This week’s giveaway is a courtesy of SJ columnist Crazy Ablerto Knie and his Tactical Angler co. Al has been busy racking up frequent flier miles and zipping across the country doing seminars and fishing. Lots going on in his life with new crossover TA lures and working on his new TV show. That is when he is not putting hurting on giant tarpon, red fish and anything that swims

Winner will receive a

4 oz TA BombPopper

2 oz TA SeaPencil

TA Hat

Good luck to all our readers, new issue of SJ comes out in few weeks

If you haven’t watched part 1 and 2 you should

[youtube]https://youtu.be/SlYN_cfpVtE[/youtube]

I would like to thank again all the sponsors and participants of the SJ Spring Striperthon 2015. We are glad you all had fun and won some awesome prizes from our sponsons,

Our sincerest thanks goes to the sponsors for making this possible, PENN Fishing,Lou Caruso, StormR, Guppy Lures, Super Strike lures and Spiderwire. We are really lucky to have such great sponsors and readers who share out belief that in the days when there is a drastic reduction in numbers of striped bass, we should be supporting and promoting catch and release.

Again, congratulations to all winners.

The winning fish came from New Jersey where Ryan Sherwood feed a Super Strike Darter to this 47.5 lb cow.

Let’s do it again in the fall !

The winner of a full day, 6 hours guided trip with NY Surf Fishing Gide extraordinary Bill Wetzel is Dan Radman…danielradman@optonline.net

trip is for one or two casters for a full 6 hour trip. Giveaway excludes trophy trips. Trip must be booked on or before 5/15/16. Winner should contact Bill Wetzel at 631-987-6919 and mention SJ giveaway.

I hope you guys are catching fish, I hope the have stripes, God knows this is the worst spring I have ever fished through in my life. But if you live and fish the Canal or RI you are probably having a decent spring. If you fishing NJ, you had a really, really good run in April/May. If you fish LI and you had an awesome spring with bass, my hat is off to you. Since I decided to kind of pull the throttle back a little to give myself more time for family and to fish, I fished and fished and fished. In fact, I might have fished more in last month and a half than in last two years combined. You have to understand that between writting the blog, contests,, giveaway, FB and twitter page, advertising sales, billing, video and God know what else, it does not leave a lot of time to do what i like most…fish. And I am glad Dave Anderson is stepping to the plate with his weekly contribution

bad elbow gave me the excuse not to fish last two years but now i am thankfully feeling better and fishing like I used to….however I am not catching like i used to !

haha

but tomorrow is another tide…and I am psyched ..because just a thought of casting a plug in those legendary waters gives me the chills.

But more about that next time

Have fun, catch them up and have a great spring

Zeno

SJ SPRING STRIPERTHON Final Standings

All winners,  please email us your shipping address to info@surfcastersjournal.com

Zeno

Ryan Sherwood 48 inches

Jerry Audet 45 inch

Brett Rainer 41 inhes

Steven Seeberger 40 inches

Chris Neves 39 inches

Dominic Rosello 39 inches

Michael Carr 39 inches

Frank Murphy 38 inches

now that is one impressive fish !!!

Will

Here it is SJ SPRING 2015 STRIPERTHON CONTEST TAG

You MUST have this tag in the picture along with fish and measurement. Of course, the fish must be released unharmed as this is a catch and Release contest. Please read the whole rules before entering fish.

