A veteran New Jersey fisherman is looking to make his sport accessible to anyone with his new Discovery Channel show "Saltwater Underground with Nick Honachefsky." It's shot completely in his home state and features many South Jersey angling destinations like Sea Isle City and Barnegat down the shore and inland spots like the Mullica River. Honachefsky and his guest on the episode airing tomorrow is Dean Ween, guitarist of the New Hope band Ween.
Tide Runner Weakfish Showing in South Jersey Swims
Short and sweet. Fast and furious. Snooze you lose.
So describes the brief-but-full blast and then gone arrival-and-departure of big weakfish along the southern New Jersey coast’s bays and ICW.
“Oh, man, they (big weakfish) are here and they are snapping,” observed Capt. Al Crudele III from Bayhound Charters based in Sea Isle City, adding, “but they won’t be hanging around for long. A couple of weeks at most before they head north. The time to catch them is now,” he emphasized.
Indeed, from behind Cape May up into Great Egg Harbor Bay and, by the time you read this, behind Atlantic City, the tide runners will be on the move, chowing and spawning as they move towards their Barnegat Bay and Raritan Bay haunts, and then farther up the coast to Long Island and beyond.