Highlands / Sandy Hook, N.J.
07732
 | July August 2000August 30,
2000
If you know of any kids who might like to catch
some fish, now is the time! The annual snapper blues run is on in the rivers and
bays. They are now big and hungry enough to crash a small lure or hit on some
frozen spearing. Not yet half a pound, these juniors can give anyone some
excitement on light tackle. A great spot if they will let you out is the
Atlantic Highlands Harbor, also near any of the bridges. Try some crab
traps at the same time. Rich Morgan from Middletown, with his sons Connor
and Max had 30 keeper crabs at Marine Park in Red Bank.
Fluke
The N.J. Marine science Tournament was held last
Sturday. The fisherman that I spoke with reported a slow day in Flukeland. There
was not much of a breeze for drifting and only a few fish were taken. The
biggest I saw was a 5lb. and nothing else over 2lbs. there were a few good
catches though with the winner weighing in an 9 lbs.
South Jersey Man wins Annual Fluke
Tournament. Results were as follows:1st Place $3000 2nd Place $1000 3rd Place $500 5th Place $200 Bluefish
Saturday the bigger fish showed up at the
Shrewsbury Rocks off Monmouth Beach. Brian Rice of Rumson chummed up some
choppers up to 7 pounds.
Tuna
last Thursday night John Mattecci of Middletown
reports a successful tuna trip aboard John Bell's new Luhrs. Fishing with Dennis
Nalepa, Red Bank, and Chuck Swvenson, Tom's river, they chunked butterfish and
trolled the West Wall of the Hudspon Canyon. They had 2 50lb class yellowfins
and 4 30-40 lb class long fins. Three trolling and Three on bait.
Chris and L.B. Stavola fishing with Emido Melo, and
Herald Andrews boated 3 longfins trolling the tip of the canyon on Sunday
Morning.
Shark
Rich Quirk of Jackson, fishing on his Grady White
out of Morgan Creek, weighed in a 9ft thresher shark and mako 155lbs. He chummed
them just off the "Monster Ledge" on Saturday
Some great links for offshore fisherman
Ambrose Light Weather http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.phtml?$station=alsn6
20 miles off Fire Island Ny http://www.nws.fsu.edu/B/buoy?station=44025
August 23,
2000
A beautiful weekend with some nice blue water
always produces a good bite. Last week's northeast winds brought in some blue
water from the gulfstream which got rid of the green water that the tuna
fisherman hate. The seas were calm and the fish
cooperated.
Fluke
Captain Stan on the Elaine B reported last Friday
"Fluke fishing has been
outstanding other than three days Sat Sun and Mon with the northeast wind and rain the fishing has been very consistant. Ambrose Chan. has been giving up fish up to 10Lbs. when conditions are favorable. The reach chan.has been Very very good the last 4 days with more keepers than throwbacks and many limits.Today in the rain all on board had limits." He continued to bring in coolers full of fluke for
his loyal customers over this weekend reporting "Ambrose Channel has been the place the last few days. Some limits everyday
pool fish in the 6 to 8 lb range. Fish are now starting to gather up for
their fall migration. It's just starting so we have a lot of very good
fishing left. Today was very good the morning bite was excellent." The Elaine B runs 3/4 day trips for fluke leaving the
dock at 7:30 a.m. and arriving at 2:30 p.m. .
Blues
Good reports of big blues at the "mud" buoy.
This is were the dredge spoils from Port Elizabeth are being dumped. For
some reason as soon as they started dumping again the bluefish moved in! George
Feneise from Monmouth Beach has been limiting out with chum. His biggest went
14lbs on Saturday.
Bass
The weekend saw good catches on the proper
tides. Captain Phil Sciorentino reports up to 30 bass on Saturday Morning
Charter with all of his clients limiting out and only a few on his evening
charter. He said the biggest factor for the poor p.m. catch was a wind
against tide situation. Subsequently, the boat will not drift the same speed as
the bait and creates an inadequete bait presentation.
Weakfish
Al Ristori of the Star Ledger Stopped in to the Bait Shop w/ Capt. Lou Graziano, the same guy who took 2nd place in this years MBCT Fishing Tourney here at Bahrs Landing. Al Reports This "The search for scarce sandworms resulted in Capt. Lou Grazioso not getting away from the Atlantic Highlands ramp until almost 7 a.m. Saturday (after finally finding them at guess where? Bahrs Landing), and we missed the early bite before fighting the northwest wind against flood tide for a pick in Raritan Reach which produced equal numbers of 2-to-4-pounders and 14-to-17-inchers. Looking at those smaller weaks it was hard to believe that a few years ago we were keeping such small fish which are still legal though they don't produce much of a fillet.
It was a different story when Grazioso returned Sunday morning with the Marco Benolli party from Englewood as they clobbered weaks off the Navy Pier despite having to use 8-ounce sinkers in the gusty northerly wind. About half were 3-to-5-pounders, plus one about 8 pounds, and four fluke were added on the flats.
The Bandit from Highlands also had fine weakfishing Sunday with many limits reported and a top weak of 6 pounds (also w/ Bahrs Landing worms). Some fluke and small blues were added.
Capt. Jerry Ciriello had about 225 weakfish on the Freddy C. from Leonardo during Sunday afternoon's trip. Mark Weiner from Wedgewood caught a limit up to 5 pounds, and Bob Smith of Freehold took the pool with a 6 1/2-pounder. Capt. Freddy Coles said fluking has been very good since Wednesday. John Givenillo of Leonardo boated a 6 9/16-pounder Friday, and Capt. Jack from Howell took Saturday's pool with a 9.2-pounder." Thanks Al ! Tuna The Canyon is still Hot and the conditions haven't been this good for a long time. Jerry Brager of Middletown had a great night on Saturday in the Canyon on his 55 Viking The "Georgia Peach" Also on board was Tony Luciano Sea Bright. They boated 15 longfins up to 35 pounds. Jeff Shaner, Alpine & John Wallace Tenafly, had a great first trip in the canyon 2 weekendsaog boating 3 50lb class Yellowfins trolling in the early a.m.. They were fishing on Dan Crognale's 46 hatteras "Tequilla ville" out of Brielle. and the best part is that not one had ever caught a 80 lb Yellowfin let alone been in the Hudson Canyon! |
