Fishing

Enter the late summer trigger, as in the gray triggerfish. Cool name via its two part dorsal fin that will raise and lock, and is lowered by pressing the smaller rear dorsal rearward.

Contrary to its appearance, the sea robin makes for some pretty good eating.

A sure sign that the full summer bayside fishing season is going full tilt: blowfish.

Ah, early summer! The perfect time to get youngsters to the pond or lake to enjoy catching what to many adult anglers was also their first fish: the sunnie.

Prime time family fun and great eats await the Fourth of July weekend, and for the rest of summer when it comes to crabbing and clamming along the Jersey shore.

This Sunday, June 19th, is the final day for the 10 fish at a 13-inch minimum limit.

North of Barnegat Inlet, they’re killies. South of the Ocean County tempestuous ingress, they are minnies (or minnows). By either moniker, this fave flounder bait is in short supply.

The black sea bass is perhaps the most popular inshore gamefish along the Garden State’s inshore, and during November and December, mid-range and offshore, waters.

The eagerly anticipated Striped Bass Bonus Tag program gets underway this Sunday and runs through December 31.

Some drum, as in black drum, beating has been going on in sections of Great Bay for the past couple of weeks and it’s great to see this annual mid-April through mid-May run get rolling.