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Atlantic Ocean - June 29th, 2010
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
85 °
FISHING: Excellent
The fishing for the boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association has opened up on several different fronts.Last Saturday Captain Lindsay Fuller of the “June Bug” had Jon Kunzman and Adam Brown of Michigan out to the Lindenkohl Canyon for some trolling action. Originally looking for some bigeye tuna which had been reported in the area they began trolling a full setup. Despite the presence of plenty of bait there was no action other than whale sightings from 4 am until well after dawn. Some skipjacks provided some action and were released. Finally a 35-pound yellowfin hit and was boated followed by a 10-pound mahi and another yellowfin for the cooler. When Captain Lindsay went below for a nap, and mate Captain Nate Figley took the helm, a big fish hit. Kunzman fought the fish first and then handed the rod off to Brown. After some 45 minutes the fish showed itself, a blue marlin about 450-pounds. Finally after a struggle of almost 2 hours the fish was brought to the boat and released. The fish hit a Ballyhoo topped with a red and blue 1/4 ounce Mylar Billy Bait. The leader was Stren 300#. Captain Lindsay claims the day shows that fishing from mid to late June offshore is some of the best of the year. Captain George Finck of “Sparetime Charters” reports that he has had several trips drifting the inlet area for fluke. He has been catching many fish but the ratio is about 20 -1 for keepers. He is hoping the bottom water on the reefs will warm up soon and fishing will pick up out there. The report from mate Sal Rosa on the “Miss Beach Haven” indicates that the warm weather has helped their fishing. On Saturday it took a mere three minutes to boat a nice 3.5 pound fluke. In addition to many short fluke, they managed 16 keepers along with some nice keeper sea bass. The pool winner was Pete from Beach Haven with a 6-pounder. Captain Fran Verdi took the “Cousins” out looking for some bluefin tuna last weekend. He started at the 20 Line and worked his way out to the 30 Line. They did not catch any bluefin, but did catch plenty of bluefish. On other trips he has been mugging the sea bass with good numbers coming from both 50-60 feet of water and also in 80-100 feet. Several of the trips had numbers in the 50-80 fish per day with keepers around 30 for the day. Several of the sea bass have been up to 4-pounds. He fished the Atlantic City Reef and one angler picked up a nice 4-pound fluke on a jig head. Captain Carl Sheppard on the “Star Fish” hosted 10 members of the Brennan family at a fishing party last weekend. The group was made up of youngsters as young as 8, and some who had never fished before. They went to the reefs and found a good number of black sea bass which made all happy. Captain Carl said the larger fish seemed to prefer spearing and clam to more traditional baits. The party was treated to the sight of a number of feeding porpoises and one large thresher shark. Captain John Koegler on “Pop’s Pride” reports good sea bass fishing on the artificial reefs near Little Egg Inlet. One day he tried fluke fishing in the fog near Little Beach and boated 47 fluke, but only 2 keepers.Additional information on the Beach haven Charter Fishing Association can be found at www.fishbeachhaven.com
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Atlantic Ocean - June 23rd, 2010
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
80 °
FISHING: Great
