“Just sharing had a great day surf fishing North Beach at Sandy Hook with my son Shane,” said Steve Huber reporting on a good bluefish bite using bunker chunks and diamond jigs.Following the spring ’24 drum explosion in Ocean County, Harlan Bleiler of Allentown, PA found the boomers blitzing in Monmouth County aboard his Allie B out of the Atlantic Highlands.Eryk Lewandowski emailed us back in mid-July to let us know he was dialed in on the bluefish bite in Delaware over the summer.Pete Volkmar shows off a nice bonito caught while sea bass fishing at Axel Carlson on October 4 aboard Stacked Up Charter Fishing run by Capt. Steve Moran.Tom Lawrence got this 6-pound bluefish on the first drift under the Longport Bridge in August while using an A-27 jig. “The rest of the trip was slow pitch jigging sea robins and more croakers,” Tom noted.Charles Matero caught this 12-pound mahi on butterfish in early October on a midrange trip off the South Jersey coast.Vincent Pisano with a 35-pound striper caught outside of Raritan Bay during the fall ’24 run. The bass taped out at 42 inches prior to release.Dino Ramnarine enjoyed the fishing in Costa Rica during a ’24 getaway, catching and releasing this 60-pound plus roosterfish.Fisherman subscriber Charles Watts won the August 27, 2024 pool aboard the Big Mohawk for this 6-pound, 11-fluke. Photo courtesy of Joe Horstmann.Eric Oelschlegel was doing a little tautog fishing at Belmar with a guy named Mario, and they ended up with a Shark River striper rather than a blackfish.
