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We've had some great weather lately, but all that's about to rnd Monday night -- so anglers are advised to take advantage of one more fine day on Monday beforet the small craft warnings go up. It was actually too nice today for the fishing I was doing as there was no ind in there was no wind this morning for sharking with John Moran of Colts Neck on his Ofishal Business from Hoffman's Marina in Brielle. Bob Correll of Bay Head and Pete Reno of Jackson were also aboard as we drifted at Monster Ledge to take advantage of the current for some movement as the forecast was only for a 5 mph wind in the afternoon.  When we did get that little bit of wind there was a blistering run-off, but the fish didn't get hooked as we even got the little tunny fillet back intact. What we did catch on the bottom was an endless stream of spiny dogfish that seem to carpet the bottom in 200 feet. It turns out we weren't the only ones dealing with dogfish. Pete Connell of Avon fished his favorite sea bass numbers at the Farms on the opening day for that species, but caught only a couple and one porgy before very big dogfish drove him off. A move to Sea Girt Reef produced lots of sea robins before dogfish took over again. The Golden Eagle from Belmar reported incredible bluefishing on the Saturday night trip for choppers up to 22 pounds. At times they had eight and 10 on at a time. However, the Sunday day trip once again only produced a pick of those jumbos. Ar Atlantic Highlands, the Fishermen reported a good mixed bag trip with porgies and sea bass plus t some large tog and a few flounders, blowfish, and even a chub mackerel. The Sea Hunter found lots of little tunny, but they wouldn't hit, and only one was caught before Capt. Rob Semkewyc ran down the  beach to see a humpback whale but found no stripers or blues. A move to the channels did produce a striper and a small blue. "There were some reports of stripers in the bunker schools to the south, but There are no details at this time. Jim's Tackle in Cape May reports: "We are seeing some more keeper stripsrs showing up around the rock piles on the beach front and at Cape May Point. Most of the bigger fish were caught either plugging or casting bucktails although one angler landed a 35" bass on a squid head at Sunset Beach. The small Blues are still around in good numbers and will take just about any bait offered readily.The sea bass season is finally open and there seems to be good numbers of larger fish on the wrecks in the 30 mile range. We did speak to a couple of guys who jumped around Cape May and Delaware Reef Site #11 and wound up with a good catch of sea bass and triggerfish. Offshore the main bite is still dolphin with only a few tuna and wahoo catches reported. The crew of the "Team Player" was daytime swordfishing Friday and boated two swords a 200lber and a 300lb + fish. This is the second year they have been doing it and the best fish they've caught yet.

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