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Benchmark Sportfishing

2006 Fishing Reports


04/25/07
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Paul Schiffano and a couple friends joined us for an afternoon of striper fishing in the Raritan Bay on wednesday and after 2 stops we found the fish in the back of the bay and managed a steady bight of bass to 27 and a half inches until it was time to go home. We still have some dates available in May and early June out of Highlands NJ, book now and get in on the action.

12/15,16,17/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Had 3 excellent days of tuna fishing. Down in NC the fish are within 30 miles and it reminded me of old fashioned mud hole tuna fishing loaded up all three days the marina where capt Nick is keeping his boat has efficiency available at reasonable rates. we are going back down in January by then the giants should of set up residence and the yft is suppose to be even better

11/30/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Jeff Perry and the Gang from Kohler were out with us on Thursday and had a steady pick of bass all morning with only 2 keepers. we spent the last hour of the day jigging some more small bass before heading home.

11/26/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Vince Fedele and his group managed two keeper stripers on sunday morning and a slow pick of shorts until we spent the last couple hours of the day blackfishing where we ended up catching five keepers from 3-6 pounds. The boat will spend the rest of November out of Point Pleasant and we will fish until Saturday the 9th before heading down to Hatteras NC. We have weekdays open from the 5th-7th and saturday the ninth is still available if anyone is interested call 732-547-5688.

11/24/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Kevin Brinkman and his two sons Matt and Greg were out on Friday after thanksgiving with us. they managed to put 2 keepers in the box and released about 70 more fish.

11/21/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Patrick Martin and friends were out on tuesday and where the fish went we will never know. The crew managed to pick about a dozen fish all day despite nice weather and few boats. We will see what happens after the new moon.

11/20/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
The fish were back on monday for Scott Hawthorne and the boys from Kohler, they managed a mad dog bite thru late morning and then picked the rest of the day. In the end they boated there limit including a 19 pounder.

11/19/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
John Babitz and his family were out with us sunday and despite the heavy boat traffic and strong tide managed to put 2 keepers in the box and about 24 shorts were released.

11/18/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Garrett Trull and his family and friends joined us on Saturday for a steady pick of bass all morning until it slowed by early afternoon. they ended the day with 4 keepers to 35" and about 4 dozen throwbacks.

11/17/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Tim white, john Sano and friends joined the crew of the Benchmark on Friday and caught all the stripers they wanted including a 42" 25lb striper by tim white. they boated there limit by 8:30 Am and released many more.

11/15/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Bill Lewis and some friends fished with us on wednesday for stripers and bagged there limit before 8am with fish up to 20lbs. They continued to catch and release stripers until late morning when the tide changed and the fishing slowed down.

11/14/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
After the second big blow of November already we made it out today with Dan Kratz and his group for a great day of bass fishing. They managed to bag there limit of fish up to 23 pounds on clams.

11/11/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Our last afternoon trip of the season was a good one with Tim Skeekey and his group who experienced non stop action until dark with fish up to 38 inches.

11/11/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Joe Medlar was out on saturday with us and although we did not experience nearly the quantity of fish from the previous few days they stuck it out and caught about 2 dozen striers with 4 of them being keeper size.

11/10/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Willy Thomas and friends from PA were out with us on friday and experienced a trip they will not forget with over 140 stripers caught and there limit of bass up to 40 inches. Good job guys.

11/8/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
After wednesdays blow Ken eckert and his son were out with us for a half day on thursday, and the fish were biting. We caught over 40 fish before the tide change but only 2 were keeper size.

11/6/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Craig Polefka and his customers were out with us on a beautiful monday and ended up with there limit of keeper bass up to 39 inches. In fact most of the fish we caught and released were of keeper size as well.

11/4/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Luke DeAraujo and friends were out on saturday and enjoyed a good pick of bass with few keepers but plenty of action on clams in the morning and we continued picking away trolling the wire for the rest of the day.

11/3/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Rob Hoskins and his crew were out with us on friday for a good pull of bass and a near limit with fish up to 36 inches.

