Note: This report was updated on a Tuesday instead of the usual Monday because of Memorial Day.

<b>Staten  Island</b>

Sea bass fishing kicked off for the season on a trip Saturday from New Jersey with <b>Outcast Charters</b>, Capt. Joe said. Trips are available onboard from New Jersey for sea bass, so anglers can abide by New Jersey’s regulations, and call for info about the trips, a specialty for Outcast. On the trip, the fishing was a grind, but a mix of sea bass, including a good number of sizeable ones, cod and ling were hung. The sea bass weighed up to 5 ½ pounds, and some weighed 3 and 4 pounds. A trip Sunday put up 80 fish, mostly sea bass, and some ling. Again, the sea bass were sizeable, this time weighing up to 3 ½ pounds. So sea bassing was getting under way, and should progressively improve. During some years the fishing becomes really hot in another week or 10 days. Charters are also sailing for striped bass.

<b>Keyport</b>

One of the open-boat trips from 4 to 9 p.m., called the After Work Special, fished Raritan Bay Thursday with Tom Venheimer’s crew, said Capt. Joe from <b>Papa’s Angels Charters</b>. Caitlin, one of the anglers, knuckled in a 34-inch 15-pound striped bass, her first-ever. Blues, somewhat larger than cocktails, were battled. One big blue, maybe 12 pounds, bit off a line. Clams and bunker were fished for bait, and Dean, Steve, Richard and Eddie were also on the trip. A trip Saturday with Kevin Koch’s group cranked aboard a few blues and a 22-inch fluke from the bay. Kevin bagged the fluke, and also aboard were Robin, Dale, 10-year-old Gregory, Charles, and Abe. The fluke inhaled a clam meant for stripers. But fluke fishing will now be available on trips. All trips, both open-boat and charters, can fish for stripers, blues, fluke or a combo. Open trips are sailing daily 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., with a minimum of four anglers, when no charter is booked. Space is available on open trips this week, and call to reserve.

<b>Atlantic Highlands</b>

After striped bass fishing started poorly aboard Friday, “(the trip) stuck around till late in the day,” said Capt. Ron from the party boat <b>Fishermen</b>, in the reports on the boat’s Web site. Some big stripers were finally nailed. The bite turned on, and the linesiders to 32 pounds were netted. Lots of bait, excellent readings, Ron said. Jason White won the pool with a 44-inch striper, and Jill Goldstein landed two beauties 32 and 28 pounds. Another angler bagged a 30-pounder. At least 10 big stripers were lost. “Popped off, thumbed the reel, swung too fast, accidentally hit the reel release and so on!” Ron said. But striper fishing was tough on trips afterward, through the holiday weekend, Ron said in the reports Monday. The trips didn’t bother fishing the areas the boat usually fished, because of boat traffic. Dog sharks also invaded, “so now we have that to deal with,” Ron said. The dogs also showed up last year, according to reports and Ron’s logbook. “I always talk about patience, and it usually works out,” he said. But if it doesn’t work out, trips can switch to fluke fishing daily. The Fishermen is fishing for striped bass 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily. However, the boat is chartered this Saturday morning. <b>***Update, Tuesday, 5/31:***</b> “After five days of pain, the bite was on!” Ron said in an e-mail about today’s trip. Fishing was tough in the morning, turning out a handful of stripers. But searching, a change of tide, and landing in the right place at the right time paid off. A 44-pounder -- a fish of a lifetime that 9-year-old Bobby Root, Scotch Plains, lambasted -- was the highlight of the day. What’s more, he landed three others! Ron congratulated Bobby, “and don’t think it’s always like this,” he cautioned. “You have been blessed!” Tom “Hammer” Krako took the lead in the season-long striper pool with a 31-pounder, beating out Bill Fell’s 29-pounder from a previous trip. The following video, and pics that Ron included in the e-mail, will tell the rest of the story. The pics will be posted on this site’s photo pages. Check out the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxbJt9Ozdr8&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">video of today’s trip</a>.

