“Stripers alive and well in Cape May,” said surfcaster Nick Rowe, who plugged up this 40-incher back in the spring. “Lost a few decent fish as well,” Nick added.Paul Lowry, Jr. had a great spring on the Delaware River fishing above Philly. “There’s nothing like pulling a 40-pound bass out of 10 feet of water in a 14-foot jon boat,” Paul said.Another quality spring cow from Raritan Bay, this 42-incher for Bob Fitzpatrick was quickly and safely released from Joe Barnicki’s KB3 Steiger Craft. Photo courtesy of Tom Lawrence.Charles Arrigo and Richard Pereira, II had a good day at Axel Carlson this summer during the second annual Green Cove Marina Fluke tournament taking second place with a 21-1/2-inch, 3.02-pound fluke.Cooper Nudy shows off the cobia he caught just 2 miles out of Barnegat Inlet during a late summer excursion.The ’24 season will go down as one in which jumbo black drum stormed the Central Jersey beaches. Dan Perez caught and released this 35-pounder at Island Beach State Park back in May on clam.Ervin Ray with a 9-pound, 12-ounce gator bluefish caught while working the night shift over the Mother’s Day weekend.Eight-year-old Zachary Zieleniewski with a 21-inch fluke he caught on the last drift of the day while using a 6-ounce Spro bucktail with a 6-inch Gulp glow grub 3 miles out of Point Pleasant in early July.On the first day of New Jersey’s fluke season, Frank Niemann instead took his son Cole out in search of stripers, bringing this 30-incher home for a wonderful and sustainable family dinner.Ellie Coombs (age 5) boated her first ever mahi this season while fishing with mom and dad along the Cigar pots.Richard Lutz picked up a couple of jumbo stripers to 49 inches back in May while deep trolling around Sandy Hook. Keep an eye out folks, those big bass should be there again soon!Bob Allison caught this 22-inch summer flounder back on August 7 in the back bay somewhere between Cape May and Wildwood using pink/white Gulp.A healthy 6-pound fluke for Steve Steele from Croyden, PA while fishing out of Belmar aboard Capt. Steve Spinelli’s Skylarker.Patrick O’Donnell, Tim O’Donnell and Sean O’Donnell of Howell traveled to Deep Creek Fishing Lodge in Ninilchick, Alaska and caught a lot of fish with Capt Crusty to ship back home.Atlantic City Fishing Machine “Super Fluke Will” with his jetty caught summer flounder from 3 pounds to 5 pounds, 7 ounces weighed in at One Stop Bait & Tackle.Shannon Quaile got her first ever keeper fluke this season, an 18-1/2-incher on a minnow with a floating jighead somewhere around the Turtle Creek area in North Wildwood. “It was a grind but the fish were there,” said Shannon’s husband Chuckie.Phillip Tompkins with a nice “post spawn” striper caught while night creeping along the Raritan Bayshore back in early May.“Went to my favorite church a day early this week and had a good flounder bite,” said Shawn Smith, who together with brother Dave had multiple keeper flatties, some bluefish and a rogue slot striper that fell for a plug.“Biggest channel catfish I ever caught,” said Toms River’s Richard Koeppen, reporting that he was using liver for bait and light, 6-pound line.Phil DeLorenzo caught this 70-inch bluefin while dead sticking a Ron Z near Little Italy earlier this season while fishing with Artie Waldhelm and Mark Maria. “Took a little over an hour to land this on proper spinning gear set up,” noted Al Rotunno with the Staten Island Fishing Club.