10/23/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Phil Swanson and his friends were out with us giving stripers another try, we managed about 3 dozen fish with keepers up to 36" on clams We spent the second half of the day jigging blues fron Long Branch to Belmar. *** We are now ready to go up in the Highlands for stripers and will be fishing up there until December. If you are interested in some great fall Striper fishing Call Capt. Nick 732-547-5688

10/22/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Dave werner and his group were out with us for another try at the bass, we managed a few but no keepers trolling wire, clamming was no better that day either. The bait was extremely thick up and down the beach but even jigging blues was a challenge.

10/21/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Tom Merrick and friends were out for a day of what ended up to be jigging bluefish and then a good bite of Weakfish to round out the day. The bass however were not cooperating.

10/18-19/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Our Last Canyon trip of the year went out with a bang with Mike Kemery, Mike DellOlio, Ken Kreuter and there friends. They boated 30 Tuna, all yellows and a few longfins in the Hudson. We even had a small sword and threw in a few token Dolphin. The bite was continuous most of the night and we left them biting.

10/14-15/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Justin Starr and friends Braved the chilly October air and managed an excellent catch of 28 Tuna both yellowsa nad longfins and 8 dolphin to 15lbs, good trip.

10/13-14/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Ron Antonelli and crew were out with us in the hudson for a total of 15 Tuna, 11 Longfins and 3 yellows and over 30 Dolphin to 20lbs.

10/8-9/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We had Kevin Brinkman and his son Matt along with father and son tommy out between the Carteret and the Lindy last night. We found 69.5 degree water but the birds were working the area consistantly so we set up for the night and immediatly read the fish. By 9:30PM they had there four man limit of yellowfin to 70lbs and we ended the trip with 14 yellowfin and one longfin on the chunk. Sardines were the bait of choice.

10/2-3/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We had Mike DellOlio and his clients out on Monday in between the lindy and the spencer. The warm water that was there a few days before had since gone but we managed two small swords by 8pm, and 10 yellowfin throughout the night. Sardines were the hot bait and most of our action was before 1AM.

9/30/06-10/01/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Capt Bob Konz Ran the boat on saturday and took the Joe Debenzik Party out to the Spencer Canyon. They had there first bite at 10pm and it was non stop for 3 hours boating 15 yellowfin and losing another 20 plus 70 - 80 lb fish. 2 Small swords were also released.

9/26-27/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Scott Peggs and his crew from Ferguson were out with us on Tuesday night for another outstanding night of Chunking. We had Tinker macks 100 feet thick under the boat along with squid. When the bait subsided we had two small swords which we released and then the Tuna bite was on with fish from 35-80lbs biting on live squid, live tinker Mackeral, Sardines and Butterfly jigs. We limited out with 21 fish releasing several more and we headed home at 2am.

9/22-23/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We had Ron Antonelli and friends out on Friday night. The bite we thought would come didnt that night and we managed 3 for 7 on yellowfin to 60lbs and a half dozen small dolphin before dark.

9/21-22/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Mike Pirozek and his group from Charon Planning were out with us on thursday for an overnite, after producing only a few small dolphin on the troll we set up for the night and immediately had dolphin up to 20 lbs all around the boat. We boated 2 dozen nice Mahi and after dark had 3 swordfish to 90lbs before we even saw a tuna. At 10pm the Tuna bit and we went 9 for 13 on yellowfin from 40-70lbs

9/19-20/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Pete Renga and his friends braved the seas with us on tuesday night and boated 16 yellowfin to 60lbs and a 15lb Dolphin before calling it quits and heading home with full boxes.

9/18-19/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Bill Anderson and his friends were out with the Benchmark crew and went right back to the same spot as the night before. The troll was unproductive but we managed a dozen nice Dolphin off of a pot and boated 9 yellowfin up to 70lbs and one longfin at 60lbs on the chunk.

9/17-18/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We had Hank Romero and his crew out for an overnite in the Hudson and boated a 40lb wahoo and several nice Dolphin on the troll. The night chunk was outstanding, we boated 21 mostly on live squid and butterfly jigs and left them biting at 3am.

9/9-10/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
John Florio and his friends were out with us on Saturday for an overnite Tuna trip. We found the fish on the troll and went 0-3 on longfin and yellowfin. We made our move for the night chunk and had action starting at 8:30pm, we missed the first 2 fish and then everyone got there act together going 9 for 18 on yellowfin to 95lbs and one 60 plus pound longfin on the chunk. Good trip overall with plenty of action and big fish.

