<b>Staten Island</b>

Blackfishing turned out okay catches when trips could get out between weather, said Capt. Anthony from <b>Barbara Anne Fishing Charters</b>. Six trips in a row had to be cancelled because of weather, but an alright catch of the slipperies to 10 pounds was clocked on a trip Sunday. Don’t have enough angles for a full charter? Call Anthony anyway, because he can usually arrange individual spaces. Room is available for individuals and charters this week. Barbara Anne pays bridge tolls with a receipt.

Tog fishing was a little tough on a trip Sunday, and the morning’s weather and seas were nasty, but the boat eventually limited out on the blackfish to 8 pounds, said Capt. Rob from <b>Outcast Charters</b>. Maybe the full moon was a reason, or maybe the bottom was stirred up, but that was impossible to know. Currents roared, and 15-ounce weights barely held bottom. Lots of pieces had to be fished, and many served up no bites. A load of working birds with bait and striped bass underneath were seen on the way out, and Outcast will often stop on stripers on the way out or back from blackfish trips, if the anglers want. But this trip was determined to fish for tog. On Friday guest star <b><i>Amani Toomer from the New York Giants</i></b> joined a blackfish trip for Operation Homefront for military personnel. He and the anglers limited out on the tog to 8 pounds and waffled a healthy catch of sea bass. Toomer was the first to drop his bait to the bottom, and bang! He hooked up, and the rest of the anglers followed, hooking up right beside him. Rob and his brother, Capt. Joe, thank the country’s military for the freedom they give the nation every day, allowing Americans to enjoy each day free of fear. The trip was a great feeling for Rob and Joe, watching the smiles on the faces when the fish were coming over the rails, trying to give the anglers a day free of worries themselves. Rob and Joe look forward to seeing them on another trip later in the month, before they return to Afghanistan. Rob and Joe also thank Amani Toomer and John Ponty from Operation Homefront. 

<b>Keyport</b>

An open-boat trip with the John Kungl and Mark Machtemes group bagged one striped bass just larger than 28 inches on Sunday with <b>Papa’s Angels Charters</b>. Matthew Machtemes Jr., 12, nabbed the fish, and the group dunked clams and livelined eels. They fished in the ocean a few hours in the morning and then in the bay on a couple of drops, and the bass came from the ocean. All had a good time, Joe said, and daily, open-boat trips will sail for stripers through Friday when no charter is booked. A charter is slated for Saturday, and the marina afterward will require the boat to be pulled from the waters for dredging, something that is happening with many boats in the area this year. So Joe will call it a season afterward. Get out on a trip while still possible.

Large numbers of striped bass kept moving into the bay, said Chris from <b>Crabby’s Bait & Tackle</b> in a fax. Lots of bait remained in the bay, and the bass were all over them, and reports rolled in every day about birds working the waters just off Keyport and Union Beach. Jigging a bucktail or a Bomber Slab Spoon will get anglers the fish. Jerry Watcher and crew followed the birds around, picking up six bass to 21.3 pounds on Slab Spoons, losing a big bass because the gang had three on at the same time. But around the 11 can at Sandy Hook Channel was the place to swim live eels for stripers. Garry and Gina Amato there bailed red-hot action on 15 bass around 15 pounds apiece and a 27-pounder that Gina caught, all on eels. Beach anglers also got in on the catches. Sean Basilone fished the beach from Atlantic Highlands, stopping by the shop with a 13-pounder he hooked on a jig. Russel Webster fished at the Keyport Pier, coming to the shop with a 17-pound bass that Hoovered his chunk of fresh bunker on incoming tide. Randy Mangone plied the surf at Cliffwood Beach, drilling two 29- and 19-pound stripers on fresh clams on the top of the tide. He also landed a 29-pound drum that pulled the rod out of the sand spike, but he beached the fish. Bottom fishing was on fire at Sandy Hook Reef and the rock piles, and lots of large blackfish were out there, and large sea bass held in the same area. Let’s hope the blackfish stick around for when the bag limit is yanked up to six of the fish on November 16 from the current limit of one, Chris said. Fresh bunker is stocked.