Good luck to all of you and please, if you are not familiar with rules click on 2015 STRIPERTHON brought to you by PENN button above for all the rules

give us nice CLEAR picture with measuring tape on the SIDE of the fish, not over or on it

Good luck to all

Zeno

Ok, we are two days away from SJ STRIPERTHON 2015 sponsored by PENN, STORMR, Guppy Lures,Super Strike Lures, Spiderwire and SJ. Our sincerest thanks to all STRIPERTHON 2015 sponsors

The tag will be posted here Friday at 5 PM. Print it, have fun and be careful. Remember that we are ultimate judges when it comes to quality of your picture and being able to correctly measure it

No kinked measuring tapes and yes, we are aware that measuring fish on the rock is almost impossible in a  wetsuit. But we rather you just release the fish in good condition instead hurting it by taking too long trying to take the picture

Click on STRIPERTHON blog button for all the rules please…and mist importantly have fun

Here is list of prizes SPRING 2015 STRIPERTHON

First Place PENN Torque Spinning Reel + 300 yard of Spiderwire Braid

Second Place StormR Surf Top and Gloves + 300 yard of Spiderwire Braid

Third Place PENN 706Z reel + 300 yard of Spiderwire Braid

Fourth Place Sabre 11′ one piece rod by Lou Caruso + 300 yard of Spiderwire Braid

Fifth Place PENN Spinfisher reel + 300 yard of Spiderwire Braid

Sixth Place Set of Lures from Super Strike + 300 yard of Spiderwire Braid

Seventh Place Set of Lures from Guppy Lures + 300 yard of Spiderwire Braid

Eight Place SJ Gear package (SJ hoodie, shirt and hat)+ 300 yard of Spiderwire Braid

Today we have a special giveaway for you but first lets pick a winner of the last week GRS Big Water Pike giveaway. The winner is Karl karl@xelallc.com

Congrats you have 5 days to email us your shipping address at info@surfcastersjournal.com

Today giveaway is very special and something that we do once a year

A full day, 6 hours guided trip with NY Surf Fishing Gide extraordinary Bill Wetzel.
The trip is for one or two casters for a full 6 hour trip. Giveaway excludes trophy trips. Trip must be booked on or before 5/15/16. Winner should contact Bill Wetzel at 631-987-6919

Bill runs an awesome site and forum at www.surfratsball.com and in our opinion is one of the best fishing websites on the internet. You get forum with some great advice and conversation but you also get something that you will not find anywhere on the internet.
Every time Bill goes out fishing which is just about every day he posts a log for his subscriber detailing the trip, conditions and catches. Its like fishing next to him every day.

Bill also runs of the largest surf fishing month long tournament on the east cost which is absolutely free to all subscribers to the www.surfratsball.com

Just look at this list of prizes and if that is not enough, this is followed up with a awards shindig at
1st Place-SRB TROPHY, Van Staal BX250, FSC Marauder 1329 11′ heavy.
2nd Place- Pelican 64 quart cooler
3rd Place- Stormr- Surf Top

then you got all these donations to be raffled off at shindig after the tournrey in July and raise money for www.kidsneedmore.org to help kids life threatening illness

