The Latest and Most Relevant Fishing Updates You Should Know

Pick, Pick, Pick is the cry of most of the surf fishermen I have spoken to the past couple of days. With small baits in the wash small blues and fluke seem to be interested at times. If your looking for a good bend in your rod this time of the year night time sharking is your only choice. The night tides are also bring large cow nose rays into the feeding zone. Crabbing remains good especially from the boats just a little south of us. But shore bound crabbers are still putting together decent catches, the only problem is weeding through all those shorts... John Yac

More tolerable weather forecasted for the weekend should make surf fishing more attractive. It's hard to get a good report on what's happening with so few anglers. But just going by the time of year, fluke and small blues should be the one two punch right now during the daylight hours with shark fishing during the night tides. For those dyed in the wool bass hounds, night tides during July and even into the first week of August has seen some large bass on cut bunker. Crabbing remains good and more and more snappers are showing up daily... John Yac

Keep your rain gear close by! Today will see showers on and off but the good news is on shore winds and high tide at mid day. These conditions could produce a good surf fishing day. Add to that a very few beach goers and the number one benefit is no flies!... John Yac

There are some nice size fluke being taken in IBSP not a ton but some nice 2 - 4 lb. fish. These great eating flatties seem to be favoring a variety of natural cut baits. Bluefish strips, peanut bunker, live killies, spearing and squid combos or just squid strips alone all fished on ether a bucktail jig or a 3-way swivel rig with a dresses hook or not. Night time sharking is in full swing with some nights producing better than others. The key here is a strong large hook with a stout wire leader and a good size chunk of mullet or bunker... John Yac

We find ourselves in the summer surf fishing mode now, wow did that come fast! Small to medium size blues mostly on cut baits, bass mostly shorts with the occasional keeper taking clams. Fluke this time of year is the number one target in the surf. The best method to score on these tasty fish is bucktails tipped with gulp or squid. The non game fish this time of year consists of rays and dogfish, the latter if bled, gutted and filleted asap makes a surprisingly good tasting table fare. Crabbing remains good from our rental boats and dock... John Yac