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Hi Flier, Barnegat,
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Inshore: Fishing on the west side of Barnegat Bay is very
good right now. We are catching 12- to 15-inch weakfish on both shedder crabs
and live grass shrimp. Also in the mix are kingfish, fluke, blowfish, burrfish
(porcupine puffers), croakers and more. We are using ultralite spinning tackle
to amp up the fun. We are also catching small stripers and all sizes of
blackfish out on the inlet jetty, anchored up chumming with our special bait,
using spinning tackle and no sinkers! Just a hook. Very unique way to catch
these fish, and very effective. Most trips, we are combining this with the back
bay, and it is not uncommon to catch 10 different species. Offshore
has still been a struggle, with lots of green water ugly-ing up my
favorite haunt: Barnegat Ridge. On Wednesday I made a run to the Atlantic
Princess with Darren Dorris and Steve Spina in search of tuna. That area had
lots of life including whales, blackout readings and lots of big bluefish. Too
many bluefish and green water. We were called in to the west, the Glory Hole
area, where some guys were catching mahi in blue water, so we took a ride. We
didn't pass through this nice blue water on the way out, because it was on a
heading from Manasquan Inlet, and we left out of Barnegat. The water color was
beautiful. There were frigate mackerel breezing on the surface, a few flying
fish, but we didn't score with the mahi, as some of the boats there did. We gave
it a few hours, and went into Plan B, my first-ever wreck effort, on a piece
that a friend gave me the numbers to try. A few bergals came over the rail, and
then a cod. And more cod, probably 15 to 20 cod in two hours, with only two
keepers, a 22-incher, and a 26-pounder that ate my clam bait right at the
whistle to go home. We had a few conger eels, and Steve added this 3-pound
yellowtail flounder to the mix. That blue water in the Mudhole has my attention
right now, so I will be running an open boat there Saturday and Tuesday, armed
with an arsenal of spinning rods and bait to pitch to the lobster pots, and any
other structure we could find for mahi mahi (dolphin). Of course, we will have
all the tuna-trolling and -jigging gear onboard, just in case those fish are
cooperating. 5AM to 1PM, maximum of three anglers, all fish are shared. On
Sunday the weather looks questionable for offshore, so I will run a full-day
open-boat trip that covers all the inshore fishing we are doing. 5 AM to 1PM. We
will fish the back bay with shedder crab and/or live grass shrimp, bounce around
the channels for some fluke, and finish up with the light-tackle stripers and
blackfish out on the jetty. Limited to three people. The boat is also available
for charter or open-boat Monday from 2:30 PM to 7:30 PM in the back bay,
Wednesday full or half-day inshore or offshore, and Thursday 5AM to 11AM in the
bay. If the Ridge cleans up, we can run there as well. Hope to see you on
board.--Capt. Dave DeGennaro, www.HiFlier.com
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Fri Aug 19 2011
2:26 PM
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