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Atlantic Ocean - July 28th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
74 °
FISHING: Good
BHCFA Notes Captain John Koegler of the boat “Pop’s Pride” reports good fishing for the past couple of weeks. He says fluke have shown up in Little Egg Inlet in good numbers, but not sizes. Only a few have been large enough to keep, but the anglers on board enjoyed catching and releasing fish. He finished off the trip by moving a little into the ocean and catching some good numbers of keeper sea bass.On a previous trip Captain John landed two large mahi-mahi while tuna fishing. In addition, they lost a bluefin tuna right at the boat when the hook pulled. Looking to the future, Captain John reports bluefin action is improving daily, and Atlantic bonito and bluefish have been returning to the Barnegat Ridges. Captain Carl Sheppard on the “Starfish” has been fishing both inshore at the reefs where he found some nice black sea bass and offshore at the 40-Fathom Line where he has found bluefin tuna and mahi-mahi.
Captain Dave Wittenborn on the “Compass Rose” reports his sea bass action is good. He fished the GS South Reef and had near perfect conditions all morning. He estimates catching 40 sea bass with a few big enough for the dinner table. There were a few double headers.
When the winds and seas kicked up around 1:00, Captain Dave made a couple of drifts by the OPT research buoys. They picked up a keeper fluke along with a short. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - July 20th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
76 °
FISHING: Great
Despite water temperatures that have been changing as much as 10 degrees from one day to the next, the captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association have been putting together some nice catches.
Captain Adam Nowalsky of the “Karen Ann II” sailing from Great Bay Marina
reports continued good weather and catching for anglers in southern Ocean County. Fluke continue to migrate out of the bays, with mostly smaller fish remaining in the bay. He says the majority of the keeper sized fluke are now coming from the ocean. The sea bass bite is dominated by sub-legal fish. This is a good sign for the future. Virginia's fleet of menhaden reduction boats were off Long Beach Island last week, working their way back south. If you see a fleet of a half dozen larger commercial boats with smaller sets of boats around them and a spotter plane flying overhead, give them a wide berth because they don't have much courtesy for the recreational
fishermen while setting their purse seine nets. In fishing highlights, Captain Adam said the Bender family from Bethlehem, Pa. led by 7-year old Luke ”The Boaterman” had a nice catch of big black sea bass. Another day he had a group of Seton Hall Alumni for “A Day With The Pirates.” They had a good catch of mostly black sea bass with Jerry Walker leading the way.Captain Dave Wittenborn of the “Compass Rose” found his fluke bite slowing with west winds and accompanying cooler water temperatures. Captain Dave solved that problem by fishing offshore some 8 miles where the deeper water was warmer. He said it was “Drop and reel” with a lot of shorts, but some real nice sea bass up to 5-pounds. Last week’s fishing was inconsistent for Captain Frank Camarda and the “Miss Beach Haven.” A lot has to do with water temperatures and the amount of grass and seaweed in the water. On the ocean trips there have been some jumbo sea bass up to 4 lbs and fluke to 6-pounds. Nina from Bordentown was Saturday’s pool winner with a 6-pounder. Sunday’s conditions were poor most of the morning, and they concentrated on sea bass until a breeze arrived and the fluke started to bite. High hook was Tom Hook from Manahawkin.with 3 nice size fluke and a couple of sea bass. Pool winner today was the duke of fluke himself, Ted Alves of Mount Holly, with a 5-pound fluke. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - July 14th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
75 °
FISHING: Great
The boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association are seeking fish both offshore and inshore at this point in the season.Captain Lindsay Fuller and the “June Bug” fished a bachelor party on Saturday hosted by dad Marty for son Andy due to wed in September. While they worked offshore a little further than an inshore trip normally would go, they didn’t find any bluefin tuna on the lumps and holes northeast of the 28 Mile Wreck. Andy did get tired out on a nice Mahi on the long rigger way back. The sea conditions were super. Captain Lindsay noticed unusually high numbers of squid between 30' and the canyons. What he doesn't understand is why various game fish. are not all over this huge biomass. Captain Fran Verdi ran an open boat Saturday on the “Drop Off” They fished in 75 to 100 feet of water and found a nice pick of sea bass. The water temp was 71 degrees, and they filled the box with 8 keeper sea bass and 2 bluefish. On Sunday Captain Fran had the Ben Allicker party on board at the reef for sea bass and fluke but only found short fish in 50-55 feet of water. They headed in close to shore to drift for fluke and did pickup up a keeper to go with several throwbacks there. On Monday the Dave Diaz family with