The episode seemed to take only a second. I'm trying to figure out what to say to the neighbor who loaned me that custom 50 lb. outfit. We left at 8 PM after running out of bait.

Angler Name : david
E-Mail : kirby1266@aol.com
Boat Name: northstar
Date Fished: 10-16
Location: various wrecks off a/c to o/c
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 2.5 lbs
Bait or Lure: clam and sea robin
Water Depth: 60 to 85 ft
Water Temp.: n/a
Information : started out slow with 5 to 1 ratio of shorts to keepers and picked some keeper porgies. ater several move the pick got better and in the last 2 hours got nothing but keepers i even had a triple header that were all keepers. talk about a bend rod. the kicker was that i won the pol with a 4lb trigger fish. very good capt. that really tried to find the fish. mates did a good job with 70!!!!!!!fares on the boat i must have caught 50 keepers and 40 shorts .

Angler Name : Bruce Dee
E-Mail : am.derites@rcn.com
Boat Name: Dana Dee
Date Fished: 10/16/99
Location: Sandy Hook and south
Fishing Method: jig,worm, and trolled
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: none
Bait or Lure: s/worm, ava, bomber Long A, Fin-S
Water Depth: 18-40
Water Temp.: 59
Information : We started @ Hook w/worms and crippled herrings....no bass just huge robins, a few fluke (throwbacks of course) and four sun dials. Started trolling around noon w/4 other boats from hook southward about 2 miles in 16- 25' water.........downrigger at bottom w/bomber and other line with large rebel at 5-10 ft depth. Only 1 huge robin which took the bomber. Didn't see any bass trolled in that area. Went back to rip and jigged and wormed outgoing to no avail except for more robins/fluke. Saw one hook up on boat nxt to us at rip on an eel....fought and lost @ boatside. Nice day though.....try again nxt wk......maybe try eels and worms.

Angler Name : Tom,George,+ Jim
E-Mail : bolcars @ Monmouth.net
Boat Name: BOKE
Date Fished: 10/16/99
Location: Manasquan to IBSP
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: none
Bait or Lure: spoons,umbrellas,tubes
Water Depth: 15-40
Water Temp.: 60's
Information : Cleared the Inlet by passing through a throng of frustrated fluke fishermen hopelessly throwing metal at disinterested false albies. Headed South in anticipation of surface action. After passing Seaside with no activity other than a few albie splashes decided to set up to troll. Fished all the way to barnegat inlet. Got only one hit on a bunker spoon. Decided the best play would be to duck into Kubels for lunch. Only positive move of the day. Headed back North with no better luck than before. Must have passed 10,000,000 dollars worth of boats and only saw seabass,searobins, and fluke caught. All in all a beautiful but unproductive day on the water. Better days are comming. Tight Lines.

Angler Name : NJDorado
E-Mail : NJDoradoFishing@aol.com
Boat Name: Teacher's Pet & Smuttynose
Date Fished: 10/15 and 10/16
Location: Sandy Hook, Highlands Bridge
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 2 keepers, 4 shorts
Bait or Lure: sandworms
Water Depth: 10-40'
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Fished on Friday night on Teacher's Pet. We had 2 keepers and about 4 shorts and 1 dogfish. I had 1 keeper Bass that was 33" but only weighed 7.8 pounds. Sandworms were working best although we had a good run off on an eel. We had to move around to find the Bass but once we did we caught them. Caught the keepers both at once and then picked up shorts. One reason the fishing was slower was some idiots ran right through the rip. Its amazing how many people didn't have good lights or lights at all. Tried today at Highlands Bridge nothing but Sea Bass and sea robins. Tried worming in Sandy Hook nothing but a skate and sea robin. Trolling produced nothing although we were marking tons of fish and bait. Mostly bait but some fish.

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Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
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Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct. 15
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 32"
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 59
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Ed Bresnahan charter from Philadelphia, PA out for the first of many fall Striped Bass charters on the Canyon Runner Friday and found the fish where we left them in the Spring before all the Canyon trips. Trolling umbrella rigs in 40 feet of water we boated 25 Bass but only 3 keepers. In addition we had a couple dozen Bluefish. The Bass only bit for a two hour time period around high tide despite reading them all day. Once the water temperature cools some more it may be another great fall fishery like last year.

Angler Name : Debbie
E-Mail : Debbiemoyer@excite.com
Boat Name: The Queen Mary
Date Fished: Friday October 15,99
Location: Point Pleasant, NJ
Fishing Method: Jigging and bait fishing
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3 lbs and much bigger
Bait or Lure: AVA 17 and 27, peanut bunker
Water Depth: unknown
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : My trip started on the phone...after several calls to other boats, I chose the Queen Mary. The Captain was very nice over the phone, informative, and genuinely welcomed my 10 year old Niece. The boat had a light crowd of 20 or less, (most were repeat customers), which contributed to the helpful, friendly atmosphere. The fishing was steady all day. At one point 1/2 the people were fishing the structure we anchored over, for Sea Bass. The other 1/2 kept fishing for Blues. Squid was given to the Sea Bass fishermen, and plenty of chum was dispersed. I saw alot of Jumbo Sea Bass come over the rail, and a 14 year old girl caught one of the biggest blues I'd ever seen. My young Niece needed help with catching blues, and seemed to prefer fishing for Sea Bass-because she didn't need help to do that. She took pride in baiting her own hooks, measuring and taking her own fish off the hooks...BY HERSELF. The Captain, and his mate-Brad, had great attitudes, making every effort to keep everyone happy and catching fish. Brad was always there when you needed a gaff, and he was very good at it. He was also good at pulling stuck bottom rigs free. Everyone left the boat happy, with plenty of fish. I highly recommend the Queen Mary, her Captain and mates. They are very accomodating to women, children-(including my toddler), and to those who are physically challenged. They have great attitudes which make a good day of fishing, even better! After docking, we went a short distance to Point Pleasant beach. The gulls were working, and I had to go back to my truck to get the fishing poles out...and catch more bluefish. I drove home with sore arms, and a thankful heart, for another GREAT ocean adventure.

Angler Name : Sal
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Boat Name: Doris Mae
Date Fished: 10/14-15/99
Location: Wilm. Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30-60
Bait or Lure: Butters
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Departed the inlet at 6:15Pm despite weather forecast of 6-10 foot waves. Experienced motor problems and began heading back in. Problems were corrected, turned around again, and we continued south east. NOAA was totally incorrect. Wave hieghts were 4-6 at best. Began fishing at midnight and not a run off. At 2:00a two blue dogs were hooked. At 2:15a two yellowfins were hooked and landed. Action died for 45 minutes. At 3:00a two more were hooked. Slow pick continued. At 4:30 all hell broke loose and everyone was getting run offs. The bite was non stop. Had our limit and were heading back by 6:15a. Great boat, great mates, and a great trip.

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Angler Name : John "Pesci" Flanagan
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Boat Name: Sea Hag, Cap. Charlie Duerr
Date Fished: Oct 12-13
Location: Tom's canyon
Fishing Method: chunking/jiggging
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 35-70
Bait or Lure: squid, butterfish
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Another fine trip by the infamous Captain Charlie Duerr on the Sea Hag. We had to leave'm biting at 5:00 am because ther wasn't anymore room left for the tuna and we had our limit. Constant bite all night but I couldn't hang and had to go to bed for a while. Boy I'm getting old. Excellent job by mates Terry and James on a great boat that got us there and back in record time. Great time-Thanks Charlie!

Angler Name : Bill Worthington
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 10/12 & 10/13
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40 To 70lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish & Squid
Water Depth: 750ft.
Water Temp.: 69 Degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina out to the Hudson Canyon for an overnight chunking trip with the Bill Worthington charter. Arriving at the East Wall and finding several commercial boats trawling for Squid in the middle of the Tuna grounds we chose to drift rather then anchor.Our first 4 hours only yielded 4 yellowfins in the 50lb. range. However,we heard of a 3 degree temperature break a little further south, so we moved and restarted our drift in 750ft. of 69.7 degree water.The action was a lot slower than our previous 5 trips.But,we picked away and managed to put together a limit catch. At 1:30AM we started for home.

Angler Name : Capt Lou
E-Mail : osprey30@aol.com
Boat Name: everythings rosie's ll
Date Fished: 10/13/99
Location: shrewsberry rocks
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 8.88lbs
Bait or Lure: bunker spoon
Water Depth: 19ft
Water Temp.: 62.4F
Information : Fished with Jimmy Whittiker on his boat, Jim/Jan, started at daybreak and went straight to the rocks. Trolled up total of 6 blues 5 to 7 pounds, no strippers . Dragged everything from umbrella rigs to spoons to plugs, but no tackers. There were Albies all along the shore,but they were interested in peanut bunker only.The wind started up so we started trolling south , in 14 feet of water off a jetty in Long Branch the big Weakfish hit a green and yellow spoon. I thought it was another blue untill I got it to the boat and called for the net.I weighed in at 8.88 pounds on Jimmy's digital scale. Blue fish are plentiful just outside Manasquan Inlet and in the River and Canal, But No Strippers today.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 12-13
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: up to 60 pounds
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 450
Water Temp.: 66
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Kevin Corradino charter from Pt. Pleasant out on the Canyon Runner Wednesday and put together another excellent catch. Drifting on the East Wall we had fish on immediately and limited out with 21 fish in 3 hours. The action was non-stop with 2 and 3 fish on at a time. Weary from the non-stop action the charter elected to head home early and we were back in the dock less than 12 hours from when we left.

Angler Name : Anthony Nuzzolo
E-Mail : Anthony.Nuzzolo@pharma.novartis.com
Boat Name: Denise Marie
Date Fished: 10/12/99 - 10/13/99
Location: East Wall of Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking and Live Squid
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50-70lb
Bait or Lure: Live Squid, Butterfish
Water Depth: 900 - 1,100
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Left Great Kills Harbor at about 1:30 pm on 10/12/99. Loaded up on baby bunker and 3 skids of butterfish. Arrived at the East Wall at about 6:15. Plenty of boats in the area. Lost one big fish at about 7:30 followed by 2 more lost fish. Started loading up on live squid all around the boat. The bite came at 9:10pm and we would have maxed out by 11:00pm if it weren't for the 3 fish we lost in the beginning of the night. Caught the remaining 3 fish at the 3:30am - 4:30am bite. Weather started to get nasty. Got back to the dock at 11:20pm. 16 Yellowfins in all. Flags were flying, scrub brushes were scrubbing, backs were aching. A great night at the Hudson Canyon!