Captain Carl Sheppard took several groups wreck fishing the past few days. He mostly encountered beautiful weather and plentiful black sea bass with catches over 100 fish each day except Sunday when high winds made fishing difficult for a reduced catch. He reports the fluke fishing is picking up with more keepers available in the bay and close to the beach. Captain Fran Verdi on the “Dropoff” reports that finding bunker pods in the ocean for striped bass have been hot and cold. In his fluking action in the bay he has seen many fish coming over the rail with action on every drift. However, with a ration of 20 throwbacks to every keeper, it is work to put fish in the box. Currently his best action is on sea bass where he has been finding “drop and reel” action in 80-100 feet of water. Captain Fran had an “open boat” trip on Saturday and ran down to Atlantic City for some very good action on both short and keeper sea bass. While drifting they picked off a nice 4-pound fluke. He was using jigs with Gulp Nuclear Chicken Shrimp along with fresh bait. He has been hearing of some bluefin tuna in the offshore waters along with a good mix of very large bluefish. He has hopes of taking his sister boat, “Cousins,” out soon for some of this bluefin action. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - June 15th, 2010
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
70 °
FISHING: Good
The “Miss Beach Haven” with Captain Frank Camarda had a charter last week from Rusling Paving and Concrete of Trenton out for a day of fishing. The group had a great time, took home quite a few fish meals, and totally enjoyed the day. On Saturday Captain Frank fished for fluke and managed to pull quite a few keepers despite having to try several different spots. Pool winner was a 7.5-pound flattie. On Sunday they wreck fished with good success and managed a good catch of sea bass in the 1-3 pound range. The “Star Fish” with Captain Carl Sheppard fished two parties last Saturday. The morning party boated over 200 black sea bass up to 5.25 pounds. They also caught over 10 large blackfish which had to be released. The afternoon group was a bachelor party which managed to put a good number of sea bass up to 3.5 pounds in the cooler in addition to having four hours of fun and festivity. On the way in they stopped for some bird play and closed out the day with some feisty 2-pound bluefish on metal lures. Captain John Koegler of the “Pop’s Pride” is now ready to go after some extra spring work to upgrade the entire boat. Captain John is itching to get into some of the solid wreck fishing in addition to heading offshore for some blue fin tuna. Captain Fran Verdi on the “Drop Off” was off the water for a few days as he got re-powered with a new 300 hp engine. He too is looking to get into the sea bass fishing in 90-100 feet of water as well as some of the blue fin tuna. In addition to charters he is running several open boat trips in the upcoming days. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - June 10th, 2010
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
64 °
FISHING: Fair
The “Miss Beach Haven” with Captain Frank Camarda fished for black sea bass last weekend and found a good number of fish, but putting keepers on the deck took some work. Most of the keepers on Saturday were in the 1-3 pound range. Pool winner was Ray from Waretown with a 3-pounder. Sunday’s fishing was hampered by strong winds and high seas of 4-6 feet. Most fish were 1-2 pounds. The pool winner Sunday was Richie with a 2+ pounder. Next week the “Miss Beach Haven” will be targeting fluke as well as sea bass. Captain Lindsay Fuller has announced that he has brought his boat, “June bug” back to Beach Haven from its winter quarters in Manteo, North Carolina. Captain Fran Verdi of the “Dropoff” is continuing to run open boat trips for wreck fishing, fluke drifting, and striped bass fishing. This is a good way to go fishing with a pro without paying the price of a full charter.Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - May 30th, 2010
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
76 °
FISHING: Great
The boats of the Beach haven Charter Fishing Association have been fishing for a variety of fish including black sea bass, fluke, striped bass, and bluefish.The “Star Fish” and Captain Carl Sheppard report some great fishing last weekend. Prior to the start of the summer flounder season Captain Carl was putting his parties on some drop and reel wreck fishing. On Saturday the Tom Sokolis party of 11 anglers brought 150 sea bass to the boat. The best fishing was in water over 90-feet deep with a pool winning fish of 6-pounds. He fished on Sunday for fluke and caught over 30 fish, but all were throwbacks. He then caught some bluefish to send the anglers home with fish.
