May 3, 2017 - Striped bass fishing off of Staten Island

Started trolling south of buoy 19, and got our first striper before even getting to 19. We reran the same route and kept going towards the Old Orchard before hooking up with our first bluefish of the day. 

We continued trolling both mojos and bunker spoons but we didn't land any more stripers, just constant bluefish for the rest of the day. 

We eventually pulled in the mojos to stop them from getting destroyed. We then tried different spots, closer to Keansburg, but only caught blues. We kept a few -- got some nice filets -- and returned to Brown's Point Marina to clean the boat. We docked around 2pm.

April 28, 2017 NJ Striped Bass Fishing with Clams

Left the Browns Point early and traveled around until we saw signs of life. Found some great marks along the Reach Channel and decided to anchor up in the flats. 

Went to clam chum and fresh clam bait, but not nothing until the tide changed. As the tide changed the fish turned on and stayed around for the next two hours. 

We got a nice pick of stripers in the teens, with a few twenty-pounders. We kept two for dinner, the rest were tagged and returned. It was really cool tagging and releasing the fish, hopefully we will get some feedback on the tags at a later date.