Sea bass fishing holds steady as the season closer approaches, keeper fluke are caught on the beach and in the bays, and schoolie stripers bite well along the jetties and bridges.

Sea bass fishing is great over local wrecks, fluke fishing is excellent in the bays and bluefish mix in with stripers around bridges from Great Egg Harbor Bay to Absecon Bay.

Fluke fishing has been challenging in the back bays and better in the surf, stripers take plugs and chunks on the beach, and weakfish make a strong showing near the jetties.

The black sea bass bite has been hot, weakfish and fluke bite well in the back bays, and stripers and bluefish hit poppers and minnow plugs around the inlets.

Stripers are hitting clams and bunker on the beaches and plugs at night, and big weakfish bite well in the bay as fluke fishing picks up steam.

Big bass to 40+ inches are taking clams and plugs on the beaches, gator bluefish are in the bays, and black drum are biting around Cape May and LBI.

Use our fluke migration map to pinpoint when and where to find summer flounder in New Jersey.

Fluke fishing starts off strong in the back bays with company from stripers and weakfish, while bigger bass hit the beaches as they migrate up the coast.

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.