With its highly visible location just off the Matthis Bridge from the Ocean County mainland, the distinctively-styled Dock Outfitters bait and tackle shop on ... the modest shed that had housed ...

It sounded like a good idea,” said Steve of Mitlyng's Bait and Tackle. At age 69, Steve is still tending to the well-known shop and the wholesale minnow business. He has no designs on retiring ...

It began as "Hutson's Bait" with Dickie's father selling fishing worms and minnows out of some houses, then a backyard shed. In 1986, Dickie Hutson built the shop as it stands to honor his mother.