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Tony Arcabascio's Tony Maja bunker spoon struck again with the first big striper taken out of Barnegat Inlet. Dan De Pasquale (16) was trolling the green #4 with his father when the 42-pounder hit in rough and dirty 50-foot waters off the bathing beach at Island Beach State Park on Saturday. Arcabascio says that the big bass are just starting to show up in that area. Striper fishing was tough today for Tank Matraxia's party from Lyndhurst on Capt. Rick Woerner's Carnivore from Sewaren -- except for Pete LaBoy who caught three bass from 29 inches to about 20 pounds one after another just as the incoming tide starting moving in the West Bank area. That was it except for a big blue (which weren't a problem there) and two large skates. Woerner finished up by moving toward the back of the bay where everyone had plenty of action with blues from about 10 to 15 pounds despite getting there at the very end of the tide.  We left those choppers hitting bunker chunks steadily. Miss Belmar Princess got off to a good start north of their inlet with 4-to-14-pound blues on both bait and jigs, but that action died out during the day. A move to Sandy Hook got them into lots of bunkers with some fish swirling in them that wouldn't hit. Allen Riley of South Plainfield, and his brother Ed of Edison, fished the Long Branch surf this morning, and had more action than they expected. Allen landed a 30-inch bluefish on a bunker chunk plus two "mini-stripers" on sand worms, while Ed released a 25-inch striper on sand worms. Skates also feasted on the bunker chunks. At Seaside Park, Betty & Nick's weighed a 25 3/8-pound striper for Dot Gural of Waretown, who caught it on a clam in Island Beach State Park. That was her largest from the surf, and the shop's biggest bass so far this season. Geno Belcastro of Baltimore beached four bass up to 15 pounds on bunker in the park, and J. Christofer had a 19-pound striper plus four 18-pound blues there on bunker. Blowfish have been reported in the surf.

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