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.

Wild turkey counts are stable statewide with the estimated population at 23,000 birds.

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.

Ludlam’s Bay is on fire as you read this with other areas igniting as the tides change.

The “why” of the problem remains a puzzle. As recently as last weekend green crabs were in decent supply.

Feel like a road trip? Then head west to experience an on fire fishery that’s occurring on the Delaware River from Trenton north to Worthington State Forest in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

In addition to the Mullica River (Crowley’s Landing and upriver), some top pickerel waters include Lake Lenape, Tuckahoe Lake, the Stafford Forge WMA ponds, Batsto Lake, the upper Tuckahoe River, and many more.