Great Fluking / Lousy Sharking By Ed Valitutto

Posted on July 6, 2018 by VHFC

Dave Spendiff offered to take me and my grandson Nick sharking on July 3rd. Since the outgoing tide in Great Bay wasn’t until 1:00, we decided to fluke first. The same spot – Marshelder Channel – that three days earlier during our tournament with BHM&TC had nothing biting, today yielded 5 nice fluke. Dave caught the three largest 21-23 inches and Nick had two. We then ventured over to the backside of little beach behind LEI. Unfortunately, the Red Herring – Bill Figley’s boat – was already set up there so we continued into grassy channel. During the waiting and watching the balloons, I jigged up another keeper fluke. After a few hours, we finally had enough sun and biting green heads so we pulled anchor and headed home.
BTW, Bill reported catching a 61/2 foot sand tiger!

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