This is the year’s final Delaware Bay Report!

<b>Port Elizabeth</b>

<b>The Girls Place Bait & Tackle</b> will be open through Sunday and closed afterward for a winter break, Sharon said. Sometimes the shop is open somewhat later in the year, but business is slowing down, including because of weather, like the nor’easter today. Little was heard about striped bass boated from the bay, except about some from far south in the bay, toward the ocean. But reports were heard about a few sizable stripers that supposedly appeared in the ocean surf.  The shop’s bunker netter mentioned some. Good-sized stripers continued to be boated from the ocean, apparently, like before. Any quality stripers in the surf seemed to be some of those stripers. Fresh bunker, the popular bait for striper fishing on the bay, was difficult to obtain, and demand for the bait dropped off. The bunker was stocked Thursday, and some, not all, was sold afterward. Fresh bunker will probably no longer be stocked at the shop this year, because of demand. But baits stocked include eels, green crabs and even a few minnows. Sharon thanks customers very much for the year’s business, and the store will be reopened toward spring. The Girls Place, located on Route 47, just after Route 55 ends, carries a large supply of bait and tackle, and is the long, one-story, yellow building on the right. It’s on the way to the bay.

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