Ocean Fluking

On June 21st, I made my first ocean fluke trip, I headed to Little Egg Reef on a beautiful day. My first drop only took about a minute or two before I had something big on the line. Wow – a 19-in sea bass and after that a nice 22-in fluke. Over the next couple...

LBI Fluke in the Surf

Here I am showing off the 21″ fluke I caught off the beach today.  I tried a good stretch of beach on the north end first thing this morning and ran into a lot of weed.  Ed Valitutto and John Steubing showed up and tried their hand at picking through the weed. ...

Solo Trip

When the fog finally lifted Wednesday afternoon, I decided to shoot out to Double Creek Channel to fluke-fish the outgoing tide.  Virtually no wind so my drift exactly matched the current.  The water was loaded with suspended seaweed but I connected with this nice...

Sod Bank Fluke

  Club member Bill Bond 006-3/4 and I hit the sod banks this morning. Bite was slow but Bill got a 20” plus fish. We moved to another area, and it was still slow. Right before dead high I caught a 22 and a 19 inch fluke before the switch to outgoing. Bill caught...

South of Oyster Creek Fluke

I fished today with member Alan Goracy. Like earlier in the week, we started in Double Creek but not a touch. We headed over to the BI buoy and noticed a line of boats fishing south of OC near the man-made island. So we headed over and I quickly had a short followed...