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…
Tag: NJ Saltwater fishing
7-17-09 Kensdock fishing report
Here is a list of the winners of the duke of fluke flounder tournament, Single Heaviest Fluke Division: 1st Place: Duct Work – Captain Scott Pierce – 11.86 pound Flounder 2nd Place: C-Bob – Captain Chris Lowrey – 8.10 pound Flounder 3rd Place: Freaky One – Captain Ed Adams – 7.85 pound Flounder Five Heaviest…
7-14-09 Kensdock fishing report 8:50pm
What I see from my window as I write,blue water,blue sky, green meadow grass, an osprey, red tailed hawk, red wing black bird, snowy egrets and a small boat making way across the sound. A beautiful summers day! Most sharp back bay fishermen continue to catch keeper flounder. The average is three keepers a tide, these fishermen fish…
7-13-09 Kensdock fishing report 8:00 pm
The weather was so nice today I had to take an hour to flounder fish. The hour was whittled down to 25 minutes, as I had to stopped for gas. I fished a spot that can hold large fluke at this time of the year. I caught keeper number 100 for the season. It was 23″ nice,…
7-11-09 Kensdock fishing report
The winner of grassy sound marina flounder tournament was Rick Burke and crew.Their combined weight of three flounder was 9.12. They also won the flounder Calcutta with a 5.85 flounder.We fished grassy sound flounder tournament today. We caught 7 keepers, are total weight for three flounder was 7.89 Justin added a nice striper to our catch. I…
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…
7-5-09 Kensdock fishing report { Staying Active}
George Spaulding caught a 5.5 flounder today. He is an avid angler with unparalleled local fishing knowledge. George’s dad manned a coast guard tower in Stone Harbor long before all the million dollar beach homes were built. From the tower he could see the red drum, stripers and trout enter Hereford inlet in the fall and the…
7-2-09 Kensdock fishing report 10:00pm
We left the dock about 4:30 pm. I noticed right a way that the water temperature dropped to 67.1 degrees. The water was very clean. It was hard to tell it was July 2 by the boat traffic and fishing pressure in the area. I have never seen it so quite on the water in July. We…
7-1-09 Kensdock fishing report 8:30 pm
I have a few reports from back bay fishermen. Dr. Gary caught his second weakfish of the season and one keeper flounder before being chased off the water by a thunderstorm. Ed T. had one keeper flounder before the storm. I headed out about 5:00 pm I had two keeper flounder in 2 hours of…