Though fluke fishing was no great shakes on Saturday morning’s trip, the fishing was some of the better this season on the afternoon’s trip, said Capt. Tom from the party boat <b>Atlantic Star</b>. One angler decked seven keepers on the outing. Still, the angler next to him bagged none, and luck sometimes seemed a factor. Sunday’s trips onboard were slow for catching keepers, and shorts served up lots of action, like every day. Overall, fluking wasn’t bad on the vessel lately. The results changed day to day and trip to trip, and conditions, or whether tides and winds combined to create good drifts, played a part. The fish were there, and the angling was a matter of getting fortunate on keepers. Tom hopes more keepers keep showing up. The sizes of some of the fish, like a 7-pound 8-ouncer, the biggest on deck so far this year, reeled in two Sundays ago, and a 5-3/4-pounder on another trip, and some 3- and 4-pounders, seemed a good sign this early in the season. Many of the fluke were an inch or half-inch short, or 17 or 17 ½ inches, and others were smaller. The flatties, a good population, were spread throughout Raritan Bay, at usual places like Flynn’s Knoll and off the Ammo Pier. The boat hadn’t fished on the ocean much, and the ocean held a bit of a swell. Anglers asked Tom whether any sea bass showed up, since sea bass season opened Saturday, and none did, but the boat fished in areas that held all fluke.  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. Heads up: Fathers’ Day is coming June 19, and a gift certificate to the Atlantic Star makes a great gift. <b>***Update, Tuesday, 5/31:***</b> Fishing for fluke turned around on trips onboard today, after the fish were picked in too much winds that hampered the drift on Monday morning’s trip, and tough fluking in no winds and hardly any drift on Monday afternoon’s trip, Tom said. But on this morning’s trip, despite not much of a drift, quite a few fluke, including a fair number of keepers, were banged out. One angler bagged five, and another bagged four, and some landed no keepers, but everyone landed at least shorts. Better still, this afternoon’s trip met a breeze and had the conditions, and delivered some of the better fluking of the season onboard. Shorts gave up good action, and a good catch of keepers was cracked around the boat. A couple of anglers bagged four, and some bagged none, but all landed at least shorts, and the fishing was a good sign. Which trip was going to be better couldn’t be known these days. The heat baked the waters on Monday afternoon’s trip in no winds, but the weather was cool in a breeze this afternoon.

<b>Highlands</b>

Anglers with <b>Fisher Price Charters</b> livelined bunker for striped bass down the ocean beaches the past couple of days, Capt. Derek said. They drilled limits or near limits of the fish to 38 pounds. Not many blues were seen, but dog sharks were a problem, actually swimming off the bottom to attack the baits. Dates remain available for charters for stripers, and the next open-boat trips for the linesiders will probably be a couple this weekend. Call to climb aboard or to be kept informed about future open dates. Fisher Price will probably fish for stripers through June, and maybe until the first or second week of July.

On the <b>Hyper Striper</b> fishing for striped bass was good most of the past week, and a few trips were slow, Capt. Pete said in an e-mail. Anglers aboard fished for them with bait and trolled spoons, and one trip, with Greg Olszewski’s party, bottom fished, reeling in a good catch of ling and a few sizeable sea bass, releasing lots of out-of-season tog. Here’s a rundown of the striper trips: the Jeff Sheats party, p.m. trip last week on Sunday, limit-plus of stripers to 22 pounds; Dennis Taormina’s party, a.m. trip that Monday, 18 keepers, many of them 20 to 28 pounds, they “hit it right,” Capt. Pete said; Rev. Joe Sladek’s party, p.m. trip that Monday, limit to 32 pounds; a.m. trip that Tuesday, 15 big keepers to 30 pounds; Bob Williams’ party, p.m. trip that Tuesday, four stripers to 30 pounds bagged; Russ Schofield’s party, a.m. trip Wednesday, limit to 25 pounds; David Koptra’s party, p.m. trip Wednesday, a slow pick; Chuck Kershner’s party, a.m. trip Thursday, nine keepers to 25 pounds; Joe Popich’s party, p.m. trip Thursday, one striper short of a limit to 23 pounds; the Cooper Electric party, a.m. trip Friday, hammered the bass, 18 keepers, including six from 25 to 34 pounds; Mike Conners’ party, p.m. trip Friday, eight big stripers 24 to 33 pounds; Lou Defazio’s gang, p.m. trip Saturday, a pick of three keepers to 23 pounds; and Eddie Hahn’s crew, a.m. trip Sunday, 10 keepers to 24 pounds.

