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.

Backwater stripers hit lightweight soft plastics and bucktails, white perch fishing slows down, and tautog chew around ocean inlet jetties on crabs and clams.

Quality tautog are being caught on jigs from the jetties, and striped bass fishing is consistent around the bridges and in the rivers.

There's spotty fishing for white perch and stripers in the marshes, and some decent winter flounder fishing, while charters and shops gear up for tautog season.