What a Fathers Day for Lou Padula of Rumson. After the rainy weather was over around 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, he showed up at the dock in by himself in his center console looking for live bunker bait and some beef jerky. His comment was that his wife and kids wanted to take him out for dinner, but he had another idea "I'm goin fishin!". The word of big stripers down the beach had been out all week and Lou was going to head down for a look. I contemplated skipping out myself and joining him. My bad. Lou got into a school of bunker off of Deal and had his limit up to 36lbs and back to the dock by sundown.

Big bass have been hitting the docks and the stories are crazy. Fish up to 48lbs on our dock. Reports from wide eyed captains and mates of stripers free jumping breeching on pods of bunkers. An organized attack to stun the quick bunkers and allow them to be gobbled up two and three at a time. One captain told me that one came crahing throught the fray with three bunker tails sticking out of its mouth. He said it was "stupid" six huys on the boat and six hool ups all over 30 lbs! Most of the rports of this action aare from the Shrewsbury Rocks to Spring Lake. Surf fisherman are i on it too. The last couple of days pourpoise have been spotted in the Shrewsbury. I am hoping for some of the big bass to come in as well. the bait is there thick as ever.

Fluking seems to be heading out into the bay. I have been seeing some nice keepers taken at the TC buoy and along the mussel beds of the reach Channel.