LBI Fishing Report 10/23/24

Here’s the Wednesday morning October 23, 2024 fishing report updates for the Long Beach Island area. With the low tide incoming, there’s a small but powerful swell lingering on the beaches in the 2′ range. Yesterday there was significantly more energy breaking on the sand bars, all of it from the weekend’s offshore low pressure system which gave us big surf this past weekend; Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

What’s Biting At Long Beach Island?

Since the Full Moon last week, the surf side fishing action on LBI has been on the slower side. We had active blues as well as pockets of kingfish, both of which surf anglers were catching. However things changed. Saturday’s American Angler surf fishing tournament was dismal. The sold out event had strong participation BUT the 6’++ surf made for very rough conditions. The waters were full of seaweed making it nearly unfishable. No score-able fish were entered.

1:07:00 – But here’s good news on the surf side… Some striped bass were caught by anglers plugging the surf. It’s that time of year! Shop regulars Chris Masino and Greg Davis both caught some linesiders in the surf this week. It’s great to see some fish are around in the suds. With the abundance of bait (sand eels, peanut bunker, snappers, bay anchovies, +) in the area, new arrivals with stripes can’t get here soon enough!

1:33:00 – The water temperature on the LBI surf is right around 60-62º. With the recent warmer weather we have a little bounce off the recent lows, but for the most part there is a downward trend.

I got out and did some awesome fishing here the last couple days. Last night I got out and fished for a few hours. It was slow but we managed three bites with one bass.

Both Monday and Tuesday were beautiful days with light winds and a spaced out longer period groundswell.

2:49:00 – Monday I had Chef Tom and his wife aboard for some wreck fishing. We ran out to 80′ of water and had good sea bass and porgy fishing on clam, squid and sand fleas. We caught a good cooler full of fish they both had sore arms so the mission was a success. They brought home the groceries and had fun.

3:20:00 – The Barnegat Bay and Manahawkin Bay has striped bass to target. Store staffer Emmet, Frezza and Paul are catching. Also Paul ran up north and got into that Monmouth County striped bass bite that’s rolling on up there for a couple weeks now. Hopefully those fish start sliding down. We’ll see how that goes. The stage is set as we have a lot of bait in the area. We haven’t had bunker in the shop fresh or mullet because the mullet runs sort of fading out.

We hope to have a delivery of fresh bunker later today. There’s a lot of sandals stretch along the central and northern Jersey coast. Take a look at a post I just threw up on Instagram just the other morning…

5:00:00 – The #1 best fishing opportunity right now for land based anglers fishing LBI is TAUTOG! Fish the inlet rocks with green crabs and sand fleas a have fun catching.

6:09:00 – LBI Beach Replenishment Short Update – Currently at Holyoke Ave and they will be working down that way for the rest of this month and November.

7:24:00 – Barnegat Inlet Dredge Project – Army Corp Engineers are currently working on Barnegat Inlet. To communicate with the dredge use VHF13.

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