<b>Neptune</b>

Fishing was very good on a cod trip Sunday with <b>Last Lady Fishing Charters</b>, Capt. Ralph said in an e-mail. Cod to 22 pounds and pollock to 32 to pounds were crunched, and dog sharks took over at 11 a.m. Because this was an inshore trip, “we didn’t seek another spot,” Ralph said, and the anglers got back to the dock at 4:30 p.m. Last Lady will fish for cod and pollock all summer. Join one of the individual-reservation trips or book a charter for the fishing. Trips will sail farther offshore, “and the day will end when we get the fish,” Ralph said. Fishing for striped bass was great on some days and tough on others. Anglers aboard mostly fished for stripers with livelined bunker, and afternoons to early night seemed best. Sea bass season opened Saturday, and fluke season was already open, and both fish were caught. Shark fishing is about to launch with Last Lady, and trips onboard will compete in all the shark tournaments, and all the shark tournaments are already booked. But a few weekdays are available for shark charters. Individual-reservation trips will sail for cod at 3 a.m. Wednesday, June 29, and Thursday, June 30 (changed dates) at wrecks 35 to 75 miles offshore. “(We’ll) get back when we have caught them,” Ralph said. Individual-rez trips will run for sea bass at 6 a.m. on the Mondays of June 20 and 27, fishing the inshore wrecks. Ones for sea bass are already full this weekend. Individual-reservation trips for fluke and sea bass will begin to fish every Wednesday on June 15, and kids under 12 will sail free, limited to two kids per host adult.

<b>Brielle</b>

A trip with Tom Pagliaroli from Rack and Fin Radio limited out on striped bass to 40 pounds early last week on the <b>Big Kid</b> on the ocean, Capt. Ken said. Ken planned to return a phone call giving names of more anglers on trips last week, but this went to press before he did, and maybe the names will be included in the next report. Trips are striped bass fishing, including charters from 5 to 9 p.m. Bluefishing is running, and bottom fishing, including for sea bass, is on tap. Fluke trips are on the slate. Weekday charters are available, and the Sunday of Mako Mania, June 26, is up for grabs, and tournaments, including big-game ones like that, are available for charter.

The plan on a charter Saturday, the first day of sea bass season, was to mix up fishing with sea bass and striped bass, said Capt. Jerry from <b>Fish Monger Charters</b> in an e-mail. The trip made striper bait on the way to the fishing grounds, stopping on different bunker schools. No stripers biting were seen, so the vessel was headed to where a trip limited out on stripers the previous day. Two bites and two bass were copped on the first drift, and the trip proceeded to put a total of six stripers in the boat, until the fishing dropped off. The trip headed to the sea bass grounds, and after checking out a bunch of spots, an area with good life was found. Lots of shorts bit, but a bunch of keepers weighed 2 to 3 pounds. Great life was read, and big sea bass were definitely around, but the fish felt like ice cubes, “and the dinks were more aggressive,” Jerry said. A fair showing of cod appeared, and four keeper cod were managed among about eight shorts. A good-sized, keeper fluke came up, and so did a sizeable winter flounder and a few good-sized blackfish, both out of season, and they were released. The trip had to fish for sea bass within 3 miles from shore, where striper fishing is open, because stripers were onboard. Jerry was eager to fish farther offshore in the future. The trip bagged scores of sea bass, six stripers, four cod, two ling and a fluke. “Nice mixed bag!” Jerry said. A charter Sunday planned to concentrate on sea bass, but stripers, a bonus, were run across on the way home. The trip at first bounced around to a bunch of sea bass spots, and some were barren, and others were loaded with life. Many of the sea bass were shorts, but many keepers were 2 pounds to more than 3 pounds. “Good for most of the day!” Jerry said. A fair number of cod and blackfish spiced up action. On the way home, birds were seen crashing the ocean, and the trip took a look, and stripers exploded on the surface! The fish moved fast, but Monger put in the time chasing them. No bunker were aboard for bait, but the stripers were aggressive, pouncing on Krocodile spoons. Readings were insane, and seven stripers to 30 pounds, all larger than 20, were boxed up. “Great way to make a good day even better!” Jerry said. The trip ended up bagging scores of sea bass, more than on the previous day, four cod, three ling and seven stripers to 30 pounds. “Another great day on the water!” Jerry said. Big stripers are around, and sea bassing will only get better. “Now’s the time to get out fishing!” Jerry said. 

