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LBI Fishing Report 9/23/20

The powerful ground swell from Teddy has faded out and only small residual line linger on. It looks like we return to a more tranquil weather pattern. Here’s what’s up on the Long Beach Island Fishing Front on Wednesday Sept 23, 2020.

It’s only getting more fishy from here!

The recent cold nights and shortening days (less hours of sunlight) have the local water temperatures cooling a few degrees from the summertime warmth. Right now our best “feel” is the LBI surf temperature is 66-ish degrees. Give or take a degree or two. There’s much colder water in the bay already. For more specific details see the chart at the end of this blog post below.

Today (Wednesday 9/23/20) while walking up on the beach a father and his two sons passed by hiking their fishing gear off the beach. I couldn’t help make small talk as I always do. They reported three cocktail blues on frozen mullet. There’s kingfish and out of season fluke on the beaches too.

On the bayside blowfish, weakfish, snapper and striped bass. Harry Chambi reported, “Awesome morning fishing on Tuesday. We caught 54 blowfish in a couple hours.”

Yup there’s striped bass around. See our previous report update for a surf side striped bass catch. Here some more on the local linesiders…

Malian DeMarco had a blast catching striped bass on top water with her husband Gio fishing the bay of LBI.
Malian DeMarco had a blast catching striped bass on top water with her husband Gio.

Another solid report from the bay came from Gio DeMarco and his wife Malian. They shared, “Regardless of the 15-20 mph winds blowing my wife and I went out on the bay and hit the sod banks. We found fish going six for six in just an hour. Resident schoolie striped bass (up to 23″) were loving our top water poppers. They are here and have been chewing all summer. Can’t wait for the big bass to shop up!”

Seems like they are getting a little more active with the cooler temps!

Up at the Barnegat Light State Park’s Inlet Jetty tog, triggers and sheepshead are being caught. Store staffer Frezza caught this triggerfish on Monday along with 5 tog, one keeper size.

Frezza caught this triggerfish on Monday fishing the Jetty at Barnegat Light.
Frezza caught this triggerfish on Monday fishing the Jetty at Barnegat Light.

Here’s a couple recent video reports from the past couple of days…

Here’s a look at the beach conditions on Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Here’s a look at the beach conditions on Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Barnegat Bay Buoy Water Temperature Readings At Barnegat Light
Here’s the Barnegat Bay Buoy Water Temperature Readings At Barnegat Light. Note this buoy’s location is very close to Barnegat Inlet. It get influenced on an incoming tide by ocean water and outgoing tide with the bay water. It gives a very accurate reading of what both bodies of water are doing on a daily basis.
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Author: FishHead.Greg

A Long Beach Island native with life long experience fishing and navigating the local waters, Greg is a distinguished Master Captain (the highest qualified operator license), holding a US Coast Guard Masters 50T Near Coastal License with Towing Endorsement. Raised in and now managing his family's bait and tackle business, Fishermans Headquarters (Since 1962, The Saltwater Fishing Bait & Tackle Experts) Greg is daily immersed in fishing. He is the Chief Contributor of FishingLBI.com (Long Beach Island's best fishing report blog) as well as the Admin for the shop's social media pages (on Instagram and Facebook). Be sure to follow!

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