Mid winter update: The 2012 NJ flounder season will be liberalized via a longer season, shorter keeper size or a combination of the two. The reason, NJ fishermen underfished the 2011 flounder quota. I am not surprised at all, considering NJ only had about 250,000 saltwater anglers register in 2011, 2011 was the first year…
Tag: Cape May fishing
Kensdock report: stripers and specs
Beautiful fall day, toped off with 17 stripers and one spec.. However, it looks like the speckled trout are not going to show in any numbers again this year. Only about 10 specs total have been caught to date, this season.George S.Cape MayCounty’s top spec fisherman has not caught a spec yet this year.…
Kensdock report: August Back Bay Flounder
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…
Kensdock Report: November fishing update,specs,stripers, RFA
2010 New Jersey speckled sea trout NOnamementioned is top hook in Cape may co.NJ with eight speckled sea trout.This is a sad, considering Ed has caught 75 + NJ specs many seasons in the past. The spec fishing has been extremely tough, with only fisherman with extensive local knowledge, big game hunter patients and luck have caught.The specs have…
Kensdock Report: Quick up date flounder/striper/offshore
Some nice keeper flounder have been caught in the back bay over the last few days. Ed Teise and Harold had 5 keepers on the last trip. I had one keeper on a short 30 minute trip. A few Kids on a rental boat had two keeper flounder yesterday. The fishermen that put the effort in {on the water…
Kensdock Report: Back bay flounder/ striper/ weakfish update
Dr.Gary on the double touch out of Stone Harbor marina continues to catch keeper flounder in the back bay.On Saturday he put five 5 keepers in the box. Dr. Gary is one of the top back bay flounder fisherman in NJ, if not the best in the State. He has caught numerous flounder over ten pounds in the…
Kensdock report: Back bay flounder update
I was out yesterday for a short time flounder fishing in the back bay.The first spot I stopped at the short flounder were staked up. A gentleman and his two sons had been fishing the spot for two hours they had 34 throw backs and two nice keepers. I moved on to a summertime favorite…
Kensdock report: summer flounder update
This is the time of the year that most Cape May co. back bay flounder fishermen move on to the Delaware bay or Atlantic ocean summer flounder hot spots like reef 11 and the old grounds. I continue fishing the back bay for flounder all summer, only less frequently after July 15. There is always a couple of…
Kensdock report: Bass barn/Rfa
The Rfa is begging for money to finance their sea bass law suit. They are bashing large marine manufactures and other related business on the Bass Barn for not sending them money. In a nut shell, the RFA claims the science and data that the NMFS used to set the sea bass season is flawed, there for the recreational and commercial seas bass…
Kensdock report: Flounder Tournament update
Grassy Sound marina is holding their annual flounder tournament today also today is Sterling Harbor’s duke of fluke tournament. We started out this morning to fish the Grassy sound tournament unfortunately the steering cable broke ending the day seconds after leaving the dock. The grassy sound tournament is strictly back bay fishing. The heaviest combined weight…