LBI Fishing 8/10/10: Fluke fishing in the bay has been excellent most of the summer tons of fish caught each day. Our biggest fish out of the bay this year was an 8.5 lb fluke. The ocean fishing has been a struggle between the unstable water temperature and the poor conditions with no drift on most days. So far this year Pete from Philadelphia is leading are season long fluke pool with an 8 pounder.

LBI Fishing 7/18/10: Sunday we fished the same spot with wind up against the tide all day. There was not as many fish caught today. High hook and pool winner was Tom Hook from Manahawkin NJ with a couple of keepers pool fish was 3lbs.

LBI Fishing 7/17/10: Saturday I headed offshore to 70 feet of water plenty of action on the flatties. The water temperature was 74 degrees and the fish were biting most of the day. Pool winner today was Nina from Hamilton NJ. with a 6 lb fluke.

LBI Fishing 6/20/10: Everyone agreed the best thing about today was the food. Fishing was not good. However the shrimp scampi, garlic bread, fresh mozzarella and pepperoni platters we put out for Fathers Day hit the spot with everyone. With the water warming this week, hopefully fishing will improve. There's no fish stories here, if it's bad we'll tell you. We won't make up a big story like other sites, that catch two fish and only say the pool winner was a five pounder. We will tell you like it is.

LBI Fishing 6/19/10: Better late then never, the week just got away from me. We had a great group on the boat today. Lots of new friends, and some old ones came out of hibernation. Nina and Darryl were there for the first time this season, both scoring on the flukes. But they were short :(. So the long and the short of it is we caught fluke Saturday with the numbers of shorts in the thirties and the number of keepers in the teens.

Note from Sal: Just a reminder that this Sunday is Fathers Days. Why not take dad out for a day of fishing! Dads, why not bring out the family for a day fishing. Weather looks good, it will be something to always remember.

LBI Fishing 6/13/10: Yes it was the 13th. And once again the weatherman did it to us. Rain, thunder storms, Ha never showed, again a beautiful day on the water with just a hand full of anglers. Welcome and congratulations to our new-bees and new friends, Doctors Ashley, Alison, John, Chelsey and Jenny. May you all have clear sailing in your future, and when you are back in the area please stop in and fish with us again.(and thank you for saving my star fish) Our pool winner today was Three Petes, running real close was Captain Vic and Teddy. Sea bass once again in the one to three pound range. It did fog up at the end of the trip, but till then it was beautiful.

LBI Fishing 6/12/10: Another nice day I wish I was a weatherman. We had a nice crowd out today. No new-bees today, a boat load of our gang. Even Evil Ted and Dean form upstate N.Y. were here. Again spotty we moved around and caught fish. Today along with the short fluke, came our first keepers on the boat for this season. Darin baged a five plus pound fluke and was looking good untill Re-Pete pulled in a seven and a half pounder. Nice job Re-Pete. Pictures on the web site.

LBI Fishing 6/11/10: What a nice day, sun shining water calm, but still a little on the cold side. We had a great group out on an charter today. The men from Rusling Paving & Concrete from Trenton.www.rusling.com Lenny took all his workers out for a day of fishing. The men led by Lenny, his sons Franky and Anthony were their to have fun and they sure did. We headed out early moved around, fish coming over the rails. Plenty of food and beverage to go around. And even keepers. Thank you Lenny, Franky and Anthony, you brought us a fun group today.

LBI Fishing 6/06/10: Boy I hate to write this one. We started out the seas were ok. We fished the first drop again lots of shorts with one or two keepers. Moved around, tried a few more spots, and that's what is was spotty at best, a few keepers here and there. That's the good part. Then the winds kicked up, seas got rough, reel hard to feel the bite. Seas were four to six at times, and reel sloppy. Most fish were only in the one to two pound range, with our pool winner Richie (AKA Admiral Jacka..) taking home the dough with a two plus pound fish. Our biggest fist was again about three plus pounds, but I, I mean the angler is not allowed in the pool ha. (As Captain Frank says even a blind squirrel find an acorn once in awhile) Next week we will be targeting fluke as well as sea bass. Hope to sea you there.