two young daughters had a great time catching short fluke around the inlet on the incoming tide. Both little girls managed to catch their first fish.Captain Carl Sheppard of the “Starfish” reports finding “lots of black bass” on the reefs, especially the Garden State South. On another trip he found lots of small sea bass on the Little Egg Reef but few keepers. He attributes this to it being their breeding season. On Saturday he had a party of 11 anglers that caught over 50 sea bass, sea robins, ling, blues, and one keeper fluke. The largest sea bass was about three pounds.Captain Dave Wittenborn of the “Compass Rose” spent a week at the Outer Banks and visited a couple of his favorite marinas-Pirate's Cove in Manteo and the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center. He says the boats were loaded down with yellowfin tuna and mahi-mahi.Captain Dave adds that he hopes this is a good sign of things to come for the canyons within reach of the BHCFA’s boats out of Beach Haven as they gear up for offshore trips later this summer and fall. Capt. Adam Nowalsky of the “Karen Ann II” reports he did not get out fishing this past week as his boat received her annual maintenance. Captain Adam reports hearing of some nice mahi-mahi being trolled in the 30-40 mile range along with some bluefin in the 40-80 pound class.He adds there have been good catches of smallish yellowfin tuna in the offshore canyons from the Lindenkohl to the Hudson. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - July 7th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
74 °
FISHING: Great
Summer like weather and sunny skies finally arrived in Beach Haven. The captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association have been producing some enjoyable fishing trips for their customers lately.Captain Adam Nowalsky of the “Karen Ann II” reports the fishing this past week was as good as the gorgeous weather. One trip he took the Greg Vilardo party to the Barnegat Ridges for a day of bluefishing. After good reports, the bluefish action there has slowed and moved north. Captain Adam tried chumming, bait, jigging, and trolling, all to no avail. There was excitement when they hooked up either a big shark or tuna that took all 300 yards of line before they could pull the anchor. They finished the day bottom fishing for about 75 sea bass, mostly throwbacks.On another trip Captain Adam had the Preis party out for a day of bottom fishing. They caught a good number of sea bass to 3.5 pounds, and with 40 in the box, made a few fluke drifts. They found no fluke but did pick up a couple more sea bass drifting. On the 4th of July, the “Karen Ann II” made a half day trip for Jericho Pacho and his family. They had steady catching all morning of tog to 6-pounds and sea bass. Jericho landed one of the season's best sea bass, at 4-pounds, 12-ounces. Captain Fran Verdi on the “Dropoff” and the “Cousins” has been finding good numbers of black sea bass. He reports “drop and reel” fishing in various depths of water. Most of the fish have been just under the 12.5 inch legal size, but he has been finding enough keepers to satisfy his parties. At times he also picks up ling, bluefish, and fluke. Captain Fran had a couple of “open boat” trips over the weekend and found good numbers of fish on some wrecks rather than fishing the artificial reefs. On the 4th he moved into deeper water and found larger fish. He says if the legal keeper size was still 12-inches, he would be limiting out. Sunday was more of the same but he provided an enjoyable day of fishing for the Paul party and their 8 year old son on his first saltwater fishing trip.Captain Dave Wittenborn on the “Compass Rose” had the Mike Kirkup crew out for sea bass and fluke at the Garden State South and Little Egg Reefs. With water temperatures in the 70’s they had a steady pick of fluke and sea bass until the winds died. Fishing around the Research Buoys produced more nice fluke including a 22-incher. For the day they caught over 20 fluke, 5 keepers, and several nice sea bass.On Saturday the water temperatures cooled for Captain Dave, and the fishing action slowed although they managed a couple keeper fluke. Sunday’s action rebounded with a rise in water temperatures, and the “Compass Rose” had fluke up to 24-inches.Captain Carl Sheppard of the “Star Fish” reports several decent trips over the July 4 holiday. Captain Vic had the boat on Thursday on a wreck trips resulting in over 40 sea bass and some very large porgies. Captain Sheppard had a party of 8 anglers wreck fishing out Friday in the morning with a catch of over 50 sea bass, bluefish, and fluke, including one monster sea bass. Captain Tom Masterson ran the afternoon trip on Friday also producing decent fishing.Strong winds made drifting difficult for Captain Carl on Saturday, and he anchored for a good catch. He also did some successful drifting in the inlet for fluke on the way in.Captain Tom had the same wind problems on Sunday with a party including 6 young children. Once again anchoring made things fishable, and they caught fish.The “Miss Beach Haven” and Captain Frank Camarda fished the reefs most of Saturday with a fair amount of shorts caught with some nice sea bass and some ling. The pool winner was “Wall Street Richie” with a 2.5-pound fluke. On Sunday there were not as many shorts with sea bass up to 3.5 pounds. Pool winner was a 5-pound fluke. The bay fishing trips during the week for Captain Frank have been mostly shorts with some keepers for the kids. The big fish of the week was caught on Friday and tipped the scale at 6-pounds. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - June 30th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
