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Back Bay Bite Is On

The back bay bite is on.  When will the ocean start?

  • April 04, 2025

Happy St Patrick's Day

May the wind always be at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face.

May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold

And at the end of your rainbows, may you find a pot of gold.

  • March 17, 2025

Please forgive our appearance.

We are getting ready for something big

  • March 10, 2025

Four More Days

And at least someone is happy about it.

  • February 25, 2025

Big Rocks and a Grand Reopening

And some new stuff too

  • February 21, 2025

Thank You For a Great Saltwater Expo

Some good fishing happening too.
  • March 18, 2024

Edison Saltwater Fishing Expo (Booth 249)

And the bloodworm bite is heating up.
  • March 14, 2024

Back Bay Report

Bass are here, winter flounder are hiding, and Ray is having a bad week.
  • March 11, 2024

Happy Leap Day!

Although, this day "delayed" the start of inshore striped bass opening, so how happy could it be?
  • February 29, 2024

New Stuff, New Contest...

...same Old Ray
  • March 30, 2023

New Scabelly Item, plus a Fishing Report

And two of the Grumpys crew going through, well, something...
  • March 28, 2023

Bass On The Move and Lots of Stuff Arrived

Ray and Scott were busy unpacking things..
  • March 16, 2023

Backwater Striped Bass and New Stuff

And a public service announcement...
  • March 09, 2023

The striped bass bite has started

Plus new lower costs to ship stuff.  Especially rods...
  • March 03, 2023

One More Day

NJ Inshore Striped Bass and Winter Flounder starts tomorrow (3/1)
  • February 27, 2023

The Bay Is Alive With The Sounds of Fish Feeding

If you are waiting for a sign to go fishing, here's your sign...
  • March 11, 2022

A Good Start

Overall we have had a good start to the back bay fishing season.
  • March 04, 2022

Opening Day Is Tomorrow

I don't know about the rest of you, but that felt like a tough two months...
  • February 28, 2022

T Minus 15 days… 

Are you ready for the spring Striped Bass and Flounder openers?
  • February 14, 2022

They ARE out there…

If you want to catch the bass of a lifetime, now is the time to go.
  • June 06, 2021

Oceanside Getting Better and Gulp! Gulp! and more Gulp!

This week in Grumpys shop news, like most other weeks, we had new products come in.  We had more Van Staal reels come in, including  a couple of th...

  • April 09, 2021

Back to our Sort-Of Regularly Scheduled Reports

We hope everyone had a happy, safe, Easter.  And we hope your bellies don’t hurt from eating all of those chocolate bunnies and hard boiled eggs.  ...

  • April 05, 2021

Warm Weather Brings More Fish

Some quick shop news.  We got in some new stuff this week.  We are restocked on JoeBaggs stuff, including the resin jigs.  The past couple of summe...

  • March 29, 2021

Another Midweek Shop Update, a Bucktail Sale, and a Fishing Report.

We had a big tackle order come in yesterday.  Sheldon busted his butt putting it away.  We’ll have more specifics about what came in on social medi...

  • March 26, 2021

Getting Closer to the Big Spring Sale...

We got some restocks in this weekend.  We have more ODM Surfwave Bags, specifically the very popular 2.5 tube version.  Both in store and online, a...

  • March 15, 2021

Spring Fishing Report on Replay

I am putting up another fishing report, but if you have read any of the recent fishing reports, it is going to sound awfully familiar.  You can pro...

  • March 12, 2021

Shop News, Fishing Reports, more "Excited Ray", and a Blackcloud Cameo

The shop has been buzzing lately.  We have had a few new shipments come in.  We got a restock of the Penn Battle III DX reels.  These are very nice...

  • March 08, 2021

Oh Boy, a mid-week fishing report...

We have been putting up fishing / shop status reports once a week for the past couple of months, with the idea that we will post more often when we...

  • March 03, 2021

The Season Has Opened!

The shop continues to see orders come in almost daily. We received orders and restocked Trailhead Tire deflators, St. Croix Rods, Tica Rods and Pow...

  • March 01, 2021

More Restocks, and Your One Week Warning

We have had more stock trickling in the past week after our last big order.  Especially from Shimano.  Last week we had Stradic and Vanford reels, ...

  • February 22, 2021