August 20th, 2026 New Jersey/Delaware Bay Fishing Report with Jim Hutchinson, Jr.
It's Thursday morning, August 20th, and we're looking at a bit of rain at the Jersey Shore later this afternoon; clearer skies in the Friday forecast, but the weather prognosticators have us down for another bout of showers on Saturday. Grab a light set of oilskins for the weekend, because other that a few drops of rain the sailing conditions look pretty solid overall. We kick off the week with a look at inshore and surf species on tap for the weekend, leading into (10:55) an update on the Dream Boat leaderboard with yet another NJ entry. A look at this week's digital edition reports for the north, central and south regions (14:15) as compiled by our team of field editors here at The Fisherman, along with the latest intel from the offshore grounds (20:25) with the team from Canyon Runner and our weekly freshwater update (26:40) from the Pocono Outdoors Guy. Finally this week (30:25) the town of Bay Head in Ocean County has officially banned the use of drones for bait deployment from that town's beaches; a look at what comes next in this summer-long shark debate. Subscribe https://www.thefisherman.com/subscribe/ E-News https://www.thefisherman.com/e-news-signup/ Events Calendar https://www.thefisherman.com/events/ Podcast https://www.thefisherman.com/article-categories/podcast/ Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/033CXL52Ign64MzZQfKVUw iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fishermans-next-cast-weekly-podcast/id6783036221 #thefishermanmag #thefishermanmagazine
