2021 Striper Season

The 2021 striped bass season is days away. Please check back here weekly for fishing reports and tips and tricks for a successful fishing season. Early season stripers can be hard to find because the water temps are on the colder side the stripers won’t be very active. They will be found feeding mainly in the back bays, mud flats and the rivers that run into the bays. When choosing one of those three locations you want to mainly focus on the water temps in those locations. Back by the Old Fish Factory (The Stink House) marker 126 has a water quality station attached to it where you can water temps every 15 minutes. Here’s the link https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=jctn4. This data can be very helpful to decided where to fish. As I write this the water temps there is 40 degrees, knowing this information I would focus my attention to fishing the rivers and shallow mud flats by these rivers where the water might be a few degrees warmer. The water will be warmest in the bay at low tide and just as the tide states to come in. When looking at the data from the marker it shows that the temperature in the bay fluctuated 2-3 degrees from low to high tide. This is very important because the closer the water is to 50 degrees the more active the fish will be and anything over 50 degrees is defiantly preferring to help increase your chance of catching. With these temperature swings the window to find feeding fish can only be a couple of hours. As the season unfolds, I will be checking the reports of all tackle shops from seaside to AC to give the most accurate reports.

Night Time is the Right Time Nov. 17

As the weekend came to an end the reports remained consistent. With there being a few bigger stripers off the beach still. Yesterday there was a 44'' bass caught up in Surf City on bunker during mid day. You just have to work through the spiny dogfish to have any chance at catching a bass. The night bite is staying constant with bass in the 20'' range being caught on lures. Right now the bass are main feeding on sand eels so you want to match the match by using small swim shad, Dimond jig, bucktail, and SP minnows. Also don't forget your teaser in front of any of these lures. A lot of these smaller night fish are cursing right along the shore so make sure you fish your lure till you can see it on the sand. On Sunday some of the boaters were getting into some larger bluefish in the 5-10 pound range. We will see these blues hit the beach? Only time will tell but I think if we do see them it will be by this upcoming weekend. Right now the weather for this weekend looks prefect so get out this weekend and fish! I have some availability Friday-sunday but they fill up quick! please call, text, or email me if you want to book a guide or have any question.

Big Stripers all Around LBI

Near the end of this week LBI beaches saw the biggest bass so far this fall with multiple fish over 40 inches which were in the 25-40 pound range. There aren't a whole a lot of them around but if you put your time in you will have a good chance at landing one of these trophy's. The more consistant striper bit is during the night or at first light. During these times, stripers in the 20-30 inch range are in close to the beach looking for a meal. A small Dimond jig, SP minnow, or a small shad is what has been working best for these smaller fish. The main action is still to the north of us off of Seaside. There has been a very good bit out in the ocean which has put a lot of boater on fish in the 30-50 inch range. This fall striper run is just started to kick into full gear, so get out and put your time in off the beach. If you want to set up a guide or have any question, pease reach out to me.