NJ fishing reports for Sept 2016

[fishinmission78]

Hitting up a few back bay spots on the incoming tide right before sundown. Picking up a few small striped bass and weaks with crystal minnows and 1/2 ounce bucktails.

[fishinmission78]

Bugs have been brutal, you need to time it when there is an onshore wind.

[clamchucker]

Thanks for the report, that's good to hear. They used to show up like clockwork every year in the beginning of August with the snappers.

[J Barbosa]

A little behind on reports so please forgive me if I get something mixed up:

Saturday 8/20 went fishing with Rick Hettenbach, Rui Goncalves and my dad. We landed 9 keeper fluke after weeding through the shorts and 7 keeper sea bass mixed in.

Sunday 8/21 with Dani Silva, Erik Gonzalez and his son. We rounded Sandy Hook and were greeted with massive swells. Looking out into the horizon it looked like swells weren't as bad so we went for it. Wasn't too bad on the anchor but 2/4 on board got seasick. We stuck it out until 1pm and had about 100 porgies with a few keeper sea bass mixed in. No picture as we had to beat the storms that were rolling in!

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[J Barbosa]

Canyon overnighter on 8/23 with brothers Elio and John Casqueira.


Fun trip releasing two white marlin and putting a 50-60# yellowfin in the box.

Thanks again for the invite guys!


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[porgy75]

Jb awesome job on the tuna fluke and porgies.
If I could ask what is the biggest porgy that you are getting out there this time of year? somehow I thought they only got big porgy's up at Montauk?

[porgy75]

nomoco from 6:30 to 8:30 yesterday around the high tide. Got a lot of short fluke and there are tons of snappers around.

[clamchucker]

Someone mentioned southern speedsters in a thread I was viewing here today. expect to see them any day now with the reports of the small dolphin. A friend was at Island beach before the weekend and hooked up with one of those small dolphin tossing a small diamond jig with red tail.

[J Barbosa]

Interesting night yesterday...suffered from a different type of "first cast curse".


Drove from work to surf fishing spot in traffic: 1hr 30 minutes.


Got a call from my mom that she was side swiped by a kid pulling out of a mall parking lot with his learners permit but she was okay.


Walk to fishing spot: 30 minutes over hot sand in 83F humid weather.


Tie on homemade bucktail and teaser: 3 minutes.


Open jar of Uncle Josh pork rind only to find it rotted away: UGH!


Taking the first cast with a brand new never before cast St. Croix Legend and having the top half break into three pieces and the tip section go flying into the water: ***!!!


30 minute walk of shame back to car and another 1hr 15 minute drive home all for a total 5 seconds of fishing. :(


Lessons learned...priceless


Next time test cast new rods at the field before wasting $40 in gas/tolls and four hours of time!


Called St. Croix - "superstar service" who took care of me right away. Now if only we can convince them to do a few quality control tests on $600 rods before they leave the factory we wouldn't hear about all these rods blowing up on the first few casts...still love my legends!


Will try and get my August surf bass tonight.
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[J Barbosa]

Still catching up on reports...this one is from Saturday 8/27/16.

Everyone onboard wanted to porgy fish so I complied! Started off slow at the first two drops just picking at them. Third stop was ridiculous drop and reel fishing where we finished off our 4 man limit of 200 by 10:30am. 4 porgies at a time because 3 at a time doesn't cut it for me!

Switched over to fluke and only found shorts. One last stop on the way back to the marina produced what felt like an endless supply of short fluke, 3 keepers and 2 nice sea bass on three long drifts.

Dolphin have invaded Raritan Bay tearing through the schools of peanut bunker.

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[baitstealer]

Wow that is a LOT of porgies! I was just posting about how things have slowed down, but I guess you don't have that problem LOL. Congrats on some great catches.

[hookedonbass]

X2, nice going jb.

[J Barbosa]

Scared off by the Herminie forecast like everyone else only to wake up to another beautiful crisp morning. Decided to go and do some pre-storm crabbing and bait scouting. I am glad the storm missed us as the potential for it to draw all the bait out of the back bays this time of year literally sucks!


Found a ton of peanut bunker all mixed sizes even after all the fish kills we have had but no signs of mullet in the usual places.
Crabbing was on fire filing a 5 gallon bucket in a few hours while being selective to throw any crabs under 5" back. We had a hard time keeping up with all the hand lines and I rushed over a slimy rock pile that caused me to fall. I scraped my hand up pretty badly which put an end to my day.

Looks like I won't be fishing for a week or two.

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[J Barbosa]

Fish kill: Striped Bass, White Perch, Peanut Bunker. Can anyone identify the type of shad?

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[J Barbosa]

Late report from Thursday:
Technically a September bass as it was caught and released after midnight.

Taped out at 29" and released to fight another day.
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[SharkHart]

Looks like a gizzard shad, a slow moving junk kinda shad

[finchaser]

What he^^^said

[hookedonbass]

Fished the back for 3 hrs. Peanut bunkers and small blues exploding everywhere. Nada for me. Too much bait.

