<b>Staten Island</b>
Fishing for fluke was slow on Friday with <b>Barbara Anne Fishing Charters</b>, not necessarily because of the rough weather, Capt. Anthony said. On Saturday a trip won third place in a fluke tournament with a two-fish weight of 5 ½ pounds, and a total of 45 of the flatties were hooked on the trip, though the angling was still mostly slow. He wasn’t asked how many were keepers. Fluke season will close soon in New York and New Jersey, but Barbara Anne successfully bid on a Research Set Aside Permit, allowing trips to fish for the summer flounder when the season ends. New York’s season will close from September 7, the same date as in New Jersey, to May 21. New Jersey’s season usually opens in late May. The RSA bag limit is four fluke from 17 to 20 inches per person, compared with New York’s 21-inch and New Jersey’s 18-inch open-season minimum sizes. Barbara Anne’s fluke trips usually fish along Ambrose Channel to the Verrazano Bridge. But weekly open-boat trips for fluke are currently fishing on the ocean at the rocky bottom and wrecks. Special, open-boat trips will begin to bottom-fish at the 30-mile wrecks once a week starting Friday. Sea bass, cod and ling will be targeted, and the fish will begin to migrate to deeper waters at the time of year, and the wrecks “can really hold some quality fish,” Anthony said. The resurgence of cod in the waters adds more sport and table fare. The trips are also slated for August 30 and September 6, 13, 20 and 27. Rods, tackle, bait, ice and soft drinks for the entire group are included.
<b>Bayonne</b>
Seas were stiff, but the six anglers aboard wanted to sail, and they motored to Ambrose Channel on Sunday morning, finding the current too strong to hold bottom, said Capt. Akira from <b>True World Tackle</b> and <b>True World Tackle Charters</b>. They moved to the Mud Buoy, fishing in 3- to 5-foot seas, and the catch included two 23-inch, keeper fluke, one 19-inch keeper and 15 keeper sea bass to a 20-inch 4-1/4-pounder, a big one. Though such seas would make many people seasick, all the anglers felt fine. A charter was cancelled Saturday because of the weather. A charter on Thursday, when the east winds began, wanted to sail. The trip fished first at Ambrose Channel, but the weather was too rough. So the trip fished in New York Harbor, and only throwback fluke were boated. Few customers stopped at the shop during the weekend because of the weather. When the weather was better, most boated for fluke, some for porgies at local rough bottom, others for sea bass at the Mud Buoy and the Shrewsbury Rocks. Sea bass fishing remained okay, though the season was becoming late for them to hold close to shore. Anglers who fished by foot from the bulkheads like at Bayonne and Jersey City nabbed bluefish on bunker and sometimes fluke, including keepers, on usual fluke baits.
<b>Keyport</b>
With <b>Papa’s Angels Charters</b> fluke to 17 ½ inches and cocktail blues, a good pull of both, were tied into at Reach Channel on Friday with Lee and Donna Barden from Morganville and sons Zach, Mike and Kevin, Capt. Joe said. Both fish bit squid and spearing, and the blues attacked the baits on the bottom with the fluke, didn’t swim up top like they sometimes do. Seas and winds were rough during the first 2 hours of the twilight trip that fished from 4 to 9 p.m. Open-boat trips are fishing for fluke twice daily from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and for sea bass daily from 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. when no charter is booked and enough anglers want to go. Call to jump aboard. Credit card payments through PayPal are accepted for all trips.
