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Scott's Fishing Bulletin
November 8, 1996

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White Perch

The White Perch are back in the mouth of Mullica River again this week. It is hard to say why they come and go. Many times it seems that they are effected by the amount of fresh water flowing down the river from good quantities of rain. Last week, they were chased by pods of three pound bluefish that came and went. Fishing was real good for many anglers which meant they had several hours of fish cleaning to do. The Perch are plentiful enough for the anglers to throw back any fish that are not large enough to fillet. Top & bottom rigs with small #4 gold hooks are a good rig choice. Four hook Herring rigs worked well and provided reports of some triple headers. The bait of choice is still Bloodworms. As the water cools, the Perch start to change over to a preference for the live grass shrimp bait. The White Perch are best fished at anchor. It is necessary to search for perch on small bottom changes in the mouth of the Mullica River between Deep Point and Oyster Bed Point. Locating fish on the fish finders is 90% of the battle to be successful at catching Perch. The Perch also have had a feeding pattern this week. The best bite was during faster moving tidal currents. This means that they were caught on the incoming as well as the outgoing tides. The two hours of the slacker moving tides were not very productive.

Striped Bass

Wow! A very good week of catching Striped Bass here in Little Egg Inlet. There were many periods of a good fish bite. Key time periods were at sun up, sun down and the last hour of the outgoing tide. Drifting live eels is still the right thing to do in the inlet. There is much talk about using bunker chunks, but this is best done from the surf or from boats that anchor and cast into the rough breaking waves of the inlet. This is not recommended by me, for it is a very dangerous thing to do. There are a lot of precautions to take with special anchoring methods and quick escapes from that one wave in a thousand. Just ask the guy who had his boat flipped last weekend. I am sure he will fill you in. As to the hot spot, it was "G" buoy. Many fish were caught in this area this week. It seems that the fish have moved away from the banks in front of the old Coast Guard Station and the stretch of bank near 118 to 120 buoys out into open water.

Bait

It has come to my attention that many anglers are struggling to find bait or are worried about when and where they can get it. I will do my best to keep Bloodworms, live Grass Shrimp, Green Crabs, Minnows, Night Crawlers and of course Eels right on through the winter. We also will keep our selection of frozen baits well stocked. The store will be open every day of the year to serve that fishing fanatic who likes to cut holes in the ice, or for some reason has to fill in a day of fishing because he was too ill to make it into work.

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