Posts Tagged ‘Fishing Report’

Monday saw fishable weather, but only a few folks took advantage of the good conditions.  This is not unusual for December when everyone is busy with the holiday season. Tommy, at Lewes Harbour Marina, said the only boat out was the Surface Tension with Captain Keith Beebe and he came back with one 30-inch rockfish…

The weather was warmer on Sunday, but to the best of my knowledge, no boats went out, or if they did, they didn’t report catching anything. On Saturday we reported Joe Huk catching a 38-pound rockfish on a jig off of Wildwood, New Jersey.  His son Chris was also on the boat and caught a…

The weather was about as good as it gets for the first day of December on Saturday and a lot of boats and a fair number of surf fishermen were on the water.  Unfortunately, most of these anglers failed to score, but a few were in the right place at the right time with the…

Friday saw lighter winds, but the water was still dirty after being stirred up from all the gale-force winds.  Several boats did manage to get out with mixed results. We had several unconfirmed reports of rockfish caught at the Eights and off of Wildwood, New Jersey.  No one I spoke with had seen the fish…

Thursday was yet another windy day and to the best of my knowledge no boats left their slips or trailers.  I did find out that a few boats do plan to sail on Friday, but I fear dirty water on the inshore grounds and along the beach could hamper fishing.  Locations such as the Del-Jersey-Land…

Wednesday saw another windy day and fishing was difficult if not impossible.  While I am sure a few diehards soaked baits in the surf and at Indian River Inlet I don’t think the reward was worth the effort.  Conditions are supposed to improve on Thursday and while I don’t think boat fishing will be very…

Tuesday was a blowout and gale warnings are up for Wednesday.  It looks like the winds will begin to back off on Thursday leaving decent fishing conditions for Friday and Saturday.  My guess would be the Del-Jersey-Land Reef for sea bass and blues on Friday then some of the inshore structure for tog on Saturday. …

With gale warnings up for Monday and continuing into Tuesday I don’t think anyone will be fishing the ocean or bay anytime soon.  Considering it takes a couple of tide cycles for the water to settle down, that would put the first chance of catching sea bass or tog sometime on Thursday and that’s if…

Sunday saw marginal fishing conditions and not many boats took the chance.  A gale warning is up for Monday so I doubt anyone will be fishing today. Tommy at Lewes Harbour Marina said he had one boat out fishing the Outer Wall for tog and when he spoke with the captain via VHF radio they…

To the best of my knowledge, no boats sailed on Saturday and I don’t think any will be going out on Sunday.  Small craft advisories are up for Sunday and it looks like they will be up for Monday as well. Tommy at Lewes Harbour Marina had the names of the citation winners on the…

The weather was pretty good on Friday and a few boats were able to fish the ocean.  Saturday, on the other hand, is not looking too good.  After a brief lull in the morning, it will be wind and rain for the remainder of the day. At Lewes Harbour Marina Tommy told us that Carter…

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, but I don’t think anyone went fishing.  Small craft advisories were up on Thursday and they may be up again on Friday although the wind is supposed to lay down a bit in the afternoon, if it does the surf and jetty should be fishable. We continue to…

Tuesday was a tad windy and, to the best of my knowledge, only one boat left the dock.  At Lewes Harbour Marina, Tommy said Deb Greirson from Lewes caught an 11.5-pound rockfish from the surf at the Point on Cape Henlopen State Park on Monday using a chunk of bunker for bait.  A private boat…

Monday saw good weather and a few boats were able to make the run to the sea bass grounds. Tommy at Lewes Harbour Marina said the Katydid came in with a boat limit of 150 sea bass plus seven tog.  John Kelleher and Butch Emmert caught white perch out of the Broadkill River including two…

Sunday was another good weather day and we had a few decent reports from the bay and the ocean. Captain John Nedelka on the Karen Sue said his day began slow with nothing but spiny dogfish, but as the water cleared the tog turned on and he ended the day with a good catch to…

The gale force winds of Thursday and Friday did lay down as advertised, but the dirty water they left behind made for some difficult fishing on Saturday. At Old Inlet Bait and Tackle the report was a complete disappearance of the small rockfish that had been hanging out around the Coast Guard Station during nighttime…

I am sort of holding my breath as the gale on Friday is supposed to lay out over the weekend and give us fishable conditions. At Old Inlet the report was good fishing during outgoing water at night for short rockfish with a few keepers.  Boats working the lights at the Coast Guard Station have…

The gale warnings for Thursday will be up again on Friday, but the weekend could be fishable and next week doesn’t look too bad right now.  Of course, all of that is subject to change without notice. On Wednesday evening I attended the Advisory Council on Recreational Fishing Funding held in Dover.  This council has…

With small craft advisories up on Wednesday no one got out and it looks like we could have gale warnings up for Thursday and Friday.  On the bright side, the weather for the weekend could be fishable.  Is that even possible? Back in the day, I used to spend Thanksgiving week on Hatteras Island with…

Small craft advisories were up for Tuesday and are already up for Wednesday. At Lewes Harbour Marina Tommy said there were two citation tog on the Katydid’s Monday trip.  Dave Furio had an 8.6-pound tog and Jackson Aeo had a tog weighing in at 8.4 pounds.  Captain Keith Beebe had the Surface Tension out for…

Monday saw weather as good as you are going to get in November so I decided to give Indian River Inlet a try.  I arrived around 9:00 AM and fished the incoming into the slack and the first of the outgoing.  My total catch was one small oyster cracker on a sand flea.  I saw…

Saturday saw gale warnings up for the bay and ocean.  I checked out both bodies of water in the early afternoon and both were not happy.  There were even whitecaps on the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal.  Sunday will be a bit better, but still too rough for most boaters. Old Inlet Bait and Tackle said…

Small craft advisories were up all day Friday and gale warnings are up for Saturday.  Winds on Saturday will be northwest 20 to 25 with gusts to 35 knots.  At 4:00 PM on Friday the Delaware Lightship Buoy reported winds at 21 knots gusting to 27 with waves at 7.9 feet.  The barometric pressure was…