<b>Atlantic Highlands</b>
Fluke fishing was tough, even for throwbacks, on the first day of the easterly on Thursday’s trips, said Capt. Tom from the party boat <b>Atlantic Star</b>. The fishing was probably some of the slowest of the season so far, though the crew might’ve been spoiled by the tremendous number of fluke, mostly shorts, that normally bit this season. The angling began to improve through the next days, though easterly winds continued to blow on Friday. Action with shorts began to pick up on Friday, and not many keepers bit. The winds also limited where the boat could fish during the days, and sometimes the boat had to be tucked into places like the west side of the Navy Pier to escape winds and the ocean swell. Places like Flynn’s Knoll, exposed to the ocean and east winds, were avoided during the height of the weather. But at least the grounds where the boat fishes almost always offer somewhere to fish during different wind directions. Practically all areas in the bay gave up short fluke, and finding keepers was the thing. Saturday’s weather continued to be difficult. On Sunday anglers aboard picked away at shorts and more keepers than before, though not as many as before the weather, not great fishing, but improved. Some of the anglers hooked as many as two or three keepers, and the patrons seemed either to grab keepers or not, though all at least caught shorts. By this morning’s trip the swell began to calm down somewhat, and the boat fished at Flynn’s Knoll when Tom gave this report over the phone on the waters around 9:30 a.m. Conditions weren’t good, but not many anglers were aboard, and that allowed the trip to fish there. Sometimes good-sized crowds fished on the boat during the weekend. The Atlantic Star is fishing for fluke on two trips daily 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
<b>Highlands</b>
Poles were bent steadily, and fish went into the box, on a fluke trip with the Specht family, said Capt. Bob Morrell Jr. from <b>Sandy Hook Fishing Adventures</b>. Sons Steve and Alex “spent the day learning the finer art of fluking, and then putting their knowledge to action,” Bob said. Dave Brink jumped aboard for a day of angling for sea bass and fluke, going home with a good mess of the knuckleheads to 4 pounds. Three generations of the Booth family, including Ryan, 7, and Adian, 3, fluke fished on board. Ryan landed his first-ever fluke right off the bat. Capt. Bob, who helped with the clean up for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, is headed back to the area for a moment. But Capt. Mike Adams will run trips along with the boat’s mate Matt. Full- and half-day charters for fluke and sea bass are being booked.
A double charter sailed for bluefin tuna 50 to 60 miles offshore on <b>Jersey Devil Charters</b>’ boat and a friend’s boat on Tuesday, Capt. Brian said. Clean waters were difficult to find among dirty, green waters, but good waters were finally located. One of the boats went 1 for 3 on bluefins, and the other boat ran across no tuna, but stopped at a wreck, catching big pollock to 34 pounds and large cod. On the next day, Wednesday, Jersey Devil’s boat returned to the same numbers, and waters were full of life including bait, porpoises and turtles, and two gaffer mahi mahi were decked, and no bluefins showed up. Starting on Thursday strong easterly winds, big seas and rough weather closed in through the weekend, and nobody Brian knew sailed to the grounds then. Charters and open-boat trips are fishing for bluefins. Call if interested in the open trips, because the more who are interested, the easier to schedule. Charters are also fishing for tuna and big game farther offshore at the canyons.
Fluke trips were weathered out through the weekend with <b>Fisher Price Charters</b>, Capt. Derek said. But good catches were mugged on the boat through Friday at the rough bottom and channels on bucktails and big strip baits. Fisher Price is also bottom fishing, and the swell affected that angling now, but previously plenty of sea bass were on tap, and the limit of one blackfish per person could be bagged, and porgies began to show up, and ling were mixed in. Catches of big bluefish to 12 pounds broke wide open in the past days, after the angling had been slow while the fish apparently spawned. Both jigs and bait caught them. Derek heard about a few anglers who sailed for bluefin tuna to the inshore ocean Sunday, finding green waters and a slow bite. But more planned to go in the coming days, and Fisher Price is fishing for bluefins on charters and open-boat trips. Open trips are also fishing closer to shore, and the next will probably sail Friday and Sunday. The trips will run for fluke, but if fluking is slow will fish for bottom fish or blues, whatever’s best.
<b>Neptune</b>
Bottom fishing turned up surprisingly good catches of sea bass, ling, blackfish and a few cod on both boats from <b>Last Lady Fishing Charters</b> on Saturday, despite the weather, Capt. Ralph said. Those were the only trips that sailed during the weather in the past days. Openings became available on a previously full individual-reservation trip to the offshore wrecks next week on Tuesday, August 24, and that might be the last of the trips this season, because the schedule is busy with charters. The previous one of the trips clobbered cod to 32 pounds, including a bunch of 15- to 20-pounders, pollock to 29 pounds and ling. Fluke season will close on September 7, and individual-reservation trips for fluke are slated for this Wednesday; Thursday, August 26; Wednesday, September 1; and Sunday, September 5. Afterward individual-reservation trips will bottom fish inshore every Wednesday for fish including sea bass, porgies and ling. Children under 12 sail free, limited to two per adult. An individual-reservation trip is set to fish for tuna at the canyons on Tuesday, September 7. Tuna are also biting inshore. Bluefish are finally finished spawning, are hitting again. Charters are available for all of this fishing.