Captain Fran Verdi on the “Dropoff” had a party out wreck fishing and also found the fish in 90-feet of water. The Chris Gadd family had well over 75 fish including 25 keeper sea bass. The next day the McKee party tried trolling along Long Beach Island looking for big bass. The northeast winds made fishing difficult and they returned to Little Egg Inlet where they boated one bluefish.Captain Fran had the Nutatis party out for two days of fluke fishing. On Saturday they boated over 50 fish to find a pair of keepers up to 21.5 inches. On Sunday the same group had problems getting a good drift going, but the tide switched, they caught over 45 fluke but only one keeper.Additional information on the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association can be obtained at their website www.fishbeachaven.com
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Atlantic Ocean - May 27th, 2010
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
70 °
FISHING: Great
Captain Bob Gerkens has been running his boat the “Hot Tuna” out of Morehead City, NC. Recent charters of his have been catching black fin tuna, wahoo, king mackerel and lots of mahi-mahi. Captain Bob will be leaving the warm waters of the Gulf Stream and returning to his berth in Beach Haven in another week or so. He is looking forward to jumping into shark fishing as soon as he arrives in the Garden State. Captain George Finck and his son Steven of “Sparetime” charters took Valerie Zak and daughter Jackie out for a day of bottom fishing last Saturday. Val owns Oceanside Bait and Tackle and her daughter just returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Jackie’s husband Dan and shop worker Rob also fished. It was drop and reel action for a nice catch of black sea bass and one nice codfish. Captain Fran Verdi of the “Dropoff” fished last Friday in the back bay looking for stripers and black drum since ocean action had slowed down. Bill Ross and Russ were aboard for a 15-pound drum and another nice striped bass. Captain Fran took advantage of the opening day of sea bass season on Saturday and had the Chris Gadd party out early. After a slow start in depths of 55-feet, they moved to deeper water and got into the fish. The anglers had fish up to 20-inches with several doubleheaders and four guys hooked up at once. The group took home 24 sea bass and one ling. The “Miss Beach Haven” and Captain Frank Camarda started the sea bass season last Saturday with a full boat. The anglers left the boat happy with the amount of keepers they finished with. Most of the fish were in the 1-3 pound range with the pool winner a 4-pounder. That night Captain Frank had the Joe Metzger bachelor party out fishing. After several stops, the fishing turned on with a tie for the pool winner at 3.5 pounds. Sunday’s open boat trip was a repeat of Saturday’s with lots of nice fish for all. Captain Carl Sheppard on the “Star Fish” also had a bachelor party of 11 anglers on Saturday who managed to boat over 100 fish, mostly sea bass. After starting at the reefs, Captain Carl moved to 90-feet of water where he found a higher ratio of keepers.Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - April 27th, 2010
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
58 °
FISHING: Great
The captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association are fishing for a variety of species as they work to find action for their anglers.The “Miss Beach Haven” and Captain Frank Camarda have been fishing the wrecks and reefs regularly recently for blackfish and cod when the weather permits. Last Friday evening they had an enthusiastic group of anglers from the Lacey Township High School Fishing Club out. Despite beautiful conditions and plenty of action on small fish, they were unable to put a keeper in the box. Saturday’s trip brought a little better pick of action than the previous night did. At the first stop “Miss Diane” dropped her line over and within a few minutes boated a hefty 9-pound blackfish. The other stops brought some keeper blackfish among the throwbacks along with a few codfish. With blackfish season ending Friday, Captain Frank will be fishing for striped bass, bluefish, and drumfish starting May 1 until the black sea bass season opens in May. He will be sailing from 8am. until 1 pm. The galley of the “Miss Beach Haven” is now being run by Sal Rosa who reports he is offering chicken along with barbeque and Italian foods for the boat’s customers. All foods come with a good dose of Sal’s witticisms. Captain Adam Nowalksy of the “Karen Ann II” reports fair bottom fishing on the inshore wrecks with a nice mix of tog and cod while Great Bay and Little Egg Inlet are alive with bluefish along with some striped bass and drumfish. He had the Michael Preis party out for 20 nice tog up to 8-pounds. As president of the NJ chapter of the RFA Captain Adam was busy with the chapter sponsored cleanup of Graveling Point and Pebble Beach on Earth Day. Captain Fran Verdi on the “Dropoff” has been fishing the bay waters with some success on striped bass and some bluefish. Most of his fishing has been with clams in the waters off Graveling Point but he is now ready to try some of the other productive spots in the area. Captain Carl Sheppard of the “Star Fish” fished last Sunday looking to find some striped bass but ended up with over 40 big bluefish. Captain Carl advises using steel leaders as the big slammers were chewing right through 100-pound test leaders. The blues were full of spearing and small mackerel. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - November 18th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
