Well if you were debating on going today and you stayed home you missed our best day this week. Very good action with the shorts and a few more nicer size striped bass plus some bonus fish and only a few blues mixed in.

Bob Matthews sent a report from Fisherman's Den in Belmar Marina noting that there have been big concentrations of bait and stripers in 40-to-70-feet for trolling and jigging, but that surfcasters are only catching small bass. Though Bob Correll of Bay Head didn't find any bass at his local beach in the morning, he did have plenty of action with seven large hickory shad.

Made our day trip for blackfish again today. Ben made sure everyone went home with a keeper blackfish.

 Few keeper and short Blackfish here and there but nothing to write home about. Good news is that the current finally change today and is now going down the beach which should get these fish in the mood to chew down here. Most keepers were caught on white crabs today and a few on greens.

The Sea Hunter from Atlantic Highlands reported many areas of striper activity on Thursday with lots of shorts, some big blues, and an occasional bonus or keeper bass. The Captree Pride reported a continuation of that fishing with diamond jigs this week as Wednesday morning's trip had a high hook with 60 stripers, of which eight were over 28 inches.