The striped bass bite has steadily improved with some nice fish beginning to be caught in the backwaters and close to the inlets

I hope most of the readership was able to get out on the water for the opening of sea bass last week because the fishing was off the hook.

Today is the big day as anglers are allowed to target black sea bass with the season running until October 31 with a 10-fish bag limit.

If you live or frequent the Jersey shore, then you know that October and November are two of the greatest months with less crowds, good temperatures, and lots of fish to target.

We had a tough week on the ocean with large swells caused by a “very” active Atlantic and several tropical systems generated big waves and higher than normal tides for most of South Jersey.

With wind in the forecast for the weekend, it will be a great time to hit the rocks for keeper tog.

If the weather doesn’t cooperate this weekend, the best bet will be to fish the local jetties for tog, sheepshead, or triggerfish.

We had some winds and swell this past week which made it difficult for the offshore anglers to venture out for yellowfin.

The fluke bite rebounded with some nice keepers being landed at most of our South Jersey reef sites.

With fluke, sheepshead and tog all on the feed again, the best bet for this weekend will be wrecks and reef sites as ocean fishing rebounds after the past week’s blow slowed the bite.