The extra-large full moon tide, filled the sound with crystal clear ocean water. The view of all the marine life on and around the flats was spectacular. What I thought was a giant striped bass chasing bait, turned out to be a large shark aggressively feeding on striped bass! No time for a picture. It…
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Grassy Sound Marina Flounder tournament 2014
Saturday was a beautiful June day for fishing . Every crew I spoke with caught fish. Mater of fact, a record amount of flounder were checked in. The tournament has a friendly family atmosphere. However, the competition and the excitement that accompanies it are in the mix. We had 6 keeper flounder and one weakfish.…
A June Monday on the water
A summer flounder fishermen’s wintertime daydream, that describes today. A blue sky, no humidity, no bugs, light wind and a good flounder bite . I fished for 2 hours and 20 minutes today. I caught 4 keeper flounder the biggest was 24″. The water temperature was 67 degrees. The conditions are excellent for back bay…
Snakebite with keepers
Saltwater fly fishing for Summer flounder
Jack was fishing in the back bay waters when this hard fighting summer flounder rose for his fly. Jack holds the Cape May County saltwater fly fishing record for speckled trout 8.5 pounds. Looks like he is also in the hunt for the summer flounder fly fishing record.
Today’s back bay summer flounder trip
I made my first flounder trip today. The water was 55 – 59 degrees with a 5-10 NNE wind. Two hours of fishing produced 4 keeper flounder and 7 shorts. Planning on fishing for weakfish during both sides of the low tide later today. I am on a quest to catch weakfish from different spots…
Black drum bite is hot on the Jersey side, Summer flounder
Slaughter beach on the Delaware Side of the bay is still producing black drum. That spot is a 12 mile run from the Cape May canal. The good news for fishermen docked in NJ is the black drum have set up on our side of the bay. Bob Lasko and crew boated nine black…
Kensdock Report: Watch Jimmy Fee and Chris Megan catch spring weakfish
There was at least one nice tide runner weakfish caught today in a back bay area of Cape May County. A few nice summer flounder were caught and released in grassy sound today also. There was also some weakfish caught by perch fishermen in their fyke nets in Atlantic County today. There was one confirmed…
Kensdock Report: Striped Bass, weakfish and summer flounder show
Short stripers have gathered in good numbers at select locations on the Delaware Bay side of Cape May County. There has been at least one keeper striper caught from the ocean beach side of the county. Blood worms are the only bait to use at this point. There has been 3 summer flounder caught and…
Kensdock Report: Cape May co. stripers, red drum and specks
Today I was sitting on my couch looking across the sound, wondering when the migratory fish are going to show up. I have been fishing hard and often, so far I have not seen or caught any migratory fish. I made it out today in-between wind gust and rain, once again I caught resident fish. The…