Hi Folks,

Ocean fishing has been tough to accomplish with what Mother Nature has been handing us. The Back Bays have been producing some flounder, croaker and plenty of bluefish. Massey’s Ditch seems to be the hot spot over the last week or two. Some big croakers, keeper flounder and lots of bluefish are putting bends in many rods. Bloodworms, salted clam, mullet, and squid seem to be the best offerings. Indian River Inlet is also giving up plenty of bluefish. Herb Pressely of Carlisle,Pa. was scoring some nice blues on Gotcha Plugs. Surf fishermen are finding a mix of blues, kingfish, croaker and small stripers. Time to gear up for the start of tog season! A late report came in! Bob Cleveland and Denny Raber fished between DB & BA Buoy aboard Bob’s “Deputy Dog” to put 18 seabass and a 22 inch flattie in the fishbox. They also had a number of “return to sender” seabass.

Capt. Bill Baker of Bill’s Sport Shop reported that Dom, Russell & Jack fished "B" buoy on "Mr Dom" and caught a variety of fish, 10 different species. The recent hurricane winds probably blew in a lot of warm water. We caught flounder, bluefish, mackerel, amberjack, sea bass, sea robin, sand shark, spiny dogfish, blowfish and a pilot fish. The flounder was bragging size measuring 24 1/2" along with 3 throwbacks. The sea bass were in the 13" class. We fished west of the buoy using squid and silversides for bait. The sea was sloppy with 3' to 4' white cap waves along with southeast winds and strong current. A wild day at "B" buoy. Capt Dom. Chuck Nagel of Bill’.s, landed a  24" flounder from Massey's Ditch on fresh mullet Tyler Murr and Bill Loums, fishing at Savages Ditch Oceanside, had consistent bluefish action catching fish up to 16", until they were tired of catching. Paul Scisly, Elysburg, PA, caught a 5.35#, 23.5" flounder on fresh mullet at Massey's Landing. Spot by the hundreds are being caught at the Pier.

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