Angler Name : John Pochinski and Jim Varga
E-Mail : jvarga916@litenet.net
Boat Name: The Sandpiper II
Date Fished: 10/12/99
Location: Arundo
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 30-40Lb
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 66
Information : Also caught countless numbers of bonita and false alby's. The bluefin were under the other fish. A 100Lb mako was also caught when he appeared in our slick. A total of 8 bluefin were caught and released. No thanks to the NMFS. Thanks guys. I'm sure glad the Japanese can eat a bluefin and I can't!

Angler Name : Andy Witnick , Steve Bock, Steven, Frank, Capt Bruce Hrobak
E-Mail : Capt wave@aol
Boat Name: Tanerz Lurz ( wavedancer)
Date Fished: 10/11 10 12
Location: Barnaget bay
Fishing Method: Live eels , Pluggin and live Mullet
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 39# to 20 lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 4 ft to 23
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished the area of the canal with frank had some action on eels but the best was again the Flats on Barnaget Live Eels took some of the stripers but #39 was on a live Mullet on 10 lb line and a spinning rod !! Steven caught a nice big Fluke on a Peanut bunker and Steven Bock caught a nice Bass his first nice one for him in years he was real happy!! It has been getting much better and as long as we protect our resource as we have its gonna get better so TIGHT LINES to all !!!!! Hope you guys hook up !! Capt Bruce !!!

Angler Name : Doc , Paul & Archie
E-Mail : dkijowski@mc-2online.com
Boat Name: Doc On The Bay
Date Fished: 10-12-99
Location: shrewsbury river rips & select holes
Fishing Method: drifting with wt. & livelining
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24" to 27 1/2 "
Bait or Lure: sandworms & fresh peanut bunker
Water Depth: 6ft. to 20ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Got a hold of my brother-in-law & a good canadian fishing friend who is down here for the week.I went out in search of some stripers.On the way out stopped & netted some peanut bunker.First hole we hit I nailed a 26" bass on a worm. We moved on to other proven rips & holes and had action for about 2hrs. peanut bunker was the hot bait with very little wieght or no wieght at all,livelining peanut bunker what a way to go, we caught the tide just right.We fished the incoming tide.At the slack we ran down river around the tip of the hook.We found some bluefish action at the false hook.What a great day no keeper bass but still nice action.I think we're in for a great fall run.I know I'll be out there.Hey guys before you know it we'll be diggin out of the snow.Get um while the're here & it's still pleasant weather.

Angler Name : Bob Livingstone
E-Mail :
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 10/12/99
Location: The Hook
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 24-34 in
Bait or Lure: plugs...black bombers, bottle poppers
Water Depth: n/a
Water Temp.: nice
Information : fished 11:00pm -till 3:00am all around the hook. The fish were spead out but sporadically picked at them. Patience is the word. Heard things are heating up further south...in Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach. Thats were you'll find from here on out. See you there.

Angler Name : kirk davis
E-Mail : kirk_davis@hotmail.com
Boat Name: big mohawk
Date Fished: 10/12
Location: off long branch
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 28 legal fish to 17''
Bait or Lure: squid
Water Depth: 35-60ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Fish was pretty good today...a bit too many throwbacks..but still plenty for dinner..captain gary made sure that he kept moving to get everyone a good number of keepers...also caught two nice 18'' fluke which had to be thrown back...thanks Uncle Sam...this fishery still has at least three weeks left inshore...so get them while they are hot..for sea bass are one of the tastiest fish in the sea.

Angler Name : Jack Shields
E-Mail : hmjshields@hotmail.com
Boat Name: 23' proline
Date Fished: 10/11-12/99
Location: Longport bridge, OC
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 22"
Bait or Lure: minnow
Water Depth: 15'
Water Temp.: 69
Information : 3hrs on oc ocean got nothing, On way back to bridge, dropped line for last time at red buoy and got 22" fluke. Thanked GOD and headed for dock. Tasted great. 10/12 spent 3hrs on ocean by ferris wheel; about 20 small blues, strippers. No keepers.

Angler Name : Andy L
E-Mail : Loj78@aol
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10-11-99
Location: tip of the hook
Fishing Method: bait
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 35"
Bait or Lure: eels,mullet
Water Depth: 15'
Water Temp.: 60's
Information : Fished the hook from 11:30 Pm to 4:00am. Casted my brains out and not a bite. Threw a live eel and within 5 min had a bass on 35". With the eel in tact picked up another bass that was 26". No hits on the mullet.

Angler Name : Charlie Haws
E-Mail : charlie@webspan.net
Boat Name: THE ROAD
Date Fished: 10/11/99
Location: North of Manasquan Inlet
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: To 23"
Bait or Lure: Squid/Sand Eels
Water Depth: 20'
Water Temp.: 65
Information : Lou and I fiished the '99 Fluke season with a limit. On Saturday we got 8 fish to 24"; but Monday we had great luck. It is a real shame the gov't. says it is time to stop. I only made 5 fluke trips; spend most of my time chasing tuna; but that is another story. We only caught keeper fluke the last three trips. We caught at least fifty fluke yesterday, many at 15' and had to throw them back. Fluke are difficult to handle and I believe many die. I know we put several nearly dead fish back. It is about time for a limit of say 6 fish any size. No more throw backs. Why don't you pissant regulators wake up.

Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@yahoo.com
Boat Name: ORCA
Date Fished: 10/11/99
Location: Longport Bridge
Fishing Method: live bait
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth: 5-8
Water Temp.:
Information : Well, I went out for my first striper trip of the year. I tied up to the bridge and listened to the Sox/Indian game on the radio. That was the hightlight of the night. My friend Joe Hammer and myself must have caught at least six Conger eels all about 3-4 ft. I had never seen one before but after paying 1.25 per eel I was sick of seeing them. I had one on that I had fought for at least 25 minutes without budging it off the bottom, I finally cut the line. Usually, around the World Series is the time down here give or take a sweep of the series.

Angler Name : Ray & Chris
E-Mail : Finnila.com@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Mo' Money
Date Fished: 10/11/99
Location: Sandy Hook & Flynn's Knoll
Fishing Method: Drifting & trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 34"
Bait or Lure: Eels, sand worms & umbrella rig
Water Depth: 25'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Haven't had many opportunities to fish lately, so we decided to go out despite the small craft advisory. It was slow going to the tip of Sandy Hook with the stiff Northwest breeze. Started drifting eels & worms at the Rip. Caught a sea robin, a window pane & a dead, rotting bluefish, which I hooked in the lower jaw. Tried drifting at the Knoll with no luck. Saw very few fish caught. Decided to troll around the tip of the Hook on the way home, and hooked the Striper on an umbrella rig with black & wine colored tubes with a wine trailer. Tight lines.

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Angler Name : DJ
E-Mail : BONEFISDJ@AOL.COM
Boat Name: REJOYCE
Date Fished: 10/10/99
Location: WILM CANYON
Fishing Method: DRIFT--CHUNK
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50 LBS
Bait or Lure: BUTTERFISH
Water Depth: 1000
Water Temp.: 69.5
Information : ARRIVED AT EAST WALL AND STARTED FISHING AT 12:00 NOON ON SATURDAY. HEARD TWO BOATS CHATTERING ABOUT FISH ALL ON THE SURFACE BUT WE HAD NO LUCK UNTIL 2:00 WHEN FISH STARTED SLASHING THE SURFACE. NON STOP CAST AND CATCH WITH BUTTERFISH THROWN TO FISH ON THE SURFACE. BROKE 9 WT FLY ROD AFTER 1/2 HR FIGHT GETTING FISH TO WITHIN 10 FT OF BOAT. HAND LINED HIM FOR 2 MINUTES UNTIL BREAK OFF. TOTAL OF 10 FISH IN BOAT, 9 BREAKOFFS , BUT COULD HAVE CAUGHT MORE AS WE LEFT FOR THE 82 MILE RETURN TRIP AT 4:30. CAPTAIN ROBBIE'S 26 FOOT GRADY WHITE CATAMARAN HANDLED ROUGH SEAS GREAT. FISHING CANT GET MUCH BETTER THAN THIS. PS. TUNA SPECIAL AT CAMPBELL'S BOAT HOUSE IN MEDIA !!!

Angler Name : Frank Casale
E-Mail : FRANK0248@aol.com
Boat Name: ANASTASIA
Date Fished: 10/10/99
Location: NE Wall - Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk Butterfish
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50 - 65 lb
Bait or Lure: Butterfish/Live Squid
Water Depth: 425'
Water Temp.: 69.8
Information : 10PM to 5AM Picked at Fish. 5AM Ocean came alive. 23 Yellowfin & One LongFin to 65 LB. Tons of squid. Chunked light to bring the squid in close. No chum. Fished with 4-6 oz weight - All fish were 100' to 150' deep and were full of squid. Ocean flat at canyon - sloppy on return.

Angler Name : Bob Lukowski
E-Mail : blukowski@bloomberg.net
Boat Name: Amy Beth
Date Fished: 10/9 - 10/10
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll/Chunk
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 40-70 lbs
Bait or Lure: butterfish green machines/zuker feathers
Water Depth: 500-900
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Trolled the 100 square area of the Hudson and found 70 degree water. Trolled up 7 longfins and 8 mahi . Set up for the chunk in the same area. Caught 1 70lb yellowfin and another mahi. After we caught the yellowfin we were plagued with blue sharks until we left for home at midnight.

Angler Name : jim barger
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-10-99
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 45 inches # 30lbs
Bait or Lure: bomber
Water Depth: 6'
Water Temp.: n/a
Information : I finally caught the big one!!!!!!

