Rack & Fin Radio

The statewide September Canada goose season will commence Wednesday, September 1, and run through Thursday, September 30.

Seventeen days and counting until the opening of the early archery (bow) season for New Jersey’s premier big game animal Saturday, September 11.

Welcome to late summer fishing for snapper blues, the progeny offspring of adult bluefish that arrived in New Jersey coastal waters back in April and May before migrating northward.

When it comes to fun and easy fishing (95% of the time), and superlative dining afterward, it’s impossible to beat the northern puffer, aka “blowfish”.

The blues showing now, 1.5-5 pound marauders that are often referred to, predicated on size, as “tailors”, “cocktails” or “teenagers”.

There are keepers to be had and, when putting in the time, well, maxing out is more than possible.

Perch will be frequenting the same areas they did during the spring bite, and now they’ll be on the chew during both phases of the tide.

Cownose rays, bullnose rays and spiny butterfly rays. These are the rays along the south Jersey shore that provide hot, hard fighting fishing even though catching them is a distraction when targeting summer flounder or, from the beaches and bulkheads, sharks, namely small threshers and hammerheads, and jumbo smooth dogs.

Scattered reports of the yellowfin tuna bite transitioning to the chunk were verified yesterday not only via phone calls and texts, but also when stopping at several tackle shops.

Triggerfish have arrived in big numbers along the south Jersey shore’s jetties, bridge abutments, rock piles, wrecks, reefs, just about anywhere there’s submerged structure, you’ll find these toothsome bait grabbers.