<b>Atlantic Highlands</b>

After being docked Tuesday to Thursday during weather, daily bottom-fishing trips sailed Friday through Sunday on the <b>Atlantic Star</b>, Capt. Tom said. Friday gave up a decent catch, mostly porgies, many big ones, some real beauties. Saturday’s fishing turned up a pick in nasty weather with winds and lumpy seas, and all the anglers caught, but not as much as before. But the weather settled on Sunday, and fishing was good. All passengers bucketed big porgies, and a few sea bass were rounded up. Those who worked for blackfish pumped up a few keepers and shorts. All in all a good day, Tom said. Today’s forecast looked rough, but the weather looked like it would straighten out Tuesday. The Atlantic Star is bottom fishing 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily. The trips will switch to blackfish when the bag limit increases to six of the tog on November 16.

Got to love nor’easters! said Capt. Ron from the <b>Fishermen</b> in an e-mail today. Many limits of striped bass and more were creamed around the boat today, and Mitch Jevic slammed 15 of the fish, including three sizeable keepers, including the 16-pound pool-winner. Big Bob G. or “Dock Builder” also boated three. Bird life was incredible in the morning, and seas were too nasty to jig among them, but jigging was unnecessary, because clams caught all the fish the anglers needed. A pick of the stripers began the day at the beginning of outgoing tide. When the currents picked up, and seas built, the boat was moved. A load of stripers were read, and the vessel was anchored, and the engines were barely shut down when seven stripers were immediately hooked. The fishing was non-stop the rest of the day. On Sunday some quality keepers to the 17-pound pool-winner and more shorts than Ron had seen in a while bit on a perfect fall day that spared anglers from getting knocked around in seas for a change. Not super hot fishing, but enough to keep it interesting, he said. On Saturday southerly winds and stiff seas were brutal, and the high hook clubbed five bass: three keepers and two shorts. A couple of others bagged two keepers, and many had none. “Tough day to say the least,” Ron said. But Friday was another great day. Several anglers limited out and caught more from shorts to the 17-pound pool-winner. Lou Ciavatti, 85, Union City, mugged that fish, taking the lead in the season-long pool. He waxed a 21-3/4-pounder during the previous week, before the pool began. There was a lull on Friday’s trip at mid day at slack low tide, but catches picked right back up when the flood began. The Fishermen is sailing for striped bass 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily. However, the boat is chartered Tuesday.

<b>Highlands</b>

<b>Sandy Hook Fishing Adventures</b> consistently put striped bass in the boat for anglers on daytime and evening trips, Capt. Bob said in an e-mail. The Higbee charter eeled the stripers to 35 inches, and the Smart charter worked but caught the fish: clamming, jigging and trolling, doing whatever it took. A gang from Bucks County clammed a limit of the linesiders to 35 inches, and the high hook nailed seven, bagging three with a bonus tag, releasing four more. Another couple of anglers drilled their first-ever stripers on a trip. Both daytime and evening trips are sailing for stripers, fishing for them with clams, jigs, eels and on the troll, depending on what works at the time. Trips will continue until the first week of December, and good dates remain.

Phenomenal fishing for striped bass was happening, and a trip Sunday scored a good day on the ocean off Sandy Hook, a short ride, said Capt. Brian from <b>Jersey Devil Charters</b>. The anglers probably landed more than 25 bass including a half-dozen keepers to 18 pounds. Probably 25 blues, some big, most small, were also fought. The fish were all trolled on rigs with tubes, because they fed on sand eels. But jigs would’ve worked. Reports were heard about bluefin tuna, bigger ones, beaten Sunday on the inshore ocean, and if anyone wants to take a last shot at them for the season, Brian will go. Jersey Devil was fishing for bluefins before switching mostly to striped bass.

