What fish can be caught surf fishing off the New Jersey shore ?

Fishing
flarnt asked:


I am going down to Wildwood & Cape May for a few days and thought I would try surf fishing. What lind of fish can be caught with a surf rod in late sept & October ? Any tips, ideas are appreciated. Thanks.

Ricky
5 Comments

5 Comments

  1. Andrew H  •  Nov 12, 2009 @7:27 pm

    Brandon

    Some nice striped bass.

  2. Lubers25  •  Nov 13, 2009 @4:20 am

    Barbara

    That time of the year you are likely going to be looking at striped bass and blue fish. You could also be looking at some fluke, kingfish, dogfish, sea robins and a few others. Stripers and blues are what you would probably want to target.

  3. joed  •  Nov 13, 2009 @12:03 pm

    Russell

    Striped bass
    Northern kingfish
    Bluefish
    Weakfish
    Drum
    Fluke, but the season closed on 9/4
    Tautog
    Croaker
    Shark

  4. NYBoy  •  Nov 15, 2009 @12:16 am

    Geraldine

    thats the fall run for Stripers and that’s mostly what you’ll be catching, cape may is a great place for striper fishing…the local bait shop will set you with bait (usually mackeral and sand eeels)..you should also try fishing off a pier as the tide is coming in

  5. ideal22us  •  Nov 15, 2009 @3:34 pm

    Jonathan

    i would use an 8ft rod, spooled w 17lbs test,
    can catch, striped bass, bluefish, weakfish,sea bass, black fish.
    can use tins, plugs,plastic worms.
    for bait, try bunker, clams, green crabs, fiddler crabs,sandworms, squid&sand eels.
    search the yellow pages online, look for cape may nj, the browse tackle shops& give em a call

Leave a Reply

Allowed tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>