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Tautog fishing is excellent around the jetties, and stripers take clams and bunker in the surf while local boats and shops prep for fluke season on Tuesday.

Striped bass fishing improves in the surf, tautog bite well around the ocean reefs and black drum activity ramps up around the southern tip of Cape May.

Backwater stripers hit lightweight soft plastics and bucktails, white perch fishing slows down, and tautog chew around ocean inlet jetties on crabs and clams.

Quality tautog are being caught on jigs from the jetties, and striped bass fishing is consistent around the bridges and in the rivers.

There's spotty fishing for white perch and stripers in the marshes, and some decent winter flounder fishing, while charters and shops gear up for tautog season.

A few boats are finding stripers around 2 miles out, sea bass are biting well offshore and tautog fishing has been good around local reefs.

Sporty conditions made fishing tough this week, but some striped bass were caught near the 3 mile line while the reefs gave up decent tautog.

Striped bass crush swim shads, pencil poppers and bucktails in the surf, but tautog fishing slows with heavy winds limiting anglers to shore.

Striped bass continue to crush topwaters, bucktails and more along the beaches, while tautog fishing has been slow and steady on the wrecks.

The weekend saw an explosion of slot-sized stripers on peanut and adult bunker, and tautog fishing has been excellent at the inshore wrecks.