Striper Trip with the Ana Bauder Charter

Had Ana on board today with parents Debra and Joe, and family friends Caroline and Dean. Made bait in one throw and headed down the beach. Worked a pod in Lavalette nada, continued onto the fleet In Seaside and had a fish on in the first drift, landed the 37lb'r weighed on a certified scale at Clarks. Thought it was going to be a good day, not, fish would not bite and south wind began to blow! Ran back north to try some seabassing, just shorts and ling, charter decided they had enough of the conditions. Finished the trip in the river fluking which was not good. Enjoyed fishing with this crew, and congrats to Debra for her first Bass.

Seabass Trip with Kevin Butler Charter

Had Kevin back with buddies Henry, Mike and Eric, with newcomers sheldon and Ameir. Started out with wrecks to the east and all 3 had tons of dogfish, came inside to the reef and had good fishing. Once the guys got in the groove and the newcomers got use to the gear and bites we started to catch. Caught close to 100 with almost 60 keepers, with half a dozen ling. On the way home hit a couple of bunker pods but no luv. Good ball-busting with cool peeps and great weather.

Striper Trip with the Mike Fox Charter

Had Mike back out with Chuck, Scott(Shotgun), and newcomer Brian. Made bait and went north like last couple of trips, hit numeorus spots, just blues, snagged and drop, blues again, went to spooning and landed our first and only keeper with Brian on the rod poping his Striper cherry, congrats. Went to chunking, blues, went drifting in the deep more blues and dogfish, pulled the plug to end a tough, long day. Good seeing the guys again.

Live-lining with Adam Conley Charter

Had Adam back with Dad John, buddies Larry, Pat and Mike. Got our bait and made our way to the north. Had high hopes with the east wind, not to be. Slow bite, managed only a few bites, and the Conley clan cashed in and landed our only 2 fish to 30lbs. Good to see the guys again, hope for more bites next time.

Striper-Seabass with Chuck Routar Charter

Had long time regular Chuck with brother Elia and (Black Cloud) Randy, Kevin and both Bob and Bob. Made bait and ran north, worked some buds but nothing settled in and had a decent pick lots of runoffs and misses, final tally was 5 fish to 32lbs. Guys wanted to change gears so we drifted on some seabass spots. Had a nice pick, in over an hour landed 50 fish with over half being keepers to 2lbs.

Live-lining with the John Butel charter

Had John back out with son Trevor, brother Dave with son Jeremy, Paul and John. Made bait and headed north, was working Asbury when I got the call from Capt Joe, of a bite developing up north. Once we got on the scene waited our turn, and it happened, Bass blowing our baits up out of the water, cool to see but missed way to many fish, Landed 3 to 36lbs and the fish vanished. Set up on the drift and landed another three with too many Bluefish. Good to see the Butel brothers again!

5/20 Bass

Had Art Murphy and the boys out for an afternoon trip. Left around 1pm and made our way north. Made bait easily and stopped on some good marks. Put a bass in the boat right away and thought it was game on. After that got covered up in bluefish everywhere we went. Managed to put two more bass in the box after weeding through tons of blues before the guys decided to call it a day.