Only-One By: Steve

      Last night I capped a fifth day of fishing for the week, four of those were spent on Barnegat. I'm not going into details of every move since it just adds up to a lot of paddling around and one striped bass caught, and I want to get this post up and get back to fishing since I've got time now and that's the best time to fish. Water was under fifty degrees fahrenheit in the sedges throughout most of the week, days were cool, nights were cold. Low tides were extremely low the first half of the week.

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     I talked to many of the April regulars who fish the sodbanks by the kayak launch with lures and flies. It seemed someone told them all there was a hot bite going on but no one seemed to be doing much, fish may move in waves and with certain tides, and I've definitely found April fishing in this area to go quiet just when you think it would do something else.

Trash bag

      I guess if some resident fish are around the sedges they are active in short bursts, better action is probably somewhere else in the bay where the water is a little warmer, which is where I'm going to go next. I think it's a bit early to expect much of a bite in this specific area, but that can always change in a tide, as I write this the water temps have probably already jumped up a few degrees, and I've talked to other anglers who have done well not far away.

The outer sod islands are almost gone

           I didn't fill a bag of trash every day but still got one for the week, you don't have to bring your own trash bags to pick up out here, plastic bags are easily found among the other garbage washed up into the grass. 

Very low water for this area