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.

6/28 -- 16 Yellowfin

2009-06-29

Fished the Carteret Canyon today and arrived to a nice break right on the 100 fathom line. All looked good and we got into a nice bite during greylight. Had 5 yellowfin by 5:30 in the morning, 2 of them keepers. The morning bite was great but things slowed down considerably...

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6/24/09 -- Yellowfins and Dolphin

2009-06-24

Arrived at the Lindenkohl at 3:30am this morning and started trolling in the dark. Marked a bunch of fish inside the tip in 50 fathoms. Put in a bunch of time trolling the area after sunup without a touch. Started north up the edge and found some yellowfins willing to jump on...

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6/11/09 -- BLuefins, Yellowfins, Dolphin

2009-06-12

Rounded up the crew and headed out to the Lindenkohl for our first trip of the year up here as the cob webs needed to go... Left the dock at 11:30pm and took a slow ride in pea soup fog. Put the lines in at 4am just short of the canyon and...

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6/6/09 HPVFC Striper Shootout -- First Place!

2009-06-08

Had the pleasure of fishing the High Point Striper Shootout on Saturday and now understand what all that hype is about. Everything from the captain's meeting to the awards party was well organized and a lot of fun. There wasn't much standing around wondering what was going to happen and...

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5/29/09 -- LBI Trophy Stripers

2009-05-29

With all the recent hype of big fish and giant schools of bunker in the area we had high expectations for today's trip. Anticipating a crowd I convinced our charter of two to leave the dock at 4:45am .. After a 3 mile steam in thick fog and a light drizzle...

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