NJ fishing reports june 2017 www.stripersandanglers.com

[clamchucker]

Nice going gentlemen. Have been out of action for awhile, grandchildren duty. Will start fishing again this weekend.

[J Barbosa]

Yesterday we fished the SI Tuna Club's Armed Forces Invitational Striped Bass tournament.


We picked up the two Veterans assigned to our boat, Warren and Richard, from Great Kills and were released to go fishing around 8:15am.


We ran out front to where we have been catching consistently only to find that most of the bait has been pushed outside the 3 mile line where we can't legally fish and sucked the bass out with them (wind &/or full moon?)


We trolled the ocean side from Sandy Hook all the way to Deal without a tap and very few signs of life.


Around 2pm I made the choice to give up on trying to catch a big ocean bass and headed to one of our reliable back bay spots just to get these vets some bass and shake the skunk.


We had action right away but they were mostly smaller fish that kept hitting mojos but couldn't take them down.


The guys managed to pull two keeper bass out of the shorts which will give them some nice dinners.


Overall very tough fishing on this tournament day....39 boats and only 4 weigh-ins total.


Thank you to all the veterans out there who fought to keep us safe and to the SI tuna club for putting on a great event as usual.

[cowherder]

Nice job on the catching and the thing with the veterans. I hope that brings you some good mojo for the year, not that you need it LOL

[cowherder]

I fished nomoco last night on the incoming tide 7 to 9 p.m. Not much luck for me, some small fluke and blues. Seems like they were feeding on small bait in the surf maybe mole crabs.

[VSdreams]

Nice going on the stripers. Have to admire your persistence jb. Good job with the Vets they deserve our respect

[J Barbosa]

A 38# and 39# double header from yesterday evening caught casting a big spook and GRS (released).


Had to get within 100 yards of land and cast towards the beach for these. Don't worry we didn't mug any surf fisherman - they are all in the Cape Cod Canal chasing some kind of magical lunar tide.


Saturday we did a short, crew only fluke trip in the back of the bay and despite great drifting conditions the action was slow. Rui did manage his NY limit of 3 > 19"

[SharkHart]

They are at the Cape cod Canal because the charters drove the NJ June fishery into the ground even though we warned em. If you caught a 3rd fish you could have done the PR "released" photo

[J Barbosa]

They are at the Cape cod Canal because the charters drove the NJ June fishery into the ground even though we warned em. If you caught a 3rd fish you could have done the PR "released" photo

Lol, we had a 3rd fish last night. Can't grab a pic of everything when these micro "blitzes" now last 5-10 minutes at best...

Their CCC fishery sucks just as bad right now. Drive 4-5 hours North and you can count the number of fish caught on a multi-day trip with one hand. I rather take my chances driving 30 minutes to my backyard fishery that "sucks".

We can sit here and blame NJ charters for everything but during the good years the weigh in lists at the shops were going two pages long from surf guys when the bass pinned the bunker into the jetties but again only 30-50# class fish killed from the surf count.

The MA charter guys do just as much damage along with their commercial fisherman. The Montauk charter crew kills 30-50# bass almost daily all summer long of their rock piles and block island. We can't forget the southern guys who hammer these fish all winter long.

Overharvesting of fish is a community issue, not a boating issue. If the meat head surf guys were still catching they would still be killing.

IMO, this will be the new norm in bass fishing. With as much free info on techniques, locations, habits and migration patterns that are out there now these fish never stand a chance of making a come back because as soon as they start to recover they will get pounded all over again. The only positive is with crappy bass fishing is everyone has switched over to fluking since opening day. We were on prime grounds last night with only 6-8 other boats bass fishing around us.

[fishinmission78]

Don't worry we didn't mug any surf fisherman - they are all in the Cape Cod Canal chasing some kind of magical lunar tide.

Congrats for the bass you caught. You are right on the $$ with that comment. They're only at CCC because social media told them to go. Where would all the pro staff be today if they couldn't chase reports on FB?

[jigfreak]

Are there fish being caught and not posted on the book of faces? Oh the horror.