WGMD Fishing Report

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July and were able to celebrate with family and friends and even get out on the water to catch a few fish. Amanda at Lewes Harbour Marina said Ken Burg fished the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal with Gulp! to catch a 19 and a 21-inch flounder.  The…

Friday was a scorcher!  The hot temps didn’t keep most folks at home and the beaches and boat ramps were packed, or so I was told.  There is not a fish in the world that would get me out of the house on a 4th of July weekend. Tommy at Lewes Harbour Marina said the…

Thursday was beautiful and the weekend looks great. The new Delaware cobia regulations are now in place.  The minimum size is 40 inches total length and the bag limit is three per boat per trip.  The season will run from June 1 to September 15. The summer striped bass season began on July 1 and…

Wednesday was a bit unsettled with thunderstorms about and not a lot of folks fishing. Beginning on Friday, July 3, there will be new rules at Delaware State Parks.  The number of vehicles allowed on Cape Henlopen, Delaware Seashore and Fenwick Island State Parks will be limited to 60% of parking capacity.  Once the 60%…

Tuesday was just another in a long string of great fishing days.  At Lewes Harbour Marina, Amanda said the Top Fin found seven sandbar sharks to 200 pounds for the Buchanan family on one trip and for the McGinnis family on another trip.  Kyle Kirsch caught a limit of four flounder to 5.24 pounds on…

Monday was warm, but not humid with a north breeze.  Fish were caught from the ocean, bay and beach.  The rest of the week looks to have decent weather and now is a good time to get out on the water. At Lewes Harbour Marina, Julie told us the Katydid had 30 flounder for her…

Sunday was another beautiful summer day.  Fishing was good in the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, but not so hot along the surf. At Lewes Harbour Marina Tom said the Katydid had 31 flounder and some sea bass for her party over ocean structure.  The head boats from Anglers fished Delaware Bay for kings…

Saturday was a beautiful summer day and I did something I never do; I went to the beach on the weekend.  The line waiting to get into Cape Henlopen was back to the Ferry Terminal so we headed to Seashore State Park to find full parking lots until we got to Conquest Road.  My son,…

The excellent weather continued on Friday, but the fishing is beginning to slow down a bit.  Amanda at Lewes Harbour Marina had the final total for the Joe Morris Memorial Canal Flounder Tournament held on June 5th.  The tournament and associated sales and donations came to a very impressive $14,000 that will be given to…

More good weather and more good fishing on Thursday even though a few showers showed up here and there. Tommy at Lewes Harbour Marina said Logan Serpico told him his friend Anthony had a nice trout on a four-inch Gulp! out of the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal on Wednesday.  On Thursday the head boats out…

We are having a run of good fishing days and Wednesday was another in the string.  It looks like our luck will continue right through the weekend although the wind will swing back to the southwest bringing the flies back out of the marsh. Amanda at Lewes Harbour Marina saw flounder from ocean structure come…

Tuesday saw the wind go southwest and bring all those poor, starving flies out of the marsh to the beach and the open waters of the bay and ocean.  It looks like this weather will continue for several days so be prepared with lots of DEET when you venture outside. At Lewes Harbour Marina, Tom…

Monday dawned bright and warm so I decided to try some surf fishing at Three Rs Road.  Conditions could not have been better with a light southeast wind, clean water and two to three-foot seas.  I was on the beach around 7:30 and fished the last of the incoming into the first of the outgoing. …

Sunday was yet another good fishing day with light winds, three-foot seas and water temperatures approaching 70 degrees. We have two really big fish to report.  The first is a pending state record golden tilefish.  Dylan Barer was fishing on the Eire Mar when he caught the 52.8-pound golden.  It was checked in at Hook…

Saturday saw more good fishing weather and folks took advantage fishing in the bay and the ocean.  The next few days look good as well. At Lewes Harbour Marina we heard that the Katydid had a boat limit of flounder on Friday and again on Saturday fishing ocean structure.  The Angler caught kings and trout…

Friday was a beautiful day to be in Delaware and to be fishing on the ocean and bay.  It looks like the weekend is going to be good as well. At Lighthouse View Tackle on the fishing pier at Cape Henlopen State Park, Dave had some exciting news.  Erik Duong caught a 5-pound, 1-ounce trout…

Thursday saw the wind switch to the southeast and fall out in the morning.  The fog was still pretty thick around noon when I went to Dewey Beach to drop off my poor, sick boat at Pierpoint Marina for a new water pump.  The next few days look pretty good as the wind goes all…

Wednesday the weather was so bad I didn’t bother any of my reporting stations for a report.  It looks like once we get past Thursday the wind will shift to the south and drop out so we may finally get out on the water.  Of course, just to make it interesting, there will be thunderstorms.…

Tuesday was windy and cool and once again fishing was slow to almost stop.  Lighthouse View Tackle on the fishing pier at Cape Henlopen State Park did see a few kings caught on Tuesday, but said the wind kept most anglers away. Unfortunately, we have a second boating related death this year near Augustine Beach…

Monday was cool and windy at the beach and it looks like small craft advisories will be up through Thursday.  There is no lee shore around here in a northeast wind and it also dirties up the water in the ocean and bay so even when it falls out it will take a couple of…

Sunday saw small craft advisories up and they will be up on Monday as well.  It is going to be a rough three days until this low to our south moves away towards the end of the week. The big news is from Old Inlet Bait and Tackle where we heard of a 50-inch rockfish…

Saturday saw cooler weather with a north to northeast breeze and seas to three and four feet in the ocean.  At least two head boats came in early as the passengers were getting beat up due to the rough conditions.  Charter and private boats stayed out and managed to scrape together a catch. At Lewes…

Friday was a nice day and fishing was pretty good in the ocean.  The weekend forecast has changed a bit with a high pressure to the north and a low pressure to the south combining to give us a northeast to east wind of 15 to 20 knots and seas of three to four feet. …

Thursday saw small craft advisories with the threat of thunderstorms and for the most part no one went fishing.  The last of the 17,000 surf fishing permits were sold on Tuesday and no more will be available until December.  Social distancing is still in effect and the parks will limit the number of surf fishing…

Wednesday was a hot, summer day with a brisk south wind.  Small craft advisories are up for Thursday. At Lewes Harbour Marina we found out that the pool-winning 18-pound tilefish on Monday’s Katydid trip was caught by Jacob Surowiec.  The Savannah Lynn has been catching a releasing some big sharks for his parties.   Kevin Lagates…