09/08/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
The Shamrock Technologies group was out on Friday for some bluefish action north of the inlet, it was a slow pick but we got some. We tried Fluking with no luck off longbranch, we did manage several 2lb seabass.

09/07/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
The bad weather seemed the last a full week and a half but we made it out with Vlado Paro and his brother and friend for a day troll on Thursday. We managed 1 for 2 on Longfins, 1for 3 on whites and a half dozen dolphin before calling it quits. We covered a lot of ground and I think its gonna get good.

8/25-26/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We got an overnite in on the 25-26th with the Stabile brothers and there father in laws. We made it out to the canyon to find they had botched the forecast but the fish were breaking on the surface so we went to work. The fish were finnally temted to bite after 2 hours of trolling and we put one 65lb yellowfin in the boat. We set up on the chunk where the fish had been breaking water and got less than we expected, besides loads of 12-14 inch sqid all night we managed 2 fish on the chunks and lost another on a butterfly jig. All in all we got some fish to take home and beat the bulk of the bad weather.

8/24/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Jason Gaynor and his group from Randolph NJ were down on thursday the 24th for some sharking. We broke our bad luck streak with a 80lb Mako at 10AM and then pulled some small dolphin off of some pots offshore.

8/23/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Darren Siker and his group were out for there second shark trip of the season, another beutiful day on the water, unfortunatly they got to see the other side of sharking on this trip with no bites. We did manage to pull a few jacks and blue runners off the buoys early in the morning but no dolphin.

8/22/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Jeff Lane and his crew were out with us for a day troll on the 22nd. This time the fish were ready to bite in the same area in the Hudson. Unfortunatly the anglers had a tough time getting it together in the morning, we ended up going 4 for 18 on 45-65lb yellowfins. All in all a good day with lots of action.

8/21/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We were back out sharking on monday the 21st with Bernard Kaltisko, what a difference a few days makes. We drifted all day with not a touch despite a perfect drift and conditions.

8/19/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Peter Krugg and his gang were down from upstate NY for an overnite which we switched to a day troll because of the pending forecast. We made it out to the Hudson to fing beutiful conditions and cobalt blue water We found the Tuna at 8AM on the surface and immediately boated three on the troll from 40-45lbs, unfortunatly that was it for the day besides a few mistey bites.

8/18/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We fished with willy Thomas and his crew from whitehall PA for some shark today, we managed 3 brown sharks and one Tiger shark about 200lbs on the 30 Tiagra, good day.

8/17/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We fished with Peter Germinario and his family today. The bluefishing on jigs was excellent with 8-12 pound fish all day. We fluked for the second half of the day and caught 4 keepers from 3-4lbs.

8/13/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Matt Skibo and his friends chartered the boat for sunday and to go along with the best weather we have had the fishing was great with blues in the 5-8lb range biting all morning. Fluking was a Little slower than the day before but we had 6 keepers to 4 lbs. Quality not quantity.

8/12/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We had Doug Cleary and friends out for a day of Bluefish and Fluke fishing Saturday. The bluefish action was non stop at the rocks with fish in the 5-8lb range. We switched over to Fluke for the last 2 hours and boated four nice keepers to 6lbs with many shorts caught and released as well.

8/11/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We had the boys from the fisherman Magazine out today for a half day of fluking. The stiff north east winds kept us inside the inlet, but to our surprise we had 9 keepers to 18 inches and had non stop action with over 75 fish caught.

8/6-7/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We did the turnaround with Scott Hutchinson and friends to the canyon on Sunday afternoon. All I have to say is what a difference 12 hours makes. The trolling was very slow but we found plenty of bait, whales and dolphins and set up near the same spot from the previous trip. We managed to pull one 50lb yellowfin at night at about 9:30pm, a baby Mako, and oddly enough a huge Mantaray. In the morning the trolling was more of the same, slow. The last hour we dropped for some tiles and picked 5 nice 8-15lb tiles before heading home.

8/5-6/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We ventured out Saturday for our first overnite canyon trip of the season with Andy Vanorden and his buddies. After 4 hours of uneventfull trolling which produced 1 Mahi we found fish not just breaking but exploding on the surface in the 30-80lb class. This went on for over 2 hours and we went 1 for 6 on jigs before dark. Chunking at night produced a limit catch of nice yellowfin from 45-80lbs, the action was hot from 10pm on and by 4am the boys were ready to go home.

