SW wind has the tide blown out we were unable to pull 3 boats scheduled for today due to low tide..pic attached.

 

OPPPPPPPS! lol

 

I guess it'll have to wait til monday!

Looks like they could use a little dredging

I've worked on boats at this marina. I have never seen it this bad before, that is pretty wild. This area is so bad for greenheads and nats in the summertime, you pull up in your van and there would be 20 or 30 greenheads bouncing off the outside of the windows trying to get at you, and by the time you are done working on the boat there is usually 30 or 40 dead GHs all over the deck, it's a mess. Nice shot of the old fish factory Tony.

thank's sonman, you are conservative on the green heads, this is where they breed and i think they are protecting their young when you get out of the safe haven of your car!!!

 

when are you coming to brick again?

I figured I was being conservative on the greenhead count, I didn't want to blow it out of proportion.

 

I will try to come to Brick after the holidays are over.

the worst place i ever been for green heads was the maurice river in dennis twp cape may county.. I literaly ran from the customers boat back to the truck.. it was an unfair fight..

Hopefully, low tide plus freezing temperatures = lotsa dead greenies

Hopefully, low tide plus freezing temperatures = lotsa dead greenies

let's hope for a 4 week freeze to kill a lot of annoying insects.

Went up the Mullica River years ago to eat at the Sweetwater Casino (before it burned down) and the whole Bimini Top was covered in Green Heads. We were covered in Skin So Soft so they were not biting but it was still awful!

whats a greenhead? =) for us non boating folks.

NJ's official state bird.

whats a greenhead? =) for us non boating folks.

 

The nastiest biting fly in NJ that's what. When they bite it feels like they take a chunk of skin with them.

+100 Then the bite swells and itches like crazy! Worse than 100 mosquito bites!

rutgers on the greenhead.

 

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/greenheads.htm

 

http://www.greenheadfly.com/Greenhead.html

whats a greenhead? =) for us non boating folks.

We call them mini Pterodactyls.

whats a greenhead? =) for us non boating folks.

 

Half the size of a horsefly, big green head, bite stings like a mofo.

 

Our houseboat is at the dock in New Gretna and when the wind is coming in from Great Bay...it's a nice pleasant breeze. You can have a great evening smoking a Cigar and watching the sunset.

 

When there's no wind, you're under cover as billions of little flying green zombie pecker woods are after your blood.

The water was low enough for me to go out and do some work in the pond, reenforcing the undercut bank but don't tell the DEP.

 

We hunt greenheads on the boat. They are fast enough that you have to knock them down and then get them while they are stunned on the deck.

The water was low enough for me to go out and do some work in the pond, reenforcing the undercut bank but don't tell the DEP.

 

We hunt greenheads on the boat. They are fast enough that you have to knock them down and then get them while they are stunned on the deck.

 

We use slightly wet washcloth sized towels to whack the sh!t out of them.

Inglorious Basterds! Back on topic a bit, Tony, did the water ever blow back in? I could not believe how high and dry those boats were. How much water is there normally in that area, it does not seem like there could be very much.

pulled the boat out today, the tide was in.. tide was about 5' below normal and was out all day saturday.

So what number shot are we recommending for greenheads? :mrgreen:

Wow, 5 feet? We only get about 5 inches of tide normally in Brick and Toms River