Posts Tagged ‘WGMD’

Thursday saw the first of the wind from the hurricane with seas running five feet at the Delaware Lightship Buoy and expected to top eleven feet on Friday.  It looks like Monday before most boats will be able to get back out on the ocean and then they may find the bottom stirred up. The…

Wednesday was the calm before the storm.  Right now, the hurricane is supposed to go well east of Delaware, but it can go wherever it wants to so until it’s gone, we will stay alert.  My guess is most fishing activity will come to a halt until at least Sunday and probably not until the…

Tuesday saw more good fishing weather with fewer boats sailing due to vacations ending and school beginning. I haven’t had a report from the fishing pier at Cape Henlopen State Park in a few days as their phone was out of service.  I stopped by there this afternoon and got a first hand report that…

Monday’s weather was good for both bay and ocean fishing and we have reports from each area. First, I must mention the terrible tragedy in California.  The dive boat that caught on fire with, it appears, the loss of over thirty souls.  It sounds like the type of boat I have gone out on in…

Saturday was another good weather day with fish caught from the bay to the canyons. Lewes Ice House reported that Bob Warehiem and Ike caught another limit of slot rockfish plus released four at 28 inches on eels out of the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal. Frank Tucker, Otto and Zandar caught 35 shorts with six…

hr> Friday got the holiday weekend off to a pretty good start.  The marine weather for the remainder of the weekend looks good for boaters and shore fishermen alike. I have seen anglers fishing Canary Creek every time I go over the bridge on Pilot Town Road on my way to the Lewes Boat Ramp. …

On Thursday evening I attended the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission meeting in Dover.  The subject of the meeting was the striped bass regulations that will be imposed in 2020.  The reason for the new regulations is the drastic drop in the spawning stock biomass (large female stripers).  There were 13 members of the public…

Wednesday saw a return to reasonable weather, but Thursday may be a bit bumpy on the ocean and bay with northwest winds at 10 to 15 with gusts to 20.  The surf will lay out flat, but this is not usually good for fishing.  The weekend weather looks good unless we get some remnants from…

Tuesday was my wife Barbara’s birthday and since the weather was too bad to take her fishing, I took her to lunch at the Big Chill.  This is the restaurant on top of the bathhouse at Indian River Inlet.  It has a great view of the inlet and the ocean and both were unsuitable for…

Small craft advisories were up on Monday and will be up again on Tuesday.  The wind is supposed to drop out on Wednesday, but it may take a while for the effects of this dry nor’easter to settle out.  Right now, the surf is really dirty and there is a big drop off at Three…

Sunday saw small craft advisories flying on the bay and the ocean and they will be up again on Monday.  It looks like it will be at least Wednesday before we get some decent fishing weather.  In addition, the beaches may be closed due to high water and erosion on Monday. No boats left the…

Friday was cool and windy.  Saturday and Sunday don’t look too good for open water fishing as the wind will be northeast 15 to 20 and that will kick up some nasty seas. I did stop by the new location for Ice House Bait and Tackle on southbound Route 1 in the same strip mall…

And the heat goes on.  Thursday saw more hot weather, but a cooling trend is on the way as the wind will shift from southwest to northwest over the weekend. On Friday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 PM a Fisherman’s Farewell will be held at the northside of Indian River Inlet to honor Gene Crone…

Wednesday saw another hot and humid August day with a strong southwest wind that had small craft advisories up in the afternoon. Dave at Lighthouse View Tackle on the fishing pier on Cape Henlopen State Park said the spot run continues during periods of high tide.  Bloodworms or FishBite bloodworms remain the best baits. At…

Tuesday was a beautiful day to be on Delaware Bay and that’s exactly where I was.  Doug Elliott and I headed out from the Lewes Boat Ramp around 6:00 AM for the Outer Wall on a perfectly slick calm sea as my Grandfather would have called it.  When we arrived, the current was still going…

Monday began with calm and humid weather then ended with downpours, lightning and strong winds. We have spent so much time on the Flounder Pounder Tournament we have neglected some of our regular fishing reports. Beginning with the fishing pier at Cape Henlopen State Park, Dave at Lighthouse View Tackle said anglers have been filling…

Sunday saw the end of the five-day Flounder Pounder Tournament held out of Paradise Grill on Long Neck. The El Nino with Captain Nino Aversa out of New Jersey brought in an 8.6-pound flounder on Wednesday and it not only won $5,000 in the Daily Calcutta but it held on over the next four days…

Saturday was hot and humid just what you expect for the middle of August. The Flounder Pounder Leader Board had some changes after Friday.  El Nino is still in First with their 8.6-pounder flounder and Mac Attack is holding in Second with their 7.2 pounder, but Miss Yipp has moved into third with a 7.1-pound…

Friday was a nice day and my friend Mac McNaught and I were on the water by 6:00 AM out of the Lewes Boat Ramp.  My plan was to run out to the Outer Wall and try for rockfish, but the northeast wind put a halt to that kicking up three-foot seas in Roosevelt Inlet. …

Thursday saw a refreshing north wind and fish were caught. My friend Bob Baker called to report another successful trip to Wachapreague, Virginia.  He and two friends fished the incoming tide to capture a three-man flounder limit with fish to 19 inches.  All were caught on Bob Baker Flounder Rigs. Speaking of flounder, the Flounder…