Post Memorial Day Fluke by Ed Valitutto

Posted on May 27, 2020 by VHFC

With too much wind, rain and cold, it was difficult to enjoy any Memorial Day weekend fishing. But on Tuesday, things looked a lot better. Alan Goracy and I decided to take our grandsons out but both had Zoom school classes until noon. Since we planned on fishing High Bar Harbor with the high tide at 12:30, it worked out perfectly to fish the outgoing water.
We arrived at 1:00 and I was amazed at how many boats were there considering it was a midweek afternoon. Water temp was high 50’s and the drift was .8 to 1.1 kts. We stayed until 3:30 and only caught 8 fluke. But my grandson Nick had 3 keepers; one at 18+” and 2 at 19″. We then tried Double Creek for an hour and Alan got one just shy of 20″. Great time by all.

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