LBI Fishing 6/05/10: Saturday was nice sunny day, a pleasure to be on board. Once again lots of new faces, It's always great to meet new people. Maria and Sister Till, along with Tills husband Bruce from upstate N. Y.. Chris and Mat from Tabernacle. Scott (a bam bam bigalow look alike) Tom, Eric and Ken from PA.. Ann and Mike (oh no not another Mike, I can't keep track of them) From Brick. Ok now the fishing, once again lots and lots of shorts, with some keepers in between. Some of the anglers did have five to six keepers, but worked hard to get them. Most fish again in the one to three pound range, with our pool winner Ray from Waretown beating all with a three plus pounder. Nice to see you back Ray.

LBI Fishing 5/31/10: First, thank you to all the Veterans, and active duty for keeping us safe. Those of us who have served before you, and those who did not, are all thankful for you being there. And congratulations to all the Graduates, we wish you clear sailing on your life's path. Mondays crowd was a little lighter then we had expected, but we were happy to see some of the gang that have been missing. Nicole was there with he Dad and it's not even Fathers day yet. Benny was on board, Paulie was there causing trouble in the galley. Fish once again in the one to three pound range (were waiting for the big boys soon) with Mike (Nicole Dad) with three plus pounder to take the pool.

LBI Fishing 5/30/10: I can just about copy the report from Saturday except to add that the seas were real sloppy. Some of the twenty boppers on the bow were not doing to well. John (Cheeseman) brought up a beautiful nine pound uh uh uh blackfish, what a beauty. We all waved bye bye as John sent him back to the deep blue. Our pool winner today was Lance from Florida, he came all the way up here just to fish with us. Did I mention he had a rental rod?. Oh did I forget to mention that Diane's family and friends came down from the northern end of the state to do some real fishing, and did pretty well. (one of them even commandeered my fishing rod) and they keep Diane busy taking out tangles.

LBI Fishing 5/29/10: The day started with some drizzle in some parts of the area, and down right rain in others. By 8 AM it had stopped and we had a nice group on board. Although it was the start of fluke season, knowing the waters were still on the cool side we stayed with the sea bass. We moved around a few times picking up fish each time. Lots of shorts but a good amount of keepers. Most fish in the 1 to 3 pound range, with our camera shy pool winner Andy with a three and a half pound sea bass.

LBI Fishing 5/25/10: Sunday was another great forecast by the by the weatherman, 50% chance of rain, how about 50% chance of no rain, which is what we had. NO RAIN. That was easy I just copy and pasted Saturdays first line. We went out Sunday and had to look and look and look, but we found them. Lots of nice fish in the box at the last stop we made, making it an ok day. Sorry I have no pictures from Sunday the camera went on the fritz. This coming weekend we will be fishing Saturday, Sunday and Monday, with Dan and Re-Petes favorite sausage peppers and onions.

LBI Fishing 5/24/10: Saturday was another great forecast by the weatherman, 50% chance of rain, how about 50% chance of no rain, which is what we had. NO RAIN. However the bad forecast by the prognosticators did not stop the troops from showing up. It was good to see some of the old faces back again swinging for sea bass, as well as the new faces who were strangers Saturday and friends on Sunday. It was a great day on the water, maybe seas 2 to 3 foot, and tee shirt temps. We had lots of people on board and caught lots of fish. Everyone was happy with the amount of keepers that we were able to boat, and lots of shorts mixed in to be taken another day. Most fish were in the 1 to 3 pound range with our pool winner, (Fill in the blank I forgot to get your name, please e-mail me at fromthegalley@aol.com with your name and I will get it under you picture) taking home the bacon with a 4 pounder.

