7/19/10

Inshore fishing could hardly be any better, especially for the stripers. There are some
schools of bunker around, that we don’t normally see around here, and they are attracting
a nice class of fish. Live porgies are becoming more popular for the larger fish lately,
although that doesn’t usually produce a lot of fish. Medium sized fish are being taken
steadily with the wire lines - parachutes, umbrellas or the big tubes. There have been
days that the bass were swarming on the top and charterboats were able to catch them
with only a hundred feet of wire.

Bottom fishing for the bigger porgies, seabass and fluke is steady, although you still have
to do a lot of culling with the fluke to get the ones you can eat. The action is good on the
south side out to Frisbies and west to Caswells, or on the other side in the Rips or as far
west as Pocketbook.

Offshore the bluesharks are thinning out, but there are more consistent reports of makos
being taken as little as twelve miles or so out. There are still some bluefish in the
Butterfish Hole, which is kind of unusual. They are all normally inshore by this time of
year. Of course there are some of them on the inshore grounds as well, all big ones,
which is also unusual this time of year.

The bluefins are still around, both east in the vicinity of the Gully and in the Butterfish
Hole, but not many of them are being caught. If you want a surer thing, you want to head
out to the edge, particularly the Dip where there is a fairly steady bite with the yellowfins
and some bigeyes as well.


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