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Dennisville
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A few customers tried for striped bass this past week, said Rusty from Captain Tate’s Bait & Tackle. He heard about no confirmed catches boated locally, but one angler had a decent run-off at Bug Light. Carl Glen whacked a 19-pounder from the beach of the bay at Kimball’s Road, just south of Reeds Beach, on a bunker chunk. The shop started stocking fresh bunker daily when available for striper fishing, and catches traditionally have kicked in around the 15th of the month. In the past couple of years the bite took off toward the end of the month, because the weather was warm, but the fishing might come earlier this year. Reports about catches were being heard farther north toward Brigantine and Long Beach Island, and if those fish trickle down, and with 39-degree air temps like this morning, catches of stripers might begin soon on the bay, and some should begin to be landed this weekend. A bunch of weakfish remained in the bay at the same places as before, including the oyster bed stakes, including off Reeds Beach, and off Thompson’s Beach and around the 1 buoy. The ocean front held loads of croakers and some weakfish, kingfish and porgies. Pat Brady hammered a 4-pound porgy, a huge one, other porgies, big sea bass, and croakers 5 miles from shore. Sea bass seemed to start appearing at places like Cape May Reef and Wildwood Reef. Tog were abundant everywhere along structure like bridges and rock piles. Small striped bass and a few keepers seemed to give up fights on the back bay. Big weakfish hovered around Hereford Inlet along the beach and bridge, and live spots will attract them, and stripers were mixed in. On the offshore grounds Freddie Ochs fought three 50-pound bluefin tuna at 19-Fathom Lump, and those were the only fish he found the whole trip, but good enough. He reportedly said the ocean was 65 degrees from the inlet to the 19, so waters were cooling. Larry Miller fished Baltimore Canyon to land two blue marlin, a white marlin and five mahi mahi around 25 pounds apiece, and had four wahoo bite-offs.
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