NJ fishing reports june 2017 www.stripersandanglers.com

[J Barbosa]

We fished Wednesday afternoon trying to target large ocean stripers but couldn't find any willing to cooperate. We covered a lot of water and only had one bass blow up on a live lined bunker near the boat.




Setup on the chunk after dark and the dogfish kept us busy. We landed two bass around the 32-34" range (both released) and missed/dropped at least two more.




Thanks for the bunker Jim!

[bababooey]

Cool report. Great job on the bunker transfer, love that pic.

[ledhead36]

Love the last photo too JB. Would make a great screen saver. Nice job on the catching too.

[ledhead36]

Me and the crew are still fishing the lower hudson. It has its moments. Overall it has slowed down a lot. Not a great year for the hudson in terms of quantity. Wish the bunker would have stayed and it might have been different.

[finchaser]

Me and the crew are still fishing the lower hudson. It has its moments. Overall it has slowed down a lot. Not a great year for the hudson in terms of quantity. Wish the bunker would have stayed and it might have been different.

Quantity days are over this time maybe for ever thanks to the bunkers

[J Barbosa]

Wanted to do a meat trip before sea bass season closed.


Left the dock Saturday morning around 2am and chunked until 5:30am. Slow pick of bass from 31" to 45".


We caught another deformed bass, this one missing most of its gill plate and still put up a great fight.


Pickup up anchor and made the run to the sea bass grounds in the swells & fog.


We got our sea bass limit on jigs and ran back to the dock before the rain storms moved through.


Had a thresher steal one of our sea bass right next to the boat...had him hooked for a minute until he cut through the line.


Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

[cowherder]

Jb awesome report. Unusual catch. Never saw a striper that was that badly damaged and was still alive. Especially in the Gill plate.

[cowherder]

Quantity days are over this time maybe for ever thanks to the bunkers

I think you're right. They saved the bunker but not the stripers. And that beach replenishment just put the nail in the coffin.

[hookedonbass]

Thats an eerie photo of that bass. Worse than a fluke without a tail. Amazing that it survived so long.

[finchaser]

Gave it a shot from 4 to 6am today had 5 bass to 27" all on jig head and rubber tail