Saturday night we had Joe Metzgers bachelor party on board to fish, and have lots of fun making fun of each other, as they lost their rigs in the wreck. We went out to the same spot we did the best at on the morning trip, but those little buggers were not home. We moved around a few times till we found some life, then we started putting some fish in the box. The men had a pool between themselves, it turned out to be a tie between Keith from Abington Pa. and John from Philadelphia, both were 3 1/2 pounds. Congratulations to Joe and his future Bride to be, from the staff of the Miss Beach Haven.

LBI Fishing 5/16/10: Almost a repete (no not you, I just spelled it that way) of Saturday. Fish waited till they were good and ready to bite and then they did. Everyone went home with a bag full of filets. Tom and his nephew Jeff got there first good taste of blue fishing a loved every moment of the fight. Fish a little smaller today 4 to 6 pound range, with our pool winner being Scotty Tohottie from Beach Haven with a 7 pound blue. Next week opens the black seabass season, we will be sailing our regular schedule 8 am - 2 pm. Captain Brant is back next week so our Galley special will be pulled barbeque pork sandwiches, along with all the regular menu items. Don't forget to check out our photo gallery.

LBI Fishing 5/15/10: Hello everyone hope you are all doing well. here is the report for Saturday, a slow start once again but a big finish. Not like last week when the fish were hiding. If only the fish knew when we were sailing it would make it so much better. We could start off catching and not have to wait! Plenty of blues in the 5 to 7 pound range, our pool winner was not under a black cloud, our guy Teddy with a 9 pounder. Right on his tail was Charlie and Ida with a couple of blues just over 7 pounds. A nice welcome to two new-bees. First time new-bees second time friends and we like making friends.

LBI Fishing 5/08/10: Well maybe the weatherman did a lot of people a favor today, calling for rain that never came, kept people away, so we sailed with just a handful of people. The wind blew hard in the morning but nothing like they said it was going to. It starting blowing real hard on our way back to the dock. This being Mothers Day weekend I guess Mother Nature was upset with us for going fishing, so she set the dogs on us. (but it is Saturday MOM). OK OK here's the report....... fishing was horrible....that's all I can say. We once again made our first stop, anchored, put out chum and nothing. Like last week we went looking for signs of life, but this week we could not find any. We tried a few spots were birds were hanging out, tried with jigs, but no takers. Hoping for a repeat of last week, we went back to the top of the breakers, but it never happened. Sorry I did not get the pool winners name, but his picture is on our photo gallery. If you e-mail me at fromthegalley.com I will get it on there for you. If you are reading this on our web site and would like to be added to our e-mail list, just let me know. One more weekend trying for stripers, blues and drumfish, then Saturday May 22, sea-bass opens. Hey Mike how are you and Nicole doing, we are thinking about you guys, lets us know.

LBI Fishing 5/01/10: Ok before I begin, this weekend’s report, let me give a BIG I'M SORRY to the Lacey High School Fishing Club who did in fact catch and put keeper black fish in the box last Friday night. After Captain Brant read the report he almost made me walk the plank, but instead just gave me 10 lashes for my mistake, I must have been sleeping on the job again.

Well Saturday was our first striper, blue and drumfish trip. We had a great crowd on the Boat, John T. and his gang celebrating his birthday. The Mossbrook family from PA and the wildest group of all Miss Vicky and her gang. (you can sea them all on the photo gallery) look for young Dom, a future captain. We headed out to the inlet picked a spot and anchored up. Captains Frank and Brant started a chum slick right away, and soon we had no fish? After awhile we pulled anchors and went looking for those little devils, we went east, a little west, a little south, but they were hiding real well. We went back and anchored up again waiting for the tide to change and boy when it did game on. Although we were short on stripers, the blue fish were on a heavy bite. Captains Frank, Brant and myself were manning the gaffs, with 3 4 and 5 hooks-ups coming at a time. A great finish to a slow start. Our poll winner was Mike from Barnegat with a 14 pound blue. Next week’s Galley Special is pot luck if we have it so can you.

