NJ fishing reports june 2017 www.stripersandanglers.com

[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

[cowherder]

Nice. Tried moco last night. Water was a lil dirty. Skunk was served.

[bababooey]

Good going.

[storminsteve]

nice still catching stripers! jb and fc you guys are like fishing machines! I fished moco last night on the dropping tide. Perfect conditions, great water. All cleaned up from the rains. Just a few small blues. Bucktail and pork. Seemed like they were on the bottom hunting for food. Maybe all the mole crabs in the wash had something to do with that.

[J Barbosa]

Turns out were a lot better at throwing the cast net than we are at finding Mr. Mako.




Had a cooler full of bunker with some freshwater species mixed in white perch, crappie, bluegill, sunnies, blue claws (obviously released). Heavy rain from Wednesday must have blown them out...




In retrospect, wish we had pushed out farther once seas settled down. #CaptainHindsight




Gotta post the good with the bad!

[seamonkey]

^^^^ Very cool marine life cornucopia you got in that net haul. What are those small fish bottom left corner? Look a little like lafeyettes/spot?

[seamonkey]

Fished cape may last night 8-11pm. Outgoing tide perfect conditions. Had clam on one pole and was plugging with the other. Only got dogs and skates. Water did seem a little colder and dirty. so maybe some of the other fish moved out into cleaner water. Whatever, still beats sitting on the couch.

[finchaser]

Fished cape may last night 8-11pm. Outgoing tide perfect conditions. Had clam on one pole and was plugging with the other. Only got dogs and skates. Water did seem a little colder and dirty. so maybe some of the other fish moved out into cleaner water. Whatever, still beats sitting on the couch.

South winds = cold dirty water and trash fish

[surferman]

^^^^ Exact a mundo! Wind from the south, fish shut their mouths.

[seamonkey]

Yeah true Would rather be fishing then sitting my a** on the couch tho. We go when we can. The bright spot is that some kings and weaks are around. Maybe croakers will show up too. Thanks for the advice I'll keep trying.

[cowherder]

Gave it a try in nomoco last night from 7-9. Incoming tide and it looked pretty promising. Lots of little bait in the wash. Tossed a bucktail. Kept getting small hits and no hookups so went with a ava007. The small hits might have been robins or small sea bass. Finally managed a few undersized fluke and robins, all went back. Good luck to everyone this weekend fishing, if you dare with the crowds.

[J Barbosa]

Getting the NJ porgy season started right. We kept roughly 100 of the biggest ones to split between four of us...letting the smaller ones live to fight another day. Only had a handful that would have been short with most easily being over 10".


The fluking in Raritan Bay remains a struggle not that we have been giving it much effort.


Crabbing is pretty good right now too.