Joe Blaze layed aside his fly rod yesterday while fishing from his small boat in Manasquan River in order to seek a keeper fluke for the table with a jig and Gulp on a spinning rod, He had plenty of action with shorts up to 17 1 2 inches before getting into small blues within the river. Capt. Chris Di Stefano trolled his small boat from Shark River up to the Rocks yesterday to get his granddaughter into a big striper, but the one hit quickly got off and left only a scale on the Tony Maja bunker spoon.

Posted on May 31, 2020 Capt. Ron switches to sea bass Fluke fishing so far has been so poor in the Raritan Bay area that there haven been few reports. Therefore, Capt. Ron Santee decided to spend today fishing for sea bass and ling which provided fish in all bags and happier faces peeping out behind masks.

Nick Honachefsky boated a 5-pound fluke while fishing in Manasquan Inlet on Jim Louro s Vicky Lynn during yesterday morning s fog. Grumpy s noted that one angler caught over 15 small blues.

In recent years, the spring canyon trolling has been better than the traditional summer and fall sport though the spring bluefins are often on the small side. Despite the fog, Dave Lilly got off to a good start trolling bunker spoons for stripers over 20 pounds until a red tide moved into the middle of Raritan Bay and the bite died out though he still marked bass and bunkers.

Posted on May 24, 2020 Bumpy morning turns out well The only report I could find today came from the Golden Eagle out of Belmar which reported a bumpy start before an unexpected calming of the ocean which resulted in a good catch of sea bass along with some ling and winter flounder. There was a lack of wind and poor drifting conditions for the Raritan Bay fluke fleet yesterday, but no reports today when there was east wind that should have been good in Sandy Hook Bay.