Fisherman's Wharf Fishing Report Fisherman's Wharf Fishing Report October 2nd 2012 It seems as though with the weather patterns that we have had lately we are spending almost as much time tied up to the docks as we have spent out on the water fishing however as the fall fishing season rolls on our fishing here at the Wharf continues to be very good with a nice variety catch of fish with the Sea Bass being right on top of the menu. Once the Sea Bass season closes we will begin to put all of our effort fishing for the Tau Tog with the All-Day trips and I expect to drop back to a four day a week schedule just to bunch up the trips after the 14th of October.

With moderate winds and light crowds a couple of times this past week we were able to just throw the anchor down on some hard bottom and see a nice steady pick with Croakers and a few Sea Bass and Blues in the mix. This provided what ultimately was some decent fishing for these couple of days despite some less than favorable conditions we were working in with the strong winds and the heavy swells generated from an offshore tropical system that bugged us late week and into Saturday.

Early last week all was good and we were catching at times some unbelievable numbers of Flatties including tons of short fish and good numbers of keepers, however as the week wore on the fish had us all scratching our heads as to what might be going on and what our next move would be. Traditionally September has always been one of the best months for Flounder fishing but then again we used to always be able to fish up in the Bay on the open bottom for several weeks during the summer months and chase the fish out into the mouth of the Bay and through the rips as they exited the Bay on their migration offshore in the fall.

The days are getting a little shorter and it's much darker in the morning when the alarm goes off making it a little tougher to rise and shine but the fishing action continues to be good both out in the Ocean for the Fluke as well as up in the Delaware Bay now with some of the best Croaker action of the year so far and even a few Flounder taken from the rubble bottom as well. We had a little shake up in the weather last weekend with a hard southerly, it forced the long range trip to be scrubbed and it made me fish up in the Delaware Bay for the very first time this summer.

For this I apologize!The Flounder action has remained quite steady in my book over the last couple of weeks with my all day trips, we continue to see modest to impressive numbers of nice fish on each and every trip that we have made. On the old grounds there are large schools of these Flatties moving around and once a good pile of fish is located you can work on them several days at times making life much simpler not having to deal with the short drifts and the tackle loss that you can see while structure fishing the artificial reefs.