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After catching limits of rockfish on June 24,
the Sheldon Johnson crew, including some of the crew members shown here, started bailing
spot up to 10 inches. |
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While we're not big on photos of fish-filled
coolers, this is one load of spot and croaker caught by the Johnson crew... |
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And here we have Fred Gers, actually Fred III,
with a beautiful 31 inch rockfish, which was chummed up on the Hill June 20. Later
on, about a dozen keeper flounder were added to the cooler. Click
here for more ... |
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And hailing from Pittsburgh, here's the Morry
Frankel crew, appropriately on Father's Day. From left to right, that's Morry, Tyler
and Alyssa, Mike (standing), and good friends Eileen and Mike. Oh, and Eileen caught
the biggest rockfish of the day. Click here for more
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Here's a young member of the Dave Pounds crew
from the evening of June 17 with a real fine yellowfin trout. |
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And here's the Bill Wikert (left) crew of June
17, who caught rockfish up to 32 inches while trolling the mid-Bay area. |
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Here's a closeup of James, who managed to
catch a double header on rockfish, one 29 inches and the other 32 inches (shown).
What a thrill that was for all aboard. |
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Here we have Russell Coates (left) and crew
member Cliff with a couple real nice seatrout, caught June 16 while bottom fishing. |
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Here's Rickey, another member of Russell's
crew, with a 24 inch yellowfin. |
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Not to be outdone, here's Jimmy with a double
header on seatrout. |
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Here we have the Ira Reiz (2nd from right)
crew with some of their rockfish caught June 15. Unfortunately, the forecast of
tornadoes kept us from finishing our afternoon on the Bay. |
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Here's Lou, a member of the Robert Christ crew
of June 10, with a 24 inch seatrout. After catching limits of rockfish it was off to
the croaker grounds for a few sunset hours of bottom fishing. A good bunch of
croaker to 18 inches and a dozen or so trout were caught on either shrimp or soft crab. |
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And here's Lee with another fine yellowfin
trout... |
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One of our favorite rigs for summertime
rockfish is an umbrella double-rigged with bucktails and 6 inch shad. The leader
from the umbrella arm back to the lure is about 18 inches of 80 lb. mono. Here's a
member of the Dave Reynolds crew with a double header on rockfish from June 10. |
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The spring trophy striper season has
concluded, so all those throwbacks of the last few weeks better watch out. While
most of the larger rockfish are well on their way to New England, the Dwayne Haines (2nd
from left) crew caught a 32 inch beauty among near limits of smaller fish on June 3.
From left to right, that's Chris, Dwayne, Kevin, Dave, Jack, and Bruce. Click here for more ... |
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That's Lance Weakley (left) and one of his
crew with some of the flounder they caught June 3. Many people don't even bother
fishing the mid-Bay for these tasty bottom dwellers. All the more for us to catch
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Here's the Tom Boyle (far right) crew of June
2 with a bunch of hefty croaker to nearly 20 inches. Although our primary target of
the day was black drum, their close cousins -- the croaker -- provided lots of fun.
Other crew members included Jim (standing) and in the front row that's Pam, Miss Kitty and
Charlie of Breezy Point Fishing Center. |
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Here's Jim and Tom with two patch-sized
croaker, both over 19 inches. Congratulations guys! |
