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Scott's
Bait & Tackle
Weekly Fishing Bulletin for: July 24, 1997
Allright, ha ha ha...You have had your laughs this rainy day with
the E-mails labeled with row, row, row your boat gently down the street
and gather your planks and collect the animals two by two... Yes, the weather
hasn't been exactly nice this week. Lots of steady rain poured down, just
like a good 3 day North/East storm normally does for us living hear on
the South New Jersey Coast. This is actually good news for the fishing
scene. The South Jersey coast has been experiencing cold water conditions
caused by dominantly Westerly winds which blow the warmer surface water
away from the beach. The bottom cold water upwells to become the surface
water creating ocean surf water temperatures that have been reported as
low as 58 degrees. Very chilly for July species of fish. A good storm like
this will stir everything up and hopefully leave us with some better fishing.
The Fluke fishing action was good on Wednesday in the area of the
inland waterway from 136 to 138 marker buoy with a very good ratio of keeper
sized Fluke to smaller throwback sized Fluke. Atlantic City reported as
much as 5 inches of rain and the kiddy pool in my back yard pretty much
confirms that report. With that much rain there will be lots of runoff
causing dirty water conditions in Great Bay. This calls for chartreuse
color anythings! Top and bottom rigs would be my choice of rig in Grassy
Channel and the inland waterway this weekend. Squid an minnows would still
be the right combination of baits. It just seems that the Chartreuse color
rigs catch fish out of dirty water better than any other color.
Several anglers are consistently catching Weakfish. Anchoring the
boat rather than drifting has for some reason worked better this year.
I can not stress it enough, DON'T DRIFT! Some of the larger Weakfish weighed
in this weak were caught in Little Sheepshead Creek. Casting and retrieving
FinS Fish lures has been working well in this area. A coating of thick
Shedder Oil on the lure shore can't hurt your chances. Small double hook
rig baited with Bloodworms caught Weakies in the mouth of the Mullica River
this week too. Anchor the boat on one of the ledges or slow drop-offs between
Oyster Bed Point, Deep point and Graveling Point. Put 1/2 to 3/4 ounce
weight on the bottom of the double hook bait rig and cast it towards the
deeper water. Slowly retrieve it back to the boat with quick little rod
tip lifts. Lift, reel slack line, pause, repeat.
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