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Saturday, 19 June 2010 |
 Fresh out of dry dock for maintenance and repairs we hit the ground running this week welcoming the Phily.com crew along with hosts from "Down The Shore " Amanda and Emily. The Down The Shore Host were featuring Barnegat Light this week and Reel Fantasea Fishing Charters was fortunate enough to be picked as the featured charter boat of Barnegat Light and Barnegat Bay area . " .
It was a real honor to be the featured charter boat in our area and for those interested the webshow will be will air Thursday June 24th on Philly.com on the "Down The Shore" segment . The Wayne Pollock Party was out in hopes to find some Trophy striped bass action , although we had to do some searching we finally found some feeding stripers on bunker schools to our North . After a few "Swing and a Miss" Wayne connected with a freight train and the B attle Royale was on which began to dump 400 yards of 40lbs braid !! Unfortunetly just as Wayne started to put some of the line back on the spool the hook pulled ending the fight early [ ouch, t hat really hurt !!] Finally the guys were able to sink the steel home and stayed fast to put a nice 30lbs bass in the box before trips end ........
Regulars Jay Simmons and Ernire Rosenberg were joined by Jays younger brother Chris for a combination of back bay and ocean fishing . The guys started the day picking away on a few throw back fluke in the back bay from there we found 2-4lbs class bluefish raveging our artificials on light spinning tackle up at the inlet before heading out in search of trophy stripers. The guys experienced a full throttle wide open striper bite on live bunker with bass ranging in size from 30-40+lbs.To add to the excitement With the deck busy and 2 guys doubled up with big stripers a huge whale breached just 100ft away from the boat. As we all stood there in amazement of the shear size of the whale and what just happened we were immediatly drawn back to the matter at hand with rods doubled and a tug of war still raging between the 2 anglers and big bass. Unfortunetly I couldn't get to my camera fast enough to record the event with everthing going on. The whale continued to surface and feed in the bunker school looking more like a submarine than a living creature ! With ocean temps continuing to rise the stripers will most likely continue their sojourn north turning the page on what could be remembered as one of the best 1st half to our striped bass seasons . Whether your ideal fishing trip is bay or ocean , Barnegat Bay and surrounding local waters continue to offer fantasastic action with stripers, bluefish, fluke, seabass,bonito, false ablies, mahi mahi....... just to name a few. July is right arround the corner and Reel Fantasea Fishing Charters is ready and able to provide and great fishing and on the water experience.
Best Regards,
Capt. Steve Purul |
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32 lb. Bass.Just for the record..Three of my friends that have been on my trips have caught their FIRST EVER Stripers on the Reel Fantasea...Here they are :
Carlton Bird- 49 lbs.
Mark Fainor - 48 lbs
Chris Simmons- 42 lbs.
QUITE IMPRESSIVE !!!
THANKS FOR ANOTHER GREAT EXPERIENCE ON REEL FANTASEA!
Mark