Ocean Fluking by Marty Friedrich

On Tuesday, August 25th I took a friend of mine out fishing.  We stopped at one wreck in 60 ft of water and started bailing short flounder with an occasional keeper. We also had about 10 doubles of shorts! By 11:30, we ended up with our six keepers – one...

Belmar Trip by Paul Pintinalli

I did something a little different for me. I took a solo trip today from Belmar on the Ocean Explorer. It was a nice day and I got my 3 keepers before 11am. Fish were from 19 to 20 inches. Not a lot of shorts in the mix like a few times in southern waters. But it was...

Fluke Trip by Marty Friedrich

On Tuesday August 18, Wil. Paul and I went out on a fluke trip. We got three keepers with Wil getting a nice 21 3/4″ fatty. The bite was slow with a minimal number of shorts. Then I had a trolling motor breakdown, so we switched to LE Reef. We started drifting...

Fluking on the Nantucket Shoals

Last week I had the opportunity to join Bill Dabney and his son Bill, along with Bill Figley and his son Nate and Brother Dave on a fishing trip to the Nantucket Shoals. We left on Monday and drove to Hyannis, fished Tuesday and Wednesday then returned on Thursday. I...

The Tog Are Back Inshore! by Ed Valitutto

A late morning phone call from Anthony aka Rig a Tony on Thursday August 13th asked if I wanted to make a quick trip to the North jetty for Tog. Of course I did! We arrived after the start of the outgoing tide and anchored about 8 – 10 feet off the monument but...