
Heading into this third full weekend of January, the best bet remains tautog, cod, pollock, ling and jumbo porgies on the head boats and charters still running, or white perch out back in open water. Rumor of a few stripers out inside the line, but nothing of course like you’ll see in Jenni’s Open Boat spotlight this week. Ice conditions are improving quickly in the deep freeze, as you’ll see in our weekly update with the Pocono Outdoors Guy beside the ice at Beltzville reservoir, plus a look at indoor events in South Jersey and Pennsy on Saturday and Sunday. The big news comes in the final 12 minutes of this week’s forecast as we break down the offseason management discussions, with a big announcement from the FED on their coastal speed limit proposal, plus a rather frightening new coastal access from DEP and a call for fisheries reform at MAFMC.