Sports

Blackfish keeping the charters busy

The best showing of blackfish in years coupled with great weather was a mix that anglers could not resist.

Party and charter boats have been surprisingly busy of late thanks not only to the blackfishing, but also lingering striped bass action along most of the South Shore. There is also a nice mix of both blackfish and cod on some deep water wrecks.

Sharpies from Brooklyn and Queens were spotted taking bass along the Rockaways to Breezy Point and we are told that ling have moved into the area and are being caught along the Narrows to the 69th Street Pier and at the Coney Island Pier.

Charter boats working inshore wrecks south of Jones Inlet are finding a steady pick of blackfish. Some boats are doubling up fishing half day for taugs and the other half fishing for stripers.

Party boats from Freeport and Captree making runs to offshore wrecks are finding great bottom action for cod and sea bass as well as some blackfish. Party boats staying close to home report good striper action off the beaches and in the bays.

The East End fishing has been wonderful with anglers taking blackfish and cod at the wrecks and stripers at Montauk Point as well as off the beaches from the lighthouse to Shinnecock. There are still herring being caught outside Montauk, which explains why the stripers are still hanging out at the Point.

Montauk boats heading over toward Block Island have been rewarded with blackfish to 10 pounds and a number of codfish.

A New Jersey court has upheld the validity of the state’s Comprehensive Black Bear Management Policy (CBBMP). The ruling yesterday by the Appellate Division of state Superior Court clears the way for the week-long bear hunt starting on Monday.

The bear hunt will run through Dec. 10, to be held concurrently with the Six-day Firearm Deer Season. Bear hunting zones include large sections of Morris, Sussex, Warren, and northern Passaic counties, plus smaller areas of Hunterdon, Somerset and Bergen counties.

ken.moran@nypost.com