Rack & Fin Radio

The Discover Boating Atlantic City Boat Show in Partnership with Progressive gets underway at noon Wednesday and runs until 6pm Sunday at the Atlantic City Convention Center.

Seems that once the New Year arrives, the majority of thought starts the slow turn to the upcoming salt and freshwater fishing and boating seasons.

Size matters. Most of the time. In the case of the sixth annual Wildwood Fishing & Boating Expo being held this weekend at the Wildwoods Convention Center, it’s relative. Billed as the “Biggest Little Expo in New Jersey”, the two day event has mushroomed into an 80,000 square foot fishing and boating experience. Last year, 4,000 wen...

Numbers are especially strong in the southern tier counties.

And crabbing, for that matter.

Sure, we’ve sighted a few in late March, these being garters and a lone northern pine snake, but suffice to say they are now in full season mode.

Delaware Bay has long been considered the boomer factory.

A crappy name, for sure, but the fact remains that both the black and the white crappie are perhaps the most popular panfish inhabiting Garden State waters.

Short and sweet. Fast and furious. Snooze you lose.

It’s pretty much the same up and down the southern coast from Waretown to the Cape, there's either enough crabs to scratch by this afternoon, or none in the cooler.