That’s a 10-pound,
whopper weakfish
that hit a trolled
bucktail on the back
bay for Mike Gana,
above. Photo from Sea
Isle Bait & Tackle,
Sea Isle City. The bay's
weakfish population
was something.
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Back at the dock
after a sea bass
trip that smoked
the catches on the
ocean with
Mushin Sportfishing,
Point Pleasant Beach.
The angling was
going well.
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This black drum grabbed
a livelined bunker
meant for striped bass
in June on the
Hyper Striper, Highlands.
The fish bottomed-
out the 60-pound
Boga Grip and
was released.
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Bottom-fishing
for sea bass, like
this one, was good
at ocean wrecks for
Last Lady Fishing
Charters, Neptune.
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Another sea bass.
Striped bass fishing,
on the other hand,
slowed on the ocean,
because of southerly
winds that cooled the
waters. If winds switched,
catches were expected
to pick back up.
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Time to think
about summer cod
with Last Lady, too.
Charters and individual-
reservation trips were
sailing, including
individual- rez trips
for stripers or wreck-
fishing, whichever
is best, on June 11,
and for cod,
pollock and hake
on June 19.
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Success! Live to Fish
Guide Service, the
freshwater guide, ran
the season’s first
nighttime trip for
walleyes on a lake,
whaling 10 of the
fish to 7 pounds.
Above, Paul Schmidt,
tournament
largemouth bass
angler, kept two.
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Walleyes, with their
large eyes, at night
prey on herring in
shallows. There walleyes
can be top-water
plugged. Rapala Original
Floating Lures in
size F18, a 7-incher,
caught them.
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The fishing --
a unique experience,
sometimes in the
graveyard shift – was
just beginning,
and should last
into July. The fish
are sizeable, and also
tasty, a member of
the perch family.
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Tom Guage's charter
limited out
on striped bass
on the
Hyper Striper,
Highlands.
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A limit
of summer flounder
and a blue from
the back bay
at Sea Isle Bait &
Tackle, Sea Isle City.
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On the next day,
this angler
shows a 6-pounder
from his limit
of flounder from the
bay at the shop.
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