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Atlantic Ocean - April 21st, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
58 °
FISHING: Good
The captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association have kicked off the 2009 fishing season with some mixed results. Captain Frank Camarda had some eager anglers out Saturday on the “Miss Beach Haven” for a day of bottom fishing. Camarda termed the fishing in 60-80 feet of water “a slow pick” although some nice blackfish and over 20 jumbo sea bass were brought across the rails. The fish were biting lightly, and high hook was 3 blackfish. Al from the Rainbow Hunting Club won the pool with a 7-pound hake. Camarda said he felt the bite was slow due to the hard winds of the previous days, but the weather Saturday made for a nice day on the water.Capt. Adam Nowalsky on the “Karen Ann II” reports blackfish have moved in to 65-feet of water. He termed the bite as not great yet with water temperature at 45-degrees on the surface and colder on the bottom. He has found some sea bass starting to show up in deeper water, from 80-100-feet. He had the Dennis Doriety group from Keyport out for their blackfish limit. Dennis boated a 13-pound tog and was high hook. Gene picked up eight and seven pounders. On an open boat trip Bill Pisarra was high hook while his friend Mike had the biggest fish at 8-pounds.Captain Fran Verdi on the “Cousins” has been fishing the Graveling Point area with some success. He fished last Friday in 50-degree water with little action until the end of the day. They did manage to boat one 28-incher. On Saturday he ran an open boat with two anglers, George and Zach. He fished a steady clam chum with no success in the morning on the outgoing tide. When the tide started in, the wind was against the tide, making for a difficult setup. Despite the conditions, the group persevered until George boated a 25-inch bass.Shortly after, George had another bite for a 20-minute fight. When the fish finally was brought aboard, it measured 37-inches and tipped the scales at 25-pounds, 2-ounces. Additional information about the BHCFA can be obtained at the website www.fishbeachhaven.com
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Atlantic Ocean - March 3rd, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
10 °
FISHING: Excellent
BEACH HAVEN CHARTER FISHING ASSOCIATION Winter may still have its icy grip on the New Jersey seashore, but the captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association are already planning and working to get ready for the 2009 fishing season.
As they prepare their schedules for the year, these captains are well aware of the financial difficulties facing most Americans.
In an attempt to provide their own “stimulus” package to anglers, some have established price breaks and discounts for customers who make their reservations early in the year. By using some of these discounts for early bookings, there can be considerable savings for anglers.
Captain Adam Nowalsky of the “Karen Ann II” is offering a $50 discount for trips booked now for the 2009 seasons. If three or more trips are booked, the discount increases to $75 per trip.
Captain Carl Sheppard of the “Star Fish” is offering a 10% for groups of over 10 who book before April 1. Captain Bob Gerkens of the “Hot Tuna” is promising a discount on summer charters booked prior to May 30. The discount is 5% of the trip’s cost. The “Miss Beach Haven” with Captains Frank Camarda and Brant Whittaker is offering a 10% discount off any private charters booked this spring for the 2009 season.
Captain Fran Verdi of the boats “The Drop Off” and “Cousins” will be offering a discount of $45 per trip if booked by April 30. In addition, the price of gift certificates for “open boat” trips will decrease when you purchase more than one.
All of the discounts above must be booked with a deposit fee by the dates stated above. The actual date of the fishing trip can be at any time during the year.
Besides the captains listed above, other members of the association may also be amenable to discounts for early bookings. For detailed information on all of the boats and captains of the BHCFA and the means to contact them, go to the Association’s website at www.fishbeachhaven.com
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Atlantic Ocean - November 25th, 2008
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
34 °
FISHING: Excellent
Captain Frank Camarda of the “Miss Beach Haven,” a member of the Beach Haven Charter fishing Association, had a group of students from Cinnaminson High School out last Thursday. They started fishing in 50-feet of water, and they had steady action from start to finish. They caught quite a few shorts and then got into the blackfish. We started out catching a lot of shorts and then got into the blackfish. The pool winner was about 5-pounds. Frank said the kids did a great job today with the tough sea conditions, and he enjoyed and appreciated their cooperation and ability to get along with each other. “It was a pleasure having such a well mannered group of students.” On Saturday a stiff wind and bitter cold temperatures changed his plans for wreck fishing, and he decided to fish close the beach. Camarda found some nice bass mixed in with blues, and almost everybody on the boat had their limit on bass and blues. The largest bass was a 22-pounder caught by Capt Brant Whittaker. He chased the birds around to about noon and called it a day.All of the captains of the Beach Haven Charter fishing Association want to take this opportunity to wish one and all a Happy Thanksgiving. Additional information on the Association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - November 18th, 2008
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
45 °
FISHING: Excellent
