We’re heading into the very first weekend of October ‘24, and weather-wise it’s lining up a lot like it did in October of ’22 and ’23 as days upon weeks of E/NE winds finally laid down with W/NW winds kicking our fall striper run into hyperdrive. So, will the season’s first buffalo stampede occur during the first weekend of October, just as it has in years prior? Jetty jocks are catching tautog, and whole lot of exotics seem to have gathered in tight to shore from this onshore onslaught of easterly winds; we’re back in black sea bass this week for the month of October which opens up new Dream Boat opportunities for The Fisherman subscribers, and there’s a pending IGFA blowfish record (or two) from Barnegat Bay in this week’s report. Get our weekly freshwater rundown with the Pocono Outdoors Guy, Open Boat tips with Jenni on gearing up for fall, and a sneak peek inside Viking Yachts on the Bass River in South Jersey as a new 74-foot masterpiece is splashed.
