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The blackfish bite has picked up significantly while striper fishing is still day to day, and trout season is officially open for the freshwater crowd.

The blackfish bite has been decent, with fewer, but bigger fish being landed; still, the best fishing this week is in the freshwater ponds and reservoirs.

Stripers and gator blues feed on bunker and sand eels in the surf, Raritan Bay hosts a solid bass bite, and tog fishing is better around the jetties and inlets than the wrecks.

Big bass harass bunker schools out front, yellowfin and bluefin tuna take chunk baits in the canyons, and sea bass, porgies and winter flounder chew on bottom.

Forty-inch class stripers gorge on sand eels and bunker on the beaches, the blackfish bite improves off the jetties, and sea bass fishing remains decent.