Fluke & Sea Bass on the 4th by Marty Friedrich

Posted on July 7, 2018 by kelli

A couple of my friends were off for the holiday and came down to fish. The giant Ray in the photo was as close as I could get it to the surface. It was about the size of a picnic table. We headed to a couple pieces of wreck for some sea bass and caught our six sea bass limit with a lot of shorts. We then headed to the red tower and proceeded to flounder fish. We moved around a few times and finally the fish started to bite around 2:00. We had a south wind drifting right toward the beach. We were fishing in 50 to 60 feet of water in short drifts. We ended up catching over 30 flounder with seven keepers from 18″ to 22″ until the bite just stopped around 4:00. I didn’t take any other pictures because it was late and we wanted to get back and clean up.

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