More stripers are arriving at the Jersey Shore every day, as the moveable feast of adult and peanut bunker continues to bring bass (and bluefin 1:40) in tight to shore. In our previous week’s video forecast, a heavy discussion on the death of “snag & drop” fishing and the need to decrease mortality rate of recreationally caught striped bass; this week, a video spotlight (2:04) on the wanton disregard of weakfish apparently by commercial fishing industry folks working in the bunker reduction game just off the three-mile line – this exclusive video from one of our readers shows a trail of dead weakfish, thousands of them, with a reduction boat across the line sucking as much menhaden from the sea as the corporate behemoth can possibly carry. More reports on the striped bass grounds (3:00), and it’s not just bunker (5:20) either; out back the high tide and westerly breezes (7:13) look good for your Friday morning sod bank mission. One sod ban regular in South Jersey (7:40) found a redfish this week; could the speckled trout be around? A new hybrid striper record in the state of New Jersey (9:00) with our report from the Poconos, and remember there’s no fishing license required (10:30) in the state of New Jersey this Saturday!
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Love the hat!
Smack it JR's are great! …I'm sure I have a couple somewhere…
I’m sure the bass are affected by those bunker boats
i need to get to amboy need my fix!!!!
BTW lifting large fish by the jaw with a boga isn't the best for the either, just use the formula.
Love that cap,Jim. Hope the Phil’s run last as long as the stripers.
At what point does the "bycatch" of commercial netting operations begin to become unacceptable? Maybe we stop calling it bycatch and call it what it is. If some sort of shore-based activity caused such a kill and those fish were washing up on the beach the hue and cry from the public would be enormous.
So messed up!! We finally had tons of weakfish off our coast small mostly but that bunker boat killing them off horrible
I witnessed a massive school of spike weakfish just outside the barnegat inlet last week judging how they looked on my sonar it be easy to see how an omega boat could accidentally target them
Thanks for another great update.
What if I don’t have a boat for the Challenge. I fishing from the shore. Is there any other challenges? 🤞
Nice hat, Jim! ⚾️🏆