Back to work and back to school may be keeping some folks off the water but the croakers, blues, stripers, weakfish and triggers are still waiting for you.
It was a tough week for Captain Ray. Between high winds and rain he had to cancel charters, but he did get a personal trip in Saturday with relatives up from Florida.
Ray says it really felt good to get back out on the water after all the nasty weather. The water was very brown in the ocean and the back-bay, but despite the water conditions and rain on and off they where able to put together a decent catch of stripers and blues, catching 10 stripers for the afternoon.
Everything was caught on Smack-it-jr popping plugs or steroid rattling gurglers with half the fish caught in the back bay and the others in the inlet.
55th Annual Pennsauken Surf Fishing Club Tournament, Wildwoods Beaches, registration Anglesea Firehouse, Second and New Jersey avenues, North Wildwood, 6 a.m.-7 a.m. Entrance fee for participants/teams, 856-231-9110 or www.asaconline.org.
The Governor’s Surf Fishing Tournament will be held Oct. 4 at Island Beach State Park. Visit www.njfishandwildlife.com/gsft.htm
The NJDEP Division of Fish and Wildlife has announced there will be no exemption to allow anglers to take summer flounder during the 2009 Governor’s Surf Fishing Tournament.
An exemption was made for the 2008 tournament but is not being granted in 2009 because the recreational harvest of summer flounder through the end of June was 24 percent higher than the same period in 2008.
The Division of Fish and Wildlife announced that John Viglione of Ringwood made his way onto the state record fish list by landing a new record Northern Pike. John was fishing in Pompton Lake, Passaic County when he reeled in the 30-pound, 8.5-ounce fish, breaking the old record caught 32 years ago in Spruce Run Reservoir by 6.5 ounces. For more on this record catch, including a photo visit www.njfishandwildlife.com/news/2009/recpike09.htm
Also, the documentation on the much-heralded largemouth bass (22-pound 4 ounce) caught in Japan this past July has arrived at the IGFA headquarters in Dania Beach, Fla. pending world record recognition. It could tie the current 77-year old world record set by Georgia’s George Perry in 1932, long considered the “Holy Grail” of bass fishing.
Be sure to send your fish stories to cmiller@cmcherald.com. This column appears first online at capemaycountyherald.com All photos submitted appear online at SeeMyBigFish.com.
Cape May – Governor Murphy says he doesn't know anything about the drones and doesn't know what they are doing but he does know that they are not dangerous. Does anyone feel better now?
