{"id":62502,"date":"2025-09-25T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/?p=62502"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:04:23","slug":"news-2025-09-25-nj-certifies-a-new-record-winter-flounder-caught-spearfishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/news-2025-09-25-nj-certifies-a-new-record-winter-flounder-caught-spearfishing\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Certifies a New Record Winter Flounder Caught Spearfishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/new-state-record-saltwater-spearfishing-winter-flounder-jared-smith-2025-09-25-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"962\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/new-state-record-saltwater-spearfishing-winter-flounder-jared-smith-2025-09-25-962x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62506\" style=\"width:480px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/new-state-record-saltwater-spearfishing-winter-flounder-jared-smith-2025-09-25-962x1024.jpg 962w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/new-state-record-saltwater-spearfishing-winter-flounder-jared-smith-2025-09-25-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/new-state-record-saltwater-spearfishing-winter-flounder-jared-smith-2025-09-25-768x818.jpg 768w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/new-state-record-saltwater-spearfishing-winter-flounder-jared-smith-2025-09-25-1443x1536.jpg 1443w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/new-state-record-saltwater-spearfishing-winter-flounder-jared-smith-2025-09-25-1924x2048.jpg 1924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The NJ DEP Fish &amp; Wildlife has announced that a new record winter flounder was caught while spearfishing in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jared Smith of Wildwood, NJ made his way onto the state spearfishing record fish list recently by landing a new state record winter flounder on July 21. Jared was scuba diving off the boat, the Dina Dee, located on the shipwreck R.P. Resor. The fish weighed 3 pounds, 8.2 ounces and <a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/news-2018-11-26-state-record-winter-flounder-spearfishing-category-caught\/\">beat the old record<\/a> by 1.2 ounces. The new record winter flounder measured 19.25 inches in length and had a girth of 15.25 inches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations on a magnificent catch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/fishing\/freshwater\/new-jersey-state-record-fish-program\/\">NJ State Record Fish Program<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/fishing\/freshwater\/new-jersey-state-record-freshwater-sport-fish\/\">NJ State Record Freshwater Fishing List<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/fishing\/marine\/new-jersey-state-record-saltwater-fish\/\">NJ State Record Saltwater Fishing List<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/fishing\/marine\/new-jersey-state-record-saltwater-fishing-spearfishing\/\">NJ State Record Saltwater Spearfishing List<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NJ DEP Fish &amp; Wildlife has announced that a new record winter flounder was caught while spearfishing in July. Jared Smith of Wildwood, NJ made his way onto the state spearfishing record fish list recently by landing a new state record winter flounder on July 21. Jared was scuba diving off the boat, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":62528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62502","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\/62502","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=62502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62514,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62502\/revisions\/62514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}