Up Front Bait and Tackle

“This is one of the worst storms we have had in a long time,” said Steve Haas over at Up Front Bait and Tackle He told us he had not had a customer all week until Friday and closed the shop early six days in a row. Steve said while his shop was not flooded the surrounding area was flooded at high tide and one of boats sunk at local marina. He told me he heard about the fishing in the backwaters of the bay around Bayonne and he was told by a few fishermen that there were also stripers, blues and other fish all they up into the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers.

“We’ve seen mixed results with the weather and fishing in the second half of September,” reported Steve Haas over at Up Front Bait and Tackle. Needless to say the poor seas and weather didn’t do the last two weeks of fluke fishing nay favors. Steve said he expects to see the migratory stripers start moving down the coast sometime in October along with the bigger bluefish. “It’s a good bet we will see a lot of anglers bottom fishing for sea bass and ling in October as the bag limit on sea bass goes up to 10 fish,” he added.