Mmmm, dinner.
Some of the catch
on the Big Kid, Brielle, on
Wednesday. Big, tasty ling.
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Trips on the boat lately reeled up ling, cod and a few blackfish from the wrecks at the Mud Hole.
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The boat’s been one of the few charters fishing all winter and is still one of the few taking advantage. Cure cabin fever. Join the crew where they never left this season: on the waters, the fishing grounds.
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Cod invaded the offshore wrecks during trips on the party boat Jamaica, Brielle, last weekend, and an “old-fashioned” spring run seemed to be developing, a report said. About 300 were bagged on Saturday’s trip, and they were bigger than before, averaging 8 to 15 pounds, but some were larger.
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Sunday’s trip wasn’t quite as wild, but the catch was very good, and the cod were a little larger, most of them 10 to 18 pounds, and some were bigger, up to 28 pounds. Trips are fishing the 50- to 90-mile wrecks Saturdays, Sundays and Wednesdays for cod, pollock, hake and ling, leaving 11:30 p.m. the previous nights. Several trips are fishing the wrecks closer to shore, where cod also gathered, and a special trip was running offshore
1 a.m. to 7 p.m. today, Thursday.
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That is a 200-pound
bluefin tuna docked Saturday
from Hatteras, North Carolina,
with Fin Seeker Sport Fishing.
That is also the 6-foot 4-inch captain. What's more, the next
day's trip landed 21 bluefins that weighed more than 100 pounds apiece, and a 170-pounder was kept. Bluefin fishing was on!
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Well, all right! Charter crews
are starting to stir around, gear up for the season. Fisher Price Charters, Highlands, will begin to hunt striped bass soon, first clamming for the fish like this one taken in the early season last year.
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Next the trips will
bunker-chunk for the bass --
like this one chunked early in
the season last year -- when
the menhaden begin to arrive.
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The migrating bunker will
only draw in more stripers, and
the chunking, and livelining the
bait, will continue on the boat. Another linesider chunked on the vessel in the early season last
year. It's time to reserve the
spring charters, if you want to be able to choose dates, and ask about the Springtime Special.
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Spring has sprung,
at least on the Stray Cat
from Longport, a few towns
south of Atlantic City.
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The trip got out Sunday, picking up some cod from the 30-mile wrecks.
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Quite a few of the cod,
none of any size, but a good
bunch, were boxed. Tons of bergalls also grabbed the baits.
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Waters on the trip were
41 degrees, a little warmer than before. Any winter wait is finished, and the fishing is back in action. Open-boat trips and charters
are running, and call to climb aboard. Shake off the off-season.
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No. 3.
Ryan Harp checks in the third striped bass of the season at Absecon Bay Sportsman
Center on March 2.
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The $50 gift certificate that Harp won for the fish. Two $100 certificates remained up for grabs for the first stripers over 20 and 30 pounds weighed in at the shop.
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