Austin Matusiewicz (age 2-1/2) had fun with the family at the Shark River Surf Anglers youth trout contest on the trout season opener.Nutley’s Joe Casale caught and released this striper somewhere in the northern stretch of New Jersey in April while working a Zman Diesel Minnow on a slow, steady retrieve.Francia Auguste and Rachael Petras each brought trout in for weigh-in at the American Legion tent at Spring Lake on April 8.Sienna Sakowicz was fishing with dad Gregg and working a Zman Diesel Minnow for this fine catch and release striper in the backwaters of Barnegat Bay.Five-year-old MaxMcRey holding up a stringer of opening day trout from Spring Lake.Surfcasting flyfisherman Bill Sistad of Brick said he enjoyed his best day ever in 33 years flyrodding the surf this spring catching numerous stripers out back.Doug Taylor from Millville shows off the biggest striper ever reported back to the folks at Higbee’s Bait and Tackle in Fortescue, a 55-incher caught (and released) on a jumbo bloodworm.Joe Carcich (AKA Joey Tomato’s from Point Pleasant) shows off a jumbo roosterfish caught in Samara, Costa Rica caught on a 3-pound double-hooked live bonita on a slow troll. Photo courtesy of Rich O’Rourke.Century pro-staffer Khoa Nguyen and a buddy banged a drum or two one night after Easter weekend while fishing the sod banks along Great Bay.Wesley Bouchelle said he and his crew found great fishing in mid-March in North Jersey waters using swim shads and bucktails “glued to the bottom” as Wesley put it.
