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Prime Time for Pickerel in South Jersey
Lost in the sauce on the springtime freshwater fishing platter is the chain pickerel (not to be confused with its much smaller kin, the redfin pickerel), and this aquatic assassin certainly demands attention for its savagery, gameness and willingness to strike lures and inhale live baits (minnows/shiners) with suicidal abandon. It’s especially active from early spring well into June, and it seems the feed bag is always on.
All these plus, in south Jersey, it can be found just about anywhere, including the acidic rivers, streams and bogs in the Pine Barrens.
Striper Bite Heating Up
March roared in like lion, and with it a slow first week and weekend of the striped bass season in the back bays and rivers. However, the bite has been slowly accelerating on a daily basis. With the latter part of this week’s warming trend and spike in water temperatures, it’s expected that the action could pop significantly by this weekend. Sure, the weather will cool again with the near omnipresent easterly shore breezes, but figure this weekend to be the kick off of the early spring river and back bay bass fisheries.
“Once you get a few days of warm weather, and if the sun stays strong even if the temperatures get chilly again, well, the bass are going to be actively feeding,” says Capt. Dave Showell from Absecon Bay Sportsman Center, a 36-year veteran of the river and bay striper scenes.
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