Fishing for striped bass put out very good catches, and a trip Sunday limited out on the bass to 14 pounds, more or less on the ocean, said Capt. Derek from <b>Fisher Price Charters</b>. Probably 40 of the fish were landed total, and only the boat’s limit was kept, and the rest were released. The stripers were clammed and trolled, and a few blues were trolled, but Derek tried to avoid blues. An open-boat trip will sail for stripers Tuesday, and more open trips will probably run for them Thursday through Sunday. Call Derek to be kept informed of open-boat dates. Derek did no surf fishing since Friday but previously beached bass and blues from the bay to the ocean around Sandy Hook, talked about in the last report. Trips will begin to sail for tog, either exclusively or on striper/tog combos, when the bag limit jumps to six of the blackfish on November 16 from the current limit of one.

<b>Neptune</b>

On the two boats from <b>Last Lady Fishing Charters</b> two trips clobbered striped bass, very good catches, on Saturday and Sunday on the ocean, Capt. Ralph said. Not a lot were big, but lots of the fish were hung, mostly on jigs and on the troll.  Anglers should act fast if they want to sail on individual-reservation striper trips Wednesday and Sunday. A few spaces remained. Individual-reservation blackfish trips will fish November 16, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 29, every Saturday and Sunday during the month and New Year’s Eve day. November 16 is when the bag limit hikes to six of the tog from the current limit of one. More individual-reservation blackfish trips will be added if people call with a few anglers, because Ralph can fill in the spaces.

<b>Brielle</b>

The weather kept boaters from sailing, but surf fishing piled up lots of striped bass both north and south, said Dave from <b>The Reel Seat</b>. The fish last week were hooked on metal, because of winds. But in calmer weather Sunday surf anglers hooked up on plugs and soft-plastic baits. Customers smelled like fish Sunday morning, bailing lots of catches at first light. Location didn’t seem to matter, and they connected at Spring Lake, Sea Girt and Manasquan. No customers mentioned fishing farther south.  Fluke still bit in the wash, believe it or not. Boaters trolled and jigged striped bass in the ocean toward the end of the week, when they could sail, mostly to the south from Bay Head to Seaside. Umbrella rigs worked best, but bunker spoons sometimes did the job. Customers bottom fished on Friday, scoring okay catches of sea bass and blackfish, nothing fantastic. Not much was heard about porgies from the bottom trips, and porgies probably get spooked in the weather, but that fishing should rebound when things settle. The only news about tuna came from party boats that docked yellowfins and sometimes longfins from the canyons at mid week. Nobody talked about looking for bluefin tuna closer to shore, but that didn’tt mean the fish weren’t there.  In the Manasquan River stripers and hickory shad were angled up. The bass were hooked on plugs or shad bodies on leadheads, and the shad were fought on Ava 007 jigs, small jigheads with grub tails and Sabiki rigs. Blackfish could probably still get caught at the Point Pleasant Canal.

The <b>Big Kid</b> was last able to sail on Wednesday, because of the weather, and the trip limited out on striped bass, none huge but a limit, shellacked a ton of sea bass and limited out on blackfish, Capt. Ken said. The stripers were trolled on Tony Maja’s Custom Bunker Spoons, while the rods were held in Maja’s E-Z Outrodders. The E-Z Outrodders feature a unique hinge, allowing the rod to be lifted in the upright position to remove the pole after hook up. Ken discovered that the hinge also allows the fish to be fought while the rod remains in the holder in the upright position, an added bonus. The Big Kid recently joined Maja’s Pro Staff. If blackfishing remains as good as it’s been, Ken is looking forward to the bag limit increasing to six of the tog on November 16 from the current limit of one. Should be an excellent season, and book tog trips while space remains, because it was filling up. Trips Thursday through Sunday are booked to fish mainly for stripers but sometimes a combo of stripers and sea bass.

<b>Point Pleasant</b>

With <b>Reel Class Charters</b> trips were weathered out once again during the weekend, Capt. Allen said in an e-mail. But he’s been picking away at striped bass 24 to 30 inches in the surf from Brick Beach to Seaside Heights on tins and metal. Trips on the vessel are fishing for stripers and blues on the ocean on charters and open-boat trips, and see Reel Class’s Web site for availability on the open trips.