LBI Fishing 4/25/10: Well the weatherman did it to us again, heavy rain, northeast blow, HA what a job, no matter how wrong, you just say the wind changed and your covered, you keep your job and live to make more mistakes. Ok there was some rain and a little rain, but the fish would not have known it. It sure did keep the anglers away, to bad, the last weekend day and no trip. Next weekend and till the seabass season opens we will fish for stripers, blue and drumfish. The Galley special will be chicken your way, Hot, barbeque or Italian your choice, so bring your rigs, jigs and appetites.

LBI Fishing 4/24/10: Boy I wish I could write that things turned around today, ok they did but just a little. Key word,LITTLE. We made 5 stops today picking up a few shorts and few keepers. After the first stop Miss Diane came out of the cabin, announced that she had given everyone a head start, dropped her line in, and in minutes picked up a 9 pound tog........Through the rest of the day there was just a short here, a keeper there and some cod mixed in. All in all not a good day of catching, but again a nice day on the water. I'm thinking the tog know it's the last week of their open season so they are hiding from us. Next weekend when the season is closed they will be popping their heads out of the water and laughing at us, some of the bigger ones will be selling back rigs at the black fish flea market held on May 1, at the first wreck out of the inlet. Let's see what tomorrow brings, I hope not the rain there talking about, although the fish are already wet.

LBI Fishing 4/23/10: We had a great group of young adults out tonight, members of the Lacey High School Fishing Club. It was a beautiful night, we left the dock some of us in tee shirts. The wind died, the seas were flat, what more could we ask for........I'll tell you what FISH......just FISH. We sat beautifully on a wreck, rigs being lost, snags all over the place, but FISH, where were they. Oh sure there were shorts here and there, even a big big doggy, but not a keeper in sight. The team knew what they were doing, they knew not to stay in one spot on the boat, these anglers moved from stem to stern, port to starboard, but could not put a keeper on the deck. We'll get them next time. Thank you again Lacey High School Fishing Club.

LBI Fishing FYI: Starting on Saturday May 1, we'll be going out for striped bass, drum and bluefish. We will anchor down in the inlet and chum for these big babies. Never caught a drum fish or striped bass before?, here's you chance. We will leave the dock at 8am and return at 1pm. The cost will be $35.00. If you would like to jig, just bring your favorite rig with you. And of course the galley will be open for your dinning pleasure.

LBI Fishing 4/18/10: Sunday: I guess I could use the same first line about the weatherman again, except he was right no rain, but the wind was worse than Saturday. It blew hard almost all day. Again everyone catching lots of tog, some with their limits some not, but again lots of fish caught, lots of fish thrown back. One fish that was not thrown back was Russian Johns 10 pounder, what a beauty. We moved around fishing 3 different spots picking up fish on all the spots, we just need a few more (as Al Bundy would say) biggens. Water is getting warmer, we still have a few more week of tog fishing left, so grab your gear and get out here. Next weeks Galley special, cheese steaks. Hey Darryl pick up your Mom and get out here! Oh and before I forget Jeff still does not know what to do with a handle.

LBI Fishing 4/17/10: Saturday: Wow it's windy, here goes a rocky report. The weatherman was almost right on Saturday April 17, except for the part when he opened his mouth. There was no rain, the winds did blow, but not like they said they would. So thanks to the weatherman we had a light, but nice crowd, and we managed to put together a nice catch of tog, with some of the gang getting their limits. Once again a lot of shorts being caught. Joining us this Saturday was John from Randolph with his son Chris and daughter Samantha. From Somerset Ed. Also Smitty and his gang, Shawn and Brendan, Nice to see three generations fishing together. Ok OK I'll get to you Bob quit yelling, Big mouth Bob :) once a again won the pool but just barely, his pool winner was a 7lber, while his lady Linda had a 61/2 lber, followed right behind her was Pizza Pete and Re-Pete.