<b>Belmar</b>
Blues, an excellent catch, all big ones 10 to 15 pounds, were shellacked Sunday north of Shark River Inlet on the <b>Nan Sea J</b> on Ava jigs, Capt. Tom said. He heard the fish were nailed on other boats Saturday, so the previously slow fishing for large blues that spawning apparently caused seemed to be ending. Mostly sea bass, but also fluke, a so-so catch of the two, were rounded up on a trip Thursday, the day when the strong east winds began. The Nan Sea J is also sailing for bluefin tuna on charters and open-boat trips, and call for the open schedule. Tom heard about nobody fishing for the tuna in the weather in the past days.
Trips fluke fished on Shark River on the small boat from <b>On a Mission Fishing Adventuires</b> while the big boat underwent maintenance, Capt. Eric said. The keeper ratio was like 1 in 30, but trips scored alright. Snapper blues were caught from the river on Sabiki rigs for bait for the bigger flatties. A 6-pound 26-incher was drilled on a snapper on the boat last week. Eric fluke fished on the ocean at Sea Girt Reef on a friend’s boat last week, coming up with five or six keepers, including a couple of 3- and 4-pounders, among shorts released. Whole squids were fished to try to weed out the small ones. A few good-sized sea bass, including 3-pounders, were also netted. Large bluefish began to be dusted again on the ocean, after the fishing had slowed because the blues were spawning, not eating. On a Mission also fishes for bluefin tuna on the ocean close to shore. None of the tuna yet entered waters in 20 fathoms where the boat sails for them, but fishing for them was okay farther from shore. Anglers had to find clean waters among an abundance of green, dirty waters to catch a few here and there. A bunch of dates are already booked for surf-fishing trips that Eric guides through fall, mostly for striped bass and blues. But false albacore could show up in the surf any time, and some already did. South winds that chill waters close to the beaches, and push seaweed into the waters, were difficult. Frequent south winds have been terrible this season. Most of the beach trips for stripers and blues begin in October. But anglers could take trips in September if they fished in the middle of the night. Eric also fishes in freshwater and did a job on decent catches of smallmouth bass on the Delaware River.
<b>Brielle</b>
Rough weather since Thursday kept trips from sailing through the weekend, but Capt. Ken from the <b>Big Kid</b> and crew poured over the satellite charts Sunday evening when he gave this report over the phone. They were preparing to begin competing today in Cape May’s Mid Atlantic $500,000 offshore tournament. “We’re going,” he said when asked whether seas were fishable. The most recent trips on the boat landed tuna, other big game and bottom fish, covered in previous reports. Charters are also fluke fishing. Coming up soon, offshore tournaments available for charter include the Tuna Stakes Invitational from Saturday to August 29, and the Manasquan River Marlin and Tuna Club Tournament on August 28 to September 5.
<b>Point Pleasant</b>
Bluefin tuna to more than 100 pounds and mahi mahi were landed at the Chicken Canyon last week on Monday and Tuesday with <b>High Hook Sport Fishing</b>, with Capt. Mark at the helm, Capt. Brenda said. The fish were jigged, and the weather became too rough for trips to reach the waters soon afterward. High Hook is also fishing for fluke and bottom fish.
A charter originally planned to fish for a combo of sea bass and fluke Saturday, but re-scheduled to target sea bass in fall, said Capt. Allen from <b>Reel Class Charters</b> in the report on the boat’s Web site. So he made the day available for a fluke trip on Manasquan River, and was lucky that four anglers, two pairs of fathers and sons, took him up on the offer. They reeled up 89 throwback fluke to 17 ¼ inches, a whopper stargazer and a few sea robins while fishing from Clark’s Landing Marina to Manasquan Inlet at “all the nooks and crannies,” Allen said. A trip Friday was weathered out, and a charter Thursday sailed “to put some meat in the cooler,” Allen said. The group boxed 40 keeper sea bass, tossed back lots of throwback sea bass, bagged six tog to 14 inches and let go a 20-inch, short cod. Seas were 2 to 3 feet in easterly winds at the beginning of the trip, building to 3 to 5 by the end. Charters and annual, open-boat Fluke Till You Puke Trips are sailing with Reel Class, and check the online <a href="http://www.reelclassfishing.com/rates/open-boat-info" target="_blank">schedule</a> for available dates for the open trips. Charters and open trips will sail for bonito and false albacore beginning this month. Again, check the schedule for the open trips.
Fishing for tuna at night finally came together on a trip Wednesday to Thursday on the <b>Canyon Runner</b>, the report on the boat’s Web site said. The trip left at 6 p.m. Wednesday, arriving at Hudson Canyon in the dark, and the anglers began fishing. Yellowfin tuna began to be picked at midnight, and the anglers went 10 for 13 on the fish. Seven of the tuna landed were good-sized and kept, and three were small and released. On the troll the next morning the trip worked back toward the tip of the canyon, and the charter “had the bite they were looking for,” the report said. The head of the charter, from Point Pleasant, had traveled the world, looking to catch his first-ever blue marlin. “Well, he only had to look in his own back yard,” the report said. He landed and released a 375-pound blue after an hour fight. The fish was Canyon Runner’s seventh blue “of the young season,” the report said, biting a ballyhoo on a blue-and-white Ilander. An overnight trip Tuesday to Wednesday was slower at the Hudson, producing two yellowfins trolled in the afternoon, no fish at night, and two yellowfins trolled in the morning. The trip began fishing at the tip among plenty of life including whales, porpoises and working birds. An open-boat trip that Monday at the Hudson pummeled seven big yellowfins, a wahoo and some mahi mahi on the troll at the west wall for 4 hours as soon as the boat arrived. But nothing bit at night and the next morning.
If anglers were waiting for positive reports about bluefishing, “come on down!” an e-mail from the party boat <b>Cock Robin</b> said. The angling on daytime trips improved daily since Wednesday, “and the night fishing has returned!” the e-mail said. No trip apparently sailed on the boat today, but others reported good bluefishing today among a large mass of the fish that showed up in another area the blues hadn’t been previously. The fish before this stretch of better catches were believed to be spawning, a time when they annually refuse to feed. But the boat got into a shot of big blues on Tuesday for the first time since the spawn, and ran into great fishing for them on Wednesday. Then the angling kept improving for the most part. The Cock Robin is bluefishing 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily and 7:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
<b>Bricktown</b>
Lock-and-load bluefishing was pounded Sunday on the ocean off Long Branch with <b>Jersey Hooker Charters</b>, said Capt. Rich, also the owner of <b>Jersey Hooker Outfitters Bait & Tackle</b>. The boat sails from Point Pleasant, and the shop is located in Bricktown. The blues were “every bit of 12 to 15 pounds,” Rich said, and solid catches were beaten for 2 hours in the morning on jigs. Big blues finally appeared to be finished spawning and feeding again. The ocean held a big swell with chop on top, but seas weren’t bad, after the strong easterly winds and rougher seas the previous days. A bottom-fishing charter sailed on the boat Saturday in adverse conditions or rough seas 5 to 7 feet and 20-knot winds. But the trip caught. First the anglers fished at the offshore reef, picking up a couple of sea bass, 15 ling, some ocean pout and a 10-pound blackfish. The trip moved to Axel Carlson Reef, and 25 sea bass to 4 pounds were bagged. Sea bass fishing was somewhat dropping off for the season, but good catches could still be made. Most customers at the tackle shop targeted fluke, landing decent catches on the ocean on one day, finding difficult fishing the next. The angling seemed not so good at Sea Girt Reef, but some anglers pulled a few of the flatties from Axel Carlson. Some flukers fished off Long Branch, scoring, again, okay on one day and not on another. Lots of fluke, lots of shorts, swam Manasquan River. Snapper blues seemed to school all around the river, creeks and back waters. No boats fished offshore in the past days because of seas. The shop sponsored a demo of the Surf Rocket, the air cannon that blasts bait from shore to the waters, on Saturday evening at Island Beach State Park. Rich only stayed a moment because of the boat’s back-to-back charters, but the ground swell was tough on surf angling. The goal was to catch sharks that roam the surf at night in summer, and one run-off was scored, Rich believed. He thanks everyone who participated and came out to check out the Surf Rocket. Give the shop a shout if interested in learning more about the cannon.
