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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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Atlantic Ocean - September 30th, 2008
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
74 °
FISHING: Good
The recent spate of nasty weather kept the boats of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association at the dock for the past week. Now that things are clearing up, there will be some decent wreck and reef fishing.
The “Miss Beach Haven,” a head boat under Captains Brant Whittaker and Frank Camarda, will be sailing weekends for more sea bass and some blackfish action. He fished Monday with the best sea bass fishing of the year. Over 2000 total sea bass were landed with many of keeper size. Most anglers had over 15 keepers with at least two anglers going home with over 20. Mixed in were several porgies and one trigger fish.
Captain Fran Verdi of the “Dropoff” plans to begin his fall striped bass trips on or about the full moon of October 14. He will be running both charter trips and some “open boat” opportunities.
Captain Lindsay Fuller of the “June Bug” has some overnight tuna trips to the canyons planned which combine both trolling and chunking.
Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - September 23rd, 2008
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
70 °
FISHING: Good
The captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association are finding good numbers of fish in the bay waters, the inshore areas of the ocean, and at the Barnegat Ridge. While they prefer fishing in the ocean, when the strong northeast winds blow, they have been finding fish in the calmer bay waters. Captain Carl Sheppard reports the “Star Fish” fished one day last week with Captain Vic for plenty of sea bass on the wrecks. Captain John had the boat to the Barnegat Ridge for little tunny and unlimited bluefish to 16-pounds another day. Because of the recent northeast swells, Friday was spent in the bay. Fortunately, the party found weakfish amongst the sharks, sea robins, and immature black bass. Saturday was much of the same, as 11 people celebrated a bachelor party. On Sunday Captain Sheppard and his party celebrated a 21st birthday, with black bass, bluefish, and some nice porgies.
Captain John Koegler had the “Pop's Pride's” out to the Barnegat Ridge for some great slammer bluefish action. The Roger Sanford party enjoyed a great trip as they released over 30 monster blues up to 15 pounds, while keeping only two. Captain Koegler predicts the major NE storm over the weekend will greatly improve inshore fishing. He and other boats in the Association are able to fish for a wide variety of pan fish in the bay if the ocean is rough. Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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Atlantic Ocean - September 16th, 2008
supplied by: Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association
RECORDED:
74 °
FISHING: Great
Captain Carl Sheppard of the “Star Fish” from the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association Fleet says it is always a mystery why the fish seem to come back when the people who want to catch them leave. His parties did very well this weekend on croakers in 40-feet of water and small blues on the inshore side of the Little Egg Reef. One day the “Star Fish” ran offshore to the Barnegat Ridge, where James Maywright and his bachelor party of 5 caught 28 false albacore, big blues up to 16.25 lbs, and Bonita. After dropping the bachelor party off at Morrison's Marina, he did a quick clean up, and ran to the Brant Beach Yacht Club, were we picked up Greg Florey's bridal party of 15 for a champagne cruise to the Little Egg Harbor Yacht Club, where a large reception awaited them. What a change from the morning's fishing trip.
Capt. Adam Nowalsky from the charter boat "Karen Ann II" reports a rough week weather-wise, but he found good numbers of croakers and sea bass. He believes they will provide good fishing action in the coming weeks. The sea bass are plentiful but small with 8 out of 10 fish throwbacks. The Bill Getz party had drop and reel fishing with almost 3 dozen sea bass to take home. The croaker action is good in 45'-50' of water, although you have to look around a bit to find them. The Ed Beskin party had all they wanted of the tasty “hardheads.” Captain John Koegler of “Pop’s Pride” bottom fished for croakers and sea bass last Friday with good results. One spot produced some huge croakers over 2-pounds. They also picked up some small blues near the inlet on the way home. On Saturday Captain Koegler took his party to the Barnegat Ridge for some good action on slammer bluefish and false albacore. The final count was more than 15 albacore and 30 bluefish.
The “Miss Beach Haven” with captains Frank Camarda and Brant Whittaker fished the Little Egg Reef on Saturday for steady action on croakers, some weakfish, and small bluefish. On Sunday the “Miss Beach Haven” went looking for blackfish and found some porgies, some keeper sea bass, and limit catches of blackfish. Dave Agar of Beach Haven caught and released over 20 blackfish. The group also caught some nice trigger fish and small bluefish.
Additional information on the association can be found at www.BHCFA.com
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