2007 Fishing Reports

12/15/07: We were out today with Lee Schimmel, JD Langlois, and Pete Andersen.  We headed straight out of he inlet on our way to a favorite wreck for blackfish, when I had to stop the boat.  My fishfinder showed tons of fish and bait in 50' of water.  We stopped and had bass almost imediately, but all were shorts.  We had to call it an early day due to the heavy seas, but we ended up with 12 bass in 41 degree water.  I should get a few more trips in before my boat comes out so call to book your trip now.  Capt. John

12/8/07: I did another open boat striper trip today with Scott Armstrong, Edward Maciejeuski, Bill Vandergrift, Haig Panossian, and Peter Andersen.  All of which were from PA.  We headed back to where we were last week and found some birds and some fish marks around Harvey Cedars, but not like it was the week before.  So we worked our way back up north to Island Beach State park area.  We jigged up a keeper immediately and then a short, but then the action died.  We also jigged a winter flounder, so that makes three flounder in three weeks.  At leats this one was not lost like the summer ones from the past two weeks.  We eventually went trolling and got another keeper.  All in all a tough day.  We ended up with 2 keepers out of 3 bass total.  Biggest bass was 30".  This Sat we will be doing a combination Tog and Striper trip.  It will be an open boat trip and I still have a few spots left.  Call if interested.  Capt. John


12/1/07: Today we had an open boat trip with great results.  Out with us today were, Roberto Weinman, Chria and Eric Jud, Anton Dodel, and father and son team of Mike & Chris Bodner.  We had a pick of bass and blues all morning in some very stiff winds.  By the afternoon we were in 55' of water off of Harvey Cedars in 46 degree water.  The action just exploded as bass and blues were coming over the rails at a steady pace.  There were fish and birds all over!  Check out the picture of my fish finder, just loaded with fish and bait.  We even landed another fluke of 19" just like we did last week jigging, which was realeased due to the season being closed.  We stayed a little longer than planned and still the fish were all over.  No one was near us by the end of the day as we had these fish all to ourselves!  We caught 22 Bass and about double that in blues. We finished the day with the biggest bass at 34"   We will be fishing until there isnt any more fish to catch.  Book your trip now to get into this action.  Capt. John


11/24/07: We had a good report from yesterday, so we headed to the same spot.  We left promptly at 7 AM with Mike Hetrick and is fishing and hunting buddies from Reading, PA.  We arrived on the Harvey Cedars Lump to tons of birds and fish.  We caught bass and blues consistantly.  We even landed a 20" fluke that we had to release due to the closed season.  When the action slowed a bit, we heard of fish being caught 12 miles to he north off of Island Beach State Park in 60' of water.  Again more bass and blues all over.  The strangest thin of the day was a robin landed on our boat in the morning and hung out with us all day, even when we ran from Harvey Cedars to Island Beach State Park.  He seemed very comfortble just being on board and then he flew away later in the day.  We ended the day with 25 stripers of which 3 were keepers, 10 jumbo blues, and one fluke.  The blues and fluke were released.

11/17/07: I was out with two neighbors, Tommy Cormann and John Tomko and nine year old Jake Post.  We got a call about non stop fishing to our north, so thats where we headed.  When we arrived, we were into bass and blues.  They spanned about a 5 mile range with fish busting the surface and birds working on top.  We jigged them consistantly all morning.  The bass were 20" - 25" and blues were about 4 lbs.  We left that action to look for bigger fish in deeper water (60') to troll up more bass in the same size class.  The only difference was that the blues were all jumbos with the biggest being 16 lbs.  What a day!  There is still plenty of fish to our north, so book your trip now for some of the best fishing around.  Capt John

11/11/07: Today we were out with Ron Smith from Camden, NJ.   We  caught 10 bass and about 20 blues.  The biggest bass was about 15Lbs.  Today the bass were responding to trolled bunker spoons and umbrealla rigs.  No real huge fish, but all were keeper size or just under.

10/30/07: A repeat of yesterday.  We caught bass and blues all day long.  14 Bass up to 25 LBS for the Robinson crew of Toms River, NJ.  The fish are very hungry feeding on bunker schools.  Come book your trip now!  Also, I am getting good reports about wreck fishing as well.