From Tommy: Hi folks glad to hear the fishing is going good! I just eliminated the FishID & Regs link from the site, I am currently in school and trying to simplify my life a bit. Fish ID and Regs info can be found under the State and Federal heading in the left side bar. Click on the NJ Fish and Game link to find the info previously posted here.

LBI Fishing 4/11/10: Ok. here we go.........Wow I need a shave!. Saturday was ugly, the wind was blowing hard, we knew it was going to be a bad day, so we stayed tied to the dock, and chatted with the gang for awhile, till it got to windy and to cold then we all took off. Good move not to go

Ah but Sunday, what a different day. The sun was out, the wind died down, the sausage peppers and onions were great and we caught fish, fish and more fish. A nice group of new-bees mixed in with the regulars, all, well almost all catching fish. The pool winner was one of the new-bees, Jason from Lacey with a seven pound cod(there was one bigger I'll tell you about it later).there were over 25 cod keepers with about triple that thrown back, and nice tog keepers, with lots of those bad boys thrown back. Jason was on board with his son, and Mark was also on board with his son, all catching keepers. Really nice to see the Dads and their Sons out fishing together, or Moms, Daughters, Brothers, ah you know what I mean, keep it going. Our longest traveler fishing today was Gary from South Carolina,(he heard about the sausage peppers and onions) then there was Rich and Sean from PA. I picked out rental rods for them and they were putting cod on the deck almost as soon as we stopped. Well that it for now, next weeks special is either hot or barbeque chicken sandwiches, your choice. Oh yea the bigger fish..........it was mine, I don't go in the pool, if I win it they cry, if I don't go in it and would have won it they laugh.......I would rather see them laugh.

Sal from the galley! Well our first trip went very well since there was no advance notice. We had a nice crowd, including three beautiful woman who out fished some of the men.(me being one of them) Big mouth Bob was there with some of his guys, and the beautiful Linda who I think may have out fished him. Stan made the trip all the way from some crazy hick town in the mountains of Pensey, where bears walk around his backyard. (I think they were having possum pie for Easter with some road kill stew,) so Stan and the rest of the family had some good ole cheese steaks for lunch on the boat. Black cloud Teddy was also there, and I can say anything I want to about him because he has no computer.(maybe next time)Back to the boat, we are now sailing Saturday and Sundays, Leaving the dock at 8 AM and returning sometime after 2 PM. So pack your gear and you appetites, this weekends special is, an old Italian pirates recipe for hot sausage, peppers and onions. Sea you on the weekend.

LBI Fishing 4/03/10: Our first trip of the season we headed out to the fishing grounds about 14 miles the water temperature was 47 degrees and the seas were calm. We fished two spots today. It took us a while to get a bite started but by the end of the day most of the guys had 2 to 3 keeper’s. High hook today and the pool winner was Dave Agar from Beach Haven NJ with 4 nice fish the biggest was about 5lbs.

Sal from the galley! WE ARE BACK IN THE WATER AND READY TO GO. BOAT YARD RUSHED US UP SO YOU CAN HAVE FISH PLUS ON EASTER SUNDAY. BRING YOUR GEAR AND YOUR APPETITES THE GALLEY WILL BE OPEN.

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Note from the galley! Here is the latest update. We are out of the water(see photo at right)and have had the hull inspected. We passed, they though there was something stuck to the bottom of the hull, an imperfection of some sort, turns out it was just Frankie Jr. cleaning the hull. Captains Frank and Brant, along with Pizza Pete and one of Frankie Jrs. friends did manage to get the hull polished before the rains once again struck. We Are hoping to be in the water very shortly, just in time for the water to heat up after this weekend. If you noticed in the picture the props are missing. Word has it that the Pirates from the Miss Beach Haven Dock have been seen hanging around the marina. They might have taken them for scrap, we'll find out. So have we found anything more about these Pirates?. The answer to this question and others will follow as they become available. (I wish I knew) Grill is heating up, don't tell Captain Frank, but the generator is on, so bring your appetites. Sal

