July 11th 2024 New Jersey/Delaware Bay Fishing Report with Jim Hutchinson, Jr.

"The summer wind, came blowin' in from across the sea," and it blew from the south pulling up cooler water from the bottom for a long-period of upwelling at the Jersey Shore. In this week's video fishing forecast for the New Jersey, Delaware Bay region we look at the weather forecast for the weekend ahead to see what kind of changes might be in store for our inshore fluking opportunities. There's another Dream Boat doormat in the report this week, black sea bass is (6:30) back in play again as of July 1, and spend time on the open beaches looking for a score. There are a number of unique tagging programs (15:05) going on right now throughout the region to keep an eye out for. Get a freshwater update from inside the pages of the July edition of The Fisherman (19:59) and with our own Pocono Outdoors Guy from somewhere deep in the mountains, then wrap it all up this week with a look at sheepshead (22:34) and other inshore visitors, offshore tuna (25:45) including a solo battle with bluefin on the midrange grounds, and finally a conservation focus (27:44) on speckled trout, land-based sharks and the pillaging of menhaden off our coast by the bunker reduction fleet out of Virginia.

[@wjstewdog]

Great video

[@timrudy4359]

That tagged flounder in CM (I presume CM Point) was most likely tagged by a local legend, cooler John. He tags them all the time off the jetties.

[@rightinsideleftistmiasma2975]

The bunker boats have been around a lot

[@thefishermanmagazine]

Here's a good primer from ASMFC on menhaden management, stock status, and a chart that shows just how bad the quota allocation is regarding the reduction industry (VA) and bait (every other state) along the coast. asmfc.org/species/atlantic-menhaden

[@rightinsideleftistmiasma2975]

Ok Jim, I’ll concede to the semantic differences between land-based and boat-based fluke trophies. I’m still shooting for a 6lber though, bc from land thats gota be considered a ‘rug’ right lol.

[@rightinsideleftistmiasma2975]

Omg about VA bunker stuff

[@thomaslawrence3232]

That Canadian bunker company is turning our prized forage fish into pellets for farm raised salmon. Think about that the next time you shop at the store or order it off the menu.

[@thefishermanmagazine]

Excellent point! Personally, I avoid farm-raised fish at all costs - this is ANOTHER excellent reason to do so! -JH

[@RalphPfister-ze6dz]

Stop mailing me ¡!!!!!

[@thefishermanmagazine]

Sorry Ralph, what do you mean? If you're getting TH-cam notifications about these video alerts that you don't want, then you subscribed to us, in which case you'll have to unsubscribe. Same with the enews alerts we send via email - at the bottom, just hit the unsubscribe option. -JH