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Sea bass season starts out with a bang, fluke in the 20-inch class bite well in the bays, and stripers and weakfish take soft plastics in the back bay channels.

Giant bluefin are taken on the troll, stripers feed actively in the bays along with bluefish and weakfish, and fluke season opens.

Striped bass are caught from the bays to the ocean beaches along with bluefish and weakfish, and tautog fishing improves around the inshore wrecks and inlets.

Tog fishing is good around the inshore wrecks and striper activity picks up in the backwaters, with bigger fish around Cape May, as water temps climb and more baitfish arrive.

Tautog fishing is good on the wrecks when conditions allow, and striped bass activity remains steady in the bays with bloodworms, swim shads and poppers as acres of bunker appear out front.

Anglers enjoy a steady pick of double-digit blackfish, white perch are chewing in the rivers, and a few boats are finding stripers 1 to 2 miles out

Fishing for stripers and sea bass rebounds from Ocean City to Cape May, tog fishing remains slow after the big swell, and white perch are chewing in the backwaters.

Bluefin tuna remain within 2 to 12 miles of shore, the tog bite held steady prior to the storm, and the backwater creeks are ripe with white perch.

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.

Tautog fishing is hit or miss on the wreck and reef sites, stripers take bucktails and minnow plugs off the beaches, and midshore migrating bluefin are caught on jigs and poppers.