LBI Fishing note from the galley! Just a little note to keep everyone up to speed. Captains Frank and Brant have just about finished all the cleaning, sanding and painting on the Miss Beach Haven. Because of all the rain we just had, and the snow last month it has put the boat yard date back a little. We need to get out of the water for the Coast Guard to take a look at the hull,( I don't know why, I can see it there). After that it's the in water inspection, then were good to go. Speaking of fishing,(was I, well anyway) I along with some of the gang went fishing yesterday............yes we went fishing, not catching. There were about 80 people on the boat and here is the rough count. 1 that's ONE keeper black fish....... 1 that's ONE keeper cod..............and a few ling. When cabin fever strikes people just want to get out. So there we were Diane, Tommy Hook, Black Cloud Teddy, Pizza Pete his pal Barry, Popa Ray and Jules, knowing the water was still to cold, but hopping to catch the big one, ok anyone to bring home........did I mention the dog fish....wuff wuff. So although we are not in the water yet, we are not missing anything...........And remember to bring your appetites........Sal.. And whats this? Pirates? .............Where, when, how........who's their leader? The answer to this and other questions to follow!!!

Note From Tommy: Hi Everyone and Happy New Year! I have recently received calls from several clients regarding computer virus infections. It appears that with all the un employed computer geeks out there that some of them have got too much time on their hands and are using it for no good! My wife and my father have just recently been hit with the latest outbreak and let me tell you that removing these things has been a real test to my abilities. It seems that the bastards have been using root kits to take control of one's pc. Root kits install themselves at the kernel level of your operating system and subvert all detection by hiding running processes or masking them as legit. If you have one of these it most likely won't be visible in your task manager or virtually anywhere else! These things take over your network hardware to contact their maker and allow multiple trojans to enter your pc (they open a backdoor). You are then absolutely bombarded with everything from fake security alerts, ads, phishing attacks to pornography. Then here comes the tough part. Your antivirus program will key in on all the incoming trojans and malware alerting you of infections. You will then attempt to remove these only to restart your machine and have them all come back again and again and with new ones just about every restart. I have successfully defeated the Root Kit that installed on my dad's machine but on everyone elses including my wife's pc, I had to erase the hard drive and start fresh.

Root Kit viruses can add key loggers and steal your personal information. This is some very dangerous shit! They sometimes appear as if you have another user simultaneously operating your machine. I noticed with my dad's pc that internet explorer windows were popping up with completely different user setting that were not similar at all to what the registry had in HKEY Current User. I would also hear windows alert alarms with no visible alert boxes! All these gave clues to the root kits existance. I don't know exactly how these viruses were transmitted but it seems that with my wife and fathers incidents, they were simply on a familiar website and moused over an ad banner. They had know idea what hit them. If you do suspect your pc has been infected with one of these. Please take note of the date and time you first started seeing problems as this was key to removing viral components from my dad's PC.

Prevention is the best defense against these attacks. Shut off that useless windows firewall and install ZoneAlarm Free firewall. It takes some getting used to as it will ask you to allow or deny any outgoing internet connections when you first set it up but it is worth it. Just check the box that asks you if it should remember this decision for internet explorer, your anti virus software and email clients. Windows Firewall does not block outgoing connections (which rootkits use to contact their makers)I also recommend the following software for defense against these threats while maintaining a level of efficiency in your PC. Malwarebytes This program protects against a variety of trojans and other spyware threats. Avast Anti Virus Professional Edition A great antivirus program with a script blocker and root kit protection thats not a resource hog! For a more beefy version of ZoneAlarm you can get ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 With this you get Identity Theft Protection as well as Spyware Protection. For anyone needing further assistance with viruses and other computer problems you can contact me at tommype5@verizon.net Good Luck and Safe Browsing! ...Tommy