Sea Bass Update 3/5/13

[Angler Paul]

Doug, you are mistaken. There was talk of closing the season but it never happened. Here are last year's sea bass seasons for New Jersey.

Open season: May 19 - Sept.3
Sept.23 - Oct.14
Nov.1 - Dec.31

We closed for 19 days (9/4-9/22) so that we would have something to fish for after fluke season ended on 9/28. We chose to close from 10/15 - 10/31 because federal waters are closed then. There were some who wanted to give up November and December so that we could have more days during the earlier part of the season. As Tony previoulsy explained far less fish are caught at certain times of the year. If we gave up all of October and November we would have only gained 5 or 6 days to use during September.