New Jersey Fishing Reports, New Jersey Fishing Charters

Great Kills Harbor
A.M. P.M.	1:34 1:47
Atlantic Highlands
A.M. P.M.	1:18 1:31
Sandy Hook, Fort Hancock
A.M. P.M.	1:28 1:41
Long Branch
A.M. P.M.	1:02 1:15
Manasquan Inlet, USCG Station
A.M. P.M.	1:16 1:29
Seaside Heights
A.M. P.M.	12:58 1:11
Barnegat Inlet, USCG Station
A.M. P.M.	1:16 1:29
Little Egg Inlet
A.M. P.M.	1:44 1:57
Brigantine Channel
A.M. P.M.	2:14 2:28
Atlantic City
A.M. P.M.	1:15 1:29
Townsend's Inlet
A.M. P.M.	1:49 2:03
Wildwood Crest
A.M. P.M.	1:18 1:32
Cape May
A.M. P.M.	1:49 2:03
East Point, Delaware Bay
A.M. P.M.	3:02 3:22
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New Jersey
Saltwater Fishing Report

Report from Thursday, November 20.

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Ocean City

Lots of striped bass and blues, big ones, stormed the surf, more fish close to the beaches than seen in some time, said Bill from Fin-Atics. Northwest winds sucked them right in. A 48-inch bass was the biggest checked in at the shop and smacked a Hopkins jig at Corson’s Inlet. Two 46-inchers were brought in too, and most of the blues weighed 12 to 15 pounds, and a 10-pounder was a small one. The fish chased bunker, and bunker and clams were top baits. During some years stripers migrate past but offshore, beyond 3 miles, where fishing for them is closed. They probably still schooled there, but everybody concentrated on the surf. Boaters could also score along the beaches, mostly on eels or bunker, but on jigs when schools were found. But strong winds discouraged boaters from sailing lately. A few smaller stripers could be hooked in the bay, and sometimes the bunker moved into the bay, and the big fish followed them. But again, most anglers targeted the beaches. The tog bag limit increased to six fish Sunday from the previous limit of one, and blackfish could be landed along the structure including the Seaview Harbor break wall and along the dock at Corson’s. Tog swam the reefs and wrecks in the ocean, but no customers tried sailing there in the winds. Customers were all chasing the bass and blues anyway. Fishing was pretty good, Bill said.