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Barnegat Light
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Ocean temperatures that leaped up to the 70s pushed striped bass north, and heavy rains that lasted through last week seemed to drop Barnegat Bay’s salinity, affecting fishing there, though that angling started to turn back around by the beginning of this week, with fewer rains, said Capt. Steve from Reel Fantasea Charters in an e-mail. So he finished his ocean striper fishing for the season, after traveling as far north as Spring Lake and finding bunker but no stripers chasing them, the bunker “swimming carefree, with only slight signs of agitation,” but no hook-ups, he said. The good news was that by Monday, 2- to 5-pound blues swam all over Barnegat Inlet, and a few schoolie striped bass were mixed in. Reel Class will target schoolie stripers, blues, fluke and weakfish in the bay through summer, loading up on the fish. But the season’s trips will also head offshore for bonito, false albacore and mahi mahi at the wrecks, reefs and ridges. Wreck fishing was also already pounding out “reel nice” sea bass, he said, ling and released, out-of-season blackfish for “drop and reel” action! he added. One blackfish can be kept starting July 16. The wreck trips are a flat-out blast, he said. What’s more, they provide bags of snowy white fillets.
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