For the second year in a row, Spanish mackerel, usually a late summer target, have showed up early, popping up along the beaches and at the inlets.

There’s plenty of fish to choose from this holiday weekend.

This past week saw improved fluking in the bays, rivers and surf and the return of terrific tuna fishing.

Along with an improvement in the fluke fishing and stripers over 40-pounds, sea bass, ling, cod, pollock and winter flounder are all biting.

This week, bluefin tuna came roaring back while sea bass, stripers and bluefish stayed right where they were.

Sea bass fishing is the best it’s been in years while monster stripers in excess of 50 pounds are hitting bunker spoons and live bunker.

The sea bass bite is off the charts, monster stripers lurk offshore and there are fluke and blues in the rivers and bays.

Party boats are sailing, stripers, blues, and sea bass are biting and fluke season opens on Friday.

  As of noon on Thursday, charter and party boat captains were still hoping they would be allowed to sail on Friday, May 15, the opening of sea bass season.

The bays, rivers and inlets are still holding a lot of bass with more bluefish showing up every day.