NJ fishing reports june 2017 www.stripersandanglers.com

[seamonkey]

Nice going guys. Cape may fishing has dried up for me other than the usual suspects trash fish. May take a ride further north closer to the weekend.

[williehookem]

Good job.

[J Barbosa]

Went out yesterday morning looking to repeat some of Saturdays magic. Overall a slow day and we had to work hard for every bite. We ended up the day with a 26#, 31#, and 35#.




We had an absolutely savage hit on a green & white Spoon Fed bunker spoon that peeled drag for a good minute or two before coming loose. We reeled in the line to find a mangled split ring and slightly deformed hook.




The first thing I did was check the drag setting and it was perfect...and before somebody comments that it was bottom...we were fishing this spoon 25ft under the surface in 65ft of water so definitely not the bottom!




I am at a loss for words on how this happened. The Spoon Fed spoons definitely use quality hardware (I use the exact same split rings in smaller sizes on all my lures and never had an issue).




I am guessing this was a thresher (hook never penetrated through the tough skin?) or a big bass that got hooked in a strange manner and somehow managed to apply leverage to the hook.




The highlight of the day was a 35# and 26# double header on the same rod (tandem mojos).




The third fish (31#) hit the all white spoon which has been red-hot for us this year.

[lostatsea]

Went out yesterday morning looking to repeat some of Saturdays magic. Overall a slow day and we had to work hard for every bite. We ended up the day with a 26#, 31#, and 35#.




We had an absolutely savage hit on a green & white Spoon Fed bunker spoon that peeled drag for a good minute or two before coming loose. We reeled in the line to find a mangled split ring and slightly deformed hook.




The first thing I did was check the drag setting and it was perfect...and before somebody comments that it was bottom...we were fishing this spoon 25ft under the surface in 65ft of water so definitely not the bottom!




I am at a loss for words on how this happened. The Spoon Fed spoons definitely use quality hardware (I use the exact same split rings in smaller sizes on all my lures and never had an issue).




I am guessing this was a thresher (hook never penetrated through the tough skin?) or a big bass that got hooked in a strange manner and somehow managed to apply leverage to the hook.




The highlight of the day was a 35# and 26# double header on the same rod (tandem mojos).

Nice going you sure do find some nice stripers. I was thinking the same thing the one that got away was maybe a shark. Do only threshers hit those spoons or do you think it could have been another type?

[lostatsea]

Fished 3-5pm mon afternoon near an inlet in oc. The bluefish action was pretty good on bucktails. When it died down I went further north and stopped at a bunch of jetties fishing the left side of each (what was left of them). Couldn't hook up with any fish to save my life despite the perfect white water. Finally packed it in at 9. Oh well.

[surferman]

Nice going. You could of had a monster shark.

[finchaser]

This morning 1/2 dozen 3 to 4 # blues finally spitting up bait

This afternoon on the incoming a 15# bass and a bunch of 10 to 12# blues all inside

[Monty]

This morning 1/2 dozen 3 to 4 # blues finally spitting up bait

This afternoon on the incoming a 15# bass and a bunch of 10 to 12# blues all inside

Nice report Fin, a good day fishing!!

[cowherder]

Awesome catches guys it's nice to see the action might be getting a little better.

[cowherder]

For myself, not so much. Went out last night and no Moco and skunked out. That's too bad because they talk about bass water and I was standing right in front of it, but no fish for me.

[finchaser]

7 blues to 12 pounds this morning on jig head and kettle creek tails

[J Barbosa]

Went out yesterday evening for an after-work trip. Left the dock at 6 pm and ran out front trying to catch the magic hour bite. Took a few minutes to find them and we didn't have much sunlight left but it was good fishing for an hour or so with bass to 38# until it got dark.


The main goal of the trip was to try and get a good overnight chunk bite going which hasn't been reliable so far this spring.


We setup and had to deal with small dogfish for about an hour and then finally started getting the bass bites. We put three more bass in the boat to 32# and missed two solid other hits within an hour window and then called it a night as it was getting late.


We harvested one bass to split between crew that was around 16-18#, the stomach contents are very intriguing. It had our bunker head, a chum chunk, bits of digested lobster, and what appears to be a bunch of conch without the shell.


Also, check out the bass with the busted lip. Looks like he has been caught twice before. Proof C&R works!


Another boat ended up beaching itself on the tip of Sandy Hook again last night. A 22' Grady White out of Staten Island - his conversation with the CG and the tow boat kept us entertained (he wasn't was hurt).