7/31
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We left Sunday night with john, mike the mate, bob, peter and his wife, jeff, mike, and benny, for a day troll in the Hudson Canyon, arriving early we chunked for 3 hours with only 2 runoffs and lots of bait. We ended up going 4 for 7 on 40lb longfin on the troll and then tried out some tile fishing with our new electric reels. We ended up with 21 tilefish to 20lbs in about 2 and a half hours. A great day made even better.

7/30
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We had John Dunn and some of his coworkers out for an employee appreciation trip on sunday morning. They were rewarded with a hard fighting 130lb Mako around 10am. We tried to top it all off with some dolphin but they were not cooperating and were only about a foot long.

7/29
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
George Ziugzda and his group was out with us saturday for a shark trip. We ended up with perfect conditions and two Makos for the day 110lbs and about 80lbs.

7/3
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We had Tom Delia out with his father and brother on Monday for some shark fishing. We managed to catch and release one blueshark and two 80-100lb dusky Sharks about 50 miles south east of the inlet.

7/2
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Bob Finkelstein and his family were on the boat Sunday to try there hand at some Striper fishing. We found the Bunker south of the inlet but besides two runoffs the crew could not hook up. They managed half a dozen Keeper fluke and alot of throwbacks despite the stiff southwest wind and made a day of it.

7/1
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
The greg Koch party was on the boat Saturday and headed south of the inlet for some good bluefish action. The group caught all they wanted for a few hours and then headed inshore to pick away at alot of short fluke.

6/23,24,25
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
June 23rd Capt. Bob konz had Dan Essig group out for the JCSA tournament and got throught the bluesharks to hook and land a 165 lb mako. June 24th Jason Gaynor and his group were entered in the Mako Mania Tournament and caught 7 blusharks and one small mako that was released. June 25th Scott Lau and his group were in the JCSA and Mako Mania tournaments and managed to pull on three bluesharks during the day. The 165lb Mako Caught on the Benchmark on Friday eventually wound up winning 4th place for the JCSA shark Tournament.

6/19,20,21,22
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
June 19th Tom Gallos group from country mile gardens was out Fluking, still very good action but many shorts with all the 15-16 inchers your could catch. June 20th Capt. Bob Konz took out Ed Harvey and family for a day of sharking, theyt managed a blueshark and a couple bluefish 50 miles out of manasquan. June 21st The Shamrock Technologies group got into the large bass on live and cut bunker. They managed to land there limit of bass from 30-35.5lbs. They measured 40 to 46 inches. June 22nd we had the munson eng group out for a day of sharking 45 miles east of the inlet. we had great action with 8 bluesharks to 200lbs and plenty of bluefish to catch while we waited for the right one.

6/13,14,15,16,17,18
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
June 13th we had the John Sano party out for a day of big bass fishing. Although the bunker had not arrived yet and no bass were to be found we switched over to fluke for nonstop action. We ended up with a handful of keepers and over 100 throwbacks. June 14th Capt Bob Konz took out the Dustin Cramer party and spent the day fluking and seabassing, they ended up with 14 keeper fluke to 24inches and a few dozen seabass. June 15th we had scott Hawthorne from kohler out for the first shark trip, we ended up bending the rod with four blue sharks one of which was about 300lbs. June 15th (Evening) we had Lee Frego and his group out for a mixed bad of fluke, blues and even a few blackfish. They were back the next morning for some good bluefish action on the chum south of manasquan inlet. June 17th Mike zimring and his family came out for a good day of blufishing in the early morning until the dogfish showed up and we went fluking. Lts of shorts but everyone had a keeper to take home. June 18th George Chilipka and his group got into the bluefish very good on the bait east of the inlet and we had no problems with the dogfish. After they got there fill of blues we had once again good action with the fluke.

