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Happy Thanksgiving! To all our faithful customers and friends. The Dock outfitters will be open today till 12:30 for a delicious breakfast before the big meal. You can also pick up some bait and tackle and hit the beach to work up a big appetite for later, or just check out our pre Black Friday…

It’s mild out, the rain will pass, and the winds will be blowing north west. Add to all that a gentleman’s morning high tide, what more can a surf guy ask for, maybe a few more fish would be nice! There are fish around you just have to work a little harder to hook up. Both…

First light, daytime, and last light are producing small to keeper size bass. Cut bunker and clams are the baits of choice. Swimmers, rubber shads, and poppers cover your artificial choices. Remember this time of the year things can change on a dime, schools of bait move in close with fish hot on their trail and just like…

Well the surf guys got a taste of boat action yesterday! Thanks to the help of some local feeding whales, adult bunker were being pushed within casting range of the surf bound anglers. This action took place from Brick Beach to the north, to Ortley Beach to the south. Snag and drop in these bunker schools…

Favorable winds, bait present, seasonable air and water temperatures, what more can a surf angler want? Maybe some of those big girls the boat guys have been playing with for the past several days for starters would be nice! But patience is a virtue they say and never more true than in the life of…

Surf guys may be still picking, but Tony Maja #4 bunker spoons strikes again! Got a call last night from Tony’s field rep. Walt D. reporting another banner day trolling spoons off the bathing beaches of IBSP. Walt and a buddy trolled up 20 nice bass from 25 lbs. to 46 lbs. before exhaustion set in. Now that’s a dream day…

We seem to be in a holding pattern right now! The bass bite in our area remains the same both in size and weight of fish being taken. The hotter action right now seems to be to our north with schools of peanut bunker along with schools of adult bunker present. All we need is for…

Find the bunker by day for some snag and drop action. Fish cut bunker or clams by day in the usual good looking spots. Plug hard at night and keep moving. These three methods should put you into some nice fall run bass, with a little luck of course! The weather looks good for the next…

Well some boat guys and some surf guys alike had some outstanding fall run bass action yesterday. A large adult bunker school showed up yesterday from Lavallette and just to the north. At first the few boats in the area were snagging and dropping to some quality fish. As the surf guys watched in envy…