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.

7/5-6 -- Covered Up!! Yellowfin Limit!

2010-07-06

Headed out to the hudson canyon for an overnighter monday morning and immediately went on the troll once we arrived. We found the 2 degree break and immediately got into fish on ballyhoo. The first couple fish had some fuel left in the tank boatside and things didn't work out. The next...

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6/12 -- 275LB Thresher!!!

2010-06-14

We had the Siesholtz charter out Saturday afternoon for a thresher trip. Colin and his dad fought and lost a nice thresher last year on striper trolling gear and it sounds like threshers have been on Colin's mind since. We got on the drift in perfect sharking conditions and had...

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6/8-9 -- Sharks and Tilefish

2010-06-09

Decided to change it up a little bit with the good conditions tuesday and focused on tilefish instead of tuna. We ended up with 17 tiles to 25 pounds. They were a mix of goldens and greys with most of the goldens 6-10 pounds. The largest grey...

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5/23/10 -- Stripers to 48 Pounds!!

2010-05-23

We had the Mike Marrone charter out for some trolling and the picked up where it left off on friday afternoon. We managed to land 8 bass out of 13 before the guys were ready to go in. The biggest was 49 inches at the dock and tipped the scale...

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5/22/10 -- Slow Fishing

2010-05-23

We had the Gavin Lentz charter from high bar harbor out on saturday and unfortunately just couldn't get the fish to bite. The boats traffic was terrible. At one point I counted over 80 within 1.5 miles...There were boats as far as the eye could see and it killed the...

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