Jim Talcott, Highlands, NJ, took the pool with a very nice 9 POUND fish which is our largest of the young season!Weather looks GREAT for the next several days!
We ended leaving the river early to fish in the bay, where McIntosh of Toms River (a former colleague of mine at Garcia Fishing Tackle) and Ray Colon along with son and grandson Joe and Nathan McIntosh from Painted Post, N. Y. had fun wrestling with the big blues after they hit live bunker, chunks and trolled Tony Maja bunker spoons -- but no stripers broke through as we watched the naval fleet moving toward the harbor. Capt. Bud McArthur ran his Splinter from Brick to the south, and managed to troll a 42-inch striper on a green Reliable bunker spoon offshore of the bait and near the three-mile state limit.
There were a few more keepers around today and high hook had 4 keepers and the big fish went 6. With this warm weather the fishing should just improve more more each day.
We fished the bait till the tied went slack then went to the jigs . We even caught a few smaller ones today in the 6-7 lb range on the jigs, just perfect for swinging over the rail.
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