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10-21-09 Kensdock Fishing report {NJ speckled sea trout}

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back bay 012I headed north today in search of speckled trout. The water temperature was 55 degrees. the wind was west at about 5. After four hours of casting I landed the first speckled trout of the season. I hope this is a sign fishing is going to pick up in the next week. The same guys continue to catch a few keeper stripers a tide from the beach. Hint stay far away from any dredging operation both on the beach and the back bay or at lest get well up tide.
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10-17-09 Kensdock fishing report

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The North East storm has slowed the fishing down pretty good. The tides have been the highest since the mothers day north easter a couple of years ago. .  Days of north east wind coupled with the new moon tide   may bring the highest tide we have seen in years during tomorrow mornings high tide. The up side of all this wind and high tide weather, is it usually initiates change to the fishing.Fish migration is kicked into gear with change in the water temperature and the big push of water during moon tides and north east storms. The water temperature today in the back bay was 58 degrees. Good or bad in the next week we will know  what kind of  fall fishing season  we will have here in Cape May county. Before the blow a few nice keeper Stripers  were caught on the beach. Jeff Polhamus is high hook with keeper stripers from the beach in Avalon. Jeff fishes strictly lures.He grew up fishing the back bays and the beach in Avalon. Jeff is always ON THE BOARD during local tournaments.
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10-14-09 kensdock report

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A group of hard core fishermen have been fishing the beaches,sod banks and the ocean drive bridges of Cape May county hard! We are hunting for the first speckled trout, No luck so far in spite of excellent conditions.The last couple of days some nice keeper stripers have been caught the biggest 36″ caught from the beach at night. The tog bite has been good around the bridges. Small blues,flounder and short stripers account for  95% of all fish caught. The water temperature in the back bay today ranged from 58.5- 64.6 degrees. Many boats were being pulled out of the water today due to the forecasted North easter heading our way.
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10-11-09 Kensdock Avalon fishing report

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The water is clean,north west wind,water temperature today is 65 degrees. I fished from the beach for the last hour of the out going tide today I caught a few small blues. I jumped in my boat and headed to a favorite spot for the top of the incoming tide looking for speckled trout. No luck. A group of local sharps have a combined 250 hours of  hard fishing with very little success just small blues and short stripers. All conditions are good with the exception of water temperature which is border line high.

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Weakfish hearing

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back bayI attended the ASMFC weakfish hearing in Toms River last night. The asmfc offered 4 options.You can view them all at the asmfc site. The only option that offers a real chance for the weakfish to recover is option 4 Harvest moratorium. The commercial fishermen’s rep was fine with  option 4 moratorium. Mostly all the recreational fishermen that voiced their own opinion demanded option 4. I do not know how many members the RFA has I do know they lost at lest eight members last night. They did not support a moratorium! If you would like give the weakfish a real chance of recovery  support option 4 harvest moratorium. You have until October 31 to make a comment.  Send your comments nmeserve@asmfc.org    
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9-30-09 Kensdock report 8:30 pm

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I fished the last two hours of the incoming tide today. The water temperature is still on the warm side at 70.9 degrees the water was not as clear as I expected it to be. I caught three blue fish and one small striper.I did not catch the fish I was hunting for.It was a beautiful fall afternoon with a North west wind and a big blue sky.  The beaches have been producing fish every day  small blues, flounder, king fish and a few keeper stripers all of the stripers have been  caught just at sunrise. Yesterday large schools of bunker were spotted just off the beach always a good sign this early in  the fall season. I hope to have some good reports in the upcoming weeks.
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9-15-09 Kensdock fishing report

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back bay 003I headed right to a favorite fishing spot just outside of the breakers  of the treacherous Herferd inlet today.  I found a big dredging operation in the way. Sitting just about on top of my fishing area was the enormous great lakes dredge. The wind was North west but the water is still to warm for good fishing conditions. There was less bait moving today than yesterday. I had some small blue fish other than the blues it was slow fishing. Real nice day to be on the water with light  wind and a  blue sky. The water temperature was 71 degrees and the water visibility was fair.back bay 004
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9-14-09 Kensdock fishing report

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back bay 258I went on a short fishing/scouting trip today I hit a couple of striper spots for a few cast each.I found Small stripers in most spots. Still to much boat traffic for day time striper fishing. I checked the inlet and found a blitz in progress. I always give beach fishermen the courtesy of not running up on the fish. I could not tell what they were catching only that at lest 20 waders were in the surf. The water temperature was 71-74 degrees. back bay 259
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8-12-09 Kensdock fishing report

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The wind has been blowing North east for days. Mid September is transition time for fishing in Cape May co. NJ. We wait for the cool north west weather fronts to move through Cape May County. The North West wind  is what creates great fishing conditions. The first day of the north east blow blue fish where stacked up just inside of the inlets. A few small weakfish were under the blue fish. The weakies were in the 10″ to 12″ size. Stripers are being caught around the ocean drive bridges by fishermen using live bait under a float rig. Just a couple of fish being caught and by no means has the fall fishing season kicked off yet. The water temperature at my docks is 71 degrees.
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Kensdock report 9-8-09 Cape May County fall Stripers

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It may feel like fall with the cool north east ocean breeze blowing but Cape May county  fishermen’s fall season arrives with the north west wind. The more often  the wind blows north west the better the fall fishing will be. It has been over ten years since we were locked into a great north west wind flow. 1998 was the only year in my life I did more beach fishing than bow hunting. I know fishermen here in Cape May County that caught over a thousand keeper stripers in the fall of 1998. When the conditions are right there is no need to use live bait or chum for stripers.  I would rather catch one keeper striper on a popping plug or rubber bait than catch one hundred of them  using  chum or live bait.  When you know where to find the stripers under all conditions you will not have the desire  to use chum or live bait for stripers. My son and I were enjoying a  Sunday afternoon last October striper fishing.On the way to our fishing spot we passed a few guys chumming for stripers with clam bellies, I always slow to a crawl and give as much room as I can when passing fishermen on the hook and fishing. How are you doing my son asked the chummers, five shorts in four hours the guy said. My son said to me that is all they caught! I was surprised they caught anything in the spot they were fishing. No mater how much chum you throw into the water or how lively your bait is you are not going to pull fish from very far away from your location.  I like to shut down the outboard engine on my boat a thousand feet from the spot we are going to be fishing and drift into position. The wind was out  of the north east about 10 knots and had the bait pushed into a cove  in the back bay. We had two keepers stripers and sixty eight shorts on that nasty cold October afternoon all on bucktails with pink twisters. You can catch fish on the first couple of days of north east wind but the longer it blows north east the worse the fishing will become.