Southern New Jersey Fishing Report- August 24, 2023
Ocean fluking produces big keepers for the cooler, sheepshead and weakfish bite around the back bay bridges, and the canyons host good fishing for yellowfin and bigeye tuna.
Ocean fluking produces big keepers for the cooler, sheepshead and weakfish bite around the back bay bridges, and the canyons host good fishing for yellowfin and bigeye tuna.
The bays are loaded with blowfish and snapper blues, fluke fishing holds strong around the ocean reefs, and the wahoo bite picks up near Bacardi wreck.
Fluke fishing is good around the inshore reefs, kingfish, cocktail blues and sheepshead bite in the bays, and the canyons give up mahi and yellowfin tuna.
Quality keeper fluke are biting in the surf, bluefin remain stacked on the squid grounds and local reefs and wrecks host albies, bonito and Spanish mackerel.
Fluke and cobia entertain anglers fishing ocean wrecks, bluefin eat live squid near Axel Carlson Reef, and surfcasters catch kingfish and fluke from the beaches.
Ocean fluking brings both size and numbers, mid-shore yellowfin are hitting poppers and paddletails, and the bays yield weakfish, blowfish, and more.
Ocean bottom fishing produces keeper fluke, sea bass and triggerfish, surf anglers catch fluke and kingfish, and cobia continue to move in from points offshore.
Tuna fishing has been hit or miss, surfcasters catch cocktail blues in search of Spanish mackerel, and ocean fluke fishing produces quality catches.
Triggerfish and sheepshead bite around the bridges, quality fluke and sea bass are caught around ocean reefs and wrecks, and cobia make their presence known.
Heat and humidity hindered shore-based anglers this week, but fluke fishing held strong in the rivers, bluefish are biting in the surf, and Spanish mackerel begin to trickle in.