LBI Fishing Report 10/23/24
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Here's the Wednesday morning October 23, 2024 fishing report updates for the Long Beach Island area. With the low tide incoming, there's a small but powerful swell lingering on the beaches in the 2' range. Yesterday there was significantly more energy breaking on the sand bars, all of it from the weekend's offshore low pressure system which gave us big surf this past weekend; Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
What's Biting At Long Beach Island?
Since the Full Moon last week, the surf side fishing action on LBI has been on the slower side. We had active blues as well as pockets of kingfish, both of which surf anglers were catching. However things changed. Saturday's American Angler surf fishing tournament was dismal. The sold out event had strong participation BUT the 6'++ surf made for very rough conditions. The waters were full of seaweed making it nearly unfishable. No score-able fish were entered.
1:07:00 - But here's good news on the surf side... Some striped bass were caught by anglers plugging the surf. It's that time of year! Shop regulars Chris Masino and Greg Davis both caught some linesiders in the surf this week. It's great to see some fish are around in the suds. With the abundance of bait (sand eels, peanut bunker, snappers, bay anchovies, +) in the area, new arrivals with stripes can't get here soon enough!
1:33:00 - The water temperature on the LBI surf is right around 60-62º. With the recent warmer weather we have a little bounce off the recent lows, but for the most part there is a downward trend.
I got out and did some awesome fishing here the last couple days. Last night I got out and fished for a few hours. It was slow but we managed three bites with one bass.
Both Monday and Tuesday were beautiful days with light winds and a spaced out longer period groundswell.
2:49:00 - Monday I had Chef Tom and his wife aboard for some wreck fishing. We ran out to 80' of water and had good sea bass and porgy fishing on clam, squid and sand fleas. We caught a good cooler full of fish they both had sore arms so the mission was a success. They brought home the groceries and had fun.
3:20:00 - The Barnegat Bay and Manahawkin Bay has striped bass to target. Store staffer Emmet, Frezza and Paul are catching. Also Paul ran up north and got into that Monmouth County striped bass bite that's rolling on up there for a couple weeks now. Hopefully those fish start sliding down. We'll see how that goes. The stage is set as we have a lot of bait in the area. We haven't had bunker in the shop fresh or mullet because the mullet runs sort of fading out.
We hope to have a delivery of fresh bunker later today. There's a lot of sandals stretch along the central and northern Jersey coast. Take a look at a post I just threw up on Instagram just the other morning...
5:00:00 - The #1 best fishing opportunity right now for land based anglers fishing LBI is TAUTOG! Fish the inlet rocks with green crabs and sand fleas a have fun catching.
6:09:00 - LBI Beach Replenishment Short Update - Currently at Holyoke Ave and they will be working down that way for the rest of this month and November.
7:24:00 - Barnegat Inlet Dredge Project - Army Corp Engineers are currently working on Barnegat Inlet. To communicate with the dredge use VHF13.
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My daughter and I will be coming to visit you guys next week for a quick Monday through Wednesday getaway!
Greg, great report as always. Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the report Greg I love a good sand eel bite!
Excellent report as always.......thank you.
Nice work brother 👍
Awesome report Greg! Learn so much from you. Hope your getting sleep with the little one!
Thanks for watching and dropping a comment Roger. I'm getting sleep, except for last night with the night fishing trip. My wife on the other hand has been sleep deprived. I was stoked last night she said... GO FISH!
Love the reporting E,,
Thanks for watching and dropping a comment.
Thank you, Greg.
You are welcome - Thanks for watching and dropping a comment.
As usual good video👍
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Please explain to me why the bay looks like the tropics the last few days when you can see the bottom and 10 foot of water and it’s beautiful green
I Noticed that as well
Sorry. I missed your comment. Water clarity and water color is mostly dependent on turbidity (suspended sediment) from wind and wave action, run off from rains containing nitrogen and phosphorus and algae / plankton blooms. The clean, clear and "tropical" blue/green water is most likely during a time of calm weather conditions, less or little rain (less fertilizers used in the local / regional water shed) and low algae/ plankton. Now with that said you aren't talking about neon green dye like waters right? Just a heads up, in NJ there are 14 outfall pipes that discharge treated effluent into the ocean. Some of these pipes run across the bay in order to reach the ocean. I can share that there was maintenance checks conducted by the Ocean County Utility Authority in mid October timeframe (give or take a week or so). They use green dye to check for leaks with arial surveillance. Based on the timeline of your comment, this could have been what you seen. Check out our Instagram post on October 15th for a photo... instagram.com/p/DBKVVz4gkJW/?hl=en&img_index=1
Chesapeake Bay young of the year spawn was terrible again for Striper. 😮💨
Bad news for sure. I'm tuning into the ASMFC call here now at 1:30
Long islands getting the run this year..The sandeels aren't going anywhere & neither are the bass..
Happy to hear you are catching! Down this way we are getting mixed messages from northern reaches. Some saying terrible and some saying great. Maybe it is regionally patchy. We usually heat up on and after Halloween and November is historically our best action.
Why are the bass so late
Every year is different. Monmouth Co has had great fishing and that is somewhat common for this point in the season. Usually around the last week of October more bass (non residents) arrive and make for great November fishing. From what we are hearing, some areas in Long Island are lit up with striped bass and sand eels. Let's hope then make their way here sooner than later.