Hi Flier---Open Boat Stripers!

The bunker and big stripers are still here. The water temp out front has hit 65 and the action should be slowing down.....but nobody told the bass. The surface action in the morning and late afternoon is very good. All the fish are 25 to 35 pound average. Surface action is very common with a few hundred bunker fleeing the gape of a huge striper all at once, it has enough volume to hear 50 yards away. Of course, there is no guarantee this will be all the time, but it's been happening a lot. More often than not. Somedays, you just drift through a few acres of loosely flipping bunker and casually pick at the big stripers. Not too awful, either. Trolling seems to be producing more thresher sharks this week than stripers......I know of three caught on bunker spoons in the last week alone.

 

We have been catching all of our fish between Barnegat Inlet and the Seaside Piers, but we will run further if the day calls for it. 20 to 60 feet of water is now the spread of bait and fish, so every day, you have to key in on the depth.

 

I have open boats sailing Saturday (tomorrow) 1PM to 7PM, Sunday (Father's Day) 4:30 AM to 10:30AM sharp as I am sure a lot of people need to be back for obligations on land (me too).  Also Monday 1 to 7PM. The cost for these 6 hour trips is $150 per man and I limit the trips to three passengers.

 

Calling me on my cell is a better shot at getting me, instead of email, as I am on the water more than land.

Capt. Dave DeGennaro
Hi Flier Sportfishing
732.330.5674
www.hiflier.com