← Meet the Editors
Capt. Rey Santos
Zone Writer · NJ Offshore / Mud Hole
Capt. Rey Santos keeps a waterproof book of wreck numbers two decades thick, and he fishes the water most Jersey boats run right past. The Mud Hole bluefin bite in June, jumbo sea bass on the deep wrecks, August mahi on the pot lines off Barnegat Ridge — Rey's midrange program out of Manasquan proves you don't need a canyon run to fill the box.
Water covered
Mud Hole, Klondike, Barnegat Ridge, the reef and wreck network — midrange tuna, mahi, sea bass and tog on structure
Reporting lens
Wreck Hunter
Local water
Recent Reports
2 TOTALNJ Offshore / Mud Hole
New moon springs sharpen the 20-fathom break — bluefin show on the Coimbra corridor
Post-blow canyon water opened a window for yellowfin while the inshore wrecks keep grinding out sea bass limits.
NJ Offshore / Mud Hole
Wide-open shelf edge puts yellowfin in range as bluefin stack the 20-fathom breaks
The post-blow thermal seam is the widest we've seen all year — and it's lining up with a squid-heavy dark moon for one of the better midrange windows of the summer.