Fluke, good catches, were pumped in from the rivers, said John from <b>The Reel Seat</b>. One angler reported a pretty good catch from Shark River, and John was sure Manasquan River probably gave up just as productive fishing for the flatbacks. Striped bass fishing ranged from okay to great on the ocean, varying day to day. The fishing depended on whether the bass were feeding and where they happened to pop up on a given trip. Whether bunker appeared that they chased also varied like that. Boaters often snagged then livelined the bunker for bait, or fished with chunks of the bunker. Surf anglers did the same, but they also pencil-poppered stripers, sometimes to 40 pounds. Not a lot was heard about bluefish on the ocean, but everybody talked and thought about stripers. Nothing was heard about sea bass, because the season for them just opened Saturday. One of the Point Pleasant Beach party boats was bailing cod. A father and son team was heard about that landed 50 cod between them on a trip Friday on the vessel. Ling also bit for bottom fishers. 

<b>Point Pleasant Beach</b>

More than 20 striped bass to 36 pounds were plowed Wednesday on the ocean with <b>Andrea’s Toy Charters</b>, a report on the boat’s Web site said. The charter kept their limit, releasing the rest, and the bite, found to the south, was short-lived, lasting 45 minutes. But stripers were blowing up on bunker, and hook-ups were instant, “insane,” the report said. On Thursday a charter went 8 for 14 on stripers to 30 pounds on the ocean. Striper fishing on a charter Friday started slowly on the ocean to the north, until the bite went all out, and the boat limited out quickly. A couple of the anglers caught their first-ever stripers. The same anglers fished aboard the next day, Saturday, going 4 for 10 on stripers on the ocean, calling it quits early to get ready for a night out. On Sunday striper fishing was slow on a charter that fished the ocean to the north, but the anglers went 2 for 5 in a short time. The trips fished with livelined bunker.

Trips for fluke began Saturday on the party boat <b>Gambler</b>, Capt. Bob said, and the fishing, sailing on the ocean, was pretty good, and he was pretty surprised.  Plenty of fluke bit on the vessel that day, and a decent percentage were keepers. Phil Vallone from Toms River on one of the boat’s fluke trips Saturday bagged three keepers 3, 4 and 5 pounds. Fluking was similar on Sunday morning’s trip, and the high hook bagged three. Pool-winning fluke on the three trips weighed 5 pounds. On Sunday afternoon’s trip, fluking wasn’t as good so far, because the drift was fast, Bob said while the trip was on the waters, when he gave this report over the phone. The Gambler is fishing for fluke twice daily 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Striped bass trips are running 7:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Wreck-fishing trips for cod and ling are sailing 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Sundays and Mondays.

<b>Point Pleasant</b>

Striped bass charters and open-boat trips were beating up the catches, said Capt. Mark from <b>High Hook Sport Fishing</b>. The trips, exciting outings, he said, fished the ocean off Shark River and at the Shrewsbury Rocks with livelined bunker. Sometimes the bunker were castnetted for bait, and other times were snagged. Or sometimes another captain shared the baitfish, or other times High Hook shared with another. The stripers could also be trolled, but High Hook livelined bunker. The bass often erupted on the surface, no reason to troll. Sea bass fishing kicked off on the boat Saturday, opening day of sea bass season, and the angling was good, producing scores of the lumpheads. 

<b>Bricktown</b>

Lots of anglers fished for striped bass on the ocean with bunker they snagged then livelined for bait, said Capt. Rich from <b>Jersey Hooker Outfitters Bait & Tackle</b>, located in Bricktown, and <b>Jersey Hooker Charters</b>, sailing from Point Pleasant Beach’s Canyon River Club Marina. The fishing seemed to become a matter of right place, right time, and many of the boaters, after catching the bunker for bait, headed to 60 feet off Asbury Park, fishing on marks. But stripers were trolled from Deal to Monmouth Beach on bunker spoons, Stretch 25 lures or Tsunami TS deep divers. Fluke fishing was hit or miss on the ocean, and most boaters searched for them in deeper spots. Lots of anglers grinded out catches of sea bass once sea bass season opened Saturday. “Nice knuckle heads coming over the rail,” Rich said. Surf anglers clammed stripers, and occasionally the bass pushed bunker into the wash, for “all out crazy fishing,” Rich said. At Manasquan Inlet and the Point Pleasant Canal, racer blues appeared every day. On Manasquan River a mixed bag of fluke, stripers and blues was to be had, for steady angling. Fluke were the No. 1 target, and stripers and blues sometimes showed up early in the mornings and toward dusk. Blueclaw crabs gave up some action on Beaver Dam Creek. Catch the shop’s <b><i>***Shark Special***</i></b> Get three 5-gallon buckets of bunker chum, one flat of frozen mackerel and six blocks of ice for only $109.99. Order and pay before June 15, and the price is $99.99. The shop offers deliveries for shark tournaments, and orders more than $500 get free delivery the night before, from South Amboy to Long Beach Island. Tournament deliveries must be placed one week prior to the tournament. The shop is offering fresh whole mackerel and bluefish by the pound at market price for sharking.

