Some years are worse than others, you can try and use a float to keep your bait off the bottom and away from the worst of it. Makes fishing difficult that's for sure.

 

I hope it moves out by the time summer rolls around

 

Was pretty bad out in Tuckerton Bay on Saturday, was very thick on top of the water as well as below

 

when it is thick there is no way to fish around it.
floats don't help and even top water plugs are affected.
it has been coming and going lately in brigantine

 

Worst I've ever seen. Bay is unfishable. :thumbsdown:

 

Definately not the worse I've ever seen. I found plenty of spots with little grass but still couldn't hook up

 

Fished the north end of Brigantine for the last hour of outgoing this morning, the snot grass was really bad, couldn't take it any more so I packed it up and headed over to 34th street...like night and day.

Fished the until about 2PM, had one knock down that cut me clean. Fog cleared by mid morning, overall a nice day!

 

I believe its a form of algae I remember learning at one point. Remember that week of rain every day? It came after that.......Too much run-off perhaps? It wasn't bad before that week.
Sucks around our way. There are windows in the tide. Near the top, some spots, not easy to calculate. Good luck

 

High nitrogen from runoff of fertilizer

 

Bingo.

People fertilize their lawns in spring. Runoff from all this rain goes down the storm drain into the bay. Any extra nutrients in the water, plus some sun which we're finally getting now, are enough to cause the runaway snot algae you're seeing. It usually clears once it dries a bit in June.

 

Schmeg

I have heard the term "schmeg" used for the condition described as snot grass by a mate
(Jerry) on the Bandit party boat. It seems to be a term used in Pt. Pleasant coming from
a Yiddish word for slime. Has anyone else heard of or uses that term to refer to the brown
algae found during the spring?