Angler Name : ANDY L
E-Mail : LOJ78@aol
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10-10-99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32"
Bait or Lure: Yellow Bomber
Water Depth: 10'
Water Temp.: 65?
Information : Got to the hook at 4:00 am greeted by a light rain and heavy fog. Picked up a 32" bass and a 29" bass just as it got light out at 5:00. At about 5:30, 3-5 lb cocktail blues filled the surf pushing peanut bunkers onto the beach. Released at least 20 blues in about an hour as the boats scattered the fish. Fish were hitting anything including my plain, weighted snagging hook for bait. Stayed for another hour with no bait or fish breaking anywhere. It seems that for the last few weeks fish have been running into this area from 5-8:00 am.

Angler Name : MARK G. AND STEVE C.
E-Mail :
Boat Name: DROP OFF
Date Fished: 10/10
Location: MUD HOLE
Fishing Method: CHUNKING
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 20-30 LBS.
Bait or Lure: BUTTERS
Water Depth: 160
Water Temp.: 64
Information : NON-STOP ACTION FROM 7 AM TO 1:30 PM WHEN WE LEFT THEM IN THE SLICK.CAUGHT AND RELEASED 18 BFT AS WELL AS SKIPPIES AND LARGE ALBIES.TRULY A HOT BITE.

Angler Name : NJDorado
E-Mail : NJDoradoFishing@aol.com
Boat Name: Smuttynose
Date Fished: 10/10/99 (October 10, 1999)
Location: Rip, Reef, Beach
Fishing Method: Drifting, Anchoring
Specie: Fluke
Size: 1 short
Bait or Lure: live peanut bunker and squid
Water Depth: 13-40'
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Sorry for the late report but didn't know if i summited a report and i didn't so here is the report. Started out drifting in the Rip with live peanut bunker. Hooked a 12 pound pound Albacore instantly but this fighter was lost at boat side. No Bass and No Bluefish so headed to Reef where drifting produced 1 Sea Bass in 2 minutes. Anchored but should of found better structure because nothing was caught. Moved in towards the beach and nothing but Sea Robins. Moved to North Beach which produced a short Fluke and ended the day drifting by The Rip with no Fluke, Bass, or Bluefish. So today started out good but ended really slow. On the way out saw lots of boats fishing the highlands bridge but no fish looked to be caught.

Angler Name : john loftus
E-Mail : tuna317
Boat Name: doris mae
Date Fished: 10-9 10-10-99
Location: wilmington
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-100lb
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 550 ft.
Water Temp.: 72
Information : set the hook at 10:00pm had my limit by 12:00am 100lb. my biggest fish released 8 more incredible fishing till 3:00am when we pulled the hook 98 yellowfin boated never saw anything like it before 5-6 fish on the whole time

Angler Name : doug appleby& jerry ladoto
E-Mail : pineman@earthlink.net
Boat Name: angler
Date Fished: 10/10/99
Location: ocean off holgate
Fishing Method: drifting bunkeror munnies 5 squid
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 3lbs
Bait or Lure: killie & squid
Water Depth: 24
Water Temp.: 70
Information : went to go flukeing of towerson off lbi in60 feet of water no fluke to be seen all garbage fish. The flukeing has been terrible down here.nadayour wasting your money going flukeing here. Weekkies were thick in about 24 feet of water off the white tower.

Angler Name : Ken Krause
E-Mail : kek169@psu.edu
Boat Name: Slammer
Date Fished: 10/10/99
Location: G.E. Inlet
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Little Tunny
Size: 5-8 Lbs.
Bait or Lure: Clark Spoons, Gotcha Plugs, Small Feathers
Water Depth: 15-40
Water Temp.: 68
Information : We trolled up a bunch of False Albies, Bonito, and a couple small blues in the GE Inlet this past weekend. It was tons of fun on light tackle. I was surprised to see all these fish in so close, but thats just how fall is. I'm sure they are still there, we had our best fishing zig zagging in and out of the channel towards Ocean City side. Good Luck!

Angler Name : Gary
E-Mail : micco@blast.net
Boat Name: Proline
Date Fished: 10-9-99
Location: Barnegat Light Reef
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 19"-23"
Bait or Lure: various
Water Depth: 60'
Water Temp.: 60's
Information : Fished various areas around the reef. Kept 6 very fat Fluke up to 23". Other areas off of Barnegat that normally hold Fluke this time of year were non-productive.

Angler Name :
E-Mail : almac128
Boat Name: twin screwz
Date Fished: 10-9-99
Location: cape may inlet
Fishing Method:
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: eels
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : we were heading to the canyon per the weather report but just a little to rough.so we went drifting the rock pile.alot of small blue fish but we did catch 6 stripers all short but fun.

Angler Name : DENNIS SAMPSON
E-Mail : BARBARA08@MSN.COM
Boat Name: THE GREAT ESCAPE
Date Fished: 10:30 PM 10/8,TO 5:OO AM 10/9
Location: SANDY HOOK RIP
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28 1/2 " TO 37 "
Bait or Lure: LIVE EELS
Water Depth: VARRIED
Water Temp.: 66
Information : AFTER LOOKING AT NUMEROUS MARINE REPORTS FOR SEA CONDITIONS,ONLY TO FIND 1'TO 6'SEAS,I DECIDED TO GO TO THE DOCK, GLAD I DID. THE WATER WAS LIKE A LAKE IN THE BAY AND ONLY 1'TO 2'AT THE POINT, STARTING A NIGHT OF DRIFTING I WILL REMEMBER FOR A LONG TIME. FISHING WITH MY SON JUSTIN, HE HAD THE FIRST STRIPER ON IN LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES, 28 1/2" AND IT DIDN'T STOP THERE. HAD FISH ON JUST ABOUT EVERY DRIFT TILL WE BOATED OUR LIMIT PLUS ONE WITH TROPHY PERMIT UP TO 37", AND LOSING AT LEAST SEVEN WHEN WE STOPED COUNTING. THE BEST PART OF THE TRIP WAS WATCHING MY SON KNOCK DOWN FOUR BASS. CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT TRIP OUT!!!! SAFE ON THE SEAS !!!!!

Angler Name : Ernest D. slaymaker
E-Mail : njfish@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Searcher II
Date Fished: 10/9/99
Location: Barnegat Ridge
Fishing Method: Drifting Bait in Chum Slick
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2-8 lbs
Bait or Lure: Cut butterfish
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Fishing group from the Mt. Holly VFW limited out on Bluefish Trip was scheduled for 6 pm - 2 am. We were back at the dock by 10:30pm . Enjoyable trip, freindly crew....

Angler Name : Dave S.
E-Mail : Jigman1990@aol.com
Boat Name: Teal
Date Fished: 10-9-99
Location: Sandy hook
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: to -30in
Bait or Lure: eels and sanworms
Water Depth: 20
Water Temp.: na
Information : slow night on the teal 4 keepers and about 5 shorts for 40 people. I caught a 29 in. on a eel and a crab holding on to a star fish!lol. keeper pool winner was a 15lber. hope it gets better soon!! tight lines

Angler Name :
E-Mail :
Boat Name: WAVE BUSTER
Date Fished: 10-9-99
Location: THE HOOK
Fishing Method: DRIFITING
Specie: Fluke
Size: ALL SHORT
Bait or Lure: SQUID KILLIE COMBO
Water Depth: 25-40
Water Temp.: 57
Information : FAST DRIFT SMALL FLUKE AND SEA ROBINS

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct. 8-9
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: up to 70 pounds
Bait or Lure: Buitterfish
Water Depth: 450
Water Temp.: 66
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Tom & Rick Galiardo charter from Harrisburg, PA, with Bill Coffey Sr. & Jr. and Cory Gable from Maryland out on the Canyon Runner Friday to Saturday and got into a solid pick of Yellowfin in the Hudson Canyon. Anchoring in 450' of water the charter had fish on most of the night and limited out with 21 Yellowfin by the time we pulled the anchor. Unlike the trip before, we went right to the temperature break and had fish immediately.

Angler Name : Bill shillingford
E-Mail : bucktail8@netscape.net
Boat Name: bucktail willie
Date Fished: Oct2--Oct 9th
Location: Corsons inlet NJ ICW
Fishing Method: slow trolling ICW
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18"-33"
Bait or Lure: Bucktail and worm-white/pearl
Water Depth: 10-18ft
Water Temp.: 67
Information : I spent the week searching for stripers in ICW between Corson's inlet and Townsend Inlet.in 6 days 2 of us caught 84 bass with 7 keepers.fish were found on all different tides and all seem to be coming in from ocean searching for food,3keepers kept had nothing in there stomach.Balance of fish were tagged adn released to fight another day...My bet is fishing in this area is about to bust wide open as the shallow bays behind inlets is loaded with bait--unfotunately I am back in Indiana,boat is in storage but I have one remaining trip to Cape May rips in Nov.trolling slow along deep mudbanks produced fish on a consistent and steady basis.You usually marked a fish on bottom just before hooing up----topedo shaped bucktail lures with white or pearl 7" worms worked best,however under heavy cloud conditions a blue /white combo produced

Angler Name : John Howell
E-Mail : jfhowell84@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Crack-O-Noon
Date Fished: Oct 09 1999
Location: Sandy Hook / Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size:
Bait or Lure: killies
Water Depth: 27
Water Temp.:
Information : 5 keeper fluke all 15.5 inches, 1 weakfish 5lbs. Fishing in the Raritan Reach 1 mile east of the Keansburg Pier

Angler Name : Braden Niper
E-Mail : yo_think_about_it@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Sea Fox
Date Fished: 10/9/99
Location: Mud Hole Wrecks
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Ling (AKA Red Hake)
Size: Up to 3 pounds
Bait or Lure: Clams and bergall strips
Water Depth: 180-220
Water Temp.: N.A.
Information : Fished aboard the Sea Fox this morning. Started inshore, small sea bass all around, not many keepers. Moved out further for ling. Action was pretty good. Deep water, took 10 ounces of lead to hold. Finished up with 21 ling and 1 sea bass between my father and I.

