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Tommy Nguyen
Zone Writer · Long Beach Island / Great Bay
Tommy Nguyen grew up stocking shelves in his family's bait shop near Ship Bottom and reading LBI's sandbars like other kids read comic books. He's the island's new-school surf technician — drone shots of the cuts, a plug bag organized like a surgeon's tray, and the first report every March when Graveling Point wakes up.
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LBI from Barnegat Light to Holgate, Little Egg Inlet, Great Bay, Graveling Point, the Mullica system
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Surf Technician
Local water
Recent Reports
2 TOTALLong Beach Island / Great Bay
New moon springs push LBI fluke into the inlets — kingfish show in the surf
Big tides Friday through Monday are moving bait through Little Egg and Barnegat, and the fluke and whiting are following it.
Long Beach Island / Great Bay
Fluke slide into the inlets as Great Bay water climbs past 78, dawn surf holds the bass and blues
New moon springs building through the weekend should tighten up the drift at Little Egg and put some current back in Barnegat Inlet — here's where I'd spend the tide.