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Jim Bolton Husted's Landing in Fairton had quite a busy Labor Day weekend. With the weather very nice all weekend they had many fishermen trying their luck.
Plus, they also held their annual Customer Appreciation Picnic on Sunday where a big crowd enjoyed themselves with a variety of food. As usual, I missed being there again.
Some of the fishing news is as follows.
Early in the week Ken told me that Ron and John Smith of Millville had a good day on flounder. They brought in 5 keepers. As usual, they caught a lot of shorts.
This was the only flounder news from the Marina except for Bill Nixon's 18 1/2 incher.
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Other catches over the weekend were Don McCarthy's 17 inch weakfish and Andy Smith 's 17 inch weakfish.
One angler named Steve caught 4 porgys and two bluefish in the mouth of the creek. Walt Hoffman and Paul Bond also caught weakfish and blowfish in the mouth.
Andy Gaffney of Philly came in with a nice catch of 18 croaker fishing just off Fortescue.
I heard a lot of anglers and the Fortescue fleet were fishing for croaker just off Fortescue with a few weakfish, bluefish and kingfish mixed in.
Bob at the Anchor Marina in Matt's Landing said his customers caught a variety over the weekend.
He had a lady angler Phillis Edwards bring in a 17 1/2 inch weakfish.
One angler came in with a variety of weakfish to 18 inches. Three and four pound bluefish and some nice size kingfish.
Slo Jo Hines was at it again. He stayed in the river and caught a bucket of perch.
Fishermen down at the shore took advantage of the fine weather conditions. Flounder were still in the surf, off shore and especially still in the inlets and back bays.
Along with the flounder still hanging around they are catching a mixed bag of bluefish, weakfish, kingfish, croaker and tautog. How can you beat this?
Jim Bolton is the outdoors columnist for the South Jersey Times. He can be reached at 856-313-9347 or 22 Arbutus Ave., Millville, NJ 08332.
