A turtle is seen near Sandy Hook. Photo from Aret.

Docking a bluefin tuna
from a trip to the Chicken Canyon
with High Hook Sport
Fishing, Point Pleasant.
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Fifteen fluke to two 7-pounders were boated on the ocean on a trip with two anglers with High Hook.
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Dealing with some weather.
The weather that comes with the change of seasons, and eventually triggers the fall's coastal migration of fish, seemed to be starting already. Above, on the Stray Cat, Longport, on the day before the season's first nor'easter came through in late August.
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But the trip caught fish, including lots of sea bass, like this one, and blues 15 miles from shore.
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A bunker transfer boat is seen on the trip. Trips are fishing for sea bass, blues, summer flounder, croakers, tuna and more.
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Steve Liberty boats
a 30-pound pollock at
the Mudole in August.
The trip also totaled 12 keeper
cod. "Beautiful day on the
water!" he said.

Some better catches of fluke,
including boat limits, were scored on the ocean in August with Fish Monger Charters, Brielle.
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Not much time was left in the fluke season. Afterward trips would fish for sea bass, false albacore, bonito, striped bass, blues and blackfish.
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A 38-1/2-inch tiger muskellunge trolled on a Rapala F18 lure
meant for walleyes on a trip
on Greenwood Lake with Live to Fish Guide Service, Montvale.
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Live to Fish tried to revive the fish, remaining nearby for 2 1/2 hours, but unfortunately the musky succumbed to lactic acid
build up, the captain said.
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Tiger muskies are a hybrid of a northern pike and a muskie, probably one of the most beautiful fish, the captain said. The hybrid is sterile and grows faster than
either parent, he said.
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Fluke fishing on the party boat Atlantic Star, Atlantic Highlands.
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Trips sailed twice daily
for the flatties.
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The season’s first big blackfish,
a 9-3/4-pounder, is landed in August with Fishguts Inshore Charters, Seaside Park. “Big
fish in warm weather is about a dream come true for bottom fishermen,” the captain said. Sea bass trips at the ocean wrecks mixed in fishing for the tautog.
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