Last Friday's column noted how striped bass anglers were once again bailed out by the Hudson River spawning stock which produced consistent fishing in that river plus Raritan Bay while the coastal migratory was slow again in the spring before providing some shots of hot action off Ocean County in the fall prior to a decent showing of school stripers that worked out well for the party boat fleet due to the change to a slot bass in the bonus bass program. Surfcasters did well with those blues in that area at times, but I never saw any repeat of the spring bluefish blitz of the year before in the Bay Head to Point Pleasant area.
Had decent life today early,,picked at keepers and plenty of shorts mixed in. Not good though,moved around looking for better and just picked here and there,,some spots had good life and you pick at the fish,others were just shorts. In the end a few had limits,Sammy was high hook with his limit plus and some had 1,2,or maybe 3 keepers,,Some just had the short curse catching up to ten chuckers. .No big ones today,,maybe tomorrow they will put the feedbag on for us,,We are fishing tomorrow. Weather looks good before the storm we get over the weekend.
There may be a brief window of opportunity for anglers this week before the predicted weekend snow storm. Most of the bass that seem to be wintering there were in the 35-inch class, but they also had one larger striper
The Atlantic City Boat Show will move into the Convention Center from Feb. 3 to 7. He's been working many days at the new Fisherman's Den North in Atlantic Highlands Harbor -- which will be open in the spring.
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