Saltwater Fishing Show Somerset NJ

Had a good day at the SWFS today in Somerset.

I was honored to help out the RFA today and I thank everyone who contributed. Some bought shirts, hats, some signed up for memberships and some did both. All your generous donations go to a great cause. Us!! Many signed up for membership.
Special thanks to Dave Daley for all his effort time planning RFA trips and recruiting help for the cause.

Thank you all for coming up and introducing yourselves and the kind words regarding NJFISHING.COM, ect.
It was great to see and meet Mike M, Brian, Ron, Paul and his fine son and daughter and all the others.

Nice to talk to Al Ristori,(guy is my idol) and all the sponsors who were at the show including Fran(Fish the Drop Off), Kevin Bogan (Fish Pioson Rods) and the one and only... Gambler (Thanks Capt. Bobby and Capt. Mike and Keith)

Leif

Gambler Sunday 3/13 Cod Report

I fished on the Gambler Sunday on the 7am-3pm Cod trip. My son Leif couldn't make this trip but his friend Ben Green of Wayside joined me after getting his parents OK. He is a good fisherman and self relient so I didn't mind at all. We had a nice "fishermans breakfast" on the way out and by 9:00am we were fishing. We had several codfish on jigs even before we were anchored but they were short fish. I landed a 4lb pollock on a jig and two keeper cod for the day. Ben Green was the "star" and had a 20lb cod on a teaser and 15lb pollock on clam. He was eeked out of the pool by a slightly longer fish of 25lbs. Most everyone had at least one cod and several shorts. A few ling were caught as well.

Had a nice day out on the Gambler. Fished on Sunday with Ben on the 6am-6pm cod trip.
Tommy had the grill fired up and within an hour we had our fishermans breakfast and it was great. Pork roll 2 eggs home fries with onions and really good hot coffee.

We six cod. Only one was a keeper and it was the pool winner. Ben had the big ling as well. Most of the guys fishing in the stern had a keeper some had two and some had none. It was a nice day for the end of February.

I even used my "lite" Blackfish stick to catch the small cod and it was fun.

Tried jigging on every stop but no takers...

Leif

Norma K III 3-9 Magic Cod and Ling 2/20

 I fished on the Norma K III today on the 3-9 magic hours trip. It was good to get out in between this very windy weather.

I fished with Ben and his dad Tony. Leif is still on his hiatus.

There were also a few NJFISHING.COM MEMBERS including Eric, his son Chris and member Paul. We were also greeted by sponsor Steve Irwin.

We had a good afternoon and evening out. Ben was the ling snatcher tonight and wound up with seven nice sized ling. He was using a 2 hook rig with a lunker light. He also had a keeper Blackfish to top off his fine catch. His dad had some short cod and a ling. I wound up taking home 6 ling and two cod. I also caught one cod on a butterfly jig.

Nice to see Capt. Matt, Morgan and the crew. It was a pleasure speaking to everyone and fishing on the Norma K III again.

Leif

Gambler Cod Valentine's Eve Report 2/13/11

I headed out on the Gambler today for some Cod fishing. I fished with NJFISHING.COM members Ken Maher, Eric and Ryan Wood .
Cook Tom was firing up the grill first thing and those tasty "Fishermans breakfasts were being served.(I'm not bringing anymore food next time.) Tom has the food covered and it is good. Hot coffee and a hearty breakfast and lunch served up....can't beat it.
Keith was off today and Mike Bogan was getting the clams ready around 4:30am.

It was a little two hour ride out to the first spot and we were greeted by a pod of white sided dolphins. The first spot was slow so we moved on and the fishing got better. We picked at cod all day. Although there were a lot of short cod some keepers were caught as well.
I had 5 cod, two being keepers and Tin Squid had 2 keepers as well with several shorts. We caught a few of those fish on jigs as well. Most of the keepers were just keeper size to 6 lbs or so.
I saw several other anglers with 1, 2 or three cod and some ling.

Leif

Gambler Special Cod, Pollack and Hake trip 2/4/11

I headed out on the Gambler out of Point Pleasant for a special 3am-7pm Cod, Pollack and Hake wreck trip.


We had some nice quality cod comming over the rails as well as some nice pollack. I had one 8 pound cod two Pollack the biggest around 17 lbs and at least 12 ling. Nice trip and a great bunch of fisherman on the boat today. Big cod and Pollack were caught.







Leif

Gambler Giant Sea Bass Report Thursday 12/30

 
I fished on the Gambler out of Point Pleasant with my son Leif , Ben Green, Dave Daley, Jon Mueller and Bill Malcolm on the offshore Giant Sea Bass trip this past Thursday.

We met other NJFISHING.COM members Joe and Jim as well. Nice to see everyone.

We had a good trip and managed to catch quite a few Sea bass, Porgies and a ton of ling. Can't complain about the end result as the "Ling Factory was in full production at the end.
We combined for 51 Sea Bass, 26 ling 6 Porgies 1 Cod and a Pollock.

BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Ben, as this was his first Offshore Sea Bass trip.  Great job Ben on those nice Sea Bass on the new rod. Thanks for making those great potato pancakes(latkes). We ate like Kings.

Great to fish with everyone and thank you to the Gambler and its crew Mike, Keith, Tommy, John and Captain Bobby.

Golden Touch Friday 12/17 Blackfish Report

Got on the Golden Touch last minute on Friday. Thanks for calling Capt.Cole.

Fished with Jon Devin, Susan and three other good blackfisherman Art, John and Joe. Nice to meet you guys.
I had three keepers quickly but I took the rest of the day to scratch out a limit. Jon had a nice fish that was his "PB". Looked to be around 8 or 9 pounds. Jon has some pictures of him hugging that one.

"Susan" hammered them and had some nice sized fish through out the day.

Every time she caught a fish she laughed until it hit the deck. Great to see her enjoy catching those fish so much.
We wound up with the limit for the entire boat plus.
Had a great time as usual. Mate Scott was great and made the trip a pleasure and John's breakfast was on the money.


Leif

Tuna.com Cod / Pollack / Haddock

Deal Surf 12/11 Night Bite

 
Fished the Deal surf this evening from 9:30pm-11:00pm. I was there earlier on low tide but decided to go back when there was a little more water to fish in.
I got one small fish around 20 inches on the black and purple bomber,

One hit one fish and that was it.
"I'll fish until my fingers fall off"

Leif