The fishing is quiet but some species are still biting

By Rich King
Posted 11/24/22

It was the first cold cold, but getting warmer. Winter ran into the room and didn’t even give us time to put on our clothes. Just be glad we aren’t in Buffalo. I can’t imagine …

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The fishing is quiet but some species are still biting

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It was the first cold cold, but getting warmer. Winter ran into the room and didn’t even give us time to put on our clothes.
Just be glad we aren’t in Buffalo. I can’t imagine trying to cast over 60-plus inches of snow after trudging out to the beach.

Car hooding would be next-level exciting if you found a vehicle to handle that deep snow. I’d like a nice big snowstorm this year. Snowstorms are perfect for a break from reality. A forced break from reality, if you will, is sometimes needed. Much like fishing, hunting or just being in the outdoors, it lets you reset.

I’ve heard a lot of harvest shots this week. Looks like we are going to be a little thinner around here with deer. That is needed.

Maybe the people who drive by daily will stop holding the car horn down while driving past four miles of woods. Yes, that is apparently a thing. The deer don’t care, and you are probably going to spook them toward you — nice move. I can tell time by these people. It’s the 6:21 p.m. Ford horn with the bad tick in the engine, if she is really loud that means rain is a comin.’ Country livin’ with all these new city folk.

The fishing is quiet, because many aren’t venturing in the new cold yet. It has been biting cold. Fish are biting, though. If you are doing catch and release and it is below freezing out, keep the fish in the water as much as possible. A few seconds’ exposure to freezing cold can permanently damage the gills. Get your fingers wet — you’ll live and so will the fish.

Tautog at the inlets has been the catch. Use green crabs or mud crabs for bait. Some anglers have been catching their own mud crabs. You have to turn over some rocks to find those. They work great for bait. Do some research to find a good mud crab spot.

One way to catch these crabs is to use rolled-up carpet and shove it into the rocks at the inlets and wait a little while. All kinds of critters will crawl between the rolls.

White perch is the waterway action with some short striped bass in the mix.

Short striped bass action is decent. Lures are working best around inlets and structure. Fish bait along beaches and creeks.

The migratory bass are starting to show south of us and still a large amount of the schools are midway in Jersey or lower by now.

Thanksgiving day would be a good day to go fish, and the whole weekend, minus all that possible rain.

Have a great turkey day and stay warm!

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