Fishing Report

March 13, 2025

Join us this weekend 3/14-3/16 at the Saltwater Fishing Expo in Edison, NJ! Take advantage of our show special pricing, as well as trip packages before the season starts!

As work continues on the new Dark Horse, we are nearing the finish line! Our plan is to begin fishing the weekend of April 19th. We will be sailing twice daily for Striped Bass. 7:30am-2:30pm and 6:30pm-11:30pm

We are currently booking our summer cruises as well. We are available for private charter for graduation parties, birthday parties, burial at sea, and any other private events that you want to invite 60 of your closest friends to! We will also have open boat cruises every week throughout the summer, a full schedule will be posted soon.

Look forward to seeing everyone this weekend at the show.

Capt Justin

January 22, 2025

Boat work is underway for the new 62’ Dark Horse! We are hard at work getting her ready for the 2025 Spring Striper run. Making some improvements to not only make her look pretty, but also super fishy! The plan is to start fishing full time by the end of April for Stripers. We’ll be fishing twice DAILY, 7:30am-2:30pm and 6:30pm-11:30pm

We will be limiting all of our open boat trips to 35 passengers

Our daytime fishing will start with casting swimshads and snagging live bait. We will do our best everyday to find and get live bait. Our night time will start with chunking bunker for a couple of weeks, before switching over to live eels for the “jumbos” in late May until the end of June.

Glimpse at our 2025 season:

Once the daytime fishing for Stripers slows up near the end of May, we will transition into Seabass for a couple of weeks. Perfect opportunity to load the freezers with meat! Once the fluking gets good at the end of June / early July, we will turn all of our attention towards Fluke until the season ends in late September. Once Fluke season closes, we will be bottom fishing for a couple of weeks, with a few special “Exotic Jigging” trips for Bonito and Albies with other inshore speedsters mixed in as well. Early October we will resume our Night Time Striper Trips, sailing every night 6:30pm-11:30pm until late November. These trips will be all live eel “trophy hunting” trips. Once we get a good showing of daytime bass mid-late October, we will be jigging for Stripers daily. Diamond jigs, swimshads and topwaters will all be the ticket. We will focus on Stripers until late November, then we will turn our focus to Blackfish. We’ll finish our season sailing daily at 7:30 for Blackfish until January.

We will have a full galley on board, with hot food and cold drinks available for purchase. We will also be fully stocked with any tackle you may need for any species available for purchase. Our cabin is heated and has more than enough room to keep you dry and warm in the cooler months. We have separate men’s and women’s heads, both with freshwater sinks. We also have a full upper deck with benches providing a 360° view around the boat for the ride in and out. Private charters for fishing, NYC cruises, sunset/booze cruises, or burials at sea are all available as well.

On another note, I want to thank everyone that supported us the past couple of years with our 6 pack boats. We hope to give you that same “personal feel” and successful fishing trips with the new boat! You’ll be seeing all the familiar faces on board like Capt Justin, Capt Henry, Scott, Nick and Hua-Jen, as well as a few new faces that we’ve welcomed into the family. I am beyond excited to get this season underway and hope to see everyone aboard! If you have any questions regarding the upcoming season, please feel free to give me a call or shoot me a text at 973-440-0335. I will try to post all the updates on here, but for the most up to date information please visit our Facebook page.

Capt Justin