FLUKE AND BLUEFISH by Dave Spendiff

Posted on September 13, 2017 by VHFC

Another beautiful day on the bay – water temp at 68 degrees, light wind and bait all over the place – a great day to go fishing. Went to the Ship Bottom bridge to try and catch some small stripers and bluefish. Picked up the first blue casting into a pod of bait being attacked and the other 6, all about the same size, casting up current under and around the bridge. On a long drift North of the bridge I caught the 21″ fluke – what a surprise!

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Of the fifty United States, thirty-eight have a striped-bass record. New Jersey has the largest striped-bass record—a 78-pound 8·ounce whopper that was caught in 1982. The state with the smallest striped-bass record is Iowa. That landlocked striper weighed only 9 pounds 4 ounces and was caught in 1983.

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