February 20th, 2025 New Jersey/Delaware Bay Fishing Report with Jim Hutchinson, Jr.

We are 9 days out from the start of winter flounder and outback stripers in the Garden State; thank God, February is almost over! As we head down the homestretch and barreling ahead towards spring, now's the time to gear up; we've got several local sales events coming up to tell you about in this week's full video fishing forecast. This weekend (4:09) ahead, the final full weekend of February, it's cod, pollock, ling, porgies and a few blackfish on the head boats heading east, primarily white perch back onshore in the local rivers and creeks. Many viewers and Fisherman readers (7:26) are reporting back on the open water opportunities with trout, although our Open Boat maven Jenni Ackerman (8:40) joined Saltwater Underground's Nick Honachefsky recently for some ice action in Northwest New Jersey where many believe the hardwater season will continue into March. Back at Fishermen's Source (19:20) we're back in the rod section and looking ahead at some of the events for the weekend ahead and more reader images shared in recent days. Finally, we're stuffing fish sausages again (27:07) in the closing minutes of this week's video with a meeting on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 to review plans to break our recreational fishing sector into separate pieces.

Or perhaps, as Benjamin Franklin put it, “we must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” See the full story on "sector separation" at https://www.thefisherman.com/25-publi...