All bluefish, but plenty of them, were hammered Sunday on the <b>Cock Robin</b>, an e-mail from the boat said. One angler, a newbie at fishing, crushed blues to 10 pounds on a yellow-tailed Ava 47 jig all day long, “as if he had been fishing for 25 years!” the e-mail said. No striped bass showed up, but the crew is searching for them daily, waiting for a good push to come down from up north. Stripers were sometimes landed on Saturday’s trip, and blues were more numerous among the catch. On Friday a 30-inch striper was nailed. On that trip, the boat at first fished at the “usual unorganized bird life typical of this time of year,” the e-mail said. The vessel was drifted several times at readings of fish and bait with limited success on small blues. So the trip moved north, and a better pick of blues began.  Trips are fishing from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily, and special striper trips will be announced soon that will depart earlier. Customers on Thursday trips can help donate fish to Joan Valentine House, providing meals to people. Customers every day can donate food and non-perishables that the crew is collecting for St. Gregory’s Pantry in Point Pleasant. Captain Jim’s Camp Cock Robin for kids, limited to 12 anglers, featuring a dedicated mate for the youngsters, is under way every holiday, including Thursday and Friday, because of the teachers’ convention.

<b>Seaside</b>

Ten-ounce weights were needed to hold bottom in the surf for a while today, but the effort produced catches, said the report on <b>Grumpy’s Tackle</b>’s Web site. Ten striped bass 8 to 9 pounds and four blues the same size were weighed in, and the bigger bass mouthed clams and bunker, but smaller ones, and more of them, bit artificials. The blues were taken on bunker, mullet and herring. Mondays are usually a quiet day on the beach, but a good turnout showed up. The fishing was even better on Sunday, was very good, the report said, and more bass than on Monday, including two that weighed 19 and 28 pounds, and the rest that were 8 to 10 pounds, were checked in. So were several blues. Saturday served up decent surf angling, and the fishing took more work in the previous couple of days, as waters cleaned up after rough seas, and metal with teasers grabbed more strikes then. <a href="http://www.grumpystackle.com/fishingreports/" target="_blank"> Click here</a> for updates.

<b>Barnegat Light</b>

Striped bass dominated catches when the fish and weather cooperated, said Capt. Steve from <b>Reel Fantasea Charters</b> in an e-mail. An open-boat trip sailed Thursday with Dave Davis, Peg Glenze and Bucky Hayes, picking away at eight stripers. Stiff northeast winds greeted the anglers, forcing them to fish in the Barnegat Bay and Barnegat Inlet area. Dave walloped the biggest, a 35-incher, and Peg was high hook, totaling four, releasing all, including some larger than the 28-inch size limit.  Dave reeled in his first-ever keeper, a 33-incher. Chris Spring hopped aboard the season’s first Friday Night at the Fights Trip, duking it out with 11 stripers to 35 inches, mostly larger than 28 inches. He limited out within minutes, playing catch and release with the rest of the bass, on  bait and artificials. On Sunday the Dave Rowan party got off to a quick start, with Dave icing a keeper on his first cast. So hopes were high, but only a few blues were wrestled in during the rest of the trip. November 8, 12 and 15 are the last available dates this month for open-boat trips or charters. One to two spaces remain on open-boat Friday Night at the Fights Trips this week and the next two weeks. Call or e-mail Steve to claim.

<b>Barnegat</b>

The weather caused trips to be cancelled Saturday and today, and a trip Wednesday looked like it would have to be scrubbed because of forecasts, so Capt. John from <b>Perfect Drift Sport Fishing</b> is calling it a season, he said. He’s pulling the boat from the waters. Striped bass were out there in the ocean, but the weather this fall usually made getting to them impossible. John wasn’t optimistic about next year’s season, and noted that the state on Friday announced that the winter flounder bag limit next year will be reduced to two fish with a season running from March 23 to May 21. “And this is just the start,” he said. John thanks all the anglers who fished with him this year.

