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Atlantic Ocean - June 9th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
65 °
FISHING: Good
Despite the recent poor weather, the boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association have been putting together some interesting trips. Sometimes the catching comes easy, and other times the captains have to really work at it. At times they fish several spots and even switch target species in order to provide their parties with fish.On Saturday, the “Miss Beach Haven” with Captain Frank Camarda had a good day fishing as they found fish everywhere they stopped. Several of the anglers aboard had 7 or 8 keeper sea bass, all quality fish. In addition to plenty of short sea bass for everyone, one angler also snared a codfish. The water temperature was 59-degrees, and even the dogfish were not much of a problem. The pool winner was Pete from Pennsylvania with a 2.5-pound sea bass.On Sunday Captain Frank tried to catch some fluke but there were so many black sea bass that they dominated and he switched to catch the sea bass. Once again all anglers took fish fillets home including the captain himself.Captain Adam Nowalsky of the Karen Ann II out of Great Bay Marina reports good sea bass fishing continues. Some recent charter highlights include the Hamilton Post Office Group with 70 keeper sea bass to 3 pounds, Danny and Lin Pang and friends from the Bamboo House Restaurant in East Stroudsburg, Pa., with 60 keeper sea bass to 4 pounds along with numerous released tog, and Gytis Neviadomkis who boated a personal best striped bass of 31-pounds, 7-ounces. Captain Carl Sheppard on the “Star Fish” took out Mike and Chris Sante’s family and friends for an action packed trip of over 250 sea bass, bluefish, fluke and dogfish fishing the deeper depths. On Sunday he fished with Mr. and Mrs. John Brotherton, actors from California who were celebrating their second wedding anniversary. After catching 45 sea bass, they boated assorted sharks and herring in the inlet on small feathers.
Captain Fran Verdi on the “Drop Off” has been taking his parties out for a combination of fluke, striped bass, and reef fishing. One day the Tom Wilczynski party set out after fluke and boated close to 50, but none were keepers.
Another trip started out as a striper trip but with no bunker around Captain Fran went to plan B and hit the Garden State South and Little Egg Reefs for some sea bass. After several stops his party ended up with 13 keepers, mostly over 15-inches. The total catch for the day was a total of 50 fish.
Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - June 2nd, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
63 °
FISHING: Good
The boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association have been finding success on a number of fronts.Captain Adam Nowalsky from the Karen Ann II reports this is the peak of the spring sea bass fishing. He says the number of keepers is limited only by how fast you can get your line back down to the bottom. Some of his recent charter highlights include the Robert Wilson charter with 75 keeper sea bass including a number of 3.5 to 4 lb. fish. On the Safa group's half-day charter some 50 bluefish and sea bass were boated with a 5-pound sea bass in the mix.Other groups included Zuccarrello with 55 keepers, Preczewski with a nice mix of sea bass and released blackfish to 10-pounds, Tom Siciliano with 75 keeper sea bass, Jim Sutphen with 90 keeper sea bass, and Mike Dahm’s half-day charter, with 20 keeper sea bass out of over 100 caught. Captain Adam said there was an improvement in the number of keepers on the fluke scene this week. All fluke fishing remains in the back bays, with the 50-degree ocean water temp still too cold for a good fluke bite. Captain Carl Sheppard had two good parties over the weekend. On Saturday the Capanna party started with wreck fishing and boated 42 sea bass in less than an hour. Captain Carl got a tip about a large school of slammer blues in the 10-12 lb range about 22 miles further out. The fish were on the bottom, in 80-100 feet of water. He used trolling valves to reduce the speed to under two knots and used a pound of weight with the pony tails to get them to bite. Action was nonstop for 4 hours although they only kept a few.
On Sunday Captain Carl had the Tom Phillip’s party along with a couple of off duty captains-Vic Bertotti and Tom Masterson. They fished in 60-70 feet of water and drifted a number of wrecks. They ended up catching over 80 sea bass, but were plagued by spiny doggies.
