Memorial Weekend greeted the captains of the Beach HavenCharter Fishing Association with beautiful weather, and a wide variety of fishwere available to make fishing trips productive. Although a nor’easter has hitthis week, the upcoming weekend in Beach Haven promises to be a nice one.
Captain John Koegler had a party out of “Pop’s Pride” on aback bay trip and found some nice striped bass and black drumfish. On Sundayafternoon Captain John took the “Starfish” out in the ocean looking forstripers to no avail. He finished the day up on the Garden State South Reefwhere he caught mostly spiny dogfish up to 37-inches along with some smallersea bass. Captain Carl Sheppard will be skippering the “Starfish” now and saysthe fishing is just getting started.
Captain Gary Dugan of “Irish Jig” Sportfishing opened thefluke season in Great Bay where he reports he had to weed through a bunch ofsmall fish but did manage to put 2 fat fish in the cooler. The next day he wentout for drumfish, and despite finding no drum, he managed some nice fluke,bluefish, and nonstop big dogfish. Captain Gary had two trips on Sunday. In themorning his charter put 5 nice fluke in the box, and his night drumfish tripresulted in a 50-pound black drum.
Captain Dave Kreines had JimAnderson and son Larry out on the “Byte Me” for a post-Memorial Day of fluking.They fished Great Bay using Gulp and spearing for bait. They picked up threekeepers to 23-inches along with about a dozen shorts. They also had action onskates and dogfish making it a fun day topped by a fish dinner.
Captain Bob Gerkens brought hisboat “Hot Tuna” back to Beach Haven from Morehead City last week, a “50 hourcanyon fishing trip” as Bob calls it. In the southern canyons a number of niceMahi were caught of which 4 were gaffers. They also caught someblackfin tuna and released a 4-foot mako.
He reports that he reached a nicewarm eddy of water in a more northern canyon which is regularly fished out ofBeach Haven. They found schools of both bluefin and yellowfin which they workeduntil dark. Three former US Marines from North Carolina crewed and fished onthe trip north. This might be a good time to look into an offshore charterbefore the crowds start sailing to the canyons.
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