NJ vis

[OysterToadFish]

Went diving yesterday and had 20ft vis, could see the bottom in 25feet of water, could see the fish swimming on the bottom...Shot a nice 5#tog.. Going today to check again I will keep info on this thread.

[spearman21]

Thats great about time someone gets good vis here in N.J.... keep us updated........

[jriggs]

YEEEEEHAW!!!!!:cowboy:

fire up the boat.....i'm heading to the beach this weekend!!!!!!!

bring the fishies!!!!!:gun:

i may have to sneak outta my office early 2morow :bolt:

[spearman21]

Hey jriggs are u hitting the inlet this weekend or wreck?

[jriggs]

going out in the boat......not sure where yet?

all depends on how much vis there is. if there really is 20' i'll take the 50" mojo and then i can work some deeper water.

otherwise we'll work the jetties, piers, and maybe some bouys if i can talk Tim into heading out a few miles.

[spearman21]

sweet....I think maybe I will try shark river or manuasquan

[jriggs]

my buddies could throw me overboard and i wouldn't care where i was....as long as i get into the water with my speargun i'll be just fine:thumps:

we're going to test some different areas around cape may and see what we can stir up. i'm just happy cause we're heading up to Newport in a few weeks and i wanted to get into the water before then to test out a few changes i made to my Wong Northeaster.....plus i haven't shot that mojo stick yet and i've been dying to get some practice with it.

T minus 64 hours till i'm in the water!!!!!!

[spearman21]

Wow Cape May u guys are really down south.....Yes I hear ya.lol....Hey jriggs what do u think of the Wong North easter......?

[jriggs]

love it......couldn't hit the sand with it when i first got it.....then i realized the shaft was bent:rolleyes: should be good to go now.....that's why i wanna get it back in the water.

has a lot more power and range than my Omer (but the Omer will always be my favorite gun handsdown...it's really light and quick to aim)

if vis is around 6-8 feet it's my Omer all the way. i've also spent the better part of 2 hours in the pool with my Omer with a target practicing....i guess that's why i feel so comfortable with it. i'm sure the Wong will shoot great once i get more time on the trigger.

[spearman21]

I hear ya I might get a wong as my next gun something that i could probally use here in jersey but versatile enough to use in blue water too.....Daryl is a great person to talk to and really knows his stuff.....

[jriggs]

hhhmmmm.......sounds like you need his 50" titanium mid handle hybrid with the semi enclosed track:thumps:

part # H-SEMHT50 :)

[tm999xxx]

where did you go? I was in the squan on tues and only had like 5 to 8 at best... I was a little early though

[spearman21]

hhhmmmm.......sounds like you need his 50" titanium mid handle hybrid with the semi enclosed track:thumps:

part # H-SEMHT50 :)




Time to save some more pennies........lol:thumps:

[kill em all]

ill bet anything that the tog u killed was a boy based on your sexuality

[jriggs]

:crazy: :tool: :stupid:

[fishfan]

:confused: wtf kind of comment was that??? put the crack pipe down and step away.

[jriggs]

don't sweat it fishfan.......all of his comments are that kind of BS.

he's was probably weened off his mothers tit a little too early:cool:

[fishfan]

I just don't get it.......
Anyway, us PA boys have to stick together!!!
Looks like I may try OC Maryland this weekend. Anybody know what the viz has been like? Not bringing the boat this trip, so looks like inlet diving it will be.

[spearman21]

wtf..........is up with this dude...I dont think he believes any of the crap that spits out of his porta-potty mouth.....keep the bs to yourself buddy if your miserable see a shrink.......

[OysterToadFish]

Yeah the vis was 20ft in shark river no bulshit! I was there at slack high tide.. Saw so many diff species, could see the bottom from the top of the bridge, I threw this thread up in like 2 seconds just to get it out there but didnt have time to elaborate.. The vis in shark river was by far the best i have seen it yet. [I] could see the fish on the bottom before i even dove.I was out yesterday in manasquan and the vis was like 10ft when we got there, then turned to shit once the head boats started rolling in.. There was alot of blackfish could have killed a few around the 5#range but decided just to spectate.. My friend shot a sheaphead in the inlet..I was out fishing in the ocean today{friday} and could see the ancorline down about 15ft so im thinking the vis is still good.. Anyhows diving in the inlets on weekends is a waste of time if u ask me to much boat traffik Go dive the beaches..

Nj divers watch out for CO officer dickhead!!! Some skiney blond dick of a conservation officer gave me and 2 of my dive buddies tickets for not having flags out when we were in the water, I mean we all have flags just didnt have them in.. The CO was by far the biggest dickhead cop ive ever encounterd in my life.. 49$ticket payable to Avon twp.. God how bad does that suck!

[33fish33]

Im heading to the cape may inlet jetty sunday. I've gone the last 3 sundays and hit bad vis, so lets hoep my luck has changed!