[hookedonbass]

Scared off by the Herminie forecast like everyone else only to wake up to another beautiful crisp morning. Decided to go and do some pre-storm crabbing and bait scouting. I am glad the storm missed us as the potential for it to draw all the bait out of the back bays this time of year literally sucks!


Found a ton of peanut bunker all mixed sizes even after all the fish kills we have had but no signs of mullet in the usual places.
Crabbing was on fire filing a 5 gallon bucket in a few hours while being selective to throw any crabs under 5" back. We had a hard time keeping up with all the hand lines and I rushed over a slimy rock pile that caused me to fall. I scraped my hand up pretty badly which put an end to my day.

Looks like I won't be fishing for a week or two.

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OUCH! Had to hurt. Did you at least get stitches?

[jigfreak]

+3 on the gizzard shad

[jigfreak]

Fished the back for 3 hrs. Peanut bunkers and small blues exploding everywhere. Nada for me. Too much bait.
Yeah I been running into the same. Heading out now. Try the incoming with light bucktail or magD. I have been picking up a few small stripers and weakies this way. Nothing big so far all small. Fish the edges away from the blitz. Good luck.

[fishinmission78]

Scared off by the Herminie forecast like everyone else only to wake up to another beautiful crisp morning. Decided to go and do some pre-storm crabbing and bait scouting. I am glad the storm missed us as the potential for it to draw all the bait out of the back bays this time of year literally sucks!


Found a ton of peanut bunker all mixed sizes even after all the fish kills we have had but no signs of mullet in the usual places.
Crabbing was on fire filing a 5 gallon bucket in a few hours while being selective to throw any crabs under 5" back. We had a hard time keeping up with all the hand lines and I rushed over a slimy rock pile that caused me to fall. I scraped my hand up pretty badly which put an end to my day.

Looks like I won't be fishing for a week or two.

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Dude that is some nasty scrape. Feel better.

[fishinmission78]

Weakies up n down bb. Catch em up.

[cowherder]

You really seem to know the crab and fish hotspots JB. Take care of that hand, cuts look deep.

[cowherder]

Moco from 4-6 am. Tons of peanuts, a dozen small blues on poppers. Lots of fish busting out of reach, maybe albies?

[jigfreak]

Change of tide last night in the back. picked up a few weaks on light bucktails and fin-s. No more than a half ounce. You can find a lot of them on the bottom. Tuniods have arrived out front. May start targeting them in the next few weeks. Good luck gents.

[storminsteve]

Nice going thanks for the Intel. Fished nomo co from 5 till 7 wind at your back not that bad.
Only picked up few short fluke, like others have said there were some different fish busting out of range. Who knows if they were false albacores are not, I could not catch them. Will be back at it again this week. Maybe fishing a little further S.

[J Barbosa]

I should have taken some sunrise/sunset pictures over the weekend because I easily experienced the worst fishing ever on my boat. Around 16 hours logged over the span of two days and lots of fuel burned with very little to show for it.

If I told you how bad it was you probably wouldn't even believe me...

So my choices are now:...
A. Shrink wrap the boat for the year as it's due for yet another 100 hour service.
B. Service the boat and start targeting stripers even though I will probably surf fish most of the fall run anyway.
C. Take up inshore Albie fishing (no thanks!)
D. Learn how to play Golf

F#K you Hermine

Only good thing this storm did was bring the big bluefish back to NJ!

[cowherder]

Moco last night. Water looked very fishy with lots of small bait. Only saw small snappers and such, not much action at all. it was still a good night out, better than sitting on the couch. Come on fall run!

[storminsteve]

Glad you guys are catching or at least seeing some fish. I was out last night and it was so windy I give it a half hour and gave up. Better times ahead gents.

[jigfreak]

Got some albies and small blues yesterday. 1 on metal, two on the teaser. Blues hit the metal, and right before dark they were hitting pitting. OC

[SharkHart]

congrats on the albies.

I went for a midnight run, i found an unreal mind boggling amount of peanuts at high tide, once that tide shifted fish attacked, was too much bait I couuld really cast without going through so many, the water had black masses shifting in the moonlight with weakies racing through and going airborne at often. Every now and then id get a lucky weakie bite because they were so keyed on LIVE, fish to 19 inches, few blues and a nice fluke had me thinking about the slam but no bass. If i had my snag rigs it would been wayyyy better 20490204912049220493

[surferman]

Wow beautiful colors! Nice catches man thanks for sharing.

[hookset]

Moco in the back last night.lots of snappers on peanuts. Nothing of any size for me

[hookset]

shark heart thanks for reporting about the weak fish. Will be looking for them later this week.

[fishinmission78]

Few small Blues this morning. Didn't have a lot of time before work, only 45 minutes. Saw a bunch of false albacore crashing bait, they were just out of reach.

[J Barbosa]

I had the pleasure of taking an overnight trip on SALT TRIBE. Tuna fishing in our canyons is almost non existent right now and as sort of expected we did not find any.

