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We are heading into the final week of the flounder season, and the description is the same now as it was at the start on May 29: A lot of fish but few keepers. One thing has changed. More fish and more keepers are migrating into the ocean at reefs and inshore lumps. The season [...]
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Time running out all too quickly on flounder season
Posted by Nate Hart on August 31st, 2010
Posted in Salt Water News 
Tags: flounder, fluke, New Jersey Fishing, Salt Water, Salt Water Reports, South Jersey Fishing 
No Comments »Dredging made the Great Egg Inlet more dangerous
Posted by Nate Hart on August 27th, 2010
The channel into the ocean out to the bell buoy is like zigzagging through a maze, with the possibility of having a breaker come over your bow and/or grounding your boat on the bottom.
Posted in News, Salt Water News Tags: New Jersey Fishing, Salt Water, Salt Water Reports, South Jersey Fishing No Comments »Kingfish in the surf as final days of summer approach
Posted by Nate Hart on August 27th, 2010
The ocean was running with a strong current and high waters in the surf Tuesday that affected surf-fishing at least. The consensus from recent reports indicate fishing should be pretty good when it all settles down and we head into the final days of August and into Sept-ember.
Fluke quota may rise more than 33 percent in 2011; but no guarantee the larger quota will reduce the keeper size
Posted by Nate Hart on August 20th, 2010
Fluke anglers, who are landing plenty of fish this year but few 18-inch keepers, could get major relief in 2011 as the quota may get bumped up more than 33 percent. The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council proposes increasing the total allowed catch for the East Coast fluke harvest from 22.1 million pounds to 29.5 million [...]
Posted in Salt Water News Tags: flounder, fluke, New Jersey Fishing, Salt Water, Salt Water Reports, South Jersey Fishing No Comments »79-pound yellowfin tuna caught at Mid-Atlantic $500,000
Posted by Nate Hart on August 20th, 2010
A few fish were brought to the scales Thursday in the Mid-Atlantic $500,000, and just one was a qualifier. Singularis weighed a 79-pound yellowfin tuna at Canyon Club in Cape May that took over third place in that category.
Posted in Salt Water News Tags: New Jersey Fishing, Salt Water, Salt Water Reports, South Jersey Fishing, tuna No Comments »Delaware Bay fish-kill not expected to impact bunker populations, official says
Posted by Nate Hart on August 13th, 2010
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE — The fish-kill that littered Delaware Bay beaches with dead menhaden earlier this week is not expected to have any impact on populations of this important forage fish. Menhaden, also called bunker, is a key species for larger fish such as striped bass, bluefish and weakfish, which are important to the [...]
