We're jigging for sea bass using the stingnose peanut bunkers. We use a variety of colours and sizes of the peanut bunkers ...

Bunker (Menhaden) are once again shaping up to be the mainstay for striped bass and bluefish when it comes to recreational fishing in western Long Island Sound. Reports show us that bunker schools ...

As the summer passes, fishing for striped bass and bluefish takes on a kind-of "bunker mentality." For many years now, the method of choice come summertime and big fish, has been bunker baits ...

Mark Sabia, fishing a live bunker at the Port 5 dock, weighed in a 18.5-pound chopper, one of the largest seen in these parts in years, at Jimmy O's in Black Rock.

Bunker, a colloquial name for menhaden and a member of the herring family, is at the root of our vibrant local fishing scene, used by recreational anglers as bait for a variety of line-caught fish.

He said they had hooks up on almost every drift. Anglers used live bunker or swim shads to land the bass. The bottom fishing has been pretty easy fishing as of late.

The technique, called live lining, is not as much fun as casting surface lures to busting fish, but it beats dropping chunks of bunker with four ounce sinkers.

Though the main focus has been on clamming for stripers in Raritan Bay, and both live bunkers and trolling Stretch plugs have also been producing bass, Dave Lilly of Hazlet found Tony Maja medium ...

Cast over the school, let it sink 20 or more feet down, and then rip the hooks through the school. Big bunker can be kept a little while in a live well but not for long.

Caldwell fishes bunker almost exclusively to sell as bait, to markets from Maine to Louisiana. "Once they get sick, they come to the surface and start spinning and eventually die," Caldwell said.