Southern New Jersey Fishing Report- October 5, 2023
Sea bass fishing is excellent around the wrecks out front, stripers and weakfish chase mullet and peanuts in the marshes, and tautog fishing is good around the inlet rocks.
Sea bass fishing is excellent around the wrecks out front, stripers and weakfish chase mullet and peanuts in the marshes, and tautog fishing is good around the inlet rocks.
Tautog fishing improves in the backwaters as fluke season closes, and anglers gear up for the sea bass opener while gusty conditions and high seas keep boats docked.
The back bays host blowfish, weakfish, cocktail blues and schoolie stripers, sheepshead fishing is good around the bridges, and fluke activity takes a dive around the wrecks and reef sites.
Spanish mackerel and albies are in the surf of IBSP, blowfish pave the back bays, and weakfish are peppered in with backwater schoolie stripers.
Bluefish, fluke, and a few false albacore are being caught off the beaches, while offshore, the yellowfin, big eye tuna, and mahi action has been excellent.
Fluke are biting well from the reefs to 20 miles off shore, and bluefish and albies are caught in the surf while triggerfish and sheepshead are caught around the backwater bridges.
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.
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.
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.
Hot ocean fluke fishing continues at reef sites, while, cobia, spanish mackerel and bluefin tuna are producing a solid bite along the inshore ridges.