For the boat fisherman… the big ones are here! Live lining Bunker, either in the bays or in the ocean has been producing some big Bass in this area! For example, we weighed in a 49 plus pounder, a 32 plus, a 22 and change and we’ve had reports of MANY fish in the mid twenties and thirties. THIS IS THE WAY TO GO right now!

If you can find the schools of Bunker, there are likely to be Bass around them. Sounds like there are plenty of Bunker scattered around the bay and in the ocean it sounds like they are concentrated a little east of Jones inlet. Most of the reports we’re getting are from between the Jones Beach tower and the Tobay Beach. Snag a bunker and either leave it right on the snag hook or rig it and drift in and around the school… that’s the deal!

However, there are still plent of Bass being caught through out the bay using clams and clam bellies. Although they aren’t as big as the fish eating the live ones, there is no shortage of action. We still have reports coming from the West Bar and all the bridges. Lots of places in the bay are holding Bass now and with any luck it should continue until we get that steady, hot, sticky summer weather.

For the Surf crowd, things continue to be a little hit and miss. There doesn’t seem to be any steady action anywhere… more of a one here and one there type deal. If we had to pick one area that seems to be out-producing any other I guess we would have to say Robert Moses Field 5. We weighed in two nice fish the past few days from there, one on Clam and one on Bunker. There have been a few reports of some small Bass and Blues at West End 2 at sunrise and we’ve heard of a few Bass taken from Jones Beach Pier (Field 10) as well.

Check out some of the recent pictures we posted in the “fishing pictures” section of the Blog!

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