[spearman21]

Yeah the vis was 20ft in shark river no bulshit! I was there at slack high tide.. Saw so many diff species, could see the bottom from the top of the bridge, I threw this thread up in like 2 seconds just to get it out there but didnt have time to elaborate.. The vis in shark river was by far the best i have seen it yet. [I] could see the fish on the bottom before i even dove.I was out yesterday in manasquan and the vis was like 10ft when we got there, then turned to shit once the head boats started rolling in.. There was alot of blackfish could have killed a few around the 5#range but decided just to spectate.. My friend shot a sheaphead in the inlet..I was out fishing in the ocean today{friday} and could see the ancorline down about 15ft so im thinking the vis is still good.. Anyhows diving in the inlets on weekends is a waste of time if u ask me to much boat traffik Go dive the beaches..

Nj divers watch out for CO officer dickhead!!! Some skiney blond dick of a conservation officer gave me and 2 of my dive buddies tickets for not having flags out when we were in the water, I mean we all have flags just didnt have them in.. The CO was by far the biggest dickhead cop ive ever encounterd in my life.. 49$ticket payable to Avon twp.. God how bad does that suck!

Thats great info about time we get good vis......and thanks for the heads up on officer peckerhead.......will deff have my flag out when i go....

[njspearo]

damn oyster toad fish, that viz sounds sick! I was out at shark river on..monday the 1st viz was pretty good, I would say about 7 to 10ft shot two nice sized tog. hoping to get out tommorow, any body wanna meet up tommorow at shark riv or manasquan?? hey oyster toad what beaches do you dive??

[spearman21]

im game for next saturday either shark river or manasquan

[33fish33]

No viz in cape may today. Seems some growth in the water has ruined vis in this area. Anyone have any luck?

[jriggs]

me and two buddies went out to cape may.......was all pumped up and ready to go.....water didn't look that great on the north side of the cape may inlet....but decided to jump in anyway......couldn't even see my fin tips :D

BUST!!!!!!!!


then we shot up towards wildwood and and headed out to one of the mile marker bouys......jumped in and drifted past......maybe 5 feet of vis at best.


BUST!!!!!!!

so my buddy was like "screw it" we headed back in...dropped off the spearfusing stuff.....grabbed three fishing rods off the big boat....snagged some crabs from the bait shop.....and headed back out. started catching Tog and trigger like they were going out of style!!!!!

JACKPOT!!!!!!!!

we each came home with our 1 Tog fish each....keepers were probably around 5# with one near 6# that Tim caught. the three triggers were all good size!!! so Wednesday night is fish taco night this week :thumps:

chip had one break off as we were lifting it into the boat......had to go 9 to 10lbs minumum!!! he was HUGE!!!!!

we were bummed at first but we stuck with it and made a killer day trip out of crappy vis anyway!!!!!

we must have caught 12-14 tog on tackle....with most in the 12" range....the three we kept i'm guessing we 16-18" with in about 20". it was pretty non-stop. so there are good numbers of fish there.....it'll be nice when the limit bumps up to 8 in November.

[spearman21]

Thats great atleast u made the best of it.....Fish tacos are awesome......lol

[OysterToadFish]

Hell yeah i made tog tacos 2 days ago at like 1 am.. I waa fishing with rod and reel for tog the other day and we proally cought like 40 between the 3 of us... There easy to shoot but hard to catch...

[spearman21]

Hey oyster are you going out this following weekend if weather permits? Maybe we can hook up and spear the shark river or Manasquan.....

[33fish33]

I was out at the end of the cape may inlet jetty (north side) and coud only see the end of my spear. I could hear em though knock-knocken down there, I just coulden't see em.What is with this viz! Can't what though for the colder water and for things to clear up, it will make it that much sweeter when I stone a striper.

[sicrado]

this weekend anybody goin out? waves are gonna be big on friday but NW winds all weekend maybe it will clear things up a bit

[OysterToadFish]

spearman im down to meet up one day and dive. I usually try not to dive on weekends because all the fisherman and boats..But if u wana dive one day i am down...

[spearman21]

cool let me know if during the week and i can start getting sick...cough...cough....lol....

[kill em all]

Oyster Toad Man - keep the ledge free

[jriggs]

temps in NJ are already dropping with the new winds....almost 5 degrees mid state.

if this keeps up we'll have new water and good viz in no time!

on a second note.......

i think you need to lay off the crack pipe Kill em all....i get the feeling there's not many brain cells there to begin with, so you may wanna treat the ones left with some love :D

[spearman21]

oh yeah can't wait.................muaahahahahahahahhaahahaha... .Dr.Evil's laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OysterToadFish]

Ha thats funny... Dont worry brother ima keep the ledge free

:thumps::cool:

[33fish33]

whats it mean, what ledge?

