Over in the Delaware Bay they were also having a good weekend on Mr. Flounder.
By Jim Bolton
How about this nice weather we had for Father's Day weekend? The water finally warms up and not only the flounder but stripers, blues, drum, weakfish and kingfish start to bite all along the coast and Delaware Bay has the same good news.
The flounder bite was as good as it gets. They were biting everywhere and some nice size ones included four and five-pounders were common with fish up to 9 pounds being caught.
I heard that Norm Paxton weighed in a flatty going 8 pounds 4 ounces. He caught it in Ludlam's Bay.
Black drum are biting good around the cape surf fishing and boating and are now being caught out in Delaware Bay.
Kingfish are showing up in good numbers from Sea Isle on down to Wildwood along with some nice size weakfish.
The odd thing about this situation is that I haven't heard of many striper being caught. Maybe they took Father's Day off!?
Over in the Delaware Bay they were also having a good weekend on Mr. Flounder.
Ken at Husted's Landing reported that John Robinson and his wife came in with 6 flounder, 1 bluefish and 1 drum.
He said he had other boats come in with catches of four and five flounder and a couple of kingfish. And he said he heard the party boats were doing good on flounder.
And of course "The Perch King" Don McCarthy came in with his usual cooler full caught in Back Creek.
Over at the Anchor Marina in Matt's Landing Bob told me his customers are coming in with some nice catches of flounder and weakfish.
He had Alex Philibob and "Uncle Peter" bring in two drum, two weakfish and one kingfish.
And also Harry Price had his limit of flounder.
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.