The big news in this week’s New Jersey, Delaware Bay video fishing forecast is Wednesday’s decision at the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASFMC) to take renewed regulatory action on striped bass starting in 2025. We have all the gory details from the six-hour ASMFC meeting as we’re facing yet another round of cutbacks in the striped bass fishery in the year ahead with reductions of up to 15%. We kick off this week’s video by looking at this stage of the fall striper run and where/how some of the best local catches are coming, followed by a rundown on the November edition of The Fisherman, fall blackfish at the Jersey Shore with Jenni and friends, and another new wave of exotics in the mix with porgies and sea bass. An update on the fall trout stocking in New Jersey with our weekly freshwater rundown with the Pocono Outdoors Guy, but the breaking ASMFC news on striped bass comes in at the 21-minute mark of this week’s report. If you thought this presidential election was divisive, just wait until December when ASMFC convenes their striped bass management board for a final decision for ‘25.
