Decent Fishing Action All Around Put In The Time

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Bluefish made an appearance on 3Rs the other day in some decent sizes.  You have to be there when these schools come in with the tides.  They also came into the Henlopen pier area and were hitting bucktails.  Same gators we saw last year in the twenty four to thirty inch range. One was weighed in at Bill’s Sport Shop at sixteen pound.The winds have the water really worked up, but today it was rather clear on the incoming tide south of the inlet.  The beaches are taking a little pummeling from the heavy waves.  The wind should be pushing fish in close, hopefully for the next couple of days.  Some of the Upper Delaware Bay beaches are seeing schools of large striped bass close to shore at night.  Bowers Beach was hot the other night but these fish are hungry and moving.  Don’t expect them there too long and look for schools to show up at other bay beaches.  People putting in time are catching and some are not, it is the nature of the game.  Many of striped bass in the Delaware Bay are about spawned out and on the move, and that just started not long ago. Some of the commercial guys are doing well filling their tags.  These fish will move out of the bay soon and head north.  Then the Chesapeake fish will start to show up.  Orrrrr the fish will all hang around for a while, orrrr the fish will just hurry on by out front, orrrrr  maybe … anyway you get the point.  You won’t know until it happens in the mean time go fishing.

 

There have been a lot of huge kingfish off Fenwick Island and large puffer fish.   Hitting bloodworms on top and bottom rigs with small 2/0 circle hooks.  Short striped bass action is hot on many of the beaches.  Like I said blues are showing up here and there.  Black drum are still in the Delaware bay close to shore.  They are also being caught here and there from Fenwick to Cape Henlopen in the surf.  Clam has been the best bait.  Sand fleas are in the surf down to your pinky finger nail size.  That makes killer bait, the fish are in there feeding on them.    Few days ago some nice Black drum were caught at the Oceanic Pier along with some puffers and tautog.  Taug have been caught at the pier as far back as ten days ago.  Some shops have green crabs you will have to call for availability, you can check the business directory listings for numbers and websites.

Herring are thick at the Milton spillway.  Might explain why a few bluefish were caught in the Broadkill River near the Lewes Boat ramp not long ago.  They are chasing the bait fish upriver.  The fish have to get into there via the Roosevelt Inlet, which is a good place to look during the incoming tide.  Those blues are feeding the Henlopen flats like last year too, there just aren’t as many schools it seems right now or they are just all not that close to shore.  Either way once you get into them, the action is hot.  I saw some nice catches at the flats last week from anglers plugging and wading near the pier.  I am hoping the Rehoboth bay flats light up soon.  New Jersey is on fire in places from the Atlantic City Jetties to Point Pleasant and up, at all inlets and beaches.  One day its unreal next day is not, the fish move around a lot.

Flounder has been incredibly slow last few days.  One winter flounder was caught by one of the Saltwater Fly Angler club members not long ago near the flats.

 

Freshwater action is good for bass, the fish are not too finicky but are about to start the whole spawning process and that takes up most of their attention.   Crappie action has been decent.  Pickerel are always on fire and fun to catch.  Trout up north is still good action, I think they stocked more rainbows not long ago.  You just have to find a pocket of fish and the anglers on the move have done just that.

The weekend is looking decent for Saturday.  Sunday looks like rain and that keeps changing two days ago it was fine … Delaware.  The catches the last few days despite the weather have been decent.  You have to get out there and brave the crappy weather. The fish doesn’t care and nature must feed.  Striped bass love this weather and rough surf, as my buddy Corby says … This is “F’n” striper weather!!

Fish On!!

Rich King

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