Flukin Sunday

[Foul Hook]

Left the dock at 630 to a nice heave outside. We made our way to the spot south of the inlet. It was a slow pick throughout the day in about 75 feet of water. No bait,rig or gulp seemed to produce better than the other. The highlight of the day was one of our crew hooked up with a small thresher about 4 ft long, It gave us a nice show doing some nice leaps for a few minutes till it broke off. Ended up with 7 keepers up to about 4 lbs and a bonito. Good Day

[Gerry Zagorski]

Nice work Tony.... Had a Thresher hit a bucktail on our boat a few years ago. He put on a nice show jumping clear out of the water several time before spitting the hook.

[Merle31483]

Nice work but what I cant understand is why is there such an abundance of larger fish out in Montauk or Nantucket how come these fish dont migrate south into our waters those fish you caught there are considered babies out there and would be thrown back

[bulletbob]

Nice work but what I cant understand is why is there such an abundance of larger fish out in Montauk or Nantucket how come these fish dont migrate south into our waters those fish you caught there are considered babies out there and would be thrown back

The fishing pressure is a small fraction of what the NY Bight has to withstand both commercial and recreational.. There's nothing magical in the water in Montauk or Nantucket, they have the same fish we have . Its simply the fact that a LOT less of them are caught and eaten there than in the waters surrounded by NYC and the big NJ cities.. before the massive fishing pressure increases in we used to catch plenty of big fluke mixed in with numbers of 15-18 inch fish that were astounding, right in the bays and tidal rivers.. No need to go out to the rough bottom as they do today to catch some big fluke.... bob

[Merle31483]

All I'm saying Bob it's just amazing how many 10+ pound fish can be caught in one area of water where as the whole raritan bay or down