Bigger bass are taken on plugs in the surf and around Raritan Bay while bluefish keep piling into Barnegat Bay and the rivers; meanwhile, the near-shore giant bluefin bite continues.
Stripers take diamond jigs and flutter spoons while the surf bite slows, tog fishing is hit or miss out front, and bluefin tuna smash ballyhoo and big paddletails in close.
Double-digit tog are caught around reef and wreck sites, stripers take jigs and live bait in open water, and the surf bite slows while white perch fishing heats up in the backwaters.
Tog fishing has been hit or miss and the surf has scattered striper action as bass move slightly offshore, where bluefin tuna are taking trolled ballyhoos.
Forty-inch class stripers gorge on sand eels and bunker on the beaches, the blackfish bite improves off the jetties, and sea bass fishing remains decent.