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Beautiful morning here on the island...Winds are still NE but very light at this time and the Sun has returned to the sky!!! Small blues continue to be caught on metal, bucktails and poppers in Barnegat inlet from the rocks... John

The kayaks are killing the bass off ortley beach right now. Just had Al come back with fish to 30lbs. He said the bite has been on since 5:30am. Scott

Yesterday was a hot and heavy bite for the cocktail blues on the casino fishing pier. The guys that were getting were throwing small metals. A good amount of fish were taken from the beach in Lavalette yesterday. Jim Torsiello and Allen Moglia nailed bass in the 13lb range on wacky wednesday clams. Michael Crate and Billy Shepard landed a 12lb bass and 10lb blue in the same area. Scott

Crabbing remains very good despite the full moon Monday. Some very good catches are being put together. A few dozen per person is about the average now. Some guys from the shop ran down to the bb buoy yesterday afternoon to give fluking a try. They did manage to put half a dozen fish over the side but no keepers. They seemed to do the best with just a plain simple fluke rig made with light leader and a live killie. The guys did have some cocktail blues as well. As far as bass fishing goes from the surf fish are being caught! We aren't seeing the big 20-40lb fish come off the surf much this year but plenty of keepers to 20lbs are being taken. And still it seems like there's no one fishing. You can't catch them from the couch. 2 bit road seemed to be pretty good the last few days. Also plenty of weakfish are being caught at berkley island park in the mornings and evenings on live grass shrimp. Scott

To spite yesterday's crazy weather we had several bass come across our scales with Jim Puhas's 16.0 lbs leading the pack. All the fish were from Island Beach State Park and were on clams and bunker. As for the crabbing, it has slowed down a bit after the storm and the full moon. John Yac