Southern New Jersey Fishing Report- December 14, 2023
Double-digit tog are caught around reef and wreck sites, stripers take jigs and live bait in open water, and the surf bite slows while white perch fishing heats up in the backwaters.
Double-digit tog are caught around reef and wreck sites, stripers take jigs and live bait in open water, and the surf bite slows while white perch fishing heats up in the backwaters.
Tautog fishing is hit or miss on the wreck and reef sites, stripers take bucktails and minnow plugs off the beaches, and midshore migrating bluefin are caught on jigs and poppers.
Stripers pile in along the ocean beaches, boats join the action jigging metals and swim shads, and bluefin tuna blitz beneath birds from 2 to 10 miles offshore.
Big bluefin tuna blitz on near-shore bunker pods, 20 to 40-inch stripers feed along the beaches and in the bays, and tautog season is off to a slow start around the wrecks.
Stripers take live bunker, flutter spoons and swim shads just off the beaches, tautog season kicks off, and sea bass, porgies and triggerfish are caught around the reef sites out front.
Striped bass fishing is lights out from north to south, and tautog fishing around the bridges and jetties yields big keepers from 7 to 9 pounds.
Tautog fishing is exceptionally good from inlet jetties to backwater bridges, and stripers are active in the salt marshes and the surf taking topwater plugs, swim shads and live or cut bait.
Keeper tog are caught among the jetties, bridges and wrecks, stripers cruise the surf off IBSP, and the yellowfin tuna bite holds steady in the canyons.
Forty-inch stripers take live bunker and swim shads, tautog fishing holds strong around the bridges and jetties and yellowfin and mahi are caught at the canyons.
Stripers in the 40-inch range chase bunker out front, sea bass fishing holds steady and yellowfin tuna are caught on chunk baits and butterfish in the canyons.