Water temps back of the bay yesterday hit 40. I was out and about. Its cold, the stripers dont care its all about those temps. fri, sat, sun air temps will be 45-60. By monday or tues we should be into some nice fish.
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Water temps back of the bay yesterday hit 40. I was out and about. Its cold, the stripers dont care its all about those temps. fri, sat, sun air temps will be 45-60. By monday or tues we should be into some nice fish.
Agree ledhead. 46 today guys it's on!:headbang:
Spot on its time to fish. Noaa is reporting 46.5 at sandy hook and uscgs is reporting 44 so far at the back of the bay in keansburg. That is great news temperatures above 42 for 3 days in a row. Finally
^^^^^ Even a stopped clock is right twice a day hookedonbass. The water temps reached 48 in the afternoon yesterday. We were out and got blanked, go figure. Today it is trending down again. Need more sun.
53 degrees at the back of the bay this afternoon woo hoo!
Hey fellas it went to a low of 49 this morning and is already back up at 53. Seems pretty positive.
If you use the NOAA website click on the temp for an area then click on station info. It has a map showing where the temp is actually taken. Sandy Hook and Cape May are in the bay. The only real surf temp is Atlantic City which is on the steel pier.
Thanks homer.
Back to the ice age temps of march. From a high of 56 yesterday it was 41 this morning for keyport. 15 degrees is too much for the fish to take in one day this will def put a kibosh on the activity.
in keansburg it went from 54 to 45. time for stinky smelly clams an bunker chunks!
It's time to start the temperature countdown again. Raritan bay temps dropped 10 degrees in the last 3 days from 78 to 68 this morning. We need things to clean up a bit and them just maybe there will be some fish.
rb temps are down to 65 boys game on.
update - over the weekend they spiked back up again with the sunny days. We need those temps to stay in the mid to lower 60 degree range for a solid bass bite. I have been fishing for bass now but it is tough.
Just a heads up the bay temps went down to 51 last nite and have been in the mid 50s all week with the strong northwest winds. its only a matter of time before all the bait from the back will be in the ocean and with fish blasting on it. We got some small bass last night but I may be switching to the ocean soon.
We were catching some small bass and then the bay temps dropped like a stone. Hovering in the 50's for a few few days and in last 2 nights dropped to 45. Beginning of the end for the bay bite. Just my .02
Temps dropped further. This morning they hit 40 in the back of the RB. There were bunker in the channels and the boats were hammering the bass a short ride from port. I would say within the next 48 hours a lot of those bunker and bass will come out of the bay and hit the surf side. Blitz city bring your binocs lol.
Well its getting a lil better lads. Temps around sandy hook are up to the 38 degree range. I have seen some listed in the ocean for monmouth county for around 41. The temps at the back of the rb have been trending to around 41-42 end of day. Another 2 weeks and it should be prime time
cowherd ledhead and others thanks so much for keeping us informed with this thread. Its the first thing I look for in the early season. I noticed other sites have recently started doing the temperature readings and you started this way back in 2011. Guess imitation is the best form of flattery. Keep up the good work and thanks!
You are welcome man. These guys here have taught me so much so I just thought I would start some threads to give back. good luck to you and I hope we see some fish soon!
Just read this on the net.
"The end of the incoming in the Manasquan River this AM dropped the temp guage on our boat to 44.5 deg."
thats pretty cold.
I saw that at the monitor in keansburg the water tempure was around 64. If the ocean temperature is only around 44 or 45? thats a difference of about 20 degrees. I hope this doesn't sound stupid but to me it seems like a big difference. does anyone think that could be having an impact on the overall fishing as well?
Figured I would jump start this thread with some readings. Its still very hot in the back of the bay. The daily water temps have been up to 80 degrees in the back bay. The good news is that over the last week the morning temps are starting to go down. In some cases they dropped to 72 degrees when I took the readings. I was near belmar the other day and took a ocean reading it was around 72. So the bay has a little ways to go yet before the action gets better. The drops in the past week are better than nothing though. We should start seeing some decent stripers soon. There is too much bait for them not to come back there.
Temperatures in the ocean have gone down to 66 degrees. anyone else think when this bad weather stops the ocean will be alive with bait, stripers, and blues?
Hopefully this storm didn't push them out of the bays and flying south I've seen it happen before in the heyday when there was allot more fish:scared:
Usually around Saint Patrick's day the bay starts to empty which is next week I hope I'm wrong but this storm is not good especially after last week it's been NE for 2 weeks NW is what makes for a good fall
Try Glenlivet next time it is a lot smoother than cat in the hat beer.:HappyWave:
Ocean temperatures are almost perfect. Last night I took a reading of 66 degrees. Striper time.
Even better than that the temps are now in the zone. Ocean is 59. The bay temps have been hovering in the 50's. One bad set of days was around the 18th when temps plummetted over 15 degrees in one night with that cold northwest wind. Went from over 60 to 45 in one night and gave some of the fish lockjaw. This week they have been in the mid 50s perfect striper water. The problem is not too many fish are here.
They are showing 51 degrees for monmouth and ocean county. I think it was like 50 last week. This noreaster should make it even warmer we may get to 52. Very warm for so late in the year. Hope after the rains some bass will still be around.
Saw this from the NWS- what a december to remember
"Warmest December on Record!
The monthly average at the Philadelphia International Airport was 51.2 degrees for December 2015, the next warmest was December 1923 which averaged 44.5 degrees.
Additionally, the December 2015 Monthly Average High Temperature was 58.2 degrees in Philadelphia. This also breaks the previous record of 51.0 degrees, which occurred back in 1889.
Finally, the month of December showed 13 days of temperatures which reached 60 degrees or higher. This exceeds the most number of 60 degree days in December prior to this year which was 8 in 1951 and 1998."
Last I saw the ocean temperatures were 42. Great for blackfishing n cod slow for many others.
Took a walk along the surf in MC this morning. Would say that is about right.
Have been taking a few morning and afternoon walks. Still getting readings around 40-41.
Temps are trending up this week in the bay folks. Just took a reading of 49. Won't be long now before it's mayhem.
No worries it did cause me to think you were slightly plastered when posting tho.:HappyWave: