<b>Brooklawn</b>

Despite the storm Saturday, Delaware River anglers nailed striped bass again Sunday, said Rick from <b>Big Timber Bait & Tackle</b>. They bailed the fish lately at places like National Park, West Deptford, the DOD, the mouth of the Schuylkill River and the flats toward the Commodore Barry Bridge. Most anglers caught them from shore on bloodworms, but sometimes boaters clammed the fish on the river. Before the storm, Delaware Bay boaters clammed the bass in the 8- to 10-foot shallows east of the number 1 buoy.  Big Timber stocks tackle and bait for fishing on all waters from freshwater to bays to offshore. Bait currently includes bloodworms, and all the supplies are ready for the opening of summer flounder season May 7.

<b>Pennsville</b>

Anglers banked good catches of striped bass from the Delaware River Sunday and Monday, despite the rains Saturday and flooding that followed, believe it or not, said Wade from <b>Shag’s Bait & Tackle</b>. One angler said grass was heavy, but the fish were caught through the debris, biting aggressively. Sandworms and bloodworms were the baits, and sands worked a little better. Both are stocked, and sands are currently at a special price, because they live a limited time, and plenty were left at the store after fewer anglers showed up this weekend in the weather. Fresh bunker is stocked, but isn’t so fresh at the moment, but more will arrive, usually every day or two. Anglers nabbed the bass at usual places customers fish, like on the Delaware from the Salem River to the DOD. Not much was heard about the bay’s fishing.

<b>Port Elizabeth</b>

A foot of waters flooded businesses like the marinas from the weekend’s storm, so not much could be reported about the fishing in the past days, said Patty from the <b>Girl’s Place Bait & Tackle</b>. Boaters bagged striped bass on the bay last week before the weather. The shop is open 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day except 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays. The Girls Place is located on Route 47 just after Route 55 ends, and it’s the long, one-story, yellow building on the right. There’s a large parking lot with plenty of room for trailered boats.

<b>Port Norris</b>

Phone calls to <b>Port Norris Marina</b> for a report were unanswered, and the voicemail recording said the shop would be closed until further notice, because of the storm.

<b>Cape May</b>

“High winds and high seas,” said Capt. T.J. from <b>Legal Limit Charters</b>. That was his report. :) Striped bass charters are slated to clam for the fish on Delaware Bay Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, if the bass are still around. The season’s first drum charters are scheduled to fish the bay the second week of May, and the crew will begin fishing for the boomers the first week of May, scoping out the fishing.

No trips fished in the rains and winds through the weekend, said Capt. George from the <b>Heavy Hitter</b>. But space is available on make-up trips this week. Don’t have enough anglers for a full charter this week? Call George, because sometimes he’ll be able to fit individuals or small groups on the make-up trips. The trips will fish for either tog on the ocean or stripers on the bay, if stripers are still around in the waters. Drum charters will begin on the bay in the next weeks.

Good catches of striped bass were clammed on the bay last week on the <b>Down Deep</b>, and better-sized ones arrived then, Capt. Bob said. Anglers couldn’t know how long the fishing would last, but the fish were even boated on a few trips that ran Sunday, despite tough weather, that Bob heard about. Jim McGargle’s group and Rich McBryan’s party decked stripers on the Down Deep last week on the bay. Mike Ciarlate’s charter bagged stripers to 30-some pounds on the vessel that week on the bay. Reports rolled in about a few drum that began to be hauled from the bay last week, and that was good news. Most were small, but Bob’s friend heaved in an 80-pounder.

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