Two Shorts Are Better Than One by Ed Valitutto

Posted on May 28, 2021 by VHFC

Caesar Pesarini and Phil Kaplan joined me for a day of fluke fishing on the Thursday before Memorial Weekend. We started in Double Creek but the wind against the tide was too much. I went into High Bar where fishing the narrow channel was made even more difficult by all the boats. There were fish but you really had to work for them and most were throwbacks!
I had 10 shorts and one keeper. All but one was on the teaser with a white Gulp shrimp with a yellow tail. Same as last week when my only fish was a keeper on the Gulp shrimp. Both times, the fish were spitting up large shrimp! Caesar and Phil had much less success using other Gulp products.
On the way back, we drifted DCC and I thought I had a FOM winner for sure. Nope – just two healthy shorts; a 16″ and a 17″+. Oh well, it’s a long season.

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