[JJ131]

Were Thinkin About Hittin Up the Wrecks Tomm.And Sunday Whats The Vis Like Out At The Twin Wrecks? or Should We Stay in Shark River/ Oh Yea Also If I Am not Divin With My Buddys In Belmar I Am Going To be Going out In My Boat Next Summer
if Any You Guys Want to go With Let me Know.

I Have A 17ft RIB Avon 75 Hp Mariner With Fishfinder/Chartplotter Will ETC ETC...Divers Welcome Just Split The Fuel Thats It

[spearman21]

Hey jj131 welcome and count me in as a new spearfishing friend I will most likely be in sharkriver this Sun freediving.....I will gladly split fuel costs with ya if ever you would like to go out.on your boat.....How is belmar??? Do you freedive or scuba?

[JJ131]

Ok Let me Explain I Do Both Mor into Scuba I Usually Go With Guys In Belmar Tony/Me And Bruce Come Out Of Lancaster Pa.I Am Preety new To the Whole Spearfishing but My Brothers In NJ Have Been Helping me Out.My Best Friend Who Was Teaching me Was Killed In June At The Hell Divers Comp In New Orleans So I have Been Learning From Tony And Bruce.In Ref To The Boat Me And My Best Friend Have Been Workin On This Boat For A While Its In Awsome Condition It looks Like A Coast guard Boat Cnetr Console Iam just Addin Shit To It/I Would Be Glad To Have Guys Aboard No problem Just Show Me Were To Go..

[OysterToadFish]

Was at the water today and It looked like hell, The wind is blowing at like 20 and the water is brown, I dont know how it will afect the next couple days.. Hopefully it clears up a little....:eek:

[spearman21]

Wow im sorry for your loss......This sport although rewarding is dangerous and has had its toll on many spearfisherman....I myself give the Ocean my upmost respect and never go out if I see its not divable....I really would like to always go out with a partner but its very hard to have a partner around here in Jersey.....So most of the time I end up having to go alone and diving really close to shore........

[JJ131]

Crap that Sucks Hopefully That W Wind Will blow It out We Are Thinkin Squan Inlet Sat Low Tide And Ocean Sunday Keep Posteing

[spearman21]

Was at the water today and It looked like hell, The wind is blowing at like 20 and the water is brown, I dont know how it will afect the next couple days.. Hopefully it clears up a little....:eek:


Sunday supposed to be pretty good with a west wind..to clear things up.....Hopefully the forecast doesn't change....:cool:

[JJ131]

:thumps:Sweet........................

Like I Said Before No Problem You Want to go Out I Will post When iam Going My Buddy Comes Along And All he Does Is Drive the Boat and Stay Aboard Help Its All good

[spearman21]

U got it buddy.........

[JJ131]

You Can Read If You Fo to the Upper Gulph Coast Forum.But the Intel i Got Was He Locked Into A Real Big Fish The Fish Slammed Him Into the Side Of The Oil Rig And Knocked Him Unc.His Dive Computer Read 380 Feet He Was Able To Pull his Weights But there Was Nothing They Could Do.I Will tell you that The Hell Divers Are A Good Bunch of Guys.They took Care of My Buddys Family.

[spearman21]

wow......I dont know if I would ever be able to dive near some oil rigs im a wuss for diving in areas where big sharks are prone to cruise....But it sucks to hear news of another spearfisherman leaving us....Makes me even more cautious.....

[jriggs]

im a wuss for diving in areas where big sharks are prone to cruise

well they say that Tigers love dirty murky water in the mid to high 70's. at least the water here in NJ is............dirty murky and 75 degrees:eek:

note on vis.....a guy i know was in the water yesterday in Cape May.....still sucked! he said there was 1-2 feet at best.

[33fish33]

Hey spearman. I might try to get out sunday. When and were are you headed?

[spearman21]

Shark River Inlet.........

[spearman21]

well they say that Tigers love dirty murky water in the mid to high 70's. at least the water here in NJ is............dirty murky and 75 degrees:eek:

note on vis.....a guy i know was in the water yesterday in Cape May.....still sucked! he said there was 1-2 feet at best.

uh-oh.......:eek:

[bruce_s]

Don't worry about tiger sharks but there are brown sharks aka sandbar sharks that love to come into the shallow water in sept/oct.I was in manasquan inlet a few years ago and had some come past after I had shot some tog.
As a matter of fact that day I had to take a scuba diver back to the point pleasant side because he was harrassed by two sharks on the bottom and wound up surfacing close to me on the manasquan side.Lol I remember his eyes filled out his mask.JJ tomorrows not looking good at this point.Maybe drive down sunday am for high tide.