Angler Name : Caveman Sporfishing Charters
E-Mail : caveman@jerseycape.com
Boat Name: HOOKED UP
Date Fished: Oct 9th
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 66 to 90 lbs.
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 600 to 1500 feet
Water Temp.: 72.9
Information : Took Hachik Distributor from Philadelphia out to Wilmington Canyon and arrived about 9:00 PM. There had to be 40 boats all on East Wall so we started out in southern part of the notch in 1000 feet and drifted up hill to 350 feet. We never anchor and out of all the boats in Wilminton Canyon Saturday night the only boats that anchored were the big party boats from North Jersey. We don't know of any charter boat or private boat that anchors in the canyons south of Atlantic City. Don't think it is a bad idea when the current is ripping although. Well we got on the fish within a couple of minutes and had fish on four hours non stop. We only fished one line at time because the fish were all around boat all from the beginning. We boated our limit of 24 and out of 28 hook-ups and were on our way home at 3:00am. It could not have been any better tuna fishing

Angler Name : John Adamcik & Stan Hansen
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 10/7 &10/8
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50 To 70 Lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish Chunks & Squid
Water Depth: 450 Ft.
Water Temp.: 66.5 Degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had his Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina out to the Hudson Canyon for an overnight Chunking trip with the John Adamcik & Stan Hansen charter. With the wind finally subsiding we headed off to the East Wall of the canyon and anchored in 450 ft. of 66.5 degree water. At 6:30pm we had our first 60lb. Yellowfin in the box. Though we never got into a non-stop bite,there were enough Tuna under the boat chasing bait at the 80ft. to 100ft. depths to give us plenty of action. Our dead sticks baited with freshly caught squid continued to go off every time the fish came under the boat,giving us 1 & 2 fish hook-ups. The working lines baited with chunks picked away at the fish which were swimming higher. By 11:30pm we had put together another limit catch of 15 Yellowfin and 1 Longfin in the box.At minight we left, hoping to beat the oncoming Southwest wind. we didnt,and had a wet ride home.However, Another great night of Tuna fishing on the Bounty Hunter,Fish boxes full and an arm weary tired charter. It dont get any better.

Angler Name : George Berse
E-Mail : gberse@griffithlabs.com
Boat Name: Tackle Box Charter
Date Fished: 10/8/99
Location: Shrewsbury River, The Hook
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 8# - 20#
Bait or Lure: Eels,Worms
Water Depth: 8 -12 ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Me and my Buddy Wayne flew in from Chicago to fish with Capt.Phil Sciortino on the "Tackle Box" charter. We marked fish all night long drifting the Shrewsbury at the Highlands and Oceanic bridges but couldn't turn em' on. Capt.Phil made a move to his secret spot outside the Hook to catch the tide change and we boated 8 keepers up to 20# in less than an hour.

Angler Name : Mike
E-Mail : 73633.233@Compuserve.com
Boat Name: Trophy 1
Date Fished: Oct. 8, 1999
Location: Barnegat Bay/Inlet
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 17"
Bait or Lure: Buck Tail/Sandworms
Water Depth: 10-25 feet
Water Temp.: 60 -65
Information : Fished in the Bay from 10am-12pm around the BB, BI and 42 Bouy. Had lots of strikes but only managed to hook up two small sea bass with the bucktail sandworms combo. Went outside north of the Inlet and pick up a 17" weakfish and a small blue in 1/2 hour. Water in the bay and ocean was beautiful but fishing was slow.

Angler Name : Maurice
E-Mail : mrodrig784@aol.com
Boat Name: annio
Date Fished: 10/8/99
Location: off of Bayhead
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16/20"
Bait or Lure: killies and spearing
Water Depth: 30'
Water Temp.:
Information : My last fluke trip off '99 ended with goog results. Many shorts but reached my limit. My dad had five keepers and many shorts. Saw a lot off bird action too with fish jumping out of the water looked like false albies. The weekend in this area should produce,good luck. Stripers next!!!

Angler Name : B Cocchiola
E-Mail : barchiola@hotmail.com
Boat Name: masher
Date Fished: 10/8/99
Location: manasquan inlet and just north
Fishing Method: boat
Specie: Fluke
Size: 12 to 14 in
Bait or Lure: squid, spearing
Water Depth: 30 to 50
Water Temp.:
Information : plenty of fish, not many fluke though. sea robins out the wazoo (two at a time sometimes)! are these fish good for anything? Early morning was very calm but a S to SE wind sped up the drift by early afternoon...others were catching some, just not me this time

Angler Name : Lou Agre
E-Mail : Agrelou@erols.com
Boat Name: T-2
Date Fished: 10/7-10/8
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 25-60 Pounds
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 400
Water Temp.: 70
Information : We started fishing around 10 pm. We started catching fish immediately. We caught fish between 25 to 50 pounds. We limited out in five hours and went home. A great night of fishing on the T-2.

Angler Name : Capt.Ron Robinson
E-Mail : Rondo_25@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Whofarted
Date Fished: 10-8-99
Location: Mantolokin-BayHead
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size:
Bait or Lure: Squid-Smelt
Water Depth: 38-48
Water Temp.: 61
Information : Now that I'm no longer chartering the big boats to the canyons, me and the "Whofarted" will be concentrating on the local fisheries. Thoughrt its kind of later for a fluke report, there were some nice fish to be had in the areas of Bayhead and Mantoloking. I also saw quiet a lot of false albys on the surface though I didn't get involved with that. Will be concentrating on bass for the next few weeks around Mantoloking so if you see a 23ft Pursuit center console screaming around the area say hello. Screw the canyons!!!

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 7-8
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: up to 60 pounds
Bait or Lure: Squid
Water Depth: 450'
Water Temp.: 65
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Dave Hunt charter from Holmdel, NJ out for a Thursday-Friday overnighter on the Canyon Runner and found that the great yellowfin bite prior to the blow had slowed. Fishing the same area as before the blow the charter picked fish throughout the night but only boated 5, lossing as many, when the night was over. Expecting at least a good morning bite to help fill the coolers we remained on anchor until 8:30 a.m. but to no avail.

Angler Name : gary
E-Mail : gglatt@aol.com
Boat Name: three g's
Date Fished: 10/08/99
Location: monster ledge
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 35-50#
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 200
Water Temp.: 59
Information : after nav and depthfinder probs we got ther about 10.we set up the slick and about2:30 we got the first.35# bluefin tagged and released. second at 3:30.50# third larger yellowfin broke off at the boat. all were hooked on 20# spinner. what a fight. all 50's remained pretty much untouched. fish were line shy. By the way we had a 130 rig hanging at 80' and hooked a small dusky. alot of falsies by the boat most of the day. spun a hub on the way back but still had a great day.

Angler Name : Caveman Sportfishing Charters
E-Mail : caveman@jerseycape.com
Boat Name: HOOKED UP
Date Fished: October 7th
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50 to 90 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 600 feet
Water Temp.: 71.8
Information : took the Kevin Cannery charter to wilmington canyon and arrived at 8:30pm. We started between wilmington and Spencer Canyons but it not get bite for 20 minutes and moved south a two miles and found the temperature break of 3 degree. We had fish around the boat within 5 minutes and boated 14 with in 3 hours and lost 5. the charter decided that was all they wanted and then stopped at lobster pots on 100 fathom line for dolphin. We only boated one dolphin but the pots were loaded with them but would not take our butterfish chunks. We had been getting between 12 and 20 dolphin per trip doing this but on they would not bite for us.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 7
Location: Monster Ledge
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: under 27"
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 150
Water Temp.: 66
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Dan Miller charter from Seelly Mattress out on the Canyon Runner for an inshore tuna trip. Anchoring in 150' feet of water at Monster Ledge the charter enjoyed a steady pick of False Albacore. Unfortunately, the Bluefins did not cooperate as only 2 were boated and released. However, a great time was had with the Albacore as we geared down the tackle and enjoyed catching and releasing over 20 of these great fighters.

Angler Name : Harley
E-Mail : njhawg@hotmail.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10-7-99
Location: Barnegat Inlet
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28 inches
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 17
Water Temp.: 60
Information : Caught numerous shorts along with 1 Keeper.Saw at least 2 other keepers landed as well. Fish started to bite on the outgoing tide. Small blues were also in the mix.

Angler Name : PAT
E-Mail :
Boat Name: ELYSIAN
Date Fished: 10/7/99
Location: NAVESINK
Fishing Method: WORMING
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32 INCHES
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 29
Water Temp.:
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Angler Name : Ken Gerecke
E-Mail : jstp21a@prodigy.com
Boat Name: Freebird
Date Fished: 10/6/99
Location: Barnegat / IBSP
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Skipjack Tuna
Size: 22"
Bait or Lure: Clark Spoon
Water Depth: 50'
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Trolled around the Range Buoy at noon for an hour, then to IBSP (bathing beach), picked up the first skippie 2 miles off the bathing beach in 50' of water, on a #1 clark spoon, got a second in the same area, before they moved on.

Angler Name : GJRICC2
E-Mail : gjricc2@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/6/99
Location: Mantoloking Surf
Fishing Method:
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2-3lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Hooked up with 2 blues on yo-zuri swimmers just after 6PM. No stories for the record books - hope the action picks up soon. Good luck everyone.

Angler Name : John
E-Mail : bickunas@lucent.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/6/99
Location: Sea Bright
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 4 LBs.
Bait or Lure: Kastmaster
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : You know the old saying...You should have been here yesterday. Well YOU should have been here yesterday AFTERNOON. Had fish in the wash from 4:30 till dark. Landed 4 Blues, 2 Stripers, 1 very large Sea Robin, and lost some other fish. In coming tide, 1 foot seas, clean water, lots of peanut bunker, West winds at less than 15 knots. Absolutely fabulous. Wish I could be there today, before the wind comes around into your face.

Angler Name : Darren Cardinale
E-Mail : barbpete@ix.netcom.com
Boat Name: Hyper Striper
Date Fished: 10/6/99
Location: south of hook
Fishing Method: bait and troll
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to 24lb
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : The stripers are responding to dropping water temps and catches improve daily.Today the Darren Cardinale party from Westfield had their 12 bass limit and also released about 20 short bass.The fish ranged to 17lbs today but larger ones are in the area as we had a 24 lber in our catch of 7 keepers on Tues.Lots of hook ups since Saturday as big bluefish are also keeping lines tight.The fall runs seem to have begun.

