Walter Kucharski got in on the early wave of good stripers off the Central Jersey coast in mid-October, catching and releasing a personal best in 35 feet of water off Lavallette.Twelve-year-old Luke Sperduto with one of the stripers he caught on the troll aboard Longshot Charters out of the Highlands back in the fall.Not to be outdone by his younger brother, 14-year-old Dom Salvatore shows off the bass he caught while fishing Raritan Bay with the crew from Longshot Charters.Capt. Dwayne Storey shows off one of eight bass caught aboard his Parker 2320 called Angler Issues last fall off Sandy Hook, a 48-incher that was safely released.David Dzwonkowski threw a Tsunami Talkin’ Popper around bunker busting bass in Monmouth County back in October and scored a new personal best 47-incher released to fight another day.Chase Fairbanks said this November striper in the Monmouth County surf taped out at 51 inches.“Striper mayhem” is the way Bryan Eveland put it back on Halloween of ’23, trolling (6-ounce white mojo) and livelining big-bellied broomtails off Asbury Park among a fleet of boats.Subscriber Steve Lienhardt finished on the Dream Boat leaderboard for ’23 with a 10.72-pound fluke, and nearly took second place tautog with this 12-pounder – if only that beast of a blackfish took Steve’s green crab instead of his buddy Robert Jakiun’s jig! Thus, the fish was released.Subscriber Jim Quinn saw one of our weekly video fishing report segments about Marina Pez Vela in Quepos, Costa Rica, and nabbed this bull dolphin while fishing with wife Lee and buddy Luke McHale aboard Jackpot Sport Fishing.
