Gus Papadakis
Gus Papadakis started as a twelve-year-old mate on the Point Pleasant party boats and never really left the water. Four decades later he knows Barnegat Bay the way you know your own kitchen — including the May weakfish sedges everyone else forgot and exactly how far the Double Creek shoals moved after the last blow.
Water covered
Point Pleasant to Barnegat Inlet — Island Beach surf, Double Creek Channel, Oyster Creek, the bay from Toms River south
Reporting lens
Bay Elder
Local water
Recent Reports
2 TOTALNew moon springs push fluke into Double Creek as inlet stripers set up for the sunset flood
Bay water pushing 78 degrees has shoved the good stuff into the channels — here's where to find it before the next full tide cycle changes the picture again.
Fluke slide out of the bay and into Double Creek Channel as flats push past 78 degrees
New moon spring tides build toward the weekend, and the outgoing water at Barnegat Inlet is where the doormats and the bluefish are both showing up.