One of the bluefin tuna that swarmed around the Virginia wreck off Long Island, located 60 miles from New Jersey. Mike Tumolo jigged the fish last weekend. Photo from Mike Accordino.

Muskellunge fishing seemed to be picking up for Live to Fish Guide Service, Montvale, after the hottest days of summer. A 42-incher is landed at Echo Lake in West Milford during a past year with Live to Fish.
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A true musky.
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A tiger musky, a hybrid of a musky and a northern pike. Note the difference in the pattern on the gill cover. Not to be mistaken with a barred musky, a subspecies that looks similar.
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Live to Fish is also walleye
fishing on the lakes. Here's a beauty caught on a big plug. "If you want big fish, don't be afraid to throw big stuff!" the captain said.
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A trip went 12 for 25
on bluefin tuna, easily
bagging a limit of two,
releasing the rest, last week
on Friday with Andrea’s Toy
Charters, Point Pleasant.
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The fish, 35- to 55-pounders, were all jigged, and sometimes many other bluefins trailed the hooked tuna around the boat.
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Afterward the charter light-tackled a dozen mahi mahi to top off the day!
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Bob Misak, from Barnegat Light Bait & Tackle, drills a 10-pound sheepshead from the end of Barnegat Inlet's south jetty. Sheepshead gathered around the end, and blackfish hovered along the rocks up and down the jetty.
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A bluefin tuna jigged at the
Chicken Canyon on Saturday.
Photo from Dan McAvoy.

Another one of the fish jigged on McAvoy's trip. He and friends released lots, too.

Marina Ivanova with her first-ever fluke, a 24-incher, caught on her first-ever fish bite, on Friday at Barnegat Inlet on Richard Plotkin’s Double Trouble. Photo from him.

A trip went 10 for 14 on dusky sharks to 60 pounds with Jim and Connor Jackson with Jersey Cape Guide Service, Sea Isle City.
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The special trips fish for the sharks, mostly duskies and browns, catch and release by regulation, only 8 to 10 miles from shore with either conventional or fly tackle.
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The trips are an opportunity
to fish the blue waters for big, powerful fish without the long traveling time offshore that
shark trips usually require.
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Space was available Wednesday and this Sunday on the year’s final individual-reservation trips for fluke with Last Lady Fishing Charters, Neptune, before the flattie season ends the day after Labor Day.
Kids under 12 sail free,
limited to two kids per adult.
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Connor Jackson docks
a 25-inch summer flounder
from a trip from Sea Isle City.

Members of the Ocean City Fishing Club boated croakers and small summer flounder on the ocean on a trip before last week’s nor’easter on the Stray Cat from Longport, across the inlet from Ocean City. The fishing shut down close to shore after the storm, apparently because of the swell and stirred up waters, but catches were found farther off.
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Also on the boat, an Amish charter jumped aboard after the storm.
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They wanted to fish for flounder a short time, the captain said.
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Ribbon fish or cutlass fish swarmed around the vessel
on another trip that Friday.
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