Pez Machine Sportfishing Charters - Barnegat Light, New Jersey

Welcome to the new home of Pez Machine Sportfishing!

Located in Barnegat Light, New Jersey, on the north end of Long Beach Island, Pez Machine Sportfishing offers you access to one of the finest charter boats in New Jersey. Whether it's helping your children catch their first Striped Bass, watching 4th of July fireworks from the water, or spending 30 hours offshore in pursuit of Tuna, Marlin, and other pelagic species, we will help you achieve your goal. Whether you are new to fishing or an offshore veteran, the crew at Pez Machine Sportfishing looks forward to putting you on the fish!

In April and May we begin our New Jersey charter fishing season in pursuit of Striped Bass. The coastal waters off Long Beach Island and Island Beach, New Jersey provide anglers with some of the best Striped Bass fishing on the East Coast. Charters will spend the day trolling, jigging, or live-bait fishing within three miles of the beach chasing trophy-sized Stripers.

June typically marks the beginning of the offshore canyon season and it continues well into November. Departing from Barnegat Inlet, the Pez Machine will run 75 to 95+ nautical miles to the canyons along the edge of the continental shelf in search of Tuna, Marlin, Swordfish, Wahoo and Mahi-Mahi. The Pez Machine has the range to fish the following canyons: Block, Dip, Hudson, Berkeley, Toms, Carteret, Lindenkohl, Spencer, Wilmington, Baltimore, Poormans and South Poormans.

November and December mark the return of the Striped Bass as they migrate south along the East Coast. Once again, we will offer trips targeting this popular game fish until we head south for the winter.

If you need lodging while fishing on Long Beach Island, please contact us as we have weekly rentals available throughout the summer. These rental properties can be seen here.

11/8/08 -- Stiped Bass 3-Man Limit

2008-11-08

Had some sore arms after today's trip. We trolled umbrella rigs in 40-50 feet of water and frequently had 2,3 or 4 fish on at a time on one rig. Ended up with 43 stripers between 24 and 32 inches before heading in at 11am. We had 6 keeper stripers overall...

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9/29-30/08 -- Toms Canyon

2008-10-02

Sorry for the late report, I'll try to throw Fri-Sat's report up as soon as I get back in as it looks like Sat-Sun is fishable as well. We fished the Toms canyon Monday and Monday night. Started off on the troll and picked dolphin off of pots right away. While...

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9/11-12/08 -- Toms Canyon -- Hatchet Marlin, White Marlin, Swordfish, Mahi

2008-09-12

Headed to the Toms canyon on Thursday afternoon looking to troll up a yellowfin or two... Well, the tuna fishing didn't happen for us but we ended up scraping together a pretty nice catch. We picked up a few chicken dolphin off the pots before finding a nice 32 pound bull. ...

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9/2-3/08 -- Spencer/Wilmington

2008-09-04

Headed out to the spencer canyon on a fun trip with my brother and my dad. It was my dad's birthday and he was supposed to be first on the rod but the fish caught him snoozing in front of the tv. The first fish hit a black/purple islander in 45 fathoms...

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8/21-22 -- Red Hot Swordfishing!!

2008-08-22

Fished the Wilmington canyon last night and despite terrible tuna fishing we had great swordfishing. We ended up the night with 6 sword bites, came tight on 5 and landed 4. The one we pulled the hook on was a pretty nice fish and the 4 we released were all in...

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