The stripers can't get to the live baits before the blues. Five or six stripers a day a being taken by anglers who wait out the blues on live herring. Weakfish are starting to show around Great Bay, Absecon Inlet and the area jetties are the places to fish for early weakfish. The Brigantine Bridge, the Longport Bridge and the inshore wrecks is a good place to drown a few green crabs for jumbo blackfish. A few people reported some weakfish at Corson's Inlet on small artificials.
Stripers are along the beaches of Ocean City and responding well to clam fished on the bottom.
Fluke are being caught just about everywhere, but while fat and of good size, most are throwbacks. The much-anticipated season looks like it will be strong. The North Wildwood area of Grassy Sound has a good population of blues and stripers. School bass and small blues are making up most of the catch but a few bigger bass are caught everyday. Plenty of keeper flounder are intercepting baits intended for stripers.