<b>Surf City</b>

Surf casters plowed great catches lately, and they banked lots of blues and some striped bass Sunday from Ship Bottom to North Beach, said Barbara from <b>Surf City Bait & Tackle</b>. She fished from Brant Beach, one town south of that stretch, that day and found the fishing slow. But everybody seemed to catch in that area just to the north. The blues were big or 9 to 12 pounds, and striper fishing seemed good from the suds this morning. Nobody checked in stripers this morning, but they usually only weigh in bass 34 inches or larger, the minimum size for the Long Beach Island Surf Fishing Classic. Mostly bunker drew in both the blues and the bass. A healthy supply of fresh bunker is stocked, and the fresh clam supply is running lower. The clams are usually re-stocked on Tuesdays, and Barbara will then see whether enough clams will be available, or whether the clam boats could sail much in the weather. Boaters put a beating on bass and blues over the weekend, especially off Seaside, where bait was stacked up. 

<b>Mystic Island</b>

Hard northeast winds kicked up dangerously rough seas at Little Egg Inlet today, and most boaters avoided sailing, but a few motored out, and they caught striped bass, said the report on <b>Scott’s Bait & Tackle</b>’s Web site. Plenty of stripers were banked from shore at Graveling Point and Pebble Beach in the past days, and stripers actually flooded the whole area from the inlet through the bay to the Mullica River at the Parkway Bridge. On Sunday the report said that seeing all the happy anglers was fun. On Saturday it said an amazing number of stripers were hooked from the inlet to the bridge, and boaters checked in big keepers from Grassy Channel, Big Creek and the bay off Radio Road. A surf angler whacked a 42-inch striper at Pebble Beach on Friday.

<b>Brigantine</b>

At first, Scott Robinson hung a 40-pound 3-ounce striped bass on the scale Sunday at <b>Riptide Bait & Tackle</b>, the report on the shop’s Web site. Then John Fox plopped a 43-pound 10-ouncer on the scale on the same day. Big bass were coming in from the surf up and down the island in the past days! On Sunday a big school of large stripers parked off Brigantine’s north end, and rods bent all around. On Friday night through Saturday morning the striper fishing exploded around the island. Bunker was the best bait, but clams got a fair share of gobbles. Get out there before you regret missing the fishing, especially while the weather is yet to turn too cold, the report said.

<b>Atlantic City</b>

Surf casters did a number on lots of striped bass, said Noel from <b>One Stop Bait & Tackle</b>. The linesiders weighed in today included: a 29-pound 42-incher, a 16-pound 36-incher, a 16-pound 35-incher, a 15-pound 35-incher and a 13-1/2-pound 35-incher. Fresh bunker, fresh clams and live eels got them to strike, and big blues ran the suds, swiping bunker. The blues also swam Absecon Inlet, and large tog were hungry along the jetties, eating up green crab. A 7-pound 22-inch tog was weighed in today. A mess of ling gathered in the wash, sucking in bunker, clam and frozen mullet. All the baits mentioned and more are stocked.

<b>Longport</b>

Big blues disappeared from the ocean from Atlantic City to Sea Isle City on daily, open-boat trips Thursday and Friday, and so did striped bass that were mixed in, all caught previously on the troll on the boat, said Capt. Mike from the <b>Stray Cat</b>. No bait, no working birds, nothing. But the fish will pop up again, and the season was early. So the trips instead anchored, playing with blackfish, and lots chomped. A couple of big ones dove for the wreck and couldn’t be wrestled out. Good practice for when the daily, open trips switch to tog on November 16, when the bag limit amps up to six of the fish from the current limit of one. A few spots are left on a special Thanksgiving Day trip for tog 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. for only $40. Spots are also available for full-day tog trips on Black Friday and through the rest of that Thanksgiving weekend. Few anglers showed up to fish on Saturday, because of forecasts for rough weather, but the day turned out fine.

