The Hook is free from Labor Day until Memorial Day. To fish at night you have to pick up the night fishing pass available at the ranger station and it costs $50 for the year (although is supposedly going up next year)
:DSome very reliable source informs me the bite is on in Raritan bay. You have to be there to catch them. Lou
hopped around the bay on Sunday looking for some fluke and I can honestly say I've NEVER seen so many bunker in the bay before...I stopped counting at 140 pods...the only pod we found with any fish under it was the 1st 1 and they were all blues...Saw 3 dolphin feeding on different pods in the Raritan Reach southeast of rockpile 20 and then watched another pod all go airborne at once, 100+ bunker all jumping at the same time, only thing I can think of that would spook an entire pod like that would be a thresher ended up taking 2 dozen bunker which are in the freezer for a combo shark/ tuna trip in a few weeks
Nice report! They are starting to run the Tuna trips now.
Capt Joe Baumle put a 268# mako in the boat and I'm sure will be switching to tuna shortly maybe I'll convince him to run a gas trip so I can still work but also get to fish