Tag: Delaware Bay

7-31-09 Kensdock report RFA/ASMFC weakfish meeting August 19

Open letter to Hutch Jr (RFA), I can assure you if the RFA policy was to put the natural resoures first on their agenda, the weakfish stock would not be so dangerously low today. The RFA should have led a campaign to rebuild the weakfish stock five years ago! At this point, I ask you, the…

7-28-09 Kensdock Weakfish meeting/ answers RFA and Charter ass. President Tony Bogan

                                  I have been bashed by JHutchinson of the RFA and Tony Bogon of the Charter boat ass. for urging people and their members to speak for them self’s by sending comments to the ASMFC asking for a closure  of  commercial fishing for weakfish and a closure of recreational fishing during the spawn.  Here…

7-17-09 Kensdock report {weakfish meeting} 2:00 pm

        I urge everyone to demand that the management board give the weakfish population a chance to rebuild .The only way this can be achieved is by closing the harvest to commercial fishing totally for two years and closing the recreational harvest during the spawning season. If there is anyway possibly please attend this meeting.  Best,Ken…

7-10-09 Kensdock fishing report

Today the flounder bite continued to be red hot in the Delaware Bay! I just spoke with a vacationer that spent all day on a local party boat. He said, the party boat had about 50 people fishing and they only caught two   keeper flounder combined all day! Very few party boat captains are good fishermen. Very few charter…

7-8-09 Kensdock fishing report 8:30pm

Today the water temperature was 79.4 degrees at my dock. I have not been out fishing this week due to family obligations. I will be scouting the next few day in preparation for grassy sound flounder tournament. The Delaware bay has been producing many limit catches of flounder, mostly from the Fortescue area. The ocean…