Porgies In May

[Angler Paul]

Originally Posted by teddysclaw

I heard our seabass season is going to be shortened this year, so I was unsure if we would be able to target them in May or not. I didn't know that Porgy wouldn't be open in NJ this year. Thought they were opening it year round starting this spring, my bad. NJ is kind of in limbo with regards to regulations, so with a tentative target date of May 20th, I didnt' want to book a charter, and end up only being able to fish for ling. Thanks for the info guys, looks like I'll hit up the porgies in the Sound. And thanks for the recommendation on the boats Capt Lou,but thats way too far of a drive for us.

Porgies will be open year-round as soon as the NJMFC votes to do that, most likely at their meeting on 3/15. We are also likely to be able to liberalize our sea bass regulations but we will have to wait and see if the ASMFC accepts our methodology at their meeting on 3/20. All this and more was explained in my post "Important Fluke and Sea Bass Regulation Update".
Paul Haertel
JCAA Board Member/Past President