Northern New Jersey Fishing Report- August 24, 2023
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.
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.
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.
Ocean fluking brings both size and numbers, mid-shore yellowfin are hitting poppers and paddletails, and the bays yield weakfish, blowfish, and more.
Tuna fishing has been hit or miss, surfcasters catch cocktail blues in search of Spanish mackerel, and ocean fluke fishing produces quality catches.
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.
Quality fluke are caught around ocean reefs and wrecks, bluefin and yellowfin bite well at the canyons, and bluefish smash poppers around the inlets.
Stripers, bluefish and fluke are active in the summer surf, meanwhile, offshore, bluefin and yellowfin tuna activity ramps up.
Keeper fluke are caught from the wrecks and reefs to the beaches and rivers, a nighttime bluefish bite turns on, and stripers eat clams and sand fleas in the surf.
Fluke fishing improves on the wrecks and the beaches, and bass hit plugs and sand bugs in the surf while bluefish take poppers and tins.
Schoolie to over-slot stripers are being caught in the surf, small bluefish patrol the back bays with gators on the beach, and sea bass season closes on Monday.