76 °
FISHING: Great
The boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association have been returning to dock with some big catches.The “Hot Tuna” with Captain Bob Gerkens won the Beach Haven Marlin and Tuna Club's Mako Shark tournament on Saturday with a brute weighing in at 186.5 pound. The crew for the trip consisted of the boat's regular off-shore mate of Rich Stracensky, its junior mate in training Ryan Kellogg, and Barry Thomas of Allentown, P. Capt. Gerkens was near the pole when the Mako hooked up on a whole mackerel and did its first of two spectacular back flip jumps. He had the duty of handling the rod to the end of the battle. The fishing team did every thing correctly right up to the final gaffing. There were 3 other hookups for the day, one of which resulted in a release of what appeared to be a 75 to 100 pound juvenile thresher shark.“The June Bug” with Captain Lindsay Fuller made it out to the Lindenkohl Canyon with Dante Soriente and friends. The action was fast and furious as they managed to boat some 25 yellowfin tuna. Most were small, but they did box 3 keepers along with several skippies.The next day Captain Lindsay had the Catanese family from Hunterdon County out. Despite some rough seas they looked for bass in bunker pods, picked up a keeper fluke on the Garden State South Reef, trolled for bluefish at the Barnegat Ridge, and picked up several sea bass at the Garden State North Reef. Captain Fran Verdi had a full week of anglers. One day he had Tom and Matt Pitzer for a day of sea bassing on the reef. The two brothers were all about catch and release with 46 fish released including 10 in the 14 to 17 inch range. Another day Captain Fran shared the Huffnagle party, a large group from Pa., on the “Cousins” with Captain Adam Nowalsky on the Karen Ann II.” Capt. Adam fished the waters from 65 to 80 feet and Captain Fran took the waters from 50 to 65 feet. Capt. Adam ended the day with 40 keeper sea bass, along with a thresher shark that was on the line for a couple of minutes. Captain Fran had 19 keeper sea bass, 4 bluefish, one ling and a keeper fluke. The “Cousins” won the prize for the largest fish, a 3.6 pound sea bass. Captain Fran was back on the “Dropoff” with the Williams party for some sea bass. He marked plenty of fish but it was hard to get them to bite. He worked 6 areas and managed 10 keepers plus loads of shorts. Captain Fran finished the week with Lori Dobson’s party and Dave from the “Fish Eye” group. Lori’s two young sons fished hard and managed 4 keeper sea bass. Dave’s group came up empty on stripers but managed to pick up quite a few sea bass including 8 keepers. Capt. Adam Nowalsky from the “Karen Ann II” reports that fluke are being caught on the ocean in lesser numbers than in the back bays but the percentage of keepers is higher. He says he plans to make the switch from wreck fishing to fluke very shortly.His recent wreck fishing trips include the Doriety charter which finished the day with a box of 86 fish, mostly sea bass to 3 pounds along with some line and a 12-pound bluefish. The Sara Madonna Charter, a good group of EMT's fought the rough seas for nearly two dozen keepers for half a morning. The Beskin charter had similar results for half a morning’s fishing. The Marhan Colangelo Charter from the Long Branch area filled the box with 56 fish, mostly sea bass to 3 pounds along with some nice ling to 2.5 pounds. The Fred Verdi Charter from Lawrenceville kept almost 60 fish, primarily sea bass along with some ling and a bluefish.The Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association held its first Junior Mate’s Program last week with 8 eager future mates. It is not too late to sign up for this year with another meeting slated for Thursday, July 2 at the Beach Haven Maritime Museum at 7 pm. For information call Captain John Koegler at 609-290-3349. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - June 23rd, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
68 °
FISHING: Good
The recent horrible weather that southern Ocean County has been experiencing has put a damper on much of the fishing. However, it has not kept all of the boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association at the dock.Captain Fran Verdi got the “Dropoff” out fishing for a while Saturday with George, the “Fluke Guy”, to the LE Reef for sea bass. They fished 3 hours in the morning and picked away at sea bass with some bluefish mixed in. Then heavy rains arrived, and they headed home in a torrential downpour. The final tally was six 14-17 inch sea bass and two bluefish. They also caught fluke, scup, and skates, but no dogfish.Captain Fran says George has been on a streak of bad weather. Known last year as the “Fog and Rain Man,” he may graduate to “Bad Weather George.” Captain Carl Sheppard on the “Star Fish” said he had a “beautiful day on the water” on Friday despite a miserable