NJ fishing reports

I was out this morning Wednesday. 6 am to 9am Nothing happening in on the beach early.
I went out to 60-70 feet and found crazy stripers under birds. i was all by myself out there in a 20kt south wind for an hour and a half
NW corner of Axel Carlson.
Then the fleet came out there and I went in and went to work.

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Glad you got on the bite! Hopefully I wont need to go that far north. Will let you know how it goes.
 
Tough day on the water. Left BL inlet at 6:15 and headed north. Birds here and there, but no bunker pods to be found. ended up off Mantolokimg, and then headed east to deeper water. The Belmar party boats were out in 70 ft of water, but couldn't find any fish. The ocean was worked up this far out, a lot choppier than near shore, so headed back closer to shore. Finally found a bunker pod off Mantaloking, with mostly peanut bunker, and stripers were being caught by boats live lining. I finally hooked up with a nice size striper, but it broke off right next to boat. Also had bluefin tuna busting the bunker pods, with one almost bumping into my boat as it aired chasing bait, and it was huge! By noon the wind was so strong, my drift was so fast, that my live lined bunker were just being dragged across the surface. Called it a day and bounced my way back to BL, with the winshield wiper going the entire time. Hopefully the stripers will move south next week.
 
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