December 04, 2023 - 15:39:23
I spoke with Pat over at the Tackle Box and he said despite the bass moving around the striped bass fishing showed no signs of letting up. Seems most of the bunker has moved out and has been replaced by schools of sand eels some as big as 7 inches. As a result anglers have had to change their lure presentations to mimic the eels with Avas, Deadly Dicks, plastic eels and tubes taking the bulk of the fish from the boats until the end of the year. Some big bluefish were mixing in with the stripers all week and were even caught along the beaches. Anglers fishing in the suds from the Hook down the beaches into the middle of the state were also into the bass with shorts, keepers and some overs blitzing the beaches with the tides. On the tog fishing front most of the fishing in the ocean has been on Sandy Hook Reef and other artificial reefs we were told.