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November 2016

Rehoboth Beach Builds Twelve Million Dollar Sand Castle

"Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually" ... Jimi Hendrix.  A Few days ago the Rehoboth and Dewey Beach replenishment project was started.  If you don't know what beach replenishment is, that is when the Army Corp Of Engineers pumps sand onto a beach to rebuild dunes and beaches that have washed out from storms.  In this case the…
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2016 Striped Bass Blitzing The Beach In New Jersey

The 2016 Thanksgiving Striped bass Blitz Once the blitz is on in New Jersey the beaches get blitzed by anglers trying to hook up. They come from all over the coast to fish these beaches .. photo by Ryan Gee (Nov 28, 2016) ... We see it on social media, hear about it, and would love to experience it on our own beaches.  Rarely if ever do you
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Seals And Whales Off The Beaches

A few days ago I visited with Henry Busby while he was surf fishing off Conquest beach.  While we were trying to decide if those were gannets diving a quarter mile off the beach, a whale swam by.  Then it turned and swam back north, then it went back south, then there were two of them.  Seems like they were chasing bait in front of us…
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Fun Fact Friday About Beach Replenishment Sand And Mines

(November 2016 ) I am reading a real page turner, the ... ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT (EA) SAND BORROW AREA B DELAWARE ATLANTIC COAST FROM CAPE HENLOPEN TO FENWICK ISLAND STORM DAMAGE REDUCTION PROJECT MAY 2016 PREPARED BY: U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT  FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT (FONSI) DELAWARE ATLANTIC COAST FROM
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Happy Thanksgiving and Fishing

The surf was fifty one degrees at two in the afternoon today and forty six degrees in the morning around dawn.  These temperatures are perfect for striped bass, but instead they are offshore feeding on bait a good five miles out.  where we can't fish for them.  Stay out of the EEZ it is being watched heavily not worth the ticket.  They are…
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Water Rescue From The Surf In Dewey Beach

This morning around 7 AM a body was seen floating off the beach in Rehoboth.  A witness called it in and the Coast Guard, Lewes and Rehoboth fire companies, Delaware State Police, Sussex County EMS and DNREC responded to the scene.   She was first seen off Norfolk and Queen streets in Rehoboth Beach, and was floating towards Dewey…
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“Skipper” King Turns 102 Years Young

A few weeks ago we celebrated my grandmother's one hundred and second birthday.  She was born in 1914, the year World War I started, Green Beer was invented, and the first non-direct blood transfusion was performed.  There are so many things that happened that year and the years leading up to today.  It is really mind-boggling when…
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Inland Bay Blow Out Tide Mud Rescue

Yesterday there was a water rescue near Beach Cove.  A hunter and his dog were stuck in the mud.  The inland bays experienced a serious blow out tide the last couple of days due to high to gale force westerly winds.   Areas that usually have at least a foot of water at low tide were dry.  The flats turned into mud bars, and you could…
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Will The Striped Bass Pass Delaware

I keep getting asked that question.  Will the striped bass pass us by this year in Delaware?  When will the rockfish be here?  I honestly have no idea, I didn't get their itinerary. There are schools of striped bass off the coast a good five miles or so out, seen by head boats,  and their passengers. "We keep seeing birds (gannets and…
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Gale Force Winds Today And Tomrrow

Well that summer like weather was fun up until it started sleeting last night.  Well played old man winter, I see you are trying to come back with a vengeance.  Masseys Landing dropped six degrees in one tide cycle from fifty seven yesterday to fifty one this morning and still dropping.   Now the main question is will these west winds…
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Friday Fishing Report

It has been a good week for resident striped bass and low water temperatures.  The inland bays dropped from sixty two at the beginning of the week down to fifty three in four days, fluctuating about three degrees between tides.  The temperature hits fifty six at low tide during the day and fifty three at the high tide. Expect that to…
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Margaritaville Lands In Lewes

Normally that title would be followed with an announcement of pitchers of frozen margaritas for all, tiny umbrella drinks, and lots of Jimmy Buffet music.  However the Margaritaville that landed is Lewes is a sailboat that was anchored off the beach on the ninth of November, only to be found washed up on the beach the next day.  …
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