Sunday 11-20:  Had Steve B's charter today which was postponed twice due to weather earlier this fall. Unfortunately Steve's whole crew couldn't make it but Coop, and his Dad Bill joined us and we filled a couple of Steve's spots with Chris W and John T from the Saltwater Anglers of Bergen County.

Broke the inlet in the dark and ran south into a tight chop with the hard SSW wind - couldn't make more than 17 kts going down so it took us a bit longer. We didn't get onto the scene off IBSP until slightly after 7, missing the very early bite. Early on, we had a few shorts, a dogfish, but that was it. We ran offshore where we saw loads of birds, but they were just working on bait.

Got a few calls of the bite going on a little further south and inshore, so we headed that way. First drop was in a huge fleet in roughly 20' water, and we had a few nice ones right away. After that, we couldn't buy a bite for a little bit, so we started searching a little further off and found the motherlode of readings - we had readings from the bottom up to 15' down SOLID and as soon as the jigs went in, the bite was on. In no time we filled the boat limit, all with nice fish in the 30-35" range plus some that went back and some shorts. Literally every jig that hit the water was getting bit - we re-did this drift 3 times and had similar action before it dried up.

We easily boxed our boat limit + 1 bonus fish by 9:30 - for the most part the bite died off for us but we kept searching for more life and found some shorts and some "lucky" keepers as we worked our way north as well as a few bluefish. That hard SSW wind we had early turned to a nice warm, WSW which flattened the ocean out nicely for our ride back.

We were all done by 1 PM and back at the dock by 2. The crew easily boated around 40 bass, with at least 20 being "keepers" (again some were lucky today) keeping the boat limit of 14 fish + Bill's bonus fish. Out of the 15 we kept, 14 were in the 30-35" range with only one being a "measurable" fish of 28.5" - the crew also boated a half dozen bluefish that are going to John's smoker. Steve also snagged a 5" sandeel on his jig - they were THAT thick.

Overall, this was another great day of jigging bass this fall with a superb crew. This run the last few weeks has been nothing short of tremendous, and the size and quality of the fish we've been catching has been excellent for the fall season. Hopefully, this little run we're having has some legs and keeps on going the next few weeks!!

Saturday 11-19:  Had Steve Hamby and his crew onboard for their regular fall bass charter (they booked the same date as last year when they caught a limit + as well!) Broke the inlet a little after 6 and ran south again, right back to where we have been fishing.

First drift, on some reads and a lot more bait marks than last week, was lights-out lock and load drop and reel whatever ya want to call it fishing. In the first 10 minutes, we had 8 keepers in the boat, and then again as it did last week, things slowed down a bit so we played w/ some smaller fish along the beach on soft plastics and AVA's.

Got a call that there was a bite a couple miles south - first drift was all bluefish, second drift, on some good marks inside a huge fleet, was lights out as we had keeper after keeper on the jigs.  By 9:30 we had a full boat limit, and were in catch and release mode. We started working our way north at 11, stopping here and there under some birds in on the beach and off the beach, but the bite was completely over.

Called it a day just after one - we easily boated 25-30 keeper sized bass only keeping our legal limit to 35" (big fish taken by Ray who was also high hook with 6 keeper sized bass). We also had about a dozen shorts, and around 10 bluefish up to 15#. It was simply another great day and this fishing is stellar!! Thanks for coming down guys!!!