The bluefish that were around over the weekend and Monday, are now pretty spotty at best, very few being caught in either place. Blackfish are biting on moving water, I watched a friend of mine take 4 in an hour from 15 to 19 1/2 inches on crab, at the north end of the canal yesterday afternoon(just in time to keep a limit of 4 till November).
The south end of the canal by the condos has stripers, mostly shorts, but a few keepers are being taken. Bluefish are in the mix also. Liveling herring, trolling or casting tsunami shad, and ping fin-s are working for the stripers, but that to is also spotty. I saw a guy take a keeper in a small boat yesterday morning at the south end of the canal livelining a herring, and a few guys cleaned up on short stripers at the Lovelandtown Bridge on pink fin-s the other night.
This morning, I had clam down on a bait rod, casting a shad, several other guys doing the same, and 2 boats livelining herring, and not a thing was caught at the south end of the canal by the condos.
Water is still on the cold side, it's going down to 40 at night, which isn't helping warm up the bay and river.
I have not heard of a weakfish caught in the canal yet, and I've been watching and fishing for them, just doesn't seem as they have arrived yet, despite being in Southern Barnegat bay and some in the Sandy Hook Bay area.
Garry