REPORTS OF RIVER, BAY AND OCEAN FISHING

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REPORTS OF RIVER, BAY AND OCEAN FISHING

I have some promising sightings of weakfish in the bay. captain Phil from the Tackle box weighed in a 7.5lb weakie on Saturday along with some smaller guys. Sam Boulmetis also started to catch some as did John Matteucci. Most were taken on sand worms at the change of the tides near the 14 buoy in the Sandy Hook Channels.

This just in from the Hudson Canyon.
The Stavola family/friends headed out on their 4 boats Saturday afternoon for an overnight chunking trip. They chunked with butterfish and fresh peanut bunkers. Here is what they caught:

Boat: 
"Blue Mile" Jesse and JENN Stavola 4 Yellowfins 80lb avg 

"Vista Mar" Melissa, Chris, Jason Stavola and Emidio Mellow 
3 longfins - 40lbs
4 yellowfins - up to 88lbs
3 Dollfins - 10lbs

(I took their picture but it was too bright at the dock and it did't come out. Sorry Guys.)

"Squid Hound" Bill & Robert Stavola 
4 yellowfins up to 77lbs 

"SSA Monster" Mike Stavola, Al Grover, Dwayne Blessing 
5 Yellowfins up to 70lbs 

Bluefishing in the bay continues to be excellent, along with enough striped bass to keep things interesting.

The Ken Link party from Tewksbury found the trolling to be excellent for blues, with multiple double headers over the lumps in the bay. Attempts at weakfish worming before and after bluefishing were unsuccessful.

The Ralph Petricone party from Oakland, NJ, found the weakfishing to be slow. A switch to chumming and chunking turned out to be excellent, with bluefish on constantly, along with 4 keeper bass. The blues ran from 5 to 10 pounds, and bit until the tide ran out. 

At Leonardo, Capt. Freddy Coles reported three 51/2-pound fluke on his Freddy C. during Saturday's trip, but a 61/2-pounder by Fred Malley of Edison won the pool. A group from Blue Collar in Cranford hit large fluke during Sunday's sailing. Irwin Goodman had a 7.2-pounder to beat out Steve Holoth at 6.2 pounds, Harry Holoth with a 5.8-pounder, and Bob Jahn at 5.6 pounds. 

Capt. Jerry Ciriello concentrated on fluking during his Sunday magic hours trip with Freddy C. and two New York youngsters came up with big fish. Chris Palazzo, 11, of Nanuet had a 7-pounder, while Eddie Larkin, 7, of Warwick caught a 5.2-pound fluke. 

Capt. Dave Merrill fished the Leonardo Fluke Tournament with Bob and Jan Voytasik on their Bobby's Girl as five anglers managed 30 keepers up to 51/2 pounds out of about 75 fluke caught. 

Giglio's Tackle in Sea Bright had the best striper reports in some time as Ray Soyka of Roselle eeled a 29-9/16-pounder and Perry Kasturas of North Bergen caught a 16-3/16-pound bass from the beach on a clam. 

August 5 (Supplement)

Bluefishing has now taken over as most boats forego looking for bass a \nd weakies. Pound for pound these August bluefish never disappoint those seeking action! Chumming at the Shrewsbury rocks is the best bet althoughtthe charter boats have had no problems trolling. ( alittle bit of experience helps when trolling, otherwise it could be quite frustrating). 

Weakfish are starting top appear but the only concentrations seem to be still in the rivers. I did see some nice one caught near horseshoe cove on worms but we are still waiting t\fro the run in the reach channel. Hopefully they will be in full swing for next week's tournament. 

WEAKFISH TOURNAMENT AUGUST 11TH

CAPTAINS MEETING FRIDAY At Bahrs Landing (2891-9554) 
AUGUST 10TH AT 7:30 PM 
COMBINATION OF SIX heaviest FISH 

Fluke fishing had it's up's and down's this week but we had our biggestFluke of the season so far. It was caught by Al Waranis from Trenton N.J. a regular on the Elaine B party boat, it weighed 11.1 Lbs.
Hyper striper Reports: Bluefishing has been very good the last few trips with a few bass mixed in as well. Curtis Hutchings and party were out on Tuesday and had all the bluesthey wanted on the troll along with three keeper bass. Al Pettracco party from nutley were out on Wednesday and chunked the blues steady throughout the tide with 4 keeper stripers added to more than 70 blues. Wednesday evening Bob Williams and party from Air Management Corp. trolled over 50 blues to 14lbs and three keeper bass. Thursday morning the Kuiken Bros.Company from Fair Lawn,trolled 55 blues and added 7 keeper bass to the catch. All the blues have been mixed in size from 3 to 12lbs. Ed Noack party chunked eight keeper bass and had a steady bluefish bite all day Sunday. John Cobiella and party from Bushkill,Pa, had fast paced blufish chunking and also added 9 keeper stripers to the box on Thursday. Thursday evening Al Pettracco and family were back out for a carbon copy from the previous week with super bluefish chunking and 4 keeper bass.Friday morning the Mike Smircich party trolled bass and blues before going to the chunk and putting a 15 keeper bass in the boat to 16lbs and twice as many big bluefish.

TUNA
Larry Ganello of Rumson had 9 yellowfin on Tuesday Night chunking in the Hudson Canyon. Eric Hecht fishing out of Atlantic Highlands got back from a two week trip to Marthas Vinyard with great reports including his 48' Cabo's first bigeye tuna 180lbs. he was there during the annual Oak Bluff's shark Tournament and witnessed at the dock the winning mako. A 1,102 pounder cought on a 27' center console! He was amazed!

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