A mild winter and early spring often results in a good April bite of mostly short stripers on clams for Raritan Bay boaters, but this year the bass have been on herring and hitting lures. Furthermore, ...

While we wait for the backwaters to warm up and ignite the fluke bite, anglers are having a ball with stripers, bluefish, weakfish and black drum. A fantastic week of fishing should barrel right on ...

Of all the qualities that make the striped bass one of the country’s premier game fish—including its tremendous strength, its regal purple sheen and stately black stripes, and its ability to grow to ...

The trolling bite has improved slightly, ranging from good for some fishermen to “at least we avoided a skunk” from others. The common thread in the days leading up to this report has been that up and ...

I’m not sure if it’s PC to call it Indian Summer or not, but we’ll take the over-average temperatures since they’ve prolonged the autumn fishing. And for most of the folks I’ve talked with this week, ...

It’s official – fishermen finally have our beaches back! No more battling swimmers, lifeguards or time constraints to enjoy a day out surfcasting, and now’s the perfect time to get out on the sands as ...

With 14 lines astern of Brook’s Hooks, Capt. Bud Harrison Jr.?s boatout of Tilghman Island, we were bound to catch something. We did. But catching and keeping are two different things as we found out ...

Catches of big stripers throughout the Bay continues, but fishing is switching to smaller lures and shallower trolling. The result is still lots of legal 33-inch plus fish. A lot of fish, according to ...

During a season when individual five-fluke limits at an 18-inch minimum have been hard to come by, boat limits have been rare. Yet, Johnny Bucktails had no problem putting together a five-man limit ...

Warm days of early fall are well behind us and the leaves have fallen, but there is still a lot of good fishing to be had in ...