Angler Name : DICK,STEVE,JACK,RICK.
E-Mail : lorick@netscape.net
Boat Name: DESERVING
Date Fished: 10/5/99
Location: WILMINGTON CANYON
Fishing Method: CHUNKING
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80LBS.
Bait or Lure: BUTTERFISH
Water Depth: N/A
Water Temp.: 75 DEGREES
Information : MARINE FORECAST GAVE BAD INFO THAT DAY. TOOK FOREVER TO GET OUT.ONCE WE STARTED CHUNKING IT TOOK A HALF HOUR TO HOOK A 80LB YELLOWFIN. HAD A GOOD TIME FIGHTING THE FISH IN 4 TO 6 FOOTERS,ALMOST GIVING THE FISH A SPORTING CHANCE.THE FISH LOST. THE NEXT TUNA WE SAW WAS AT THE SUPERMARKET. THANK GOD THE SEA LAID DOWN A LITTLE FOR THE LONG RIDE HOME. AT LEAST WE WERE EATING TUNA THAT NIGHT INSTEAD OF BUTTERFISH.

Angler Name : MIKE C.
E-Mail : KIDD763
Boat Name: NA
Date Fished: 10/5/99
Location: NORTH BEACH
Fishing Method: SURF-BAIT
Specie: Weakfish
Size: BASS-BLUES
Bait or Lure: LIVE PEANUTS-MULLET
Water Depth: OUTGOING
Water Temp.: CHILLY
Information : BLOWING TOO HARD FROM THE NE DIDN'T HOOK UP AFTER AN HOUR AND A HALF. CAUGHT BUNKER AND MULLET IN THE SAME CAST WITH THE NET AT NORTH BEACH. LOTS OF BAIT NO PREADATORS.ONLY A FEW HEARTY SOULS OUT THERE.

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Angler Name : Ed Gillin
E-Mail : edgillin@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/4/99
Location: Ocean City Beach
Fishing Method: rod and reel
Specie: Weakfish
Size: small
Bait or Lure: plugs
Water Depth: 4-5ft.
Water Temp.: 68
Information : I fished the last couple of days and there was no bait to be seen until I came over the last jetty in OC and saw about a million silversides mixed in with some mullet. I must have walked 10 blocks without even seeing a splash. Needless to say, there ws so much bait that nothing would take a plug. Oh well when in Rome... It is a good sign though for bait. I guess that is why the bass are not in on the beach.

Angler Name : steve,lee,rich,ed,chris,eric
E-Mail : steven.potochney@gte.net
Boat Name: IDA PEARL
Date Fished: 10/3 - 4
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: troll,chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30 - 55lbs
Bait or Lure: Butterfish & Squid
Water Depth: 65 fathoms
Water Temp.: 75
Information : We started trolling around the 45 fathom line and immediately picked up a 50lb yellowfin. Trolling down the east wall produced no other hookups. We set up to chunck around 6pm on the east wall. Chunking was slow until 9pm then a slow steady pick started. Around 2am we were down to one rod and there was no need to even chunck the fish were everywhere. By 3am we had our limit and continued to catch and realease fish until first light. Our total catch was 18 in the box another dozen released and we probably broke of another 6 fish.

Angler Name : TOM
E-Mail : TMASS128@AOL.COM
Boat Name: TEAL
Date Fished: 10/4
Location: TIGHT TO SANDY HOOK BEACHES
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Fluke
Size: O
Bait or Lure: SQUID,SPEARING,FLUKE BELLY
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : HEY JOE CAME UP WITH ANOTHER BIG O IN THE GREAT FLUKE MASSACRE OF 99.A FEW SHORTS, EVEN FEWER KEEPERS.UNFORTUNATELY THE SEA ROBINS PUT ON THE BEST SHOW OF THE DAY, BUT I WASN'T "LUCKY" ENOUGH TO BRING 1 UP!!! OH WELL TIME TO GO WRECK FISHING AND WAIT FOR THE STRIPER ACTION TO HEAT UP.

Angler Name : kirk davis
E-Mail : kirk_davis@hotmail.com
Boat Name: paramount
Date Fished: 10/4/99
Location: off seaside heights
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 28 legal fish up to 17''
Bait or Lure: clam
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : A good pick of sea bass today...decent size and enough for quite a few dinners..captain dave and crew did their best to get us on the spots and into the fish...the next few weeks should be the best of the year for sea bass...tight lines

Angler Name : Joe Morrison
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 10/3 & 4
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50 to 70 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish chunks & Squid
Water Depth: 425 ft.
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had his Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina, Pt. Pleasant, NJ out to the Hudson Canyon for an overnight chunking trip with the Joe Morrison charter. As usual the weather service blew the forecast. The early morning wind which caused a rough ride home for most of the boats returning was nothing more than a gentle breeze by late afternoon and when we arrived at the Canyon at 6:30PM the seas were 1 to 3 ft. and the wind was calm. The only other boat in the Hudson along with us was the XTC out of Belmar. We anchored in 425 ft. of 68 degree water and started what would be a very orderly pick on the Tuna. We put an average of 3 to 4 Yellowfin in the box every hour over a 5 hour period. By midnight we had our limit catch of 21 fish on ice and had lost another 8. At 1AM we were on our way home.Another great night of Tuna fishing aboard the Bounty Hunter! Oh, by the way the XTC limited out also and left an hour before we did.

Angler Name : Chuck Cumella
E-Mail : ACC@NWL.COM
Boat Name: Pocket Money (Lou's Dream)
Date Fished: 10/3-10/4
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50-70 lbs
Bait or Lure: Butterfish, live squid, chunk etc
Water Depth: 500ft
Water Temp.: 69.8 deg
Information : Finally made it to the Canyon!!!!! It was another great trip!!!! We left the inlet at 12:00 noon and arrived at the Canyon at 4:30 PM. It was a nice smooth ride w/ almost no sea. How that changed overnight!! We trolled across the deep to the east wall (away from everyone). Nothing on the troll. We dropped the hook (1200' of line) and started to get set up. I dropped two lines and started to chunk. Within 5 minutes we had 2 YFT in the slick. I proceeded to catch one and Scott hooked up but lost the fish. We proceeded to catch 10 YFT all in the 50 to 70 lb class until the bit shut down at around midnight. We lost a 100 lb fish at boat side. Broken leader. I know you always loose the big fish. I have it on video. We had the fish to the boat two times and the final time we were wiring the fish for the gaft when the leader broke. All night from midnight to 4:00 AM it was dead. At 4:15 AM we caught another 60 lb YFT on a squid down about 100 ft. Then we finished the night at 6:00 AM with two more. Ended up w/ our limit in the box and we lost 7 other fish (some by choice in the morning and some not by our choice). The ride home was no picnic. It took us 6.5 hours to get inside. As everyone knows who was there it was a nice big wind w/ large seas. The 27' Tiara took it well. This looks like it may have been my one and only Canyon trip this year. Too much work and no play. Anyway you know how that goes. Tight lines and I hope to catch some strippers soon. The group was great. Lou (the boat owner), Scott, Nick and myself. These guys can fish!!!!

Angler Name : Andy Witnick, Gary Vayianos , Frank,Pete Sardina, Capt Bruce Hrobak
E-Mail : Captwave@aol.com/
Boat Name: Wavedancer, Tanerz Lurz
Date Fished: 10/3 , 10/ 4
Location: Barnaget bay
Fishing Method: Live Eeling and Plugging
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: up to # 36
Bait or Lure: Above
Water Depth: 5 to 24 ft
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Fished on the 20 ft Center console Tanerz Lurz on the outgoing tides it was just right but there was alot of weed and debre in the water!!! I started out early but had to work a bit to find the Bass on the fist day they were in the 24 ft depths but in the flats on the next we use a small egg sinker about 1 oz but free lining on the flats you get less debre and a better presentation !!! The biggest Striper was taken on an eel by 72 year young Andy we hit them at 2 hrs before dead low and at the same on sunday !!! Capt Mahi ( Gary ) used a real neat plug a hand made one a Small bule was all it took but it looked nice !!! Atoms Blue/ White will work but the Bass are now takin Eels so over the next few weeks expect BIG FISH as my journals and other info!!! But the water is a bit warm so maybe a little latter this month expect the Cows !! Tight Lines Capt Bruce!!

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Angler Name : Magnum,Junior and John
E-Mail : Sbag@altavista.net
Boat Name: Tail Chaser
Date Fished: oct 3,1999
Location: townsends inlet
Fishing Method: hi-low
Specie: Weakfish
Size: keepers
Bait or Lure: sea robin\butterfish
Water Depth: 35-40
Water Temp.:
Information : First time bottomfishing all year (Budnick,how can you do this every weekend?) Too rough to get to the big ones,but it was fun for at least 30 minutes. Two flats of butterfish, Two buckets of chum and a 30 pack. Produced 5 keepers and 3 hangovers. For once this year we listen to the weather report and it paid off.

Angler Name : SCOTT L
E-Mail : bslsel@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: HOOKED UP
Date Fished: 10/3/99
Location: KEANSBURG
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16"
Bait or Lure: KILLIES&SQUID
Water Depth: 15'
Water Temp.:
Information : HAD A GOOD DAY,BAY WAS A MILD TO FLAT CHOP. CAUGHT 10 GIANT SEAROBINS.HAD 3 KEEPERS AT 16" TO 16.5" HAD ABOUT 4 THROWBACKS THAT IF I STRETCHED THEM THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN 15.5" LET'EM GROW FOR NEXT YEAR!CAUGHT 1 SKATE GOD THEY`RE UGLY!ONLY 1 WEEK LEFT OR SO , SO GO AND GET THEM. HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

Angler Name : Gene Karlson
E-Mail : Matawan, N.J.
Boat Name: "Shooting Star"
Date Fished: 10-3-99
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drifting, Trolling
Specie: Fluke
Size: 20" Fluke, 9lb Blue
Bait or Lure: Killies, Squid, Spearing
Water Depth: 8'-32'
Water Temp.: Warm
Information : Caught 2 shorts 1 keeper Fluke 20", a mess of Sea Robins, and 1 Northern Star Gazer (10 yrs since I caught one of them). Fluking stunk so we started to troll and we hit the 9lb Blue, nothing else after that so we called it a day.

