Author: kensdock

Kara shows one of her big blues

Kara and her Dad Jeff took full advantage of the day. Kara is now a college student with limited time to fish. Jeff did a fabulous job of zeroing in on the fish before their trip. This allowed for an excellent catch. They caught 19 Oceanic big bluefish, from the tranquil, lake like waters of the back bay. They were throwing poppers and bucktails.

Jake Ruczynski located some big summer flounder in the back bay. He was fishing from his Kayak and using a pink zoom. A true sportsman !
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Jake shows his first summer flounder from a kayaak

Jeff and a 35 ” slammer blue

Lynette Polhamus and her husband CJ have owned many beautiful offshore sportfishing boats. However, today she caught her personal best bluefish, from land. She was using a hand-made popper and light spinning gear.
The bluefish action in Cape May is providing some world-class light tackle action.
Fly fisherman Jack had to break out the spinning rod for these monster blues.

New regulations are in effect for striped bass: one fish 28″ to less than
43″ AND one fish 43″ or greater. The Striped Bass Bonus Program (SBBP)
closed on May 1 and will remain closed until September 1, 2015. When it
reopens on September 1, the SBBP regulations will be one fish 24″ to less
than 28″. The order of fish harvested does not matter.

In addition, no person may take, attempt to take, or have in possession
any striped bass from the following closed waters:
January 1 – February 28: All waters closed except the Atlantic Ocean from
zero to three miles offshore.
April 1 – May 31: Delaware River and Bay and their tributaries closed
from the upstream side of the Calhoun Street Bridge downstream to and
including the Salem River and its tributaries.

Cj Polhamus shows his 12 pound slammer blue that he caught on light tackle today. CJ was a winner in the 2014 Fishermen Magazine coast-wide tournament (weakfish). He was scouting for weakfish when the big bluefish showed. He said, there was no bird play, but you could smell the bluefish. Striped Bass,big flounder and even black drum from the beach have been caught this week. However, they have all been caught by the super sharp.

Saltwater fishing legend Frank, shows the flounder have arrived in Cape May County, NJ

Ed Teise shows his first 2015 spring striper.

There is a pretty good Striped Bass bite going on. At least for the skill sharp fishermen. All of the stripers I know of, have been caught on lures. The beachfront and jetties around Cape May County are producing good numbers. The water temperature is moving into the 50’s in the back bays and the mid 40’s on the beach.