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Met at the boat at 7:00am, Capt Johnny B and Jim. Put the life raft
back up and still had a few other things to straighten out. Underway by
9:00 am shot for a wreck 25 miles out. Picked up 3 keeper sea bass and
1 27" cod "nice". Had a bunch of throw back sea bass, and black fish,
few spiny dogs, and about 100 bergals, WOW pain in the ass. Moved
around on the wreck for a few hours more throw backs then bite turned
off. Water temp was 51 degrees. Decided to hit another wreck about 18
miles off, picked up a 21" ling "nice" 20" sea bass, and about 8 more
keepers. Still a bunch of throw back sea bass, black fish, pain in the
ass dogs, and probable another 100 or so bergals. Jim caught a nice
piece of the wreck must of set the emergency break on his reel,
overboard rod and reel. About 20 minutes later in 120' foot of water
Capt. Johnny B reels up with line wrapped around his rig so we start
handling, up comes Jim’s rod and reel with of course a bergal on his
hook. All in all great day out, a lot of action some quality fish for
the box, and got to run the boat out for the start of the season.
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Striper Fishing off Beach Haven
Hi Guys
Today we had a full boat! Captains Mike, Joe, and John along with Joes
friend Bob, and Nick, HotRod and myself. We loaded up and headed out
around 7am and the plan was to head to a good Sea Bass spot. 
Well, there was birds all over in numbers we've not seen in years and
it was to hard to resist!! We had Bluefish coming in like mad and Bob
scored the only Striper! What a relief to get the first Fall Striper on
the boat...Great job Bob
With the Striper on board it was all we could think of so we made a few moves but nobody home.
Ended up a little to late to get back to the original plan so we
stopped at a wreck on Little Egg Reef but nobody around but the dogs
and a few nice Porgie.
I must say it was nice fishing in cold temps again. And it was great to have Captain Joe and Bob down our area.
We must do it again, Thanks guys
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Today Capt. John and I met up with Capt. Mike at the
boat at 6:30am. The plan was to hit the bricks inside the Bay then head
out 14 miles to throw bait at the Lobster pots for Mahi then Anchor on
a wreck for Sea Bass then again hit the Pots on our way in.
The Bricks produced 3 nice Weakies and ALOT of small Sea Bass.
Water Temps at the pots was around 69 degrees and we hoped for the
best. Several pots produced no fish. Mike was using butter chunks, John
used live Nutz and I tied on a Yozuri lure. I had just given up when
John spotted a HUGE Bull come to the Boat. I grabbed my Rod and we all
took a shot at him, he grabbed my lure and ran with the lure like
nothing i've ever seen!!! He ran right for the pot and wrapped the line
around the rope, a few moments later my 20# test snapped and it was
over. 2 weeks in a row I lost a Mahi.
Off to the wreck
We anchored up on a large wreck and pulled Sea Bass up all day long!
many keepers and many shorts. Also 7 Fluke were brought up and every
one of them were foul hooked I can see one or 2 but 7!!! 5 of the Fluke
were big enough for the box...Stupid regs.
Off to the pots again on the way in but nobody home. Gonna have to wait until next season.
Almost forgot, John brought up 2 Huge Atlantic Triggers.
Pics to come once John has them loaded.
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Today Capt. John, Jim, and I met Capt. Mike at the boat around 6:30am
and loaded reel Time up for the day with our gear and headed out for
Sea Bass. On our way to the wreck we found some birds but not alot of
diving. We marked fish but no takers so we headed for the wreck.
Wind and rough seas made it tough for the anchor to stick but we
finally got it and throughout the day we pulled anchor line and picked
away at the wreck. Total for the day was 38 keeper Sea Bass and 8
keeper Porgie! Capt. John on 2 occasions pulled up Sea Bass heads and
Jim had one head...The Blues moved in, I threw a Diamond Jig and pulled
up a nice Blue and then a keeper Sea Bass from way out behind the boat
on the jig. Capt. Mike put a Butterfly Jig on and pulled up a short, we
could not believe the little fish hit such a big Jig.
Another great day on the water with great friends
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Great day today!! Capt. Mike, Capt. John and I met up at the boat at
7AM and headed for the outside. The Bay (as Capt. Dave pointed out) has
alot of sand that drifted, making old waypoints just about useles so
with caution we made our way and reading as low as 2' of water under
the boat in certain areas. The Inlet was a mess! Once we got there we
were greeted with 5'-8' swells but once through that the Ocean was flat.
We got to the first wreck about 8 miles out and dropped Anchor right on
the sweet spot. My first drop brought up 2 Sea bass and it was like
fishing in a barrel until the Dogs came so we made an adjustment and
were back on fish. We had over 100 Sea Bass brought up and ended up
with 23 keepers, as well 20 or so Blackfish but only one keeper but
soooo many were so close being a half inch shy of the mark.
Capt. Mike brought up 2 bonus fish- a Pollack and a FLUKE!!! and Capt.
John had a hell of a time bringing up a large Eel on one hook and a
13.5" Blackfish on the other, Both fish had him hung up in the wreck a
bit but he managed to pull them out and bring them up.
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