TOUGH BASSING 6-15

Had the Mike S charter out on Saturday. after having 2 trips canceled to weather left the dock with expectations of a good day finally hitting a great weather window/
While conditions were about as good as they get, flat seas, bunker on the beach the bass just were not there to cooperate. fished hard all morning for just 4 bites.With Gerard catching the only bass, which was also his first striper.

In the afternoon I headed out with the ALL STAR cast Of Scott, Anthony, and Johnny Shimano, hoping to improve on the mornings catch.
Again bait was easy, and since it was early we bounce around a few spots looking to catch some fluke without even a short being caught.

Covered alot of areas, once again for just a few half hearted run offs, where I put the only bass of the afternoon in the boat.

Anthony said he "needed" to be in a FISH PICTURE DAMMIT ,,, so I let him take a picture with the only afternoon fish. His real plan was trying to get me to box the bass, which I quickly released to fight another day.
Too bad Scott didnt get a picture of the BOO BOO face as he watched that bass swim away .

Just at dusk bunker once again was tightly balled up on the beach and it looked like it was going to be BLITZ time, only the fish balling up the bait were tiny bluefish.

still a fun day with all the ball busting going on

STRIPERS UNDER A RAINBOW

Headed out with my sub foreman Vinny to try and get him on a good striper. Left the dock as the rains stopped . and found ourselves fishing under a double rainbow, Vinny said hey arent they good luck . Told him I think so as I handed him a snagged bunker that was being crushed by a bass. Our first of a bunch tonight, in building seas.
He got to see a good show of stripers crushing bunker on top. 

ONE bass kept, all rest RELEASED to fight another day !!!

ANOTHER STRIPER CHERRY POPPED, TOUGH BITE 6-9-2013

Had Ross, Rich and their boys out last night to try and put a a beating on the stripers, and have a few guys catch thier first striper
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Left a little early to beat the low tide heading out, took about an hour to really have the amount of bait I wanted for the night. 
Had HIGH expectations seeing the bait spread out for quite a ways, and seeing some great bass marks in the mix.

Fish def did not want to chew, as we marked alot of bass that just would not commit to the baits.
had 6 real good run offs all night , with a few others playing with the baits.

Anthony popped his striper cherry on the only bass we boated, a nice 23 pounder.
Guys fished hard at the rails till after sunset.

DECENT BASSING 6-5

Had Steve out last night for his weekly striper trip.
Finally the water temps where they should be, and alot of scattered bait around.
Made a bunch of stops FAR away from the fleet to pick away at nice bass last night by ourselves.
marked alot of fish, as well as had alot of bass fighting over baits, yet the bite never lasted more than one short drift at each spot.
Much nicer bass last night, the biggest two going 34 and 37 pounds on the digital

11th INNING STRIPERS

Had Steve out for his weekly bass trip tonight. made bait pretty easy and the proceeded to snag and drop some baits.
Nothing chewing. Made a bunch of stops with the score bass 0 us 0 putting the game into extra innings.
worked real hard to get some fish to chew and were rewarded with a few nice bass as the sun set .
Just shows if you dont quit things can happen last minute and save the day.

Memorial day fluke

Headed out with Scott on Memorial day to see if there were some hungry fluke wanting to chew in the ruff stuff.
Made a bunch of moves but were only able to get two keepers to the boat.
everything loked great, nice drift , clean water just very few bites, EXCEPT for dogfish. wow did they want to chew.
water gets a little warmer we will be bucktailing like mad, cant wait

MERCURY MARINE SERVICE CENTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Want to give a big  to Campisano marine , in Brick NJ  for getting my boat back on the water in 2 days.
had a bad throttle switch as well as a compressor bearing acting up.
over nighted  the parts on monday and had me back on the water for wednesday.

anyone looking for a reliable Merc dealer check them out. been using them for the past 7 seasons , and Joe and Mike make you feel like family