The nasty weather of last weekend made fishing difficult for the captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association.
Captain Frank Camarda on the "Miss Beach Haven" tried to duplicate some of the hot bluefish action of the previous weekend but had difficulty finding fish. With the sea bass and blackfish seasons closed, he worked the waters around Little Egg Inlet trying to find some bluefish, striped bass, and drumfish. Despite trying chumming, jigging, and looking for bird play, he was only able to locate a few fish. Once the weather settles down,
Captain Frank figures this coming weekend will find the hot action once again. He will be returning to wreck fishing on Saturday, May 22, when the black sea bass season re-opens.
Captain Fran Verdi returned from his mini-vacation to Mickey Mouse land and found some hot action in the days before the weekend. One day he had an open boat trip when they started close to the inlet and found fierce action on 10-pound bluefish. Then two rods went down at the same time with a pair of keeper stripers on to 36-inches. When the tide slowed the blues were back. When the tide picked up they boated a 35-inch bass.
The next day Captain Fran had the Joe Lucas party out for more inlet action. This trip also produced outstanding bluefish action on fish between 5-10 pounds. Mixed in with the blues were some big smooth dogfish up to 3-feet long. At the turn of the tide they picked up their only striper, a 30-incher.
All of Captain Fran's action was with fresh clams for bait and a nice clam chum slick.
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