Check out our latest fishing report from Captain Tom Daffin and friends!
Hey folks!
Spring is finally really arriving, giving us sun and milder temps. We’ve actually even had a few nicer days on the water,where we’re not having to battle wind and big seas.
As suspected, with the water temps rising, the tog are really chewing hard! We’ve had great trips with crews bagging their legal limits and releasing more keepers throughought the day.
Our best trip to date saw over 100 keeper-size tog to 13 pounds! We will be doing these trips until April 30, then we will be running catch-and-release trips for tog the first couple weeks in May while waiting for the black drum to arrive in force in the Delaware Bay.
In mid-May through mid-June we will be targeting black drum and seabass. If you’ve never experienced black drum fishing on the Delaware, you gotta try it.
You’ll see 30 to 80 pound fish on light tackle a short distance from our dock at Utsch’s Marina in Cape May.
Seabass season starts on May 17, with those tasty bottom dwellers, providing incredible drop-and-reel action.
If you’d like to get in on some great fishing just give us a call!
Tight lines.
-Captain Tom
Fishin’ Fever Sportfishing Charters
Captain Bob Cope of Full Ahead Sport Fishing reports a similar plan, with the hot tog action leading into the drum season to come.
Fishing the local Cape May reefs has been as good as you could want it to be at this point. Many more nice-sized fish have moved inshore in the past five days. We’ve seen quite a few three to four pound fish with an occasional 10-pounder in the mix.
The action when you add in the shorts is sometimes lock-and-load fishing. Catching limits is now a reality on almost every trip. We’ve got no time to waste now, as the season is over on April 30.
This is some of the best, most consistent fishing we have seen in quite a long time.
Water temps are now creeping up close to the drum bite starting in the Delaware Bay. I think we are going to have an early start. We’re looking to start the first full week of May.
If you are the guy who wants to make the reports, instead of just reading them, I have a couple of days left Give me a call, it’s worth a shot! I will be there giving it a go!
-Capt. Bob Cope
Full Ahead Sport Fishing
Bob Duckenfield, owner of Jim’s Bait and Tackle in Cape May, said reported that the stripers in the surf are on their way down from up north.
There’s not much to report from the beaches of Cape May.
The fish are moving further south, as they are catching a few in Fortescue.
I feel like we are a week away down here in Cape May. A few more days of warm weather and sun should get the water temp up.
They are catching a few tog off the bridges and jetty’s in Stone Harbor and North Wildwood.
-Bob Duckenfield
Jim’s Bait andTackle
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