We made the best of the hand we were dealt landing a big wahoo, small sword and a really nice white marlin.

Blue sharks and a hammerhead swimming in our lights all night (luckily there was no tuna around so they weren't really too much of a nuisance - ironic lol?)
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[seamonkey]

Nice going guys.

[fishrich]

Two of us fished OC 11:30 am to 7:30pm. Tried for fluke and bluefish and caught no fluke and only two blues. Made a move to a deep cut at 5:30 and each put out a bait pole with mullet and ended up catching 25 small blues till they quit biting at 7:30. Only saw a few patches of mullet the entire day.

[fishrich]

Three of us fished OC 11am to 7pm. Had 20 small blues and 1 keeper fluke. All fish were caught on mullet and on the outgoing tide. No bait seen all day. Ocean was unsettled with a large wave breaking over the outer bar at high tide.

[jigfreak]

Good effort gents. Went to fish the surf in Oc this weekend, nada. Went to the back, still a lot of spike weaks and micro bass around. Rubber

[jigfreak]

Will be seeking albies this week. Good luck.

[finchaser]

Albies in the inlet right now

[basshunter]

thanks for posting that. I was in Moco from 3:30 to 5:30 and the surf was rough. I saw a few blues breaking far out but that was it. Lots of bait around, I did not see a lot of fish. May have to change gears for those albacore. Thank you sir.

[fishjay]

fished alone on sunday for a short time 4-6pm. caught 4 small blues on mullet.

went back this morning from 10 -2. no fish but a lot of mullet was going by.

did see a fellow battle a 10-12 foot swhark for about an hour, got tired of watching and left.

[SharkHart]

It was just too far for me to risk heading into Saturdays hard NE and it turned out that was the day, I gave sunday ago and they just didnt really come into range, just a few straglers 20495

[seamonkey]

nice bird action!
Fished twice in the last week in Cape May. Got skunked the first time, the second time got to small weak fish on a bucktail n pink finS.

[hookedonbass]

don't feel bad I had a similar experience. I was in moco this morning and the mother lode of mullet was going by me! It looked like a mass Exodus from one of the Middle Eastern countries. I managed a few snapper blues with ava jigs, but nothing really big.
I did see some bigger explosions, but they were so far out there was no point in even trying. Albacore or bluefish im not sure. None for me though. Back again later in the week.

[hookedonbass]

Love that bird play pic sharkhart thanks for sharing. Come on fall run it's about time!:dribble:

[cowherder]

Albies in the inlet right now
Thank you sir. been out a few times, only the small snappers and cocktails that everyone else is catching. Where are the stripers??

[fishrich]

Three of us fished OC 12pm - 8pm. Nothing happening till 5pm. Caught over 30 small blues, all on mullet. Saw some nice patches of mullet with a few blues busting through them, but unable to get a hit on metal or a plug.

[J Barbosa]

Had a fun couple of days chasing albies and porgies in NJ & MTK! Needless to say MTK has some giant porgies. I spent some time jigging up two dozen large ones! If I am lucky I might see one of those per trip when fishing in NJ.

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[jigfreak]

nice work jb. One of those pics looks like the backside of Montauk, were you over by the harbor?

[jigfreak]

played hookie yesterday and went in search of Albie's in NNJ.
It was a perfect day for them. a little crowded as well but not that bad in the morning. It was mad dog activity between 7 and 9 a.m. . then I took a break, got some food and some different teasers.
came back with the afternoon bite. Seems word got out and it was way more crowded. Still a great day I managed to land and quick release over a dozen to 9#.
Be quick releasing these, gents. I saw a bunch of ***-hattery. Keeping them out of the water for 2 minutes? they are really going to be dead when you put them back. Hope they are still here after the storm.

[buckethead]

Very nice job. Have seen them in front of me a few times last 2 weeks. Just moving too quickly to pin down. Sounds like you had a great day, well done.

[buckethead]

Caught a few more stripers this week, incoming in the AM, buck and pork. Went today and it was unfishable.

[cowherder]

Awesome, jig. You put in your time great job!
Bh thanks for the surf report

[fishinmission78]

Three of us fished OC 12pm - 8pm. Nothing happening till 5pm. Caught over 30 small blues, all on mullet. Saw some nice patches of mullet with a few blues busting through them, but unable to get a hit on metal or a plug.

Same for me, lots of small blues on mullet rigs. The mullet run is in full effect. Hope they are not all gone when this blows over.

[fishinmission78]

JB good going. One of these days you should hire yourself out as a fishing guide. You catch a lot more fish than some of the internet famous captains out there.

[fishinmission78]

It was just too far for me to risk heading into Saturdays hard NE and it turned out that was the day, I gave sunday ago and they just didnt really come into range, just a few straglers 20495
beautiful sight to see.

[fishinmission78]

I agree with bucket. I was out l this morning to take a look and it's really not that fishable in the front. Time to spend some time in the back.