<b>Barnegat Light</b>

Awesome bluefishing was bombed on the ocean Saturday through Monday, Memorial Day weekend, on the party boat <b>Miss Barnegat Light</b>, reports on the vessel’s Web site said. Big blues 6 to 12 pounds were crushed on bait and jigs. “All you want!” one the reports said. Friday was another great day of bluefishing on the boat. Anglers each walloped five to fifteen blues 5 to 12 pounds. The Miss Barnegat Light is bluefishing 8 a.m. daily and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays.

<b>Barnegat</b>

<b>***Update, Wednesday, 6/1:***</b> Striped bass were all big, 25 to 40 pounds, that swam along the ocean beaches, said Capt. Dave DeGennaro from the <b>Hi Flier</b> in an e-mail. The fish were clubbed on livelined bunker that trips snagged for bait from bunker schools. On some days trolled bunker spoons put a few in the box, when livelining didn’t produce. On Barnegat Bay, bluefish were top-water plugged, and fluke were jigged. Open-boat trips for stripers will fish the ocean at 5:30 a.m. Friday through Sunday.  The trips will run up the beach, looking to snag and liveline for stripers, but if that doesn’t work, and the majority of the anglers want, the trips will troll. “I pride myself on fishing how you guys want to, not on how I want to,” Dave said. “I’ll always have it all onboard, so we have the option.” Early forecasts called for light winds and calm seas. Trips will fish Barnegat bay for top-water blues and fluke-jigging 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday through Monday. Call for more info.

<b>Tuckerton</b>

Bottom-fishing socked cod and sea bass, a good catch, on Saturday, opening day of sea bass season, with <b>Legal Limit Charters</b> on the ocean, Capt. T.J. said. Lots of out-of-season blackfish had to be released but served up good action. Trips are also fishing for summer flounder on Great Bay, and blues that previously swam the bay probably still did, T.J. imagined. T.J.’s other boat, sailing from Cape May, fished for drum, and see the report below.

<b>Mystic Island</b>

Some big sea bass were swung aboard from the ocean Saturday, opening day of sea bass season, Scott from <b>Scott’s Bait & Tackle</b> said in the reports on the shop’s Web site. “(If) wreck fishing is your thing, it’s happening,” he said. But word is to be prepared to wrestle a few dog sharks. Sea bass anglers who didn’t hit just the right spot caught huge dogs steadily. But those who fished the right wrecks whaled banner catches. Summer flounder fishing went okay on Great Bay, and Grassy Channel produced better. Bucktails did the job there, but other areas gave up the fluke, but fewer keepers. Don’t write off the clam stakes on the Mystic Island side of the Fish Factory, because waters there produced action. Three-quarter-pound bluefish were sometimes found on the bay, and the blues showed up in no particular place consistently. Winds on the ocean Sunday hid bunker from boaters looking to snag the baitfish to liveline them to striped bass, off the northern end of Long Beach Island, “which translates to no fish,” Scott said. Gnats reached “terror levels,” Scott said, around the back waters, so bring repellant, “or you will not be out very long,” he said.