[33fish33]

The water today near atlantic city was super calm and much colder than it was last weekend:thumps:
I had good viz (10ft at slack high going down to about 3 ft three hours later).
It was strange though, the tog were all holed up. Anyone ever see this behavior during calm water? Maybe they're not used to the cold yet? Saw a few striper, but no takers.

[njspearo]

soo, any one going out to shark rover tommorow for slack high at 930 am??

[sicrado]

nj spearo is that your ride?

[njspearo]

yes sir it is, BTW nice styper in your avatar

[sicrado]

thanks...nice ride i drive a black 93 slc... you ever in lbi or south jersey shore?

[njspearo]

eh not really im more central/north jersey,

[OysterToadFish]

Maybe you guys should kill illegal fish and talk about cars on a different site...

[njspearo]

maybe i will oyster toad fish shit bro chill the f out you fag, your just jelouse that not only do i have a dope ass car but i can out spearyou, leave me alone i made one mistake and you are all getting emotional about it. god get over it

[njspearo]

jriggs, your soo lame man, do you think that im really concerned with a conservation officer comming after me, there is no proof i did anything wrong nor do i think at all that they will trace the plates and come to my house man you are soo stupid!and If you knew even a few things about cars you would probably realize mine is on the doper side. but enough with all this nonsense lets keep things on topic

[jriggs]

oh and to get back on topic.....heard from someone that Cape May was still bad for vis. it seems as though it comes and goes with some tides...but for the most part is no good. hopefully a few more weeks and it'll get better for the most part.

i'm keeping my fingers crossed

[sicrado]

i really hope you aren't talking about the bass in my photo as being illegal...:scratch:...

but anyways.... west wind flat as a lake and still bad vis in sic

[jriggs]

no way.........that fish is SWEEET!!!!!!

[jmik90]

hey spearman21,are you ever going to find a gun you like,why do you want a northeaster?Didnt you just get a mojo stick?A couple months ago you had a rob allen,what happened to that gun?lol,you must be rich.

[OysterToadFish]

:thumps::thumps:I dano how it is in NJ now but in Fla the vis is sick and the water is warm...:lol:

[jmik90]

ill be there in april,i cant wait

[NJ DREW]

did anyone get any fish over the weekend? i went out on sat and the viz sucked the water was about 44.

[jmik90]

no diving but my dad caught this on a wreck last week,it was 10lbs.

[OysterToadFish]

poor lil girl!!

[jmik90]

Little?:confused: By the way what kind of fish are those little ones in your avatar?Not the flounder or triggers but the other ones?

[kill em all]

oystertoadman has got jersey sea bass in his pic and they are about the same size as that girl

[jmik90]

they dont look like sea bass,they look more like cunner,is that a drum in your pic?

[OysterToadFish]

Cunner what the :confused:.... Those are seabass mang :thumps:
Why u posting pics of daddy anyhows:confused:

That is a black drum killem all has and it was 5pounds shy of the spear record..

[jmik90]

i posted it just to show how the rod and reel fishing was going,we need a dive club so we can go to nationals,what do you think?

[apnea_beast]

whats swimming in jersey this time of year besides togs?

[FLETCHOSAURUS]

crabs...your lucky if you can reach toggies this time of yr.
When do you guys predict the 1st run of stripers will be?

[jmik90]

me and my dad caught 40 tog a few weeks ago using heavy weights and crabs on the edge of a wreck,ill post pics tonight

[Cherbub]

Maybe you guys should kill illegal fish and talk about cars on a different site...

I hope a game warden sees that picture looks like you have more than 8 and if that is summer you are only allowed 1 at 14 they also look like a lot of shorts

[jriggs]

cherbub.....aside from one or two good points all you've contributed is a bunch of warning and BS to these threads so far.....read through the COMPLETE thread...and then let us know your thoughts.

[FrickDaddy]

The ... calling the ...... black

[jriggs]

The pot calling the kettle black

Cherub has made a few comments about people shooting more than their limit and then posting pics of it...and has raised flags for no reason...just cause someone has a picture of 20 tog in the boat doesn't mean there wasn't 20 guys there.

i'm just getting tired of it.

and where do you get off saying i'm the same????? i don't assume anything about anyone on this board....and i've NEVER accused someone of breaking the rules unless they admitted that they were.

[jmik90]

[QUOTE=Cherbub;658606]I hope a game warden sees that picture looks like you have more than 8 and if that is summer you are only allowed 1 at 14 they also look like a lot of shorts[/
only one of those is a tog.

[waterman482]

Water is very clear for those of you that are westies!!!

[jriggs]

Water is very clear for those of you that are westies!!!

what are the temps like right now?????

[jmik90]

[QUOTE=jmik90;658782]



If i ever see u in the water im going to stone you with a neck shot!!:lol::lol:

?

[OysterToadFish]

Wow what has happend to this... How is cold ass NJ i am now in fla on the hunt....

[waterman482]

what are the temps like right now?????

Low 40's