Manasquan- Blues

[firstlightbite]

Pretty good Bluefish bite on Sunday on plugs. Mostly 3 Lbs. fish with an occasional 10 Lber. Not an insane bite, had to put in a little work. All in 4 to 6 ft. water on the flats. West of Rt. 35. Not sure what the deal was, but had a lot of followers and short bites.

[Duffman]

Seems like an odd year already. Blues late arriving and instead of the monster gators we see early spring it’s the mid summer 3lbers?

[Skolmann]

I’ve been fishing west of the canal and have been picking #3-5 blues for the past 10 days all on plugs. Saw only one jumbo caught @#15. Water was noticeably colder on the incoming this morning.

Made a few stops at the inlet but best I could do was get a few follows. Only saw one caught there and that was on a chunk.

On a more positive note, I did catch a nice striper and saw enough quality fluke caught (& released) that I know where I’ll be fluking on Friday.