Angler Name : Randy, Steve, Bob
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Dream Catcher
Date Fished: Oct2-3
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50-80lbs
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 850 feet
Water Temp.: 77.4
Information : surprised by a 65lb Wahoo

Angler Name : Tim &Tom &Doug
E-Mail :
Boat Name: "BLUE CHRISTAL"
Date Fished: oct.3,1999
Location: manasquan
Fishing Method: Hook-line-and-sinker
Specie: Fluke
Size: 2-4lbs.
Bait or Lure: kellie & squid
Water Depth: 15-25ft.
Water Temp.: 72 F
Information : Started on our journey to the open sea about 9:00am. Started fishing for fluke,kept pulling them in one after another,but fun was yet to come,we seen schools and schools of bunker,and schools of weak fish,remarkable to our eyes,we put our lures onn,and this was great,we started catching weakies,upon weakies,then a blue fish school, same thing,what fun it was we boated 16 fluke 2 giant, weakies over 30" the rest where released.Great fishing Tom and Doug.

Angler Name : captain mike
E-Mail : mcfly26_99@yahoo.com
Boat Name: blew-by-u
Date Fished: 10-2+3-99
Location: off AC and absecon inlet
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 20+
Bait or Lure: live mullet
Water Depth: 12'
Water Temp.: 68
Information : saturday fished ont front of AC....30' of water...unlimited croakers, some small weakies and lots of snapper blues.....sunday wind picked up so we stayed in the inlet with some live mullet....it paid off. brought home 8 weakies over 20" was hard to keep the blues off the line but the weakies were still hitting the mullet heads......thank god. was a lot of fun but the weakies are still here....cant wait for the strippers.....good luck all

Angler Name : Ron Walker
E-Mail : rwalker@trilogyassoc.com
Boat Name: MegaBite
Date Fished: 10-3-99
Location: #1 in Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: Anchored
Specie: Bluefish
Size: Snapper blues, croakers/weaks
Bait or Lure: Top/Bottom rigs/metal
Water Depth: 12
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Aaaahhh! Fall fishing is here. Got out at the crack of noon and had almost constant action. Plenty of snappers, good sized croakers, some weaks, even a seabass. Not a single shark, skate or trash fish. Hope it's the start of a great fall season. A guy at my dock was weakfishing and had a 40lb striper jump on his bare hook tipped with the remnants of a squid bait as he was bringing it in.

Angler Name : COS
E-Mail : bigcos@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Barbara Ann
Date Fished: 10/3
Location: 1 mile off Townsends Inlet
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 14-16"
Bait or Lure: squid
Water Depth: 44'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Got 2 keeper weaks-60 or so crokers & half a dozen cocktail blues.Had a kid with us and he had a great time. Lept enough for lunch,threw them in the smoker & chowed down. Great day.

Angler Name : DOUG
E-Mail : REELCRAZY1
Boat Name: REELCRAZY
Date Fished: 10/03/99
Location: DELAWARE BAY #1 BOUY
Fishing Method: DRIFT & ANCHOR
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 16-24
Bait or Lure: SQUID /CUT BLUE
Water Depth: 17
Water Temp.: 64
Information : GOOD DAY FISHING PICK AT WEEKS WITH A ALOT OF SNAPPER BLUES THROWN IN 1 FLUKE TONS OF CROAKERS STEALING THE BAIT LOTS OF SMALL SEABASS AS WELL . KIDS HAD A GREAT TIME TIGHT LINES ALL

Angler Name : Lou Green
E-Mail : louis_green@ml.com
Boat Name: Green Machine
Date Fished: 10/2 - 10/3
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50 - 70 #
Bait or Lure: Butters/live squid
Water Depth: 350
Water Temp.: 66
Information : Another fun trip to the deep (probably the last for 99). Had the fish pretty steady until about 1am when everthing shut down. Lots of bait including live squid and yes live butters. Thats a first for me. Many thanks to that boat from Brielle (you know who you are) for anchoring on top of us. You really put a damper on our trip. We ended up with only five fish on the West side and we released a few more by accident. Also many thanks to the weather man for beating up on my Grady Marlin. It was shall we say uncomfortable out there. A 43' post (Current Addition i think) paved the way home for us a 20 knots. Many thanks to them.

Angler Name : John M.
E-Mail : n/a
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 10/2, 10/3
Location: Long Beach Island
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: Plugs and Metals
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Fished at sunset on 10/2 and sunrise on 10/3 on the South end of Long Beach Island, hoping for an early striper. Water seems too warm, as I drove up and down the beach making stops at the jetties, and no one seemed to be catching anything significant. Saw some bait in the water. Talked to one guy, he has a couple of small weakies, but that's it.

Angler Name : Michael Savage
E-Mail : mike.savage@db.com
Boat Name: Wreckless
Date Fished: 11/3
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50 to 80#
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 400
Water Temp.: 80
Information : We were probably the last boat to leave the Wilmington on Sunday morning following the big blow that came Saturday night. Chunking Chuck Huff, Dennis Demotts, Big Chris Witcyk and Jim Witcyk fished with Captain Heartless Savage on the flats near the notch Saturday night and had a couple of fish in the box when the bite turned red hot about 4:30 am after we had drifted about 7 miles NE and off the ledge. Yellowfins continued to hit, practically taking butterfish from your hand as you threw the chunks in until 6:30am. We came back with 7 and lost at least that many.

Angler Name : King, Shaiman,Corradino
E-Mail : tking@theitgroup.com
Boat Name: Tuna Time
Date Fished: 10/2-10/3
Location: Hudson Canyn
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40-60 lb.
Bait or Lure: Squid
Water Depth: 364
Water Temp.: 69
Information : Arrived at Hudson at 6 pm., greeted by 3-5 footers, no action on butterfish, all on live squid. Went 5 for 9 40 to 60 lb. on east wall. Bumpy ride back.

Angler Name : matt krol
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10/03/99
Location: inlet seawall off pt pleasant
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Herring
Size: 9 fish 12''- 15''
Bait or Lure: zeeks lures and mr twister lures
Water Depth: 8ft
Water Temp.: 68
Information : started fishing at 10:00am stopped at 3:00pm. was trying to catch fluke but they were not there, not even one bite! only a couple fluke caught in the area that I was fishing. one guy caught a 20 inch fluke.the water is to cold for fluke in the inlet but the keeper ratio has improved greatly. caught some herring just for fun.

Angler Name : steve
E-Mail : tokingfish@aol.com
Boat Name: prowler
Date Fished: 10/3/99
Location: atlantic highlands
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 12-18"
Bait or Lure: squid&spearing
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : weather was great seas mild chop. fishing was spotty. caught some nice fish at bouy #1 in channel still alot of throw backs. lot of robbins. all in all fishing was below par.

Angler Name : S Clancy
E-Mail : sclancy@pattonboggs.com
Boat Name: Irish RogueIII
Date Fished: Oct 2/3
Location: Wilm Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: O
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 400-1000+
Water Temp.: 76
Information : Left Cape May inlet at 3:30 PM for an overnight canyon trip despite the 15 knot blow from the south east. NWS said 2-3 ft with 10-15 kt winds. They were wrong. We arrived at the tip of the wilmington by 8:00pm to be greeted by a fraction of the boats on site last weekend. We got set up and began the chunk but the bite was not on. Radio reports were not good. Wind started picking up and soon was howling through the rigging. Not a good sign. Seas began picking as the wind gusted to 20+kts. With the seas kicking up fast and no bite we decided to begin what was going to be a long ride home. Left at 11:30 pm after eating dinner and arrived at Cape May inlet at 4:30AM!!! Seas were 4-5 foot with 6 footers mixed in. IT WAS SNOTTY!! Launched the boat (a 15,000lb 32 footer) completely out of the water at one point when we hit a "Rogue" wave. Took several other waves over the bow and to make matters worse the starboard Racor was partially clogged (dirty diesel) and caused the motor to lose RPMs intermittently. Oh and of course the radar was almost completely useless running in the dark because the boat was pitching and rolling so much!! Needless to say that was the last trip of the season. Good luck to those who brave October's winds to reap the rewards. Many thanks to Luhrs and Caterpillar for getting us back to port safely -- especially after reading the reports of several boats sinking up in Cape Cod.

Angler Name : Ben Foti, John Ricci, Barry, Paul
E-Mail : Marc0311@aol.com
Boat Name: REEL ACTION
Date Fished: Oct. 2&3
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30 - 60 lbs
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 400
Water Temp.: 67
Information : We had a bite between 8pm to 11:30pm. We put 9 fish in the boat out of 15 hook ups. We all had a good time.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 2 & 3
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: up to 70
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 400-600
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie and mate Max Berry had the Frank Atkinson charter from ASA Apple, Inc. Edison, NJ out to the Hudson Canyon on the Canyon Runner and had the trip of a lifetime. Getting to the edge by 4:30 p.m. we put the boat on the drift where we had 48 Yellowfin the day before. Within 5 minutes we had fish on and boated a couple but three boats trolling circles around us immediately stopped in our slick and dropped anchor the second they saw us hooked-up. Knowing this would immediately shut down the fishing we continued to drift away from them but in so doing threw 2 flats of butterfish over within 20 minutes and kept the fish with us. The two man charter plus the captain and mate each had 3 fish by 7:00 p.m., however, both anglers continuously fought fish until 11:30 p.m. and proceeded to catch and released 46 additional Yellowfin. The total catch for the trip was an amazing 58 Yellowfin for the two man charter. The key, as usual, is getting off by yourself and finding your own fish, everyone should practice this technique, its deadly. By the way, the three boats that anchored in our slick ended the night with 9 fish between the three of them.

