If you try this, beware that the tide seems to come in a whole lot faster than you would seem to suspect. Light sticks or battery operated lights are a nifty extra when fishing at night. I'll never fish at night without one. I used to try to line up the tip of my rod with some semi bright star and squint at the rod tip for hours in anticipation of a bite. With a light stick, the fishing rod grabs your eyesight very easily as the rod tip dips to the water.
Gloves can be very nice item as the wind whips across the bay.
It doesn't take to much to get wet hands cold. In the past few years, the Winter Flounder fishing has started about March 10. The weather has been so windy this week and last weekend that it discouraged anglers from using their boats. Successful Winter Flounder fishing is usually done in the southern end of Barnegat Bay, locally known as Tuckerton Bay. There are three islands called East, Middle and West Sedge Islands that are near the edge of a natural channel where the water depth drops from about 3 to 7 foot.