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Alert -- Sunday, November 29, 2009: There is an excellent snag-and-drop bite in the south end zone. It was hot early a.m. but backed off a bit midday. Still, the stripering is shining. The boat action is also turning on big time. If you don’t have to zip back home (mainland) today, it’ll really be worth hanging in through late-day and into tomorrow. Continue

Saturday Nov. 28, 09 --

The winds were moderately crazy out of the west but it made little difference to a large holiday weekend angling crowd. A combination of clean ocean conditions and super sunny weather lead to a damn decent showing of stripers and blues into the Classic. A couple of the bass were over 20 pounds. There were also a goodly number of non-tourney stripers, per a fellow I met in Wawa who had two keeper to take home (Burlington County). “I got them within 20 minutes then it went… Continue

(Above) Kirby's catch Holgate:


Friday, November 27, 2009:


Well, the cold-season west winds have arrived and will exert themselves to the tune of near gales. It’ll feel chilly due mainly to our lack of acclimatizing. Still, we won’t be getting any where near freezing on the Island. With the holiday weekend aligning with the blow, there will be more than… Continue

It’s that humbling time of the year where I ask for donations to keep this blog up and running. It is a time consuming enterprise but I enjoy it. It’s kinda therapeutic. I hope you find it fun – and functional. I’d also like to take this time to sincerely thank those who email or phone me with tales, fishing reports and questions. It’s energizing. Donations can be mailed to: Jay Mann, 222 18th Street, Ship Bottom, NJ, 08008-4418. Being Type A I don’t always have the time to mail Thank-you note b… Continue

BASS AT SCRAP VALUE: To say that boat bassing has been good is like saying gold is simply shiny – and not up to $1100 an ounce.
The tales I’ve gotten about stripering near the inlets have been up there in the ionosphere, which I’m pretty sure is really high.
The problem is how do you really describe a phenomenal bite when all the words like unbelievable, incredible, insane, astonishing, mind-boggling, amazing and righteous have all been used to death and back? I guess I should offer this report… Continue