Captain Fran Verdi on the Dropoff had an open boat trip on Saturday. He had no luck looking for bunker and tried anchoring at Wreck Inlet for striped bass but had no luck. He then headed for the reef and some wreck fishing. That action was drop and reel with double headers every pass. For one and half hours they hammered away at the fish and were able to put 15 keepers in the box out of over 50 fish caught. He did see some pods of bunker at the reef but no bass under them. Captain Fran also ran open boats Sunday and Monday and once again tried to find bass but to no avail. On Sunday his group managed 17 keepers at the Garden State South Reef. On Monday he had John Henderson out, and they found a real hot spot on the Garden State South Reef with John putting 11 keepers in the box.Captain Dave Wittenborn on the “Compass Rose” fished the LBI Cup, a striper tournament held by the Beach Haven Marlin & Tuna Club. He first looked for bunker with no success and chunked bunker at Wreck Inlet in the white water. When that produced no action, Captain Dave headed north and tried trolling an umbrella rig and a bunker spoon. They managed one knock down in about an hour on the troll. Then a spell in Little Egg Inlet chunking those rips resulted in just some very large dogfish. On Sunday Captain Dave fished in Great Bay for fluke using Gulp Minnows and squid. He had plenty of action but all the fish were short. The “Miss Beach Haven” with Captain Frank Camarda had a good weekend on the ocean. Fishing both shallow and deep water, they found a lot of life on the wrecks and reefs but had to weed through the shorts to get keepers. Despite a keeper ratio of 10 to 1, most anglers took home dinner. Joe Muir was high hook Saturday and Scott of Beach Haven on Sunday, all quality fish. The pool winner Sunday with a 3-pound sea bass was 10-year-old Richard. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - May 27th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
62 °
FISHING: Good
The captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association have been putting the time in and finding fish for their customers. Captain Carl Sheppard of the “Star Fish” had Irv and Muriel Stoops out for a split day of fishing. They first hit the reefs off Beach Haven for over 50 black sea bass and finished the day up in the back bay waters where they picked up 7 fluke. They told Captain Carl their freezer was “out of fish.” The next day the “Star Fish” had Joe Dawson and a bachelor party of 11 people. Fun was had by all as they boated over sixty fish in a half day trip. Five of the sea bass were over 4-pounds including a 28-incher. On Saturday the “Miss Beach Haven” with Captain Frank Camarda had fishing that Captain Frank termed “good to fair.” They fished four spots to put together a catch resulting in some nice sized sea bass and some ling. A couple of anglers had over 10 keepers with Tom Hook the top angler with 13 jumbo sea bass including one over 3-pounds. On Sunday Captain Frank had 20 anglers who found the ratio of keepers to throwbacks about 7 to 1. The high hook was Jeff Salabritas from Marlton N.J. with 10 sea bass, and his son Jeff was right on his heels with 9 keepers including a beautiful knuckle head just a hair over 3.5 lbs which won the pool. Also caught today were several black fish, a cod which were released and some ling. Captain Fran Verdi of the “Dropoff” fished one day last week and had trouble locating stripers in the ocean despite looking for bunker pods and trolling. A tip helped him locate a pod of bunker, and they picked up a 19-pound bass. The next day he had an open boat trip and once again had trouble locating bunker. He ended up doing some wreck fishing, and after several stops, put 6 keepers in the box and released another 15 and one blackfish. On Saturday Captain Fran turned to fluke fishing in Great Bay. He boated numerous shorts along with one 19-inch keeper and a bluefish. Gnats made the use of bug spray mandatory. On Sunday he fished the John Nutaitis party for fluke. Once again the short fish kept the anglers busy, and they managed three keepers to 19-inches along with two feisty bluefish. Monday was more of the same with a keeper to throwback ratio of about 5 to 1. His open boat party had 4 keepers to 19-inches with over 20 throwbacks. Once again the gnats were heavy.Captain Adam Nowalsky from the “Karen Ann II” reports steady sea bass action. Recent charters include John Bradwell of Philadelphia whose 4 person party boxed 44 sea bass to 3-pounds, Brandon Pfister's 4-man group from Quakertown that boxed 40 sea bass to 2.5-pounds, and the Muldoon family from Conshohocken that had a nice catch of sea bass to 2-pounds on a half day trip.Additional information on the BHCFA can be obtained at the group’s website at www.fishbeachhaven.com
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Atlantic Ocean - May 18th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
60 °
FISHING: Good
The captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association continue to catch fish both in the bay and in the ocean despite the continued nasty spring weather. Captain Fran Verdi fished an open boat trip on Friday with Scott Gessner and his friend Mike for some striper fishing. The ocean was a bit choppy so they made their way to the Graveling Point area with a water temperature of 63-degrees. They had a bucket of clam chum out and four lines in the water. The first bass to the boat was a giant 10-incher. It was quickly followed with a 31-incher. The process was repeated later in the day with a very small bass followed by a 31-inch keeper. In addition they picked up a slammer bluefish that provided a great fight and was released. On Saturday Captain Carl Sheppard took the Jim Kendra party out on the “Starfish” for some wreck fishing. Captain Carl reported his state of the art radar and GPS systems made the trip through the fog an easy one. Once they reached 80-feet of water the fog vanished. All on board caught fish with about 50% throwbacks. The party boated a total of 47 fish up to just over 4-pounds. They also encountered quite a few spotted dogfish.Captains Brant Whittaker and Frank Camarda took the head boat “Miss Beach Haven” a little further south one day last week than they usually fish, and the move paid off with a decent pick of black sea bass for all on board. The pool winning fish was a nice 4-pound sea bass, and the average catch ranged from a handful up to a dozen or so keepers. On Saturday they were greeted by huge waves in the inlet and thick fog. Once they cleared the outer bar the seas calmed down and the visibility got better. In 85 feet of water they had a slow pick on keeper sea bass. They caught a lot of fish but most were just under 12.5 inches. The high hook was Ted Alves, and the pool winner was 3-pound sea bass. On Sunday the weather kept their anglers to a minimum, but the fishing was “awesome.” Despite 20-knot winds, anglers filled buckets with fish and many were close to their limit of sea bass. Captain Frank says you never know what to expect when you fish in the ocean. Captain Adam Nowalsky and the “Karen Ann II” got to the sea bass grounds this week and found good numbers of sea bass. Limit catches will be a bit more difficult this year with the increase in size from 12 to 12.5. A catch of 12-15 keepers per person is a good catch right now. Recent successful anglers include Bill Funk of Doylestown, Pa., with a pair of 3.5 pound sea bass, Dwight Soleta of Norristown, Pa., with a 4-pound sea bass, and Christina from New York City with a personal best 3-pounder. Captain Adam reports the drum and striper action in the bay has been slow, but some 1.5-pound blues have started to show up. With the cold water temperatures, he recommends fishing the ebb tides for warmer water. Additional information on the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association can be obtained at the group’s website, www.fishbeachhaven.com .
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Atlantic Ocean - May 11th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
76 °
FISHING: Good
Despite several days of heavy rain, the boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association have been able to get some trips in and catch some fish.Captain Fran Verdi on the “Cousins” had a couple of parties out last weekend after stripers in the Great Bay area. Captain Fran took Nick Rausch and Frank Marrazza to the Graveling point area in dense fog. After fishing an hour of the incoming tide the tide went slack, and a rod doubled over producing a 29-inch striper for the fish box. Things then slowed again until the tide started out. One fish was brought to the boat but spit the hook. It looked to be short but it was going to be close. Then a combination of increasing winds against the tide made fishing difficult the rest of the day.Captain Adam fished the next day with the Rob Fraley Party. They set up at Graveling Point and had the incoming tide to work with for about three hours. After 30 minutes a line went down and it was the first striper of the day, a 32-incher was landed. The tide went slack and they had a doubleheader on with Rob getting his first keeper striper ever. His fish was 31-inches, but the other fish was a very short 10-inches. Ironically that angler’s nickname was “Tiny.”The boats of the BHCFA that fish the ocean reefs and wrecks are encouraged over the early showing of some decent sea bass fishing.On Saturday May 9, the “Miss Beach Haven” with Captain Frank Camarda covered a lot of ground all the way out to 100 feet of water looking for fish. Captain Frank reports he found plenty of life in 90 ft of water, but the problem was they were last years models.The anglers had a goodly amount of catching going on with a lot of releasing. By the end of the day they were about 14 miles from the inlet with a water temperature of 51 degrees The high hook for the day was 5 sea bass by Jerry from Philadelphia who won the pool with a 3.5 -pound sea bass.Captain Adam Nowalsky on the “Karen Ann II” reports he was tied to the dock the past week “courtesy of Mother Nature.” Now that the weather patterns seem to have straightened up, he has plans to get back to the fishing grounds soon to tangle with the spring humpback sea bass. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - May 5th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
62 °
FISHING: Good
A combination of recent bad weather along with some captains doing some out of state fishing on their own accounted for only a couple of reports for the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association this week.
