To celebrate 30 days until New Jersey’s “outback” striper fishery reopens, we’re out on Route 36 in Hazlet for this week’s report with a sneak peek at a special “Back Bay Day” event at the Tackle Box. During the month of February, there are plenty of weekend events to cure your cabin fever, with fishing flea markets, boat and outdoor shows, and a number of helpful seminars (including Jenni Ackerman) to help dial you into the ’25 action to come. We’ve “commandeered” Ray from Grumpys Tackle to help fly us into another winter month of action, which according to the latest reports in the February edition of The Fisherman include some of the very best ice fishing we’ve seen in the Garden State in nearly a decade. A few head boat options to tell you about, and once again we wrap up this week’s report with a deeper dive into the winter madness and managerial mumbo jumbo; plus the cat’s out of the bag on the drone crisis. Or is it?