Contact Bill today to subscribe at billwetzel50@aol.com

Donations

1. Chunks Custom Rods Nick Meola- Rod to be announced www.chunkzcustoms.com
2. Pelican- www.pelican.com – Micro cases,Reel cases, IPhone cases,Heads up lamps – Head lamp, Water proof flash lights,Cooler- 65qt
3.Campsite Sport Shop- www.campsitesportshop.com -products TBA
4. Steve Knapik- www.tiderunner.com – 2 Ultimate Surf Belts and 5 Cree flashlights.
5.Vito Orlando- $50 gift certificate to Johnny’s B&T and plugs.
6.Annonymous Donation… $500!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7.Keep Em Bent custom Rods– https://www.facebook.com/keepembent.customrods Rod to be announced.
8. Charles Deverna- $50 donation
9. Matt Ianotti- Super Strike Plugs
10. Fish Till Death- http://davincitattoo.com/ 100$ Gift Certificate toward a Fishing related TATTOO done at Davinci Tattoo in Wantagh
11. VAN STAAL- www.vanstaal.com VS250BX!!!
12.LIFISHVT- Custom plugs
13.DT Lures- http://www.dtlures.com/ – plug
14. Flatlander Surfcasters– https://www.facebook.com/pages/Flat…19461?ref=br_tf – To be announced
15.Bill Wetzel- Six Hour Guided trip for two
16. Guppy Lure company: http://www.guppylure.com/ – Fine custom plugs
17 Big Water Lures aka GRS– http://www.bigwaterlures.com/ – Fine custom plugs
18. FSC Rods– http://www.fiberstarcomposites.com/about.html Marauder 1329 11′ heavy.
19. Surf Casters Lures: www.surfcasterslures.com – fine wood plugs.
20. www.louscustomrods.com : Rod to be announced from the man who builds all my rods Lou Caruso.
21. Jeff the Chef- Our officail cook that brings most of the food! Thank ya!
22. Super Strike- www.superstrikelures.com – Plugs
23. Guys American Kitchen- http://guysamerican.com/ – The famous ribs from Rich P. YUM!!
24. Mike Handlesman- Beach Permits T- shirts, and Plugs
25. Snow Flake Ice Cream. www.snowflakeicecream.com – One again providing us with the best homemade ice cream on the planet!
26. Charlie Graves tins by Ralph Votta- http://charliegraves.com/
27. The Fisherman magazine- Prints and Subscriptions-http://www.thefisherman.com/
28. SS Bucktails – www.ssbucktails.com – well… bucktails.
29. Aquaskinz- www.aquaskinz.com- to be announced

30 Cow Harbor B&T- http://www.cowharbortackle.com/

31. Causeway B&T- www.causewaybaitandtacle.com – $50 Gift certificate

32. Stormr- http://stormrusa.com/product/surf-top/ – Surf Top!!

33. Ru Ru Lures by Billy Wriker- http://rurulures.com/

34. Northbar Tackle– http://northbartackle.com/

35. Smith PointB&T- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Smit…116604591732887 – Plugs

36. Johnnys B&T – Montauk NY- To be announce

37. J&H B&T- http://www.jandh.com/ – To Be announced

38. Tom P. aka Lordhelment– Plugs and teasers.

39- Twisted Plugs by Scotty Lehman– YUM!

40. Beinlich Custom Lures – By Jim Beinlich

41- Century Rods- http://advancedfishing-usa.com/

42. Rock Sand Reds- 2 5ft all aluminum sand spikes made by myself, 1.5″x1.5″x3/16″ 6061 aluminum

43. LI Surfcaster aka Nick B. – Custom Darters. The kid can build!

43. DeanoNYC-hats, hoodies, and guides secret lures

44. Montauk Surfcasters Assoc. http://www.surfcasters.org/ – Hoodie and two hats.
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As some of probably noticed I have not been around much which is a good thing. After years and years of writing and wearing ten hats at SJ I am trying to get back to what I used to do. Fish. I think  I fished more in last twenty days than I did in the whole year combined last year. I have all the confidence in the world that Dave will do a great job with a  blog like he does with a magazine and I can (hopefully) try to find whatever i seem to lost last few years.

Todays new video is something you probably never seen before, at least not in this context. Its 2015, the days of watching boring videos of striped bass swimming in front of the camera are over and done. So after we brought you this  [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoCL7fYtCJ0[/youtube]

Now we are bringing you a first ever look at feeding bluefish from the horses mouth (aka back-ass of the plug). I have ton of footage to weed trough including probably over a dozen shots of gator blues completely swallowing the camera before spitting it out and camera shooting though its gills in its mouth. Some small bass to but that is to come at the later day. The most frustrating part of making a video like this is the time. Two minute video , to get it  how I want it to be (and of course you are never 100% happy) takes me something silly like hours and hours of looking at it. But its worth it if you enjoy

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tztQYr9tHKw[/youtube]

So I hope you enjoy it and share it away on fb, twitter or whatever you guys do

See you on the beach

Z

The new issue of the Surfcaster’s Journal magazine is up for your reading pleasure

If we might say so, it might be our best ikssue yet