After the Storm

Posted on September 20, 2019 by kelli

Fished Tuesday September 10th on Little Egg Reef and managed to catch three keepers with the biggest 21 1/2″. Went out again on Thursday the 12th with a fishing buddy. We headed for the Garden State South and hit a couple of wrecks before the reef. I pulled up a 6.5 pounder and then proceeded to GSS. We caught three more keeper flounder and quite a few nice sea bass which if the season was open would have been in the cooler. In all, it was a good fishing day until the wind kicked up all of a sudden early afternoon. It’s been a slow pick on the flounder since the storm and I don’t know for sure if they just stop biting or if they started moving out.

Good luck to everybody on this last week of flounder fishing!

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