Striped bass and big bluefish continue to provide red hot action for the captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association.Captain John Koegler of “Pop's Pride” had a busman’s holiday one day last week when he took mates Dante Soriente and Jay Sweeney along with a couple of friends out for some intense jigging just off the coast of Long Beach Island. The final total catch on stripers was 30 with 22 released and over 60 huge bluefish up to 15 pounds with all released. All were caught jigging with 8 different types of jigs. They fished from BH Inlet to Surf City. One of the boats fishing nearby reported by radio they landed a bluefin tuna of about 60 pounds on a Stretch 30 Plug. This was the second tuna reported this week.Captain Fran Verdi of the “Dropoff” fished with his friend Bob on the “Sea Fevre” recently and started around Little Egg Inlet with little success. They headed up the beach on a tip and found some bait and picked up a couple of shorts. They then located an immense flock of birds working and had nonstop action on bass for the next 2 hours jigging with diamond jigs. The next day Captain Verdi was back on the “Drop Off” and had the co-owners of his boat, “Cousins.” Despite thick fog and rough seas in the ocean, they decided to set up in the inlet with clams. They had several run offs and boated a nice pair of bass at 32 and 36-inches.Captain Dave Wittenborn of the “Compass Rose” just returned from a fabulous fishing adventure in the Turks and Caico Islands in the Caribbean. Although the fishing was a bit slow, he said the place was beautiful although the water was churned up from hurricanes. They did manage to catch several wahoo to 35-pounds. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - November 11th, 2008
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
55 °
FISHING: Great
Striped bass have taken center stage for the boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association. Captain John Koegler of the boat “Pop’s Pride” was very pleased with the action he encountered on Monday. He had Leslie Freeman and a pair of 8-year old boys out for a half day trip early in the morning. Captain Koegler decided to fish the bird play. He exited Beach Haven Inlet and headed north. He trolled Stretch lures around several sites of birds diving on bait and managed some big bluefish, but no bass. Finally, off Brant Beach he found the linesiders. In all his party caught 12 stripers with four of them keepers to 32-inches. They also caught all the big bluefish their muscles could handle. At times he shut down and allowed them to cast into the action with light tackle with good success. Captain Koegler says he expects the bass to be around for a few weeks, and he has open dates for this great action. Captain Fran Verdi of the “Drop Off” has been fishing successfully for stripers despite the recent high winds and nasty weather. Last Friday he fished alone and limited out in just 2 hours. He used his bonus tag to take home 3 fish to 18-pounds. He fished with fresh clams around Little Egg Inlet. Clams worked again Saturday for Verdi and Zach Ryba from the Association’s “Junior Mates” program. The first stop landed Zach’s first striper of the fall season, but they tired of fighting crabs and a wind against the tide situation. They moved a little north and boated 3 fish in about an hour, one weighing 18 pounds. They moved one more time for a bonus-tag fish, a 30-incher. They totaled 5 keeper fish from 28 to 36-inches and made it back to the dock ahead of the rain. On Sunday Captain Verdi had a 4 hour striper trip with the Freimanis party. They anchored up and soon had a fish on-a nice 37-incher. Things slowed down, and despite three moves they could not buy another bite or run off for the rest of the day. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - November 4th, 2008
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
58 °
FISHING: Great
The main attention of the boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association has shifted to striped bass. Captain Fran Verdi of “The Dropoff” has been finding his share. He had an open boat trip with Mitch from NJfishing.com who was joined by Pete from the bassbarn.com and his friend. They got a late start due to the extremely low blow-out tide. They cleared the inlet and worked their way up the beach trolling umbrella rigs finding one slammer bluefish. After getting a report the inlet had fish, they turned around and went back. They found a slow bite and went back trolling with little success. They moved to the reef for some sea bass and tog. They left the reef and tried anchoring up in the inlet with clams tossed into a rip. Within minutes the first striper was boated. In all they landed 8 Stripers and kept two. The inlet seemed loaded with bass with many of then being short.Captain Dave Wittenborn of the “Compass Rose” has been fishing in the Sandy Hook area and says the fall bass run there lived up to its reputation over the past He trolled north out of Sea Bright to the Shrewsbury Rocks and found only blues in the five pound range. They decided to run over to the NY side of the Ambrose Channel and set up in 30-feet of water. Using clam bellies, their first bass measured 30-inches and weighed in at 10-pounds. After landing a few fish, skates and sharks moved in and the tide slowed. As they headed in they spotted bird action between the channels and decided to go have a look. It was an all out bass blitz with constant action in the 24-28-inch range for the next couple of hours. After tiring of reeling in fish they headed in for good. Meanwhile, the “Miss Beach Haven” and Captain Frank Camarda did some bottom fishing last weekend and found good fishing. They started off inshore with pretty much drop and reel fishing on mostly black fish and a couple of porgies and some short sea bass. They moved into 75-feet of water and found some jumbo porgies and a lot of sea bass with a keeper ratio of 10 to 1. Billy and his nephew from the south east fishing club stayed with clams on this drop they filled a 5 gallon bucket with keepers not easily done. The spiny dogfish were relentless on the clams and sea bass bad.. Pool winner today was Jerry L from Medford with a 4lb tog. The “Miss Beach Haven will be doing a 14-hour offshore wreck trip on Veterans Day, November 11. The boat sails at 3 am. and reservations are required. The trip is limited to 22 passengers.Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - October 28th, 2008
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
60 °
FISHING: Good
The captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association are finishing up their bottom fishing trips and looking forward to some serious striped bass action. Captain John Koegler on the “Pop’s Pride” has been finding sea bass and some large blackfish on the local reef-sites. He landed a keeper striper last week while chumming clams in the bay. He reports he has a couple of open dates in November for bass fishing.Captain Dave Wittenborn of the “Arlene Ann” has been spending time in the Sandy Hook area and reports things are turning in a big way up there. Despite the recent poor weather, he has been catching stripers and big bluefish. Trolling with wire line and shad umbrella rigs off the bridge has provided steady action out front with bass and blues. When the blues destroy the shad rigs, he switches over to umbrella rigs and has landed triple headers of bass and blues on several occasions.The scallop boats have been working the areas along the NY side of the bay and the bass are stacked up behind them in large numbers. As the deck hands shuck the scallops on the boat, they discard the remains over the side. This acts like a moving chum slick, and the bass go into a feeding frenzy as they follow the boat. Trolling and live lining do not work but clams dropped down to the bottom are deadly. At times the scallop boats will trade scallop discards for beer. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - October 21st, 2008
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
68 °
FISHING: Great
High winds and rough ocean conditions have kept most of the boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association tied at the dock recently. Captain Fran Verdi of the “Drop Off” had no takers for a recent open boat trip and decided to do some fishing himself. He arrived at the Little Egg Reef Site and found a great spot holding a ton of fish. He anchored over the spot, and it was drop and reel all day long. He caught his first striper of the year as he was reeling up a small sea bass and out of nowhere a huge bass came and ate the sea bass. After a 20-minute fight he got the fish to the boat. The fish measured 44-inches and fat. Since he was at the reef and over 3-miles from shore, he released the fish. Continuing to fish, he had sea bass and tog in large numbers. He landed 32, tog all in the 14 inch to 22-inch range, keeping one. Some 53 sea bass to 19-inches came over the rail, and he kept 11 for dinner. Despite his great day, Captain Verdi said he wished he had some fishing companions to share the action with. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - October 14th, 2008
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
68 °
FISHING: Excellent
Captain Lindsay Fuller of the “June Bug,” a member of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association, had an outstanding offshore tuna trip last weekend. Fuller had Jim Hutchinson Sr. and Jr., George Roma, Bob Opperman, Paul Hopkins, and Dave Rinear to the Toms Canyon on an overnight tuna trip combining trolling and chunking. The group caught 19 longfin tuna from 40-75 pounds, all on the troll. They also put another 25 mahi-mahi in the box. The chunking produced no tuna but did result in releases of small swordfish and mako shark as well as numerous mahi. The almost non-stop action on the 24-hour trip kept mates Dante Soriente and Nate Figley busy the entire time.Other Association boats continued their strong catches from bottom fishing. Captain George Finck of “Sparetime Charters” had Bill Dalton, Harry Festa, and Dom Ferrante out for an action packed reef trip. The half day venture produced many sea bass and porgies.Captain Fran Verdi of the “Dropoff” started last Friday looking for bunker but had difficulty due to the light chop. They then drifted off the red tower for strong weakfish action on small fish. A stop at the Little Egg Reef resulted in over 100 fish but only several were keeper sized. Verdi fished an open boat on Saturday at the Little Egg Reef. They worked three spots on the reef and it was fish every time. They ended the day with 16 keepers and 2 porgies. The “Star Fish” with Captain Carl Sheppard fished the reefs Saturday with a father and son team from Ireland. In two hours they caught over 75 sea bass. The surprise of the trip was a 3.5 lb porgy. On Sunday he teamed up with Captain John Koegler for another big catch of sea bass and porgies.Captain John Koegler fished the “Pop's Pride” on Saturday and despite a constant increasing NE wind had a great day catching sea bass and Porgies. His comment on the reef fishing was “There is presently a good supply of sea bass available plus some of the biggest porgies anyone has seen in years. No matter what, you will return with quality fish for dinner.” Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - October 7th, 2008
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
68 °
FISHING: Great
The boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association are finding some of the very best bottom fishing of the season while they anxiously await the arrival of big numbers of striped bass.The “Star Fish” under Captain Carl Sheppard had two bachelor parties this past weekend. They found small schools of bunker being attacked by large blues from just off shore all the way to the reefs but saw no bass around. The weather could not have been nicer when the Markowitz party went wreck fishing on the reefs, and caught over 100 fish, the majority being black bass and porgies. Sean Nagle’s bachelor party found some fish on the reefs and some small blues and weak fish off the Red Tower on open bottom in Beach Haven. Captain Fran Verdi on the “Dropoff” found very good Fishing on Sunday. He went through Beach Haven Inlet and worked his way north looking for the bunker on the surface. After not locating any, his anglers made some drops off the red tower in hopes of weakfish. They picked off several small spikes but nothing of size. The final stop was the Little Egg Reef, and they fished one area for the next two and half hours. Their total catch resulted in 4 blackfish, one triggerfish, 15 sea bass, and 20 porgies. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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