Bobbie’s Boat & Motor Rentals

My family and I have never gone boating or fishing or crabbing before. We came here in hopes of having fun and experiencing the wonderful accomplished feeling of holding a day’s catch.
First off, the service was pretty good; the owner was patient and explained everything in the right amount of detail. One of the younger guys were also very helpful! The kids need to brush up on their customer service, but hey, they’re young and have all the potential in the world :)
We rented two fishing poles, two crab traps, and 1 tiller motor boat. We also bought a pack of spear head bait for the fishing poles. Altogether it was about $ 90. I’m not sure what to compare this to just because I’ve never gone fishing and such before.
Was it worth it? Yes and no.
Yes because I had the most fun out in the water in my entire life. The anticipation of a catch… the dangers of falling in because I get too darned excited… getting attacked by seagulls ‘cuz I was eating Mum’s amazing home baked cookies… Spending time with my family out in the water in a boat. C:
No, because with all the information that we were given about the best crabbing spots, we only hauled in like… 8 crabs, and we could only keep 5. LOL So much for bushels of crab to feast on. Sigh, that was the biggest disappointment of the day. I DID catch a lot of starfish though– cute lil things, heehee. I felt my mother’s pain, spending over $ 100 on gas AND rentals only to go home with 5 crabs… They tasted pretty good though. Atleast there’s that.
Maybe I just need to come here at a certain time; I WAS told to come at like 7 am in mid-​August for best crabs. I’mma do that :)

Not friendly to people wanting to rent boats. At all.

After many years of vacationing in LBI, I finally convinced my husband to wake up at 5:45 am to watch the sunrise over the Atlantic. Since we were awake, we decided to take a drive for coffee and enjoy the solitude of the morning. We headed north toward Barnegat light and discovered a tiny shop open at 6:00 am selling bait.
My husband hadn’t been having much luck surf fishing so he decided to stop in and get some advice from a seasoned angler. Another bait shop had recommended artificial lures which proved fruitless. But after a friendly conversation, he was now armed with some live bait (clam) and new weights for his rig, and he was guaranteed that he would catch something
Sure enough, about an hour later, casting into the ocean as the sun continued to rise in the sky, my husband caught a nice size fluke. And later that day, my 13 year old son reeled in his first sand shark.
Many thanks to the advise and expertise of the helpful salty dogs at Bobbies!!!
The cure for anything is salt water…
sweat, tears or the ocean.