Happy New Years to everyone here on 24/7. Hope this year brings a great bite for us all.
First report: today the river is covered in a sheet of ice. Hope the fingerlings of the last spawning season make it through the cold. Again the river is cover in ice stay home or hit the beaches of SNJ like I will be doing on Thursday.
Just left from under the Trenton bridges, Guys are creaming them on plugs, seen them catch 7 in the short time we were there. Note to self, get some waders!!! couldn't get a great look at the fish but some looked pretty nice.
Hoping to get out this weekend.
Fished yesterday incoming in one stretch in mainly 20-22mph winds and the river continued to build through the day had plenty hits but couldn't connect except once only for it to come undone. Got really bad in that stretch so we pulled the boat head north alil and dropped in at another location to duck behind a point hoping for calmer waters. Slightly calmer but the winds kept the river covered with 3 footers some bigger at times. At this location we managed 3 bass all small with the biggest being 15" and again had a better bass on only to run into a huge tangle he ran across all the lines and after a few minutes gone broke off at the main line. Fresh Bunker and clams both caught.
On a side note yes plenty shad are up river but I only saw a handful of shad up the creek I monitor and no herring have showed up yet. Talking to a friend of mine from Delaware state who runs a surf fishing guide service all of the larger bass are still south of Delaware beaches and have yet to push past Delaware to enter the river.
Water temps this day climbed to 52f and 55 is the beginning of the spawn so I'd expect a major push of herring and bass here after this full moon which would be right on track with previous years. Hoping next week gives me better conditions.
Well if everything goes right, I should be on the river Sunday, first time out for Stripers this year!! YAY!! Has the water settled down after the storms?? I am thinking of going out and fishing the CCB area. Any good info from down there latley??
Gravy
Yo Gravy, glad to hear from you again. Check out brinkmans bait shops fishing report. Lots of good info. I will be out Saturday and I will hopefully post some good reports. See yah, Chuckles
Good morning guys, was out looking at the river this morning trying to decide where to drop the boat in.
Frankford Arsenal has the floating docks in but be prepared to move tons of debris. It was high tide when I was there and water very high. From the top of the ramp to where the water cleared down the ramp there was a 3 to 4 ft pile of debris across the ramp.
At Linden Ave the tide was up over the cement structure on the south side of the ramp and lots of debris.
Went up to Croyden and looked at both ramps, one on the river and the other at All Seasons and they were much better especially All Seasons.
Reports have been good and heard from some friends of mine on charters out of Cape May that they are catching and some real nice fish as well..
See you on the river tomorrow guys.. Be safe and have fun.. I will monitor ch 17 also.
I agree with MU- I think after this next full moon they will be moving up. I think I am going to head out for some shad fishing on the flyrod.:flyfish:
thanks for the launch update John, I always use the arsenal and it sucked without the docks last weekend. I will be out by noon or so tomorrow on channel 17. catch Em Up All
Great reports guys!! Agree with the enthusiasm of Brinkman's report. WISH I could be on the river this weekend but have to tend to the damn bunny rabbit... Good luck guys! Hook em up! Be safe.
A boater fell out of his boat in the Croydon section of the river today...Being called a recovery mission....not good....Reports that no life jacket was worn.
Rough day for me today.....1 Short was all i got today....I saw one other fisherman with a good size Fish on but lost it in the rocks....outside of that all I saw was a few shorts.
Was out Saturday and ran south past the navy yard. Caught catfish and 2 small stripers on bunker. A lot of guys fishing from shore on the jersey side but didn't see anything happening. I had 55 degrees water temp on my recorder.
Didn't see much action from other boats in the area either.
Looking to get out again next weekend. Good luck guys!!!!
Struck out today 1 cat couple perch and not much action inbetween heard of some decent fish caught from station this morning and DOD. Saw 10 boats in my area and didn't see one fish caught all day. Winds again hampered the efforts. Be back out tomorrow for another 10-12 hours. Perch were out in force so bloods are off the bait list for me. Banksbully we r 0-2 one of these trips we gone get it done.
Man these water temps keep dropping on the beach these water temps wouldn't effect fishing one bit but here on the river a 4 degree drop in 2 days at this time of year can easilly shut down a bite. On my way to Brinkmans then off to the river. Catch'em up
Was out for 6 hours on saturday night fishing below the trenton makes bridge. Fished the outgoing tide. Not one bite. Used bloods and clam. Heard of one 32 inch fish caught by the rail bridge on a live perch.
Hopefully the weather improves by the weekend!
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