<b>Seaside Park</b>
A trip fished a short time Thursday, the first day of the northeast weather, on the ocean close to shore with <b>Fishguts Inshore Charters</b>, Capt. Rob “Birch” Birchmeier said. Winds blew 15 to 20 m.p.h., and seas were building. “Really building,” he said. “We came in on time.” But the three anglers in a couple of hours put together a catch of 10 keeper sea bass, a keeper porgy and their limits of blackfish. On Friday a trip stayed in Barnegat Bay, fluke fishing, catching a keeper, releasing 35 throwbacks, slower fluking than usual in 20 m.p.h. winds against the tide and a ground swell. Short fluke are starting to be seen around the ocean wrecks. None are any size, but the population is definitely increasing, and Birch hopes bigger ones show up soon. No trip sailed on Saturday in rough weather. On Sunday the weather began to calm, and a trip with two anglers headed to the ocean. Fishing began slowly, but some quality-sized sea bass came up. Forty keeper sea bass to 2 and 3 pounds, a limit of blackfish for the two anglers, seven ¾-pound bluefish and a ling were boxed, and two 20-inch cod, an inch undersized, were released. The blues were seen on top in six different areas with anchovies schooling and birds working the bait. Birch was glad to see that action for the first time this season, apparently triggered by the weather. Charters and open-boat trips are sea bass fishing on the ocean, and charters are also fishing for a combo of sea bass on the ocean and fluke on Barnegat Bay in a single trip.
<b>Mystic Island</b>
Though a few keeper summer flounder were turned up at Little Egg Inlet and along the Intracoastal Waterway behind Long Beach Island, angling for kingfish, blowfish, porgies and spots began to put up catches in the bay, said the report on <b>Scott’s Bait & Tackle</b>’s Web site. No big numbers of the small fish, species that produce a fishery every year around now, were around so far, but enough arrived to entertain, and a few might be able to be kept in a trip. Chumming with clam was a must, and sales of the shop’s fresh, shucked clams and bloodworms for bait tripled. By today, many anglers seemed to content to target the little fish instead of flounder. The fishing for flounder sounded tough because of winds through much of the past days, but some were caught. Ocean seas were particularly big during the winds, but one angler found three keeper flounder at the Rutgers Buoys on the ocean during the weather, earning them.
<b>Atlantic City</b>
Kingfish, good catches, were beached from the surf, and sometimes croakers, healthy sized ones, were too, said Noel from <b>One Stop Bait & Tackle</b>’s son. Bloodworms claimed both the kings and croakers, and summer flounder also skittered around the surf. Minnows and squid drew them to bite. No bluefish were really around. The surf was rough through Sunday but wasn’t bad today. The full supply of baits is stocked.
<b>Longport</b>
Croakers showed up 3 miles from shore for the first time this season on a trip Sunday on the <b>Stray Cat</b>, Capt. Mike said. The strong easterlies apparently caused the fish to migrate up the coast to the area, and small weakfish and blues schooled with the hardheads. The trip had stopped in the area for summer flounder fishing, and loads of croakers bit instead. “We couldn’t get away from them,” Mike said. Not that he wanted to. The croakers were four or five days early and usually show up around August 20. Most boats were kept docked from late in the week through the weekend because of the strong winds. Seas are always bad at the bar at Great Egg Harbor Inlet during such winds, but once the Stray Cat passed the bar, seas weren’t too difficult. A trip Saturday trolled blues toward Sea Isle Ridge in a big ground swell, also bucketing a bunch of sea bass. Two spaces are available on one of the season’s open-boat, overnight tuna trips that will leave at 2 p.m. Saturday, August 28. The two others are sold out on Saturday and August 29. All the trips will also stop for sea bass in the mornings. These will be the only of these trips this year, unless the weather is clear in September. Then one more might be added. Rods will be available at no charge, and bait will be provided, and ice will be supplied for the tuna. Catch a special, low, discounted rate for charters for croakers and sea bass September 13 through 30 only. Sea bass trips will also fish offshore in September and October.