<b>Somers Point</b>

Jerry Arleth kayaked Risley Channel, pummeling a 30-inch striped bass on a bucktail with a rubber eel, an e-mail from Rob and Joan from <b>Dolfin Dock</b> said. Steve Singer fished the surf at the Longport jetty to put the brakes on two 38-inch stripers on clams. At the Ocean City Pier Matt Mills reeled up five tog, keeping no more than his limit of one. Barbara Kerrigan and crew took the trip to Delaware Bay, coming up with stripers 40, 36 and 30 inches on fresh bunker. Barry Jacobson hit the bay for a 40-inch bass that engulfed bunker.

All striped bass, all the time! That was fishing, and the fall season kicked in, said T.C. from <b>Brennan Marine</b> in a fax. Stripers were taken from the ocean, inlets, around the bridges, through the back bay and on Delaware Bay in numbers and sizes that boded well for the rest of the season. Mike McCullough on his No Name fished at Great Egg Harbor Inlet, bagging a 19-3/4-pound 37-inch striper on an eel. Art Ford on Sunday on his Night Stalker eeled two stripers 24 pounds 39 inches and 15 ¾ pounds 37 inches on the back bay near Somers Point while drifting. Many customers headed to Delaware Bay for really big bass. Mike Clifford on his Two Friends Fishin’ on Friday worked 60-Foot Slough on Delaware Bay, bunker-chunking several stripers to a 23-pound 38-incher that made for a good trip. Frank Sagen and crew on his Red Hook fished around Brandywine Light on Delaware Bay, claiming two stripers 35 pounds 40 inches and 23 pounds on fresh bunker. Blues were trolled while anglers tried for stripers, and tog were lifted up from around the bridges on the back bay on green crabs.

<b>Sea Isle City</b>

One trip belted striped bass on the back bay Friday, and two trips pelted big blues Saturday and Sunday on the ocean, said Capt. Joe Hughes from <b>Jersey Cape Guide Service</b> and <b>Gibson’s Tackle</b>. Ocean seas were rough, not conditions for every angler, but the trips got out. On the bay trip Mike Slatters cast popper lures to bang out several stripers, including his first-ever. A bunch were missed, lots of activity, and the popper fishing, a specialty for Jersey Cape on both lures and flies, was going strong, good to see at this time of the year. Popper fishing will eventually fade this month but was still peaking, and ocean fishing will amp up, though fishing on both waters was currently strong. The weather was a little breezy on the trip but totally fishable. On the trip Saturday Chip Grimes and friends Bob and Jamie bombasted blues to 15 pounds on trolled Mann’s Stretch 25 Lures. Trolling worked better than jigging, probably because of rough seas, and the fish seemed spread out. But there was lots of action no matter the seas. On Sunday’s trip Chase Kneeland intended to fly fish, but rough weather made that impossible, so he slammed blues to 15 pounds on trolled Stretches. Stripers were around on the ocean, and some were hooked on swimming plugs closer to shore than where Jersey Cape fished, and others were clammed on the ocean by anglers. But the blues offered the most action at the time, and the charters went after them. Plenty of season is left for stripers to tumble down the coast on the migration, and Jersey Cape has a blast with them each year. The ocean was 58 or 59 degrees. Surf fishing was okay around Sea Isle in the past days, and sharpies plugged them on swimmers and poppers. Jersey Cape is offering After Work Special Trips in the afternoons to evenings, a great time to fish. Convenient, too. Coming up, Joe will take an annual trip to Culebra, Puerto Rico, this month, offering traveling charters for species such as some of the biggest bonefish. His traveling charters in the coming months will also include trips to the Florida Keys for everything from bones to redfish. See the <a href=" http://www.gibsonstackle.com/page6.html" target="_blank">Traveling Charters</a> page on Jersey Cape’s Web site.

