Sounds like any bottom structure in 40 to 60 feet of water is holding LOADS of Sea Bass lately! Doesn’t sound like many real big ones, but plenty of keepers and simply tons of action! Any of the local reefs like the Atlantic Beach Reef and Hempstead Reef would be great places to start but the Cholera Banks and the McAllister wreck have been producing as well.

Glenn, from the shop, fished aboard his boat the “Kerri Lee” on Friday and they put the hurt on the Sea Bass. They fished in 50 feet of water, on a piece south west of our inlet and had action ALL DAY LONG. They had a few Porgies in the mix too!

Judging by the reports we’ve had, we would recommend using rigs like the Fin- Strike Hi-Low style rigs and it’s pretty hard to go wrong with clams for bait.

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Things are FINALLY LOOKING UP! Things are improving, except for the Flounder fishing in our area. Flounder action in these bays is still VERY slow… we’re telling people that if you spend the day targeting Flounder, and you get one… you had a GOOD DAY! We would still recommend looking in the creeks and canals on the North side of the bay, concentrating on the sticky mud bottoms and using LOTS of chum.

To the West, however, in Jamaica Bay and Raritan Bay, there has been some pretty consistent fishing. We don’t have many customers fishing those areas on their own, instead they’re hitting the party boats and catching their share!

Striped Bass haven’t made much of a showing in this bay yet, but we would expect to see this change ANY day now, especially with the nice weather we’re expecting this week. There are fish being caught in Jamaica Bay, Raritan Bay and in around Staten Island… typical of early spring. Sounds like mostly schoolie sized fish being caught on lures like the Tsunami Shads, small Bombers, Bucktails and assorted plastics. We have Fresh Bunker, Fresh / Frozen Clams and Live Eels in stock too!

Blackfish action seems to be improving nicely! We had a number of reports from the past weekend of fish being caught on the in-shore pieces in 40 to 60 feet of water. Spots like the Atlantic Beach Reef and the Hempstead Reef have been producing steady action using Clams. We have fresh clams in stock and a wide variety of Blackfish rigs as well.

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