54 °
FISHING: Great
The captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association are hopeful the fishing will be as hot after last week’s severe nor’easter as it was before it struck. Captain Fran Verdi of the “Drop Off” fished the day before it hit and began the day with two keepers on the incoming tide on the north bar of Little Egg Inlet. When the white water disappeared, and Captain Fran pulled anchor to look for more white water. He reports that spot was constant action despite the rolling white water and crashing waves. At the day’s end the crew had seven fish 34-39 inches. He is continuing to fish Wednesday to Monday with mostly open boat fishing.Captain Carl Sheppard of the “Star Fish” out of Beach Haven says he wanted to fish last Saturday, but it was just too rough. He adds that his action on Sunday helped to make up for missing Saturday. He started by trying to fish a rip in the bay, but had to stop due to muddy water and an excess of sea weed. He made the decision to brave a few swells in the inlet and see what the ocean had to offer. The move was a good one as he located a flock of gannets working over an area in 35-feet of water. What he found was a school of striped bass with no bluefish mixed in. He managed to jig up 22 bass with most of them keeper sized. He even tried trolling a diamond jig on his way back to port and even picked up a bass this way. Captain Frank Camarda and the “Miss Beach Haven” fished Monday taking good advantage of the increase in the daily blackfish limit. Both the weather and the fish cooperated as the every angler aboard limited out except for one. The boat remained in one spot for the day, and most of the fish were between two and four pounds. Darren Garabo of Beach Haven won the pool with a 4-pounder. Captain Frank says he will be sailing Saturdays and Sundays at 7 am. Additional information on the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association can be obtained at their website www.fishbeachhaven.com
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Atlantic Ocean - October 28th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
60 °
FISHING: Great
The captains of the Beach Haven Charter fishing Association managed to catch good numbers of fish in the past week while fishing vastly different locations. Captain Carl Sheppard of the “Star Fish” had a good day wreck-fishing on a trip with Chris Metric as mate. At one point they had over 60 fish in less than an hour with many sea bass which would have been keepers if not for the ban. They also picked up some nice sized porgies. Captain John Koegler took the “Pop’s Pride” out to the canyon on his last canyon trip of the year. The night chunking and jigging was slow although the anglers lost two deep jigs which were bitten off after heavy strikes. The troll produced one yellowfin tuna along with 9 small tuna-like fish which were later identified as “bullet mackerel.” Captain John found some recipes in a Japanese cookbook for bullet mackerel and reports they were delicious. This was his first experience with this species. Captain Fran Verdi has been doing some striped bass prospecting on his own in preparation for his upcoming bass charters. He reports nice action around the bottom of the tides. He has mostly been fishing the incoming tide with bass from 33-39 inches in length. Most of his fishing has been in the Great Bay area. Captain Fran says he has some open dates for charters and also spots on his open boat trips still available in November. For additional information on the Beach Haven Charter fishing Association please go to www.fishbeachhaven.com
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Atlantic Ocean - October 14th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
62 °
FISHING: Great
Although season closures for two different species of fish have cut the options for the captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association, some other fish are around in good numbers to pick up the slack.
Both the Little Egg and Garden State South Reefs are holding good populations of porgies, blackfish, and triggerfish for the boats fishing the bottom. Although the daily limit on the blackfish remains at one, the size of the fish makes them an attractive target.
Closer to shore, the captains have been able to locate some large schools of weakfish. Most of these fish can be found looking for marks on the bottom, while some larger weakies can be found feeding on schools of bunker. Most of the weakfish are small, but 13-15 inch fish can be caught with some patience. Metal jigs with teasers seem to be working the best on these weaks.
Early this week the weakfish were located from Ship Bottom to Holgate with some especially big concentrations off the red water tower in Beach Haven.
Not all of those marks are weakfish, however, as there are still some scattered schools of croakers. When these fish are located, hooks baited with clam and fished right on the bottom are the most effective.
There are schools of birds around close to the beach also, usually feeding on the scraps of bait schools after encounters with small bluefish.
The cooler temperatures have many anglers thinking striped bass, but they have not yet arrived in force. Some boats have been trolling bunker spoons off the beach with only a couple of hook-ups to show for the work.
Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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