Tuckerton Bait and Tackle

We started off this week’s report with a call to Mike Hayes at Tuckerton Bait and Tackle. He said he has one more week to go before he closes up for the season on November 1. He told us the winds had calmed down and it was a beautiful weekend. Of course that was after three straight weeks of storms. He said he got reports of stripers being caught in the back bay and it looks like this week will be a great week for fishing if the good weather forecast holds true. In addition he told us he also got reports of some tog being caught around the bridge pilings and off some of the local rock piles on greens. The fishing for tog should also improve this week as well it the bottom finally settles down from the storm.

We started this report with a call to my old friend Mike Hayes over at Tuckerton Bait and Tackle who told me October was more of an average month for fishing. He stated this year was off when compared to last season with a few fish such as blowfish being scarce this year. Striped bass fishing in the second half of October was decent for mixed size fish which were mostly local fish and he said it looks like the better fishing will be in November this year. However Mike said he will be closing the shop as per tradition as of November 1 for the season.