<b>Sea Isle City</b>

Mike Spaeder and son Mike joined a trip Saturday on the back bay, pulling in summer flounder and a bunch of big sand sharks, lots of action, fun, said Capt. Joe Hughes from <b>Jersey Cape Guide Service</b> and <b>Gibson’s Tackle</b>. In the afternoon Dave Barnes, son Dave and buddy Chris jumped on deck on the bay, tugging in flounder and the big sharks, and even a 40-pound ray, unusual, kind of neat. Again, lots of action, and fun. Trips were fishing for flounder for food and the sharks for fun, and not a lot of the flounder were keepers. More flounder, but no keepers, some of them close, bit on a trip on the bay Sunday morning with Daryl Smith, son Sean and daughter Jenna. Probably 15 or 16 flounder grabbed baits in 1 ½ hours. Then the anglers pulled on the sharks for fun. Trips fished for flounder with a Gulp on a bucktail and a combo of a minnow and a Gulp on a trailer tied above. Joe often fishes for them with a plain minnow on the trailer, but the combo worked great lately. Jersey Cape has also been popper fishing for striped bass and blues on the bay, fishing that’s been terrific on both lures and flies, and is a specialty on the boat. See about some of those trips in the last reports, including the last one. Keep up on Joe’s fishing on <a href="http://captainjoehughes.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Jersey Cape’s blog</a>.

<b>Villas</b>

Brian and John McArdle sailed for summer flounder on Delaware Bay at Miah Maul Saturday, said Mike from <b>Budd’s Bait & Tackle</b>, located in the Villas, and the Ho-D-Doe, from <b>Budd’s Tackle Charter Service</b>, fishing from Cape May, in an e-mail. They each belted two keepers, fish that measured 18 ½ to 26 inches. Squid and spearing “were the baits of choice,” Mike said. The two anglers returned to the Maul Sunday, coming up with two keepers, releasing about 25 shorts, Mike said in the blog on the shop’s Web site. Reports about big sea bass and some sizeable flounder caught rolled in from Cape May Reef on the ocean. A 4.9-pound weakfish was weighed in that jumped on a swimming lure in the surf at Cape May’s Alexander Avenue. They do exist! Mike said. Weakfish and croakers were sometimes angled from the surf, and kingfish were reported beached at North Wildwood.  Fishing for stripers from the shore seemed to slow down in the heat. 

<b>Cape May</b>

Nine drum, including two big ones probably 80 pounds apiece, were boxed on Delaware Bay on the <b>Heavy Hitter</b> by 7:30 p.m. Sunday, when Capt. George gave this report on the phone on the outing. Two small ones had also been released, and this was the best drumming of the season onboard so far, and more time was left to fish on the trip. Maybe the bite was turning on, and the fishing was slow in the previous days. The Parkers, with George Parker Sr. and Jr., George’s son Morgan, Liz, George’s brother Brian, and Ralph, were the charter. On a trip Saturday with Harry Moore’s group from the pipe insulators’ union, one drum was bagged, and one broke off. Tom Ebbecke from Newfield’s Accrest Nursery and crew sailed for sea bass on the boat Saturday, opening day of sea bass season. A load of good sea bass and some cod 7 and 8 pounds were swung aboard, a healthy catch. The first two wrecks fished were unproductive, but the third wreck, in 80 feet, shallower than the first two, gave up the bite. Charters will sail for drum as long as the fish keep biting, and trips are running for sea bass, and call if interested.

Trips scored decent on drum, not hot and heavy, but a pick, a few each night, on Delaware Bay with <b>Legal Limit Charters</b>, Capt. T.J. said. The fish were a variety of sizes 20 to 70 pounds. On T.J.’s other boat, sailing from Tuckerton, a bottom-fishing trip copped a good catch of cod and sea bass Saturday, opening day of sea bass season. Lots of out-of-season blackfish had to be released but served up good action. Trips from Tuckerton are also fishing for summer flounder on Great Bay, and blues that previously swam the bay probably still did, T.J. imagined.

Anglers aboard went 5 for 6 on drum on Delaware Bay last Tuesday with <b>Relentless Sport Fishing</b>, Capt. Dave Bart said. One of the fish weighed 65 pounds, and the rest weighed about 40 pounds apiece. A charter Saturday clocked one drum about 40 pounds, and a trip Sunday iced two of the boomers. Relentless will keep fishing for drum and will soon begin to steam for sea bass and summer flounder. Dave heard about nobody who sea bass fished since the season for the fish opened Saturday. But he heard about boaters from Fortescue, where Dave lives, who began to score better on flounder Sunday on Delaware Bay, returning with some keepers.

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