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  • 2020-06-14 Ristori Bay Head

    Posted on June 14, 2020 Little shark news June has been prime time for sharking along the Jersey Shore as well as on Long Island, but between the current mako regulations and the pandemic there s been little interest in tournaments and charters or even private boat sharking. It appears that the biggest Long Island shark contest, the Freeport Hudson Anglers, will be contested next weekend, but the venerable Mako Mania of the Greater Point Peasant Charter Boat Association was changed to a tuna format before being cancelled due to the pandemic.
  • 2020-06-13 Ristori Bay Head

    Just like yesterday, when Mike Heaney and I trolled Little Italy with Correll, we saw only a few scattered tuna chicks, no whales or slicks and no other surface signs of tuna. At least yesterday there were a few large little tunny and a couple of early arriving bonito hitting the tuna lures.
  • 2020-06-11 Ristori Bay Head

    Dan Sheehan said bunkers stayed out of casting range yesterday morning at Sandy Hook, but some small blues hit Hogy epoxy jigs. Casting a jig into the howling south wind wasn t easy, but I actually had the opportunity to catch something.
  • 2020-06-10 Ristori Bay Head

    Jon Falkowski of Linden reports yesterday s sea bass fishing on the Golden Eagle from Belmar wasn t as good as two weeks ago . There were a lot of sea bass marked, but they didn t bite well.
  • 2020-06-09 Ristori Bay Head

    When whales were making a comeback several decades ago, I was tuna fishing on Mako outboards out of Montauk and started seeing them swimming under the boat at times as I chunked. I once hooked a whale while casting a 1 4-ounce bucktail jig for school stripers off Ocean Beach even though I hadn t seen it surface at any time.
  • 2020-06-08 Ristori Bay Head

    Posted on June 8, 2020 The Golden Eagle from Belmar was catching sea bass Sunday when bluefins from about 100 to 150 pounds began splashing on the surface and picking off dead, floating ling. Semkewyc has cancelled the rest of those striper trips and goes back daily fluking tomorrow with his Sea Hunter from Atlantic Highlands, The Queen Mary from Point Pleasant also got into blues up to 4 pounds on jigs during Saturday s trip that also produced sea bass.
  • 2020-06-07 Ristori Bay Head

    Posted on June 7, 2020 What a difference a day can make Capt. Rob Semkewyc was surrounded by stripers yesterday on his Sea Hunter from Atlantic Highlands, as was noted in yesterday s blog. Frank Jones was at the right place Saturday as he and his son Kyle livelined four stripers up to 48 inches in the fog off the Red Church while fishing on Bob Murzada s Knee Deep before heading out to the Farms for limits of sea bass.
  • 2020-06-06 Ristori Bay Head

    Posted on June 6, 2020 Sea Hunter Hundreds of bass rolling After getting shut out during his first striper trip on Wednesday, Capt. Rob Semkewyc had a far different experience as he reported bunkers and bass up all day, with hundreds of bass rolling on the surface. Moving down to Seaside didn t provide any more hope, and there were no boats fishing during the run back to Manasquan Inlet on a beautiful day when there would usually be lots of boats working bunker schools for stripers or drifting for fluke at this time of year.
  • 2020-06-05 Ristori Bay Head

    Capt. Chris Di Stefano made the right choice as he joined Jimmy Herrick on the Navesink River as the crew limited on fluke with few shorts to work through which is just the opposite of what Chris has found in Shark River, As noted in last night s blog, Mark Roy had trolled mojos all day in Raritan Bay without a hit. The Queen Mary from Point Pleasant reported only a pick of sea bass in the southeast wind after having had consistent action.
  • 2020-06-04 Ristori Bay Head

    On Tuesday, Karl Hackkert and his two sons trolled eight bluefins (releasing all but 5) and a bigeye before moving into the shallower big bluefin grounds to troll a 57-inch 100-pounder on a way back balao. He ll try again Friday, and urges anglers to bring a lighter spinner to snag bunkers plus a heavier outfit for fishing those big baits.

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