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Angler Name : BRIAN MOLEEN
E-Mail : BMOLEEN@DRESDER.COM
Boat Name: CANYON DREAMER
Date Fished: 10/2
Location: MONSTER LEDGE
Fishing Method: CHUNK
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 10-20LBS
Bait or Lure: BUTTERS
Water Depth: 180
Water Temp.: 68-69
Information : We fished the Monster Ledge Saturday. When we arrived there were already 50 to 100 boats there. We started reading fish and droped the hook. We saw some nice 60-75lbs bluefin being caught on either side of us. We stuck it our with no luck yet. After a couple of hours we moved to the west side and hooked up. As soon as all the other boats left the area we had bluefin in our slick. It was non stop action for a couple of hours. We landed and released a good amount of fish. Around 5:30 we started to headed back to old Barney but decided to go in through Manasquan Inlet. We really put that 25 Grady to the Test that day with that nice sw wind. Tight Lines to all.

Angler Name : Bruce Gnandt
E-Mail : Bagsk@msn.com
Boat Name: Tool Time
Date Fished: 10/2/99
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50- 70#
Bait or Lure: Shad
Water Depth: 540ft
Water Temp.: 68.7
Information : Captain Burke Sinclair headed out to the Hudson on Saturday, we arrived at the Hudson at 2:00pm and had fish boiling at the back of the boat in minutes.Captain Burke said this was the best tuna trip he has ever had. We had planned to stay over night at the canyon but the fish box was full at 7:00pm so we decided to head in.Our catch was 21Yellow fin and 2 Long fin.

Angler Name : Mark piosko, Bill Myshka
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Caborita
Date Fished: 10/2/99
Location: 2-3 miles East of Shark River Inlet
Fishing Method: Metal (Fast Retrieve)
Specie: Little Tunny
Size: 8lbs
Bait or Lure: Crippled Herring
Water Depth: 50 ft
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Started fishing at 7:30AM right off one of the jetties in Avon. Massive schools of Peanut Bunker were getting hit by Weakies and Blues. Threw the cast net twice and had enough bait for the week. We livelined the bunker and caught plenty of small Blues up to 3lbs and small Weakfish (only caught one keeper). We fished there for a few hours and then decided to move. My buddy Bill spotted some boils a few hundred yards behind the boat. He threw a Crippled Herring out which got slammed by a nice False Albacore. I then spotted the largest school of Albies I've ever seen further offshore. We made a quick run to the pile and started casting. We had non-stop action for two hours on light tackle. The highlight of the day was seeing a 6-7ft shark fin 6ft in front of the boat. I guess he knew there were plenty of Falsies around. Great day of fishing. Looking forward to this coming weekend.

Angler Name : Andy Flint
E-Mail : aflint@ptc.com
Boat Name: I Wear The Pants
Date Fished: 10-2-99
Location: Mud Hole
Fishing Method: Trolling/ Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 20-60lbs
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 155
Water Temp.: 66
Information : Trolled two Skipjack in the morining. Anchored and chunked three Bluefin Tuna. Had one next to the boat that was at least 50lbs before it shook the hook.

Angler Name : JohnnySheehan/JoeyD/JohnnyL
E-Mail : jmlcg@aol.com
Boat Name: She N's Dette
Date Fished: 10/2/99
Location: Glory Hole
Fishing Method: Chummin/Chuckin/Rockin/Rollin
Specie: S-Fin Mako Shark
Size: 8 foot 2 in
Bait or Lure: skippy
Water Depth: 150
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Trolled before Glory, got a skippy. Chummed and chucked at Glory for about an hour. "Used the skippy as bait. Got a bite(on the skippy), "Wow, dats a big fish". 2 hours later and a lotta Beers, we got it into(our friends) boat. Thanks Eddy, Tom and Paul for the help! Johnny, Joey and Johnny!

Angler Name : Captain Bob Balewicz
E-Mail : bob@cornerelo.com
Boat Name: Carcharodon
Date Fished: 10/2
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: To 60 lbs
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 345
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Returning to the Brielle Yacht Club from the trip on Friday, we oiled the boat and turned around for another run to the Hudson Canyon. Joe Paddock organized this trip for Robert & Frank Berckman, Martin Lund & Erik Link and we were glad to have the chance to fish with them. Leaving late afternoon had us arriving at the Hudson @ 10pm, which made for a bit of a sticky anchor set in an unexpected heave. (Boy, was the National Weather Service ever "off" on Friday night!). It was a real "picky" night, and we had much difficulty keeping the fish at the boat. While only putting a few Yellowfins in the box, the charters were out-geared on several occasions by much larger fish! We also landed and released a small Swordfish. Once again, special thanks to Captain Jeff Dangelmajer for working the trip with me.

Angler Name :
E-Mail : makos02@ibm.net
Boat Name: OSPREY
Date Fished: 10-2-99
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Peanuts/Lures
Specie: Skipjack Tuna
Size: 5-8 Lbs
Bait or Lure: Bait
Water Depth: 25
Water Temp.: N/A
Information : Got the Raritan Bay Grand Slam, Landed Striped Bass, Bluefish, False Albacore and Fluke. The fall run has begun!!!!

Angler Name : Capt Lou
E-Mail : Osprey30@aol.com
Boat Name: Everythings Rosy"sII
Date Fished: 10/02/99
Location: Sea Girt / Shark River Inlet
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16 to 24 Inches
Bait or Lure: Killies / squid
Water Depth: 25 - 30 ft
Water Temp.: 68.4
Information : Took my son-in-law and his Dad out and Kicked ass. Bill hit 5 keeper fluke in a row in 25 ft of water on the south edge of the rifle range , no wind but a north curent. We tried deeper water and found only large skates. We went north of Shark River to the dredgers and got in close where the sand was being dumped. Bill and Bob threw finess fish into the bait fish and nailed weakies and small blues. We played around for 30 minets and then tried fluking again. We went south half a mile and the wind picked up to give us the best half mile drift of the season. We took 12 keeper fluke to 24 inches, 4 more weakies and a large blowfish and 2 small albies. We finished with over 10 pounds of fluke fillets alone . I had the pleasure of letting several boats in on the action when asked over the radio. After listening to others boast about 6 and 8 fluke in the box ,it was my turn to report 18 fluke, 8 weakies and 6 blues IN THE BOX

Angler Name : J. Zuccarello
E-Mail : Joe zook 53
Boat Name: cap'n cal 2
Date Fished: 10 /2/99
Location: not sure
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: keeper
Bait or Lure: unknown
Water Depth: ??????????
Water Temp.: ???????
Information : I packed my van last nite despite oncoming "cold",runny nose,etc. Ihave severe flukitis since "floyd''and hoped to tuff it out. by 1;30 a.m. i knew it was folly and disengaged the alarm, took a pill,and said "Flukeit"!!!!!! WITHOUT sleep I would have had to be nuts to go. What timing!!! Sunday will also be spent wishin' instead of fishin, I"m sure I'll be ok for work Monday of course. That leaves next monday due to a weekend full of birthdays. Yup the LAST DAY of this horrible fluke season!!!! Wanna bet it rains?????? Oh well ,one day I kept 7 on the Prowler. Eddie is a super mate. Iwon a pool on the Jamaica2 w/ a 15 and 3/4 inch Monster-my only keeper. Timmy on the Cal2 is also aterrific mate and comical as well as full of tips. Oh well this has been therapy, so I"ll sound 3 TOOTS. anybody sail today on The CAL 2 or Prowler out of Belmar and A.Highlands get on the horn and let me know how "bad" it was.................

Angler Name : NJDorado
E-Mail : NJDorado@aol.com
Boat Name: Smuttynose
Date Fished: 10/2/99
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: short
Bait or Lure: live peanut bunker
Water Depth: 18'
Water Temp.: 66
Information : With a livewell full of peanut bunker and 2 mullet went Fluking. Caught some on first drift and had some cut offs from Bluefish. One Sea Robin was cut in half. After about 2 more drifts caught 1 more Fluke, Sea Robins, and 2 Bluefish of 5 & 7 pounds livelinning peanut bunker. Didn't see any Bass from the Rips but saw a short Bass caught by the Highlands Bridge on the way in.

Angler Name : Mike Rao
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 10/1 & 2
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 75 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish & Squid
Water Depth: 400 ft.
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had his Bounty Hunter out of Clarks Landing Marina, Pt. Pleasant out for an overnight chunking trip with the Mike Rao charter. Anchoring in 375 ft. of water on the West Wall, it was only a short time before 3 boats dropped their anchors within l/4 mile of our boat. Knowing that this would virtually take us out of the game, we waited until dark and pulled our anchor. Moving a couple of miles we found an open area where we read fish and bait. Within a 1/2 hour we had our first 70 lb. Yellowfin in the boat. With the nearest boat a mile away we owned the fish and the bite. Over the next 2 1/2 hours we boated another limit catch of 24 Yellowfin in the 50 to 75 lb. range. It was another furious non-stop bite. By 11PM we were on our way home with the fish boxes loaded. Another great night of Tuna fishing aboard the Bounty Hunter! Proving again "you don't fish in a crowd." Go and find your own fish.

Angler Name : TONY
E-Mail : hdwmn47
Boat Name: maryann
Date Fished: 10 2 99
Location: tuckerton
Fishing Method: anchored chum
Specie: Bluefish
Size: SNAPPERS
Bait or Lure: SQUID CLAM
Water Depth: 6-10 ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : also caught some nice blow fish,fished from 12-6pm,non stop action had fun!!!! great day

Angler Name : RANDY,KEN,BOB&C.J.
E-Mail : CJNESTI@HOME.COM
Boat Name: BAD COMPANY
Date Fished: OCT 2 ,1999
Location: MUD HOLE
Fishing Method: CHUNKING
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 58#
Bait or Lure: BUTTERFISH
Water Depth: 205
Water Temp.: 69
Information : RELEASED A 3' MAKO THAT TOOK A CHUNK INTENDED FOR A BLUEFIN. AROUND 1:30 WE HOOKED AND CAUGHT A BLUEFIN THAT WEIGHED ON OUR HAND SCALE 58# HAD A SNOTTY RIDE IN BUT ALL IN ALL IT WAS A GREAT FALL DAY.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Oct 1 & 2
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: up to 70 pounds
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 450
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Jim Bouton charter from Rochester, NY out on the Canyon Runner and put together a good catch despite several strikes against us. First, due to the fact that we had to wait for one of the charters we left 2 hours late and missed the early bite, not getting to the Canyon until 10 p.m. Second the crowd of boats made finding a open area tough. Once we anchored we picked a couple fish throughout the night and really had them going in the morning when a dragger ran right up our slick almost running us down. Nearly missing the boat, they got our anchor line and cut us off taking 1500' of anchor line 50' of chain and a $300 anchor, but most importantly, chased the Yellowfin out of our slick and leaving us with a shaken up crew who thought the dragger was going to sink us. We did end up with 7 yellowfin and a few nice Dolphin.