<b>Cape May</b>

Striped bass fishing went well at the Cape May Rips for anglers on the <b>Down Deep</b>, Capt. Bob said. The McCullough party on Friday boated bass to 30 pounds, and the Walters crew on Saturday decked stripers to 20 pounds. The Ballard gang on Sunday grabbed the fish to 21 pounds. All charters went home with stripers, and some decent-sized ones were in the mix. The charters fished with live spots, but eels worked just as well on other boats at the rips. Other boaters also bagged stripers on Delaware Bay on bunker chunks, and charters are available there on the Down Deep, but anglers have to be patient on the bay. The stripers are certainly larger on average on the bay, but anglers have to sit and wait for fewer bites, fishing with bunker chunks. The rips typically give up more bites from smaller stripers, but with sizeable ones in the catch. Plus the live bait fishing keeps the anglers busy, holding the rods in hand, reeling in and letting out line. A few openings remain for the charters this month and even some in the next couple of weeks.

Capt. George from the <b>Heavy Hitter</b> mated on two striped bass trips Saturday and Sunday on another boat, he said. The trips bunker chunked on Delaware Bay, because seas were rough for fishing at the Cape May Rips. The trip Saturday tackled three stripers that each weighed more than 30 pounds, and the trip Sunday lambasted one striper more than 30 pounds. Winds honked both days, and conditions weren’t nice. All charters seemed to total 1 to 3 big bass over 25 pounds apiece on the bay, and not much seemed to be caught at the rips. Dogfish and skates swam all around the bay. The Heavy Hitter’s striped bass schedule really kicks off Tuesday, when a bunch of consecutive trips are booked. The trips usually fish at the rips with eels, unless seas are too rough. Charters sometimes also clam for bass on the ocean. But if anglers want to fish the bay, that’s on tap, and if anyone’s hunting strictly big bass, the bay is the place to be. A couple of weekends remain for striper charters this season, and call to claim before they’re gone.

Six striped bass 32 to 38 inches were socked at the Cape May Rips on Friday on live spots on the <b>Fishin’ Fever</b>, Capt. Tom said. Most of the fish were 36 to 38 inches, and probably 15 to 17 other bites were scored and missed. Some grabbed the baits, ran off with the lines for a moment and pulled the hooks. Striper fishing was fairly decent at the rips, Delaware Bay and along the ocean front. If anglers prefer to striper fish a certain way, like bunker chunking on the bay, the fishing is available on the boat. Tog trips will be added to the slate when the bag limit is jumped up to six of the tog on November 16 from the current limit of one.

Winds forced trips to stay docked during the weekend, said Capt. Craig from <b>Fish Tale Charters</b>. But the boat is fishing for striped bass in and around the Cape May Rips, and when anglers did sail during a couple of opportunities to work around the weather, they did catch. Trips are on the books to run this coming weekend, and openings are available Thursday and Friday. Grab the chance for stripers while possible. Veterans’ Day, next week on Wednesday, is also available, and so are Black Friday and some Sundays in November and early December.

Bill Palmer from Cape May whaled a 57-1/4-pound striped bass, the biggest weighed at the shop this season, on Delaware Bay, said Matt from <b>Jim’s Bait & Tackle</b> in a fax. Good catches of stripers were pulled from the bay and the Cape May Rips, and dog sharks made an appearance in the bay, a nuisance, but the bass were still there. The Top of the Hill in the bay produced the fish fairly well at the beginning of ebb tides, and Middle Shoal at the rips sometimes produced sizeable bass. A few anglers trolled a few bass on the inshore ocean from the rips to the Wildwood Lump to North Wildwood. Big blues ran thick at 5-Fathom Bank, and could be easily jigged or trolled.  Stretch plugs, spoons or umbrella rigs would get them to pounce on the troll. Tony Narcisi from Woodbury boated a 32-pound striper from the bay. Mike Schreiber from Linwood hauled a 36-pound striper from the rips on a charter. Pete Langelo from Bordentown trolled a 32-pound bass at Overfalls Shoal on a Stretch.

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