5/23,24,25,26,27,29,30
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Capt, Bob konz ran the boat on the 23rd and had there limit of bass and all the bluefish you could want for the jim hutchins party. On the 24th we did a half day in the morning with Kalustyan corp and pulled a near limit of bass and a few dozen throwbacks into the boat. The 25th was fished with Dan Tammaro and friends in the afternoon, they had there limit of bass all in the 15-20lb range. The 26th saw excellent action despite the fog for the Shamrock technologies party with a limit of bass to 22lbs. Jason Gaynor and friends were out on the 27th got there limit and made it back ealry to celebrate the rest of the holiday weekend. The Kohler group was out on the 29th in the morning and picked at an equal number of keeper and throwback bass up to 18lbs. The afternoon with dwayne Pash and friends didnt fair as well with a slowpick of small bass amongs a strong south wind and outgoing tide. The 29th Was a little better with the Kohler group and Jeff Perry with a pick of bass to about 18lbs and a nice 7lb blackfish.

5/11,12,13,14,15,16,17, 18,19,20, 21
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Better late than never. On the 11th we had Dan Tammaro and friends out for what started off as a good bite and quickly diminished with the weather, luckily the bas we caught were keepers. The 12th we did an afternoon with Tim sheekey and once we found the bass we had an excellent bite for the last 2 hours of the tide. The 13th saw excellent action with Tim occhipinti and his friends from NY, NY. They had there limit of fish to 25lbs. the 14th with Ryan Villardi was not quite as much of a mad dog bite but they got a bunch of nice fish to take home for the dinner table. The 15th we got out for a half day despite the heavy rain and wind with the Shamrock technologies group, the fish bit good on the incoming and that was it for the day, they had fish to about 15lbs. The 16th turned out to be a great day despite the rain with scott Hawthorne and the Kohler group. They were wet but they got there limit of nice keepers and were back in time for lunch. The 17th was Pete Longo SR, JR and there friends who caught there limit and had nonstop action on big bass to 20 plus pounds. The 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st was fished with George edwards and the customers of A&C Kitchens and Bath. After a tough day on Thursday the 18th with only 5 keepers Friday, Saturday and sunday were great with limit catches and good action overall. The 20th also saw good action in the afternoon with Rob Mueller and friends who caught there limit of all nice big fish and were back at the dock in time for dinner.

5/3rd,4th,5th,6th,7th,8th,10th/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
May 3rd in the afternoon we had Drew Kelly and his buddies out in the afternoon for a nice pick of bass with 9 keepers to 20lbs. May 4th Mike maguireand his group had a steady pick of bass with 8keepers to 18lbs. May 5th Ken Ekert and his buddies got together to celebrate cinco de mayo and do some fishing, they ended up with 6 keepers up to 25lbs. May 6th Walter Anuciewicz and his gang pulled off 5 keepers and many throwbacks despite the boat traffic. The afternoon trip with caesar roige and fellow doctors had a good bite of big bass and blues all evening up to 20lbs. May 7th John Maillard and his friends did a half day in the morning and produced a steady pick and 7 keepers to 38". May 8th Joe Fritzen and friends picked fish all morning and ended up with 6 keepers despite the wind against tide conditions and the stiff north east wind. May 10th, today we made it out and bagged our limit of stripers up to 36" for the dan Kratz party.

4/28/29/30/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We fished with Pete Longo and his party on Friday and had a steady pick of bass all day eventually limiting out on fish to about 18lbs. Jason Gaynor and his group fished Saturday and had a blitz of all big fish in the morning, the group quickly limited out and caught and released the rest of the day. Biggest fish 20 and 25lbs. The Kohler group fished with us Sunday and found fish to 20lbs and went home with there limit no problem. Capt. Nick

04/19/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Crew trip today produced 3 keeper bass from 29-31". We released at least another 50 fish many of which were former slot fish. Nice weather and good fishing.

04/17/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
We fished with Larry Milonas and his two boys today for Stripers. Many small fish and a handful of former slots came in the boat and we ended the morning with a 29" keeper. Not bad for being back at the dock by 11am. We still have some days still available in May and many afternoon dates for those of you that would be interested in a charter. phone # 732-547-5688, website, www.newjerseysportfishing.com .

04/15/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Fished with Eric Wertman and friends today from Minersville Pa. They managed a slow pick of flounder and Bass in the morning and after a move we boated 3 keeper bass of 30,32,35" and many throwbacks. good day.

04/11/06
Captain Nick Neuberg reports:
Had our first charter of the season with Steve grenckevich. We managed to boat 13 keeper flounder to 4lbs and released about 3 dozen stripers to 26", no big ones yet.




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