Stripers are still around Long Beach Isl

Our client made a special request and wanted to try for Stripers in the morning before finishing up with Flounder. We marked a lot of Striped Bass for the entire time during the morning. Unfortunately, even though we were marking them consistently on the screen and the birds were picking at sand eels on top of the water, the striped bass were not into biting anything, while we were trolling umbrella rigs with eels and shads or jigging for them with Flutter Spoons or Tsunami Shads. After trying for Stripers, and we did get into some Summer Flounders along the beach, to finish the private charter. During this Private Charter water temps were still around 60 degrees. As the water temps keep warming up, so will the fishing. If you would like to target Striped Bass during your private Summer Flounder, please reach out to us prior to the trip, so that we may bring the appropriate additional fishing gear to attempt to target them. There is still a small window during this spring be the continue up with their migration up north for the summer.

4 hour afternoon shared charter for striped bass was a great time. We ended with 3 keepers @ 28", 30", and 31" for our clients to go home with and released 10 more stripers to 48"

Thanks to Mike F. and the rest of his crew. Fishing was a challenge to start with no wind and drift, after another week of brutal conditions blowing 25-35 mph from the East-Northeast winds, heavy surf, and rip currents kept us and most of the rest of Charter Fishing Fleet in as well all week long. After a slow start and trying to find some clean water, his group was having a blast trying to catch that elusive Summer Flounder, while some had no trouble catching them, others just kept feeding them reeling up with no bait. They worked very hard to land the fish they caught. They ended up with 12 shorts, seabass, and numerous croakers, but in the end, for all their hard work, they were rewarded with a very nice 5lb weakfish to take home for dinner.