{"id":22798,"date":"2022-09-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/?p=22798"},"modified":"2023-04-18T15:20:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T19:20:56","slug":"news-2022-09-18-new-record-sheepshead-caught-while-spearfishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/news-2022-09-18-new-record-sheepshead-caught-while-spearfishing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Record Sheepshead Caught While Spearfishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/record_spearfishing_street_sheepshead22-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22578\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/record_spearfishing_street_sheepshead22-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/record_spearfishing_street_sheepshead22-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/record_spearfishing_street_sheepshead22-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/record_spearfishing_street_sheepshead22.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dan Street of Hainesport made his way to the top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/fishing\/marine\/new-jersey-state-record-saltwater-fishing-spearfishing\/\">state spearfishing record fish list<\/a> by landing a new state record Sheepshead on July 15, while free diving in the Atlantic Ocean. The fish weighed 13 pounds, 3 ounces, beating the old record by 11 ounces. It measured 26 inches in length and had a girth of 23 7\/8 inches. Congratulations to Mr Street on his magnificent catch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/fishing\/freshwater\/new-jersey-state-record-fish-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NJ Record Fish Program<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/fishing\/marine\/new-jersey-state-record-saltwater-fishing-spearfishing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NJ Record Spearfishing List<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/fishing\/marine\/new-jersey-state-record-saltwater-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NJ Record Saltwater Fish List<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/fishing\/freshwater\/new-jersey-state-record-freshwater-sport-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NJ Record Freshwater Fish List<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Street of Hainesport made his way to the top of the state spearfishing record fish list by landing a new state record Sheepshead on July 15, while free diving in the Atlantic Ocean. The fish weighed 13 pounds, 3 ounces, beating the old record by 11 ounces. It measured 26 inches in length and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":22799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing","category-saltwater-recreational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}