<b>Sea Isle City</b>
Capt. Joe Hughes from <b>Jersey Cape Guide Service</b> and <b>Gibson’s Tackle</b> was supposed to begin competing today in Cape May’s Mid Atlantic $500,000 offshore tournament, he said. On Thursday night Mike Roth jumped aboard to fly rod for striped bass on the back bay, reeling in and releasing two of the bass to 24 inches on Clouser Minnows in windy weather that made the angling tough. Jersey Cape is catching stripers in the dark on soft-plastic lures and flies at places like under the lights at the bridges and docks on the bay. But trips are also fishing during the day for stripers on popper lures and flies. Earlier on Thursday before the weather became that bad, Dave, Dominic and Dan Roberts fished for summer flounder on the bay on a trip, bagging an 18- or 19-inch summer flounder, releasing 50 throwbacks. The weather kept deteriorating afterward, and on Friday in fierce winds John Stevens and Billy Smith landed and released 25 to 30 flounder on a trip that lasted a couple of hours on the bay. Jersey Cape is also sailing for brown and dusky sharks, catch and release angling by regulation, on the ocean close to shore on bait and flies. Many of the sharks swam the waters lately. Keep up with Joe’s fishing and photos on <a href=" http://captainjoehughes.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jersey Cape’s blog</a>.
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</b>Avalon</b>
Anglers aboard sailed on a short, 12-hour trip to Lindenkohl Canyon, a considerably shorter trip than usual, aiming to chunk or fish with bait instead of the usual trolling done during daytime, on Sunday, an audio report on <b>Over Under Adventures’</b> Web site said. They fished 4 hours, but the trip worked out well. The boat was set up on a drift in 220 feet inshore of the Lindy to “see the lay of the land,” the report said, and scope out bait, and a yellowfin tuna was landed right away. So the boat was anchored there, and action was steady for the rest of the 3 hours. Five yellowfin tuna 40 to 65 pounds were gaffed, and a few broke off, and a few were missed. A 75-pound bluefin tuna, a surprise, was tugged aboard toward the end of the bite that lasted until 11 a.m. The fish were caught on bait including sardines toward the surface and down deep, and none was jigged, but the anglers did little jigging, once the fish bit bait. The trip was fun, something Over Under hadn’t tried in a while, fishing like for bluefins at the Hot Dog in recent years, and the crew planned to try it again. A trip on another boat from Over Under overnighted Saturday to Sunday at the tip of Toms Canyon, working a 4-degree temperature break that had formed in the past day or two. But the 74- to 79-degree break seemed too new to attract enough life, and in hindsight the crew thought they should’ve waited for the break to remain another day or two before fishing there. Good amounts of bait were marked, and mammals were seen, and the crew thought bigeye tuna were marked once. But only one bite was scored at night, and only some rat yellowfin tuna hit on the troll the next morning. So the trip headed to South Toms Canyon, where the fishing was best lately, and a good catch was nailed for the remaining 3 or 4 hours of the trip. A white marlin was landed and released, and another was missed, and a longfin tuna and 15 or 20 mahi mahi were decked. Charters and <a href=" http://overundercharters.com/index.php?page=opendates" target="_blank">open-boat trips</a> are fishing offshore.
<b>Cape May</b>
Family trips sailing 4 or 6 hours trolled plenty of 2- to 3-pound blues, good eating size, and occasional other fish including mahi mahi, Spanish mackerel and bonito at the shoals 8 or 9 miles from shore on the <b>Down Deep</b>, Capt. Bob said. John DeRosa’s charter on Sunday ran offshore, boating sizeable yellowfin tuna to 60 pounds and a 40-pound wahoo.
Charters mostly trolled off Cape May Point in the last week, hooking all the small blues they wanted, said Capt. George from the <b>Heavy Hitter</b>. Trips could also troll unlimited blues, usually somewhat larger or 3 to 7 pounds, 8 or 10 miles from shore, sometimes snatching up a false albacore, bonito or mahi mahi in the mix. Tim Babb’s group was one of the charters catching plenty of blues. Small summer flounder also gathered off Cape May Point and along the edge of the channel. George knew about one flounder trip that someone ran to the Old Grounds on the ocean off Delaware, coming up with 11 or 12 keepers. But that’s one trip, and fishing there depends on conditions, or winds and tides, creating the right drift. Croakers 9 to 11 inches swam Delaware Bay. George mated on a charter on a friend’s boat Sunday that bagged four yellowfin tuna, a wahoo and a bunch of false albacore in 40 or 50 fathoms on the troll. Charters are available for all these species, and call if interested.