Captains Brant Whittaker and Frank Camarda on the “Miss Beach Haven” had a light crowd Sunday with threatened weather reducing the anglers. They missed some excellent fishing. Sal Rosa of Manahawkin was high hook with 17 sea bass. His biggest fish, a 4-pound sea bass, was the pool winner.
On Saturday the conditions made for some difficult fishing conditions, but once the boat was able to anchor, the sea bass cooperated. Many blackfish were caught and released, and everyone managed to catch some keeper sea bass for dinner.
Captain Adam Nowalsky of the “Karen Ann II” had a wreck fishing trip on the final day of the spring blackfish season and found plenty of fish. His six-man party ended up with 75 blackfish although most of them were throwbacks.
Sea bass continue to show up in increasing numbers, and this day’s party boated over a dozen with about half of them being keepers. The day’s fishing produced two dozen fish in the cooler with some of the blackfish tipping the scales at 5-pounds.
On Sunday Captain Adam took out a party for a day of catch and release blackfish. The group caught close to 200 blackfish up to 5-pounds along with a dozen keeper sea bass.
With the weather expected to improve and a variety of fish including stripers, blues, and weakfish showing up, the BHCFA expects to be in full gear very shortly. Captain Adam reports the stripers are getting bigger, and the bluefish are 5-8 pounds in size.
Additional information on the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association can be found at www.fishbeachhaven.com
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Atlantic Ocean - April 28th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
73 °
FISHING: Good
A sudden warm spell has raised water temperatures in southern Ocean County, and the boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association are finding the fish are in a feeding mode. The boats bottom fishing in the ocean have seen some very good catches of big blackfish, but that season ends on May 1. Fortunately, black sea bass have started to arrive to pick up the slack.Captain Adam Nowalsky of the “Karen Ann II” reports some good catches of tog or blackfish. Along with the tog, he has been noticing more nice sea bass showing up. Some recent limit catches of blackfish on the “Karen Ann II” include George Johnston of Philadelphia, Keith Stickles of Princeton, Robert Key of Reading, Pa., Johnny Lucario of Somerville to 5 pounds, and Bob Craney of Parsippany to 7.2 pounds, Capt. Brant Whittaker took over the chores on the “Miss Beach Haven” from Frank Camarda last weekend and found some nice blackfish and sea bass on inshore wrecks and reefs. Dave Agar was the pool winner with his fat 12-pound tautog. On Sunday the boat found even better fishing with a mixed bag of sea bass and tog with high hook being 7 fish. Captain Fran Verdi ran some “open boat” trips on the “Cousins” recently and caught fish each time. One day he had Steve Richter and his son out for some bass. They fished in 55-degree water off Graveling Point. After a slow start, the fish started to bite when the tide turned and the rain started. In addition to several short fish they had keepers of 34 and 29-inches. On Sunday Captain Fran tried bottom fishing in the ocean. After trying several spots with little success, they found a sweet spot on the Little Egg Reef. They managed to boat about 30 fish mostly blackfish with some sea bass mixed in. Many of the fish were shorts, but they did manage several keeper blackfish. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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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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