What is unbelievably refreshing is how resilient the weakfish have proved to be. Considering in 2009 Dr. Jamie Geiger of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, suggested that the weakfish stock may have fallen to such lows that managers might wish to consider invoking the provisions of the Endangered Species Act as one of the management…
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Kensdock Report: Jimmy Fee catching weakfish, On The Water TV Sunday Jan.19
Cape May County, NJ weakfish late June 2013. The weakfish has carved a special place within many saltwater fishermen. If you are one of them, do not miss this week’s episode of On The Water fishing show. Sunday at 10AM on Comcast SportsNet New England. The show is all about the fish that are found in…
Kensdock Report: North Jersey beaches hold Stripers
The beach fishing is obviously not happening in Cape May County…
Kensdock Report: August Back Bay Summer Flounder 2013
The August back bay flounder bite continues to be slow but steady. Wayne and Jon put off their annual June flounder fishing vacation until August, due to the record rain fall in June (poor fishing conditions). They fished five of their 7 day vacation in the back bay. We found keeper flounder on every trip…
2013 Grassy Sound Flounder Tournament
Ken McDermott, Chip Gruff and Steve Wonder Jim and Debbie Moors have created a Cape May County, NJ tradition with their annual Back bay flounder tournament. If you are a sport fisherman you should make time for this annual event. This year, due to the record…
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…
The Fishery Conservation Transition Act (FCTA)
Recently, legislation named the Fishery Conservation Transition Act (FCTA) was introduced in Washington DC by United States Senator Bill Nelson that will ensure the conservation intent of the Magnusson Stevens fishery conservation and management act {MSA} is upheld, while providing the funding and orders to upgrade the science and data collection to state of the art. FCTA…
Kensdock Report:Quick flounder fishing update
For those flounder fishermen that possess the ability to find keeper flounder the back bay areas are still producing keeper fluke. Wally Bockman caught 5 keeper flounder from the back bay yesterday. Although far from the 39 keepers him and his crew boated last week from the waters of the Delaware Bay, 5 keepers is an…
Kensdock report: Flounder update/ weakfish
There is a school of large flounder {6-7 pound fish} in the back bay areas of Cape May co. the school has been moving around from Avalon to Cape May. I have been unlucky by showing up after the bite. I have seen the fish unfortunately for me they have been in someone else’s cooler.When you limit out…
Kensdock report: Tuesday flounder update
The windy conditions made fishing the best back bay flounder areas out of the question today.Wayne did manage to catch two nice keeper flounder today. Wayne and Jon experienced some great flounder action during the week. The water temperature was 63 degrees on the top of the tide.The water clarity was a 9 in the area we…