weather forecast. After exploring bunker pods for bass with no luck, he did some wreck fishing for over 40 sea bass and some very large porgies in a half day morning trip. On Saturday he went offshore with a party of 8 anglers where they drifted a number of wrecks until finding a productive spot. They caught over 50 sea bass, bluefish, and fluke. Sunday’s weather cancelled Captain Sheppard’s morning trip, but he managed to fish the back bay in the afternoon for a few fish. Captain Carl’s mate of 5 years, Tom Masterson has upgraded his license to 50 tons and will be running charters on Sunday afternoons on the “Star Fish.”Captain John Koegler on “Pop's Pride” fished Saturday and had a good catch of sea bass and bluefish. Two of the bluefish were small snappers less than 8" long which is unusual for June. The group gave stripers a try early but had no hookups. Captain Koegler has announced that the Junior Mate’s Program of the BHCFA will begin classes this Thursday night, June 25, at the Maritime History Museum on Dock Road in Beach Haven. All interested participants are requested to arrive by 7 pm. Additional information on the classes including phone numbers and the association in general is available at the association’s website at www.fishbeachhaven.com
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Atlantic Ocean - June 17th, 2009
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED: 
65 °
FISHING: Great
Despite some nasty weather recently, the boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association have been finding fish on a number of different fronts.Capt. Adam Nowalsky the “Karen Ann II” reports that he will be sticking with the wreck and reef fishing for the black sea bass as long as the bite continues to hold up. He has also been catching some good sized tog with the sea bass, and there have been a few fluke caught on the ocean now, as well. His weekly highlights include the Ben Brown family of Hamilton who boxed 40 sea bass to 2.5 pounds along with a 7-pound blackfish released by Jessica.The Pang Family of Stroudsburg, Pa., had a thunderstorm shortened trip of non-stop sea bass catching with the girls out catching the guys by a wide margin. The Sutphen Charter of Somerville had a great day landing in excess of 600 sea bass with nearly 60 in the box. The big fish of the week was boated by Jack Buckafusco, Somerville, a personal best 12-pound, 15-ounce blackfish that was released. Captain Dave Wittenborn on the “Arlene Ann” picked off a nice 24-pound striped bass in Little Egg Inlet on live bunker. He found plenty of bunker pods in the ocean in 40-feet of water but no bass under them.Captain Lindsay Fuller on the “June Bug” hosted Scott and Rich on Sunday for a half-day inshore trip. A northeast wind of about 10 knots keeping his drift at about 3/4 of a knot. Since a half-day trip does not permit much travel time, he focused on the Little Egg Reef, trying a dozen or so pieces. Half had good concentrations of sea bass on the fish finder, but only one keeper could be found among all the throwbacks. Captain Carl Sheppard on the “Star Fish” fished a party of 2 on Friday with a total of 49 black sea bass and two sea robins, the first of the year, in two hours. They had 12 keepers, all blue-head males over 2.5-pounds. That night Captains John and Tom tried a night wreck fishing trip on the “Star Fish.” This trip the sea bass that filled the cooler filled the cooler were feeding on squid.
On Saturday the “Star fish” tried shark fishing at the 140-foot hole. They caught a 200-pound blue shark along with several smaller blues. They had a big mako estimated at 300-400 pounds on which pulled the hook after a lengthy battle.Sunday found Captain Carl back wreck fishing in 60-feet of water. The Hopkins family was hot with the black bass, porgies which were released, and sea robins despite the NE wind. Captain Frank Camarda on the “Miss Beach Haven” found good sea bass fishing on Saturday with a lot of fish caught. After sifting through the shorts they put together a catch of sea bass and some ling with quite a few blackfish that were released. On Sunday Captain Frank tried fishing for fluke and caught fish pretty much every drift. The high hook was Tom Hook from Manahawkin with 4 fluke over 19 inches with the biggest being 8-pounds, the pool winner. Captain Fran Verdi on the “Drop Off” made trips all week despite the weather even times in the fog when he needed his radar to find his way. One day t he Chris Nelson party ended the day with 9 keepers in the 13-18 inch range. Another trip with a group from the Village Harbor Fishing Club also resulted in 9 keepers but many more than that which were released.On Saturday Captain Fran fished the JCAA fluke competition with Team Chum Bucket. The anglers fished all over the bay but could only get one keeper at 18.5 inches. Shorts were the word of the day.On Sunday he had the “Cousins” out today with the Joe Tool Party. They looked for stripers but found none. They turned to sea bass and after several stops ended up with 9 keepers for the day. Additional information on the BHCFA can be found at their website www.fishbeachhaven.com
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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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