Busy Weekend Fluke Fishing by Ed Valitutto

Posted on June 28, 2021 by kelli

The last weekend in June was a good one for fishing. On Friday, I wanted to gas up my boat so I took a ride over to Morrison’s. I also took a rod with a few killies I had. My first drift along the channel running through the Middle Grounds to the ICW – also referred to as the Fantasy Island channel – resulted in the 19″ keeper shown in the photo. A few more drifts yielded a several shorts before I went and gassed up my boat as planned.

On Saturday, Dave Spendiff invited me to fish on his boat. We left at 5:00 AM and headed for the North Cut off of Double Creek. Despite the ongoing tournament, we had the place to ourselves. We caught several shorts and the three nice keepers shown. I had one and Dave had two the largest being 20+”.

On Sunday, my neighbor Chris was down with his cousin. He likes to trailer a small boat and hit the skinny water but this year he hadn’t caught much. He asked where the North Cut was and I said if he had the time, I would take him in my boat. We left at 7:30 and went directly there. In three hours, both I and his cousin had 6 shorts each. Chris had the hot had and had three keepers to 20″. We headed home before the winds got too strong and all the weekend warriors were out!

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