Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us here at Babu Sport Fishing Charters.
We ran our last trip of the season yesterday. Tried for striper, but we didn't find any. Pictured is yesterday's sunrise. It's not that great a picture, but I enjoy being on the ocean as the sun is coming up It is always beautiful. Have a safe and healthy Christmas.
We had a great wreck fishing trip today. Babu Charters took Mike, Steve, Win, and Bill for a six hour trip. They caught about 200 fish and brought home 35 with a mix of sea bass and porgy up to 17” for dinner. The Riptide B&T salt clams worked great. #babucharters. #sea bass fishing. #porgy Fushing. #brigantinebeach
Eight year old Ben and his family fished with Babu Charters hoping to get into some striper. It was a tough trip for Ben and his cousin Matt also 8. It felt like 43 degrees, was raining, and the only bite was this fluke that was released. We had six people aboard so there was limited space to do much casting. Instead we chummed and used eels without our success. #babucharters #brigantinebeach
The Wangersteen group fished the bay with Babu Charters this afternoon. They boated and released a mix of fifteen fish including sea bass, fluke, sea robin, and sand sharks. The Ripetide B&T squid strips from tubes were great. #babucharters. #brigantinebeach
The Gorin group fished with Babu Charters today. Over 50 sea bass were boated, and 17 came home for dinner. We caught several in the 17.5 inch range. Along with the sea bass we caught sea robin, bergal, sand shark, and fluke all of which were released. The Riptide B&T salted clam and strip from squid tubes were great. #babucharters . #seabassfishing #brigantinebeach
The Dedge family fished the afternoon in strong northeast winds with Babu Charters today. They caught and released a few fish despite dealing with drift speeds up to 3.4 mph. More like trolling than drifting. Foster is 9 and Aidan is 4. The were real troopers fishing in the cool windy conditions. #babucharters #brigantinebeach
The Shea family fished with Babu Charters on a 4 hour bay trip. I should say it was a catching trip for 5 year old “T”, and 6 year old Anna. Michael, Rose, and Sean , the adults also were with us. We boated and released over 150 fish equally mixed between sea bass and sea robin along with 4 fluke, 2 king fish, and a sand shark. T even helped me drive the boat to one of our spots. It was a beautiful, sunny day to be boating on the bay behind Brigantine.
We had a bachelor party aboard Babu Charters today for a morning 6 hour fishing trip. We did manage to catch a snack which included a nice 15” king fish and a delicious blowfish. Along with that we caught 18 fluke, 35 sea bass, and 27 sea robin. With over 80 fish boat and released it was a very fun morning. The Riptide B&T Gulp where the hot fluke baits today. #babucharters #brigantinebeach #fluke
Babu Charters took the Gould family bay fishing yesterday afternoon. Grand-mom, Mom, Uncle and 4 year old Zach. A lot of small fish were caught. Mostly sea bass (about 42), then about 13 sea robins, and finally about 8 fluke. The trip wore Zach out, but he was a real good fisherman. Most of the fluke were caught on sea robin strips, and everything else was on the cut baits from the Riptide B&T squid tubes.
The Rouselle family fished with Babu Charters for the second time this summer. We caught a lot of fish but not dinner. About 15 sea bass, 15 sea robin, 8 fluke, and 1 sand shark were all released. The weather was cloudy with a light breeze that knot most of the green heads away. The Capt. Ron's spray from Riptide B&T kept those that did venture out to challenge the breeze away.
The Lesperanci family fished with Babu Charter on a four afternoon bay fishing trip. The fishing was slow. We only caught 12 fish with the largest being the 16.5 inch fluke that was released. We also caught sea bass, sea robin, and a sand shark. We drifted nine different locations, but could not find the mother load.
Six year old Aubrey and eight year old Jason along with their mom and dad Allison and Kevin. Had Jason fishing with Babu Charters on his birthday. They caught about 21 sea bass and equal number of sea robins a half dozen fluke and a sand shark. Everyone had a great time. The cut baits from the Riptide B&T squid tubes worked great. #babucharters #brigantinebeach #flukefishing #seabassfishing
Jennifer and David fished this morning on a sea bass trip with Babu Charters. The fishing was successful, and they brought home their limit of sea bass up to 15.5 inches for dinner. They also got to witness the power of Mother Nature when a thunderstorm formed around us. We had been watching the weather radar showing storms about 15 miles to our southwest. That’s when we decided to start to run back to the inlet. When we got 5 miles from the inlet we saw the weather radar start to blowup around us. We watched as a new cell formed above us. It hit with a fury. We adjusted the course, slowed and let it roll over us. The seas and wind picked up, but it got past us thankfully in about 20 minutes. Obviously we returned to the dock safely.
Karen, Mike, Andrew, and Ryan fished the ocean today with Babu Charters today. They brought home s fat 19.5” fluke and two keeper sea bass plus sea robins and a skate. In total we landed over 25 fish. We were using Riptide B&T salted clam, squid tube baits , and sea robin. #babucharters #brigantinebeach #flukefishing #seabassfishing
We had a bachelor party fish with Babu Charters in the bay this morning. Fishing was difficult, but we did land over 20 fish including 12 fluke, one was 19”, 5 sea bass, 4 sea robin, 2 sand shark, and a keeper weakfish. Everyone in the party caught fish, and had a good time. The Riptide B&T squid tubes and gulp continue to produce.
The Jagoda family fished with Babu Charters this morning. The trip with catching double headed fluke on the first drift. Then I grabbed the small net to try to land a nice fat keeper size fish, but the net was too small. It jumped out and swam away. I hate when that happens. We caught a few sea bass, sea robin, several more fluke, and a oyster cracker, but no more keepers. Everything was laying in 20+ feet. The Riptide B&T squid/gulp sandwich continue to work best. #babucharters #brigantinebeach #flukefishing #fishing
Babu Charters had the Li family out this morning in the fog for their morning fishing trip. We dropped the lines in the ocean about 2 miles offshore hoping to troll up something on our way out to some wrecks in 90’ of water, but we had no takers. It took a little over an hour to get to the wreck because of the fog. Once there we started catching immediately. I was showing the customers how to use the equipment, and as soon as the bait hit the bottom I handed the rod off and told the customer to reel in the fish. It was a short sea bass. We dropped on four different wrecks throughout the morning catching keeper sea bass at each wreck. We ended our morning with our five man limit of 10 sea bass from 13 to 16”. In total we caught nearly 40 fish. The Riptide B&T salted clam and squid tubes caught all of the fish. #babucharters #brigantine beach #fishing #seabassfishing
The Jawerski family fished the bay with Babu Charters for four hours this morning. About 38 fish were caught including 30 fluke to 21”, 4 sea bass, 2 sea robin, and s sand shark. Three of the fluke went home for dinner. They had a nice bag of fillets. Riptide B&T squid tubes and gulp worked great. It was a beautiful day to be on the water. #babucharters , #brigantinebeach , #fishing #flukefishing
We had the Pettimichio family out for four hours of bay fishing. We caught about 30 fish with several at about 17”, but we couldn’t break the 18” limit. Along with fluke we caught sea robin, sea bass, and sand shark. We were using the large Riptide B&T gulp baits