NJ Fishing Report 2023

SkunkBoat

SkunkBoat

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Finally in the water!

Got out Sunday (twice with different crews) for limits of Black Seabass at Sea Girt reef. 60 fish for the day, plus some red hake.

The wind won't stop...

Word is there are giant BFT at The Farms.
 

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Skunk, well done, LUV those Sea bass and I've heard the same about the Tuna. A friend of mine, say's he will be heading out this weekend.
ENJOY
G
 
Good job ,skunk. Yeah, wind has been brutal here also. Mostly SE, which is our worst wind. Sloppy in the gulf and the bays.

enjoy some fresh fish
 
Nice catch! Still alittle early here in NC but they are catching nice Mahi off shore and bottom feeders inshore. Going on vacation next week at the Outer Banks. Hope the weather will let up enough to let us catch a few fish.
 
Nice, skunk! Blowing here this morning. Gale warning until Saturday afternoon. We went to the Keys week before last. Never had such a hard time catching legal Mahi there before. Spent a lot of time and fuel for not many fish. Still, it was better than being at work. :beer:
 
Seabass are still filling the cooler along with ling(red hake).
Found some really nice seabass out at the Dave Moran (18 miles from Manasquan) but Sea Girt reef and Klondike rocks still have keeper fish.

I caught a HADDOCK in NJ! Delicious!

Dave Moran was covered up in sand eels. We saw two 50lb bluefin go airbourne. Sonar looked like they were shooting thru the sand eels but no takers...

inshore bluefin is about to pop.

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Purdy feesh!!!!!!!!!!!! Just a tad jealous. Nice double dropper rig, looks like you have a diamond jig on the bottom instead of a weight :beer:
 
Same here, the ones I tie look very similar. I use cheap 80lb mono in most cases, fishing in 80-100+ ft. I think I have mentioned it before here - my motto, 'y'all break em, I make em:haha:."
 
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Same here, the ones I tie look very similar. I use cheap 80lb mono in most cases, fishing in 80-100+ ft. I think I have mentioned it before here - my motto, 'y'all break em, I make em:haha:."
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I use 50 or 60. The loop fits thru the hook eye easier. 80 can be too thick for a 5/0 baitholder hook
 
Roger that. I can't remember what size hook I used bottom fishing but the eye is big enough for 80. Agree that smaller hooks this won't work.
 
Finally found yellowfin tuna 77 miles out. Then went to Hudson canyon for tilefish. Also got some 5 pound skipjacks on the light spinng rods.
Stopped at the Resor on the way in for our 4 seabass allowed. Wreck is covered in nice ones. We had 4 as soon as we hit bottom. All keeper size but we dropped a few more times and culled to get the bigger one's. 5 minutes of nonstop fish and we were done.
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Then when cleaning tuna at 930 next morning got the 2 biggest dock bass ever(31..ish:zip:) on tuna chunks. That bass was caught on a little penn spinner meant for crappie and sunnies.

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nice looking bunch of fish, Skunk. I've never had tilefish, heard they are delicious.

Glad you able to get out, almost too hot to fish down here.
 
Now, let me see if I read this right, you guy's caught Tile Fish, Yellow Fin, Skipjacks, Sea Bass and the next day just sitiing around at the dock, a Striper decided to take a hook, again just sitting around at the dock, I get it, I get it, you had a great two day's!!!! :beer: So what I'm trying to say is this, I'm FREAKIN' JEALOUS!!!! :clap:Never had Skipjacks before, I had Tile fish once and I thought it had a lobster taste to it, but what the hell do I know, I'm just a jealous guy. :nice:

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Enjoy & WELL DONE!!!!
G
 
Got out today for a nice easy fluking trip. Found best bite at Axel Reef SE corner in low rocks. Between three of us we got 6 keeper fluke to 6 pounds. and our three seabass

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