Aron Terwillliger said his Granddaughter Finnley wanted to brave the winds and chill at Cape Henlopen Pier in early May, and in just 15 minutes this beautiful striped bass was caught on salted clam and released.Paddy Sciortino from the Tackle Box went “old school” drifting a three-way rig with worm on Raritan Bay for this spring surprise. “This is no bass dad,” he told Phil of the freight train dumping line. The tiderunner was released.Cindy Flanagan nailed this 31.5-inch gator bluefish in the Manasquan in late April, weighing in at 11 pounds at Gabriel Tackle in Brick, proving that grand slam action is underway at the Jersey Shore.“That didn’t take long,” said Jake from the Jetty Jockeys, banging this 24-fluke off the jetty rocks on the May 2 opening of the New Jersey summer flounder season.While the Delaware Bay fleet is banging the drum every good weather day this month, surfcasters like Dylan Garrabrant found the black drum hungry and biting out back by late April.
