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5/7 -- Well the bunker have arrived in big numbers and the big stripers
are here with them. We livelined a limit of bigger bass on our last trip. Report
below. Hopefully this will start our livelining of bunker for trophy stripers!
Little earlier than last year, and the last few years have been great. With fish
up to 47 lbs and tons of personal bests. Charter dates are filling up quick, due
to the overlap of the upcoming seabass season and trophy striper livelining. We
will sail Open for stripers and will start our afternoon Open Boat specials next
week. Also will be fishing for seabass when that opens, also Open Boat trips
when not chartered. We limited out just about every seabass trip last spring and
fall last year! And expect lock and load action from the opening! Check the
website for more info. ***Live Line Limits: Headed out with
Craig, Darrel, Ron and Phil for another day of striper fishing. On the way up we
saw a load of bunker off Belmar. Made some bait for the well. Headed up to the
Rocks, didn't see much. Couple miles further north some bird play and fish. But
it wasn't good ... couple of blues. .. couple of keepers ... couple short
stripers. Played around with that for a while hoping they would pop up and we
could get a good crack at them and never did. Got a Call from Capt Ant that it
was going off big fish on bunkers down south! Got down there, it was quite an
amazing sight with bass chasing bunker all over the place ... 3 and 4 bass
trying to eat a bunker off the top at once and every fish we caught had others
following it! The guys all caught some nice stripers until they had their legal
limit and released the rest for another day! They also had a load of blues!
First time liveliners and the guys did a great job gettin the hang of it! Some
spread of bunker and fish ... had to be 3 or 4 miles ... N to south and both
inshore to a couple miles off the beach ... similar to what wesve seen in June
the last few years! Everyone wound up with a limit, big fish for us was 27 lbs,
and some blues. Others I know had some bigger, and we broke a few good ones off.
So hopefully this will be the start of the livelining the bigger fish. It was
another Great Day with a Great Crew! Thanks again guys! Will be back at it Sat
& Sun and will be running Open Boat trips during the weekdays next week!
Give a Buzz Lets Go Fishing!!! www.fishmongercharters.com
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