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Weekly Bulletin for Thursday, September 17, 1998

               Land fishermen will be happy to know that late evening and early morning fishing in Little Sheepshead Creek off of the fifth bridge has been producing Weakfish in good numbers. Occasionally, an angler reports a three to five pound Weakfish, but most of the Weakfish that are being caught are just barely keepers. The jig and lure to use is still the Lunker City Fin-S fish in the four inch size. Bloodworms and small bait rigs will catch the Weakfish too. Back at Pebble Beach at the end of Radio road in Mystic Island, there have been reports of both small and large Bluefish on cut Mackerel bait. One angler coming back from the ocean in his boat today saw working birds from the clam stakes at Pebble Beach out to Big Creek. In the area where the birds were working, he caught small Bluefish and Weakfish on a small metal jig with a plastic grub. I mention this because it is another report of the fish working the Pebble Beach area. The tide at this time had started to come in for about an hour.
     There are some fairly large Blue claw crabs around. A few crabbing reports from last week indicated that crabbing by boat in the area of Roundabout Creek and several other small creeks from Graveling Point to the Roundabout Creek was great. My preference is to crab is during the last hour and a half of the outgoing tide. I believe that during this time the crabs are funneled down the creeks toward the mouth of the creek. The crabs will not stay in the really shallow water or dry areas of the creeks, because they know that the seagulls will eat them up or maybe the water just gets too warm for them. There is a real quiet period of not catching crabs as the tide bottoms out. After about half an hour the tide and the crabs start moving again. It is a real fun time to anchor in one of these back creeks and catch crabs with hand lines and little box traps, especially if you brought along a few kids.
     There aren't too many Fluke left in the Great Bay. There were a few Fluke caught in the past week and they were caught in the area of 139 marker, Main Marsh Thorofare and the mouth of the Mullica River.
     There are still plenty of Weakfish around in the bays. Some rather large Weakfish continue to be caught in the Marshelder Channel in Tuckerton Bay. The largest Weakfish weighed in this week was 6 pounds 8 ounces and that fish was caught on a live bunker. Mullica River Weakies are fond of Bloodworms and they aren't as large as the occasional big Weakie out of Little Sheepshead Creek and the Marshelder Channel. Don't forget the batch of Weakfish that were caught between the Big Creek and the entrance of Osborne Island. Those Weakies were better caught on lures than bait.
     Ocean fishing continues to be really good for Croakers and Weakfish. The best area was about 1 mile off Wreck Inlet/Absecon Inlet in 18 to 23 feet of water. Top and Bottom rigs baited with squid will catch the croakers and the weakfish. If you want to concentrate your efforts on catching Croakers, then use clams for bait.
     Fluke fishing outside wasn't the top of the list for the most active fishing of the week. There just haven't been a large number of Fluke caught. Best action continues to be on the reef sites. The Garden State South reef produced more Fluke this week then the Little Egg Reef site did.
     A few requests for the reef charts prompted me into ordering more. We now have new copies of the Little Egg Reef site and the Garden State South reef charts available.

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