The fall run is heating up with jumbo striped bass blitzing on adult bunker along the beaches and for the boat fleet. We’re covering the essential tools and tactics you’ll, from pencils and glide baits to legal inline circle hook snag-and-drop rigs – but don’t forget the sand eel imitations! Footage from the Jersey Shore beaches this week as bunker nose up against the wind, bringing fleets in close, pushing surfcasters to adapt and taking the bottom paint off one charter boat out of Barnegat Inlet. Plus, the controversial ASMFC menhaden quota vote didn’t curry any favors with New Jersey’s angling community, with more piecemeal protections on fishmeal exports to Canada. Tautog bag limit goes to five fish on Monday, and offshore sea bass trips producing good catches for those stocking up for the holidays. More entries in the Dream Boat Fishing Challenge, and our weekly sweetwater update from the Pocono Outdoors Guy.