Angler Name : Dave and father
E-Mail : dstucy@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Dixie
Date Fished: 10-2-99
Location: off old coast guard station
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 16"
Bait or Lure: sqiud
Water Depth: 36
Water Temp.: 65
Information : made one drift on the rocks, nothing there, went to the old coast guard station got one weakfish and a 2 nice croakers....saw alot of schools of blues....couldn't get one on the line.....to interested in the baitfish...that was it for the day....hope next time the blues bite our lines, tight lines til then...

Angler Name : Vito
E-Mail : vdeg@aol.com
Boat Name: Surf
Date Fished: 10/2/99
Location: Sandy Hook Fishing Beach
Fishing Method: Casting, 3oz crippled herring, bait-peanut bunker
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16"
Bait or Lure: bunker, lures-silver
Water Depth: surf
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Arrived at 11:00am, sunny and bright calm surf, as soon as bait hit the water caught a nice Fluke keeper. My friend from Pennsy just couldn't stop catching Alcacore, nice one 20"+ he was the envy of the beach! He was able to get out further due to spider wire and heavy lure. Going back tommorrow. Happy fishing!

Angler Name : HOWIE
E-Mail : redgrouper@webtv.net
Boat Name: SHERRY 1
Date Fished: OCT-2
Location: CRYSTAL RIVER
Fishing Method: DRIFING
Specie: Red Drum
Size: 38" 35 POUNDS
Bait or Lure: LIVE OR DEAD PIN FISH
Water Depth: 25'
Water Temp.: 85
Information : WE caught bull reds two weekend in a row they are on their way in for the winter.we also caught a few black tip sharks 4 to 5 foot.i hope your fishing day was as much fun.i would like to say hello to my best friend BOB KELLY.

Angler Name : Tim Hines
E-Mail : hinesti@OOCL.com
Boat Name: Day Tripper
Date Fished: 10/2/99
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: White Marlin
Size: 4ft
Bait or Lure: Ballyhoo
Water Depth: 500
Water Temp.: 78
Information : Drove our 25 Grady from Manasquan Inlet to Wilmington Canyon. (I know we're crazy) The new optimax engines I put on get serious mileage. Within 2 miles of the canyon the water went from 68 to 78 and totally blue water. I thought we were in Florida. We caught 2 dolphin and a white marlin before turning around and making the 120 mile treak back home. We picked the wrong method of fishing as the boats chunking during the day were cleaning up on the yellowfin. The first 60 miles home we were cruising at 36 mph until we hit the south wind and then we were in 5-6 footers pushing us home. Took 4.5 hours to get home. Last time we make that run.

Angler Name : Mike DiRosa
E-Mail : Anchbomb@aol.
Boat Name: 21" Wellcraft
Date Fished: 10/2/99
Location: Bayhead
Fishing Method: Jig
Specie: Weakfish
Size: Various
Bait or Lure: Metals
Water Depth: 20' to 40'
Water Temp.: 70deg
Information : Fished along the beach jigging for weakie's south of the inlet and picked up some small ones, only a couple keepers.I came across a huge school of bunker and had a lot of fun snagging them on light tackle.Theres a lot of skates & sea robins near the beach stealing bait. Anybody pick up any bass today ? Hope for less bennie boaters tommorow!

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Angler Name : Dave Rowland
E-Mail : ddjrow@aol.com
Boat Name: Jenny R
Date Fished: 10/1/99
Location: Meyers Hole
Fishing Method: Chum Live Grass Shrimp
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 8" to 16"
Bait or Lure: Grass Shrimp
Water Depth: 16'
Water Temp.: na
Information : We were the only boat fishing on a beautiful day. The fish went nuts for the shrimp. Caught 18 keeper weaks, lots of snappers and a lot of high jumping herring. A great first day of October!

Angler Name : Kevin Orcutt
E-Mail : orcuttk1@aol.com
Boat Name: Capt. Robbins
Date Fished: 10/1
Location: 15-19 miles off wildwood
Fishing Method: wreck - top and bottom
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 10" - 20"
Bait or Lure: mackrell and green squid
Water Depth: 65 - 70 feet
Water Temp.: 68?
Information : 38 people on the boat - plenty of rail space. Great day with excellent weather. Ended up with about 40 keeper sea bass with four fatties to 4 lbs. also one trigger 2 skip jacks and one keeper flounder. Guy next to me had a 6 lb fluke and the guy next to him had a 10.3 lb doormat. Largest flounder I ever saw! It was almost 30 inches. As always Terry (mate) and Capt. Mike did an excellent time making sure everyone ended up with some nice fish in the box. Back at the dock at around 5:30 with a full cooler and a tired arm. Fish on!

Angler Name : MIKE CORCORAN
E-Mail : KIDD763
Boat Name: IT FLOATS
Date Fished: 10/1/99
Location: RARITAIN BAY
Fishing Method: TROLL & LIVE PEANUTS
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3-5 LBS
Bait or Lure: HOPKINS SWIMERS
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : HAD A HOT FOUR HOURS ON THE BAY TODAY. CAUGHT MANY SMALL BLUES AND A COUPLE OF GIANT FLUKE ON LIVE PEANUT BUNKERS NO SHORTS TODAY. LOTS OF BAIT IN THE WATER THIS YEAR, MORE THAN I CAN REMEMBER IN A LONG TIME. NO BASS TODAY BUT THERE IS ALWAYS TOMORROW. HOPE THE BOAT TRAFIC DON'T SPOOK THEM. TIGHT LINES GUYS.

Angler Name : Paul Zaun
E-Mail : pzaun@home.com
Boat Name: Miss Golden Eagle
Date Fished: 10/1/99
Location: Belmar / 17 Fathoms area
Fishing Method: Chum, cut bait
Specie: Bluefish
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Took the Friday night trip out of Belmar. The bidding action for the customers between the Jamaica and the Golden Eagle was comical. The Golden Eagle hawkers said the action was "red hot" for bluefish, of course we learned later from the crew this was not the case. We went out about an hour and a half from shore, the boat had about 40 fisherman, we anchored, and probably caught about 1 fish per angler. The crew was helpful, and the boat didn't return until 3:00 AM, I certainly can't fault them for trying. A good clear evening but not many bites.

Angler Name : LJ fioravanti
E-Mail : ljisshorty@aol.com
Boat Name: peg of my heart
Date Fished: 10/1/99
Location: olies lump
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: football size
Bait or Lure: green machine
Water Depth: 50 to 100
Water Temp.: 62
Information : we cought 3 tuna all of them were football size. we also caught 2 false albacore and 1 maco and a blue one of the best days of my life.

Angler Name : Captain Bob Balewicz
E-Mail : bob@cornerelo.com
Boat Name: Carcharodon
Date Fished: Friday, October 1
Location: Mud Hole/ Inshore
Fishing Method: Trolling/chunking
Specie: Skipjack Tuna
Size:
Bait or Lure: Zuker Feathers
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Pete Micioni, Will McNeely & Pat Arata from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter had clients Mike & Seth from Bank of New York out for an inshore trip. Leaving the dock before daybreak, we marked fish well short of our "Mud Hole" destination and trolled up some skipjacks and falsies to start the day. Realizing that we were probably into smaller species, I re-geared down to 30 lb poles with Penn 45 GLS's, tying small Zuker feathers onto the 30 lb mono, and kept them close to the boat, running Penn International 50's on the long, short and center riggers in search of larger prey. We had no encounters with Bluefins but the charters had a ball with the smaller tuna species mentioned above, which only hit the smaller Zuker feathers trolled tight. We hit the Oil Wreck with bait & jigs to no avail. I then headed further inshore and decided to throw the hook near the Shrewsbury Rocks. Chunking brought a couple of runoffs but no stripers. We did, however, drop some 12lb poles down near the rocks with butterfish chunks on the blackfish hooks, and were rewarded with some very nice sized seabass. Putting the 30 lb poles back into trolling duty with Striper gear produced more Skipjack action on the ride down the beach towards the inlet. All in all a nice mixed bag with a great group of men!

Angler Name : john p.
E-Mail : gianip@aol.com
Boat Name: jaws
Date Fished: 10/1/99
Location: sandy hook bay/keansburg
Fishing Method: sand worms/silver/poppers
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 22''-35''
Bait or Lure: both
Water Depth: 7-22
Water Temp.: 70
Information : started out with live bait picked up 3 keeper fluke,spotted bait running and trolled with silver.HOT ACTION with two stripers on at a time. total about 12 boated with 6 keepers biggest 35'' and 12 pounds.

Angler Name : NJDorado
E-Mail : NJDorado@aol.com
Boat Name: Atlantis III
Date Fished: 10/1/99
Location: Oceanic Bridge, Navesink River
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: short
Bait or Lure: live peanut bunker
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Started off by drifting but only had some snapper bite offs. Anchored and threw bunker over the side. Nothing but crabs but 1 Fluke caught on a circle hook with a piece of bunker. Livelinned a peanut bunker and had a fish run off and break my line. Drifted and had snapper bites but no Fluke or Bass. Should of brought some worms or tried casting plugs for Bass but didn't.

Angler Name : Billy
E-Mail :
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 10/1
Location: The Rip
Fishing Method: Livelining Peanut Bunker
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: Various
Bait or Lure: Peanut Bunker, Mullet
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Started out pretty slow then a school of peanuts came in. Netted some and used them as bait. Had nonstop action while the school was around. Caught 13 fish, the biggest one was 34".

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