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New Jersey Fishing Reefs & Wrecks: Reefs, Rocks, Wrecks, Obstructions, & Fish Havens Inside Sandy Hook & Along the Atlantic Coast (Mid-Atlantic Fishing Reefs)
New Jersey Fishing Reefs & Wrecks: Reefs, Rocks, Wrecks, Obstructions, & Fish Havens Inside Sandy Hook & Along the Atlantic Coast (Mid-Atlantic Fishing Reefs)
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Progressively building knowledge, skills, and abilities through hands-on experience under varying conditions is necessary to learn how, when, and where to fish coastal structure through the range of constantly changing conditions and seasonal patterns. Yet one could spend a lifetime fishing in New Jersey's coastal waters and uncover but a fraction of the bottom structure that provides marine habitat and fishing destinations. Finding hotspots to prospect for fish remains challenging on the open water even with modern sonar technology, especially for those who don’t know where to start looking.
This companion volume to Delaware Bay & River Fishing Reefs (2021) and Tidal Delaware River Wrecks, Reefs, Rocks, & Ruins (2022), with a foreword by recreational fisherman and Editor Jim Hutchinson, Jr., The Fisherman Magazine, is designed for new recreational fishermen looking where to begin. It's also for experienced fishermen seeking to optimize available fishing time and veteran fishers expanding to other fishing grounds.
The Author, a native of New Jersey who grew up in Cape May County, begins the narrative recounting his interview with a U-Boat officer who picked the barrier island for his post-war inn through the periscope of his submarine. He uses online armchair scouting resources and diver guidebooks to jumpstart acquiring local knowledge that would otherwise take years to develop on-the-water. Details cover from the Passaic River through Newark, Raritan, and Lower New York Bays, around Sandy Hook down past Cape May to Cape Henlopen. The Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers are also covered. Boating and fishing safety practices are also featured. He presents not only where to find natural and artificial reefs, wrecks, rocks, ruins, and obstructions, but also details and illustrates what is actually there and provides coordinates. Rediscovery of a cargo ship that was thought removed but still lies on Townsends Inlet outer bar is also presented as is an unpermitted refrigerator reef.
Whether new to fishing or a veteran, fishers will find clusters of hotspots to plan fishing trips around. They will learn about fishing structures which are legacies of U-Boat victims, schooner barges now wrecks, and maritime disasters, and also about the extensive artificial reef system with thousands of individual reefs that didn't exist during the Author's youth. North Coast fishers will benefit from detailed examination of structure legacies from ocean dumping. All this material is filtered through the Author's seven decades of maritime experience to bring a focused technical yet entertaining new look at fishing structure.
This companion volume to Delaware Bay & River Fishing Reefs (2021) and Tidal Delaware River Wrecks, Reefs, Rocks, & Ruins (2022), with a foreword by recreational fisherman and Editor Jim Hutchinson, Jr., The Fisherman Magazine, is designed for new recreational fishermen looking where to begin. It's also for experienced fishermen seeking to optimize available fishing time and veteran fishers expanding to other fishing grounds.
The Author, a native of New Jersey who grew up in Cape May County, begins the narrative recounting his interview with a U-Boat officer who picked the barrier island for his post-war inn through the periscope of his submarine. He uses online armchair scouting resources and diver guidebooks to jumpstart acquiring local knowledge that would otherwise take years to develop on-the-water. Details cover from the Passaic River through Newark, Raritan, and Lower New York Bays, around Sandy Hook down past Cape May to Cape Henlopen. The Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers are also covered. Boating and fishing safety practices are also featured. He presents not only where to find natural and artificial reefs, wrecks, rocks, ruins, and obstructions, but also details and illustrates what is actually there and provides coordinates. Rediscovery of a cargo ship that was thought removed but still lies on Townsends Inlet outer bar is also presented as is an unpermitted refrigerator reef.
Whether new to fishing or a veteran, fishers will find clusters of hotspots to plan fishing trips around. They will learn about fishing structures which are legacies of U-Boat victims, schooner barges now wrecks, and maritime disasters, and also about the extensive artificial reef system with thousands of individual reefs that didn't exist during the Author's youth. North Coast fishers will benefit from detailed examination of structure legacies from ocean dumping. All this material is filtered through the Author's seven decades of maritime experience to bring a focused technical yet entertaining new look at fishing structure.
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