Here is June 2012 flounder fishing report, worst June flounder fishing in my lifetime…. My Son and I did have one limit day, on Memorial weekend. At this point, most fishermen are catching zero keeper flounder and maybe two shorts after an entire day of flounder fishing.
Jonathon and Wayne traveled in from Louisville Ky., arriving last week. Back bay fishing for founder was on the top of the to do list. Usually they schedule a June Cape May County vacation, to catch the best of the Back Bay flounder bite. However, this year Jon was in Hollywood CA., busy with his part in the upcoming movie {Me Again} during June. He has a significant part in the movie, it is going to be a blockbuster, look for the trailers around the New Year. If you are Back Bay Flounder fishing in August, keeper flounder are much tougher to catch apposed to June fishing. The total amount of keeper flounder Jonathon and Wayne boated during their August vacation was 14 keepers to 23”, in addition, they had numerous short flounder. We fished an average of two hours, centered on the top of the tide, five trips. The water temperature fluctuated during the week between 63 degrees to a high of 76 degrees. The water clarity was excellent {tropical} I could see my lure on the bottom, from the boat at 19’. I will be keeping a snorkel onboard for the rest of the summer to take advantage of the super clear water. I should mention that every flounder trip this week included keeper flounder, not bad for August back bay fishing.
Your goal should be to maintain as much SSB as
possible in order to allow a quicker recovery
whenever the conditions allow it to recover. The
good news is this is not a red snapper or a goliath
grouper. It doesn’t have a 40-year recovery time. It
can recover in two or three or four years, so we’re not
looking at a long moratorium. I think that this is a
time when this commission needs to stand up and say
this fishery is real trouble and we need to stop fishing
for them. It’s pretty much that simple. Thank you.
Quote——- MR. MARK GIBSON ——————quote:
Even if that’s all I got, it’s better to
have twice as much than zero and put the stock
precariously close to extinction as far as I can see
from this. I think the peer review panel said much
the same thing, that F is still a limiting – is
exacerbating the problem and it’s unsustainable.
That’s what you have to manage. A lot of managers
don’t like to accept the fact that what you have to
manage is F and that sometimes sustainable Fs
declines with externalities that happen to fish stocks.
It’s a lot like the serenity prayer if you’re familiar
with it. You know, you have the wisdom to know the
difference between the things you can change and
those that you can’t and have the courage to change
the ones you do. I think that’s what we’re faced with
here.
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Originally Posted by GoNavy
 Kensdock is an enviro nut who pretends to be a big fishing advocate. He spices his posts with just enough factual info to make them sound ok… However, if you search his posts, you’ll find that his history proves his primary goal is to shut down fisheries.
I’m all for conservation and there is a big problem with several fisheries, but I just don’t trust him. If CaptTB or some of the other guys started a similar post… Ok. But not from Kensdock… |
GoNavy, Obviously you do not know me. Nothing could be further from the truth! I have caught more fish and killed more deer legally under fair chase than most people on the planet! I spent enough time to catch over one hundred keeper flounder last season and catch one of three specs caught in Cape may co.. I have won a few and participated in many fishing tournaments both big game and back bay tournaments like lucky bones flounder. My family has been involved in hunting , commercial fishing, recreational fishing for 5 generations in Cape May co. NJ and continue to be avidly involved today. I am long time personal friends to some of the biggest players in the commercial fishing industry today.Due to my back ground I am able to post information that some people do not want posted on this site and others. I am all for utilizing our natural recourse via harvesting sustainable numbers of fish and game. I am not for abusing our natural resources via over harvest and repeating the same mistakes of the past. I look forward to meeting with Governor elect Chris Christie’s staff to discuss the benefits of a saltwater license. I do not get a dime for writing these post or lobbing our legislators. I do it because I love to catch fish and I know exactly what most be done to dramatically improve our saltwater fishing in New Jersey.
I attended the ASMFC weakfish hearing in Toms River last night. The asmfc offered 4 options.You can view them all at the asmfc site. The only option that offers a real chance for the weakfish to recover is option 4 Harvest moratorium. The commercial fishermen’s rep was fine with option 4 moratorium. Mostly all the recreational fishermen that voiced their own opinion demanded option 4. I do not know how many members the RFA has I do know they lost at lest eight members last night. They did not support a moratorium! If you would like give the weakfish a real chance of recovery support option 4 harvest moratorium. You have until October 31 to make a comment. Send your comments nmeserve@asmfc.org no matter what happens with the peer review in June
the board needs to remember that weakfish is in a
depleted condition, a depressed state. We can’t agree
with that particular panel on why it is there. One of
the main things that they said was that predation may
be maintaining the population at low levels without
having contributed to the original decline in the
stock.
We agree that overfishing was the problem in the
eighties. We have used management to get the stock
started back in an increasing mode during the early
nineties and mid-nineties, and then all of a sudden it
dropped back down. Now, we definitely agree that it
was overfishing early on. We’re saying the split
happened in the early thousands that predation is the
main focus of a problem out
out there, and it is
continuing to maintain those levels and we can’t
seem to break through it to move forward. That’s it
for me. Like I said, I tried to do this real quick.
Ed caught one keeper today behind Stone Harbor George had two keepers not bad fishing for August in the back Bay. The bugs are at an all time high if you go fishing or whatever outside do not forget the spray. Water Temperature was 69 degrees.
Ken's Dock 