Friday, May 25, 2012: Kinda pale ;looking out there but the relatively light onshore winds make for fairly decent fishing conditions. The surf is pushing a 2 to 3 foot easterly short-period swell and the water is clean and, once again, looking very fishful. However, I did some beach stops and the fishing pressure is surprisingly light, considering every breakfast joint on the Island is hoping, with waiting lines. 

I have to think that boat anglers will find some serious…

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Thursday, May 24, 2012: It seems fishy out there. You can smell it – helped along by light directly onshore winds. That said, where the hell are the frickin’ bass? Yes, there have been a scattering of beachfront bass taken, mainly shorts and a few just keepers, going for clams and bunker.

Yesterday, I had my first full-skunk plugging session in weeks. I had a workload on my mind and wasn’t overly immersed in my casting. I swear there’s some cosmic thing…

1. Drum, red  -- 55/0 -- 1985   Daniel Yanino     Great Bay
2. Flounder, winter -- 5/ 11 -- 1993   Jimmy Swanson      Off Barnegat Light
3. Hake, white  -- 41/7 -- 1989   Wayne Eble      Off Barnegat Light
4. Kingfish, Northern -- 2 /8 -- 2004   Chester Urbanski     Barnegat Bay
5. Perch, white -- 2/12…

Wednesday, May 23, 2012: If you’re a saltwater angler on the mainland right now – noon – you’ll surely be champing at the bit. The skies have been burnt clean -- into a blue like we haven’t seen in awhile. What’s more, the sun beat down has already pushed mainland temps well past the predicted high. It’s into the 80s.

And if you’re contriving any way possible to get over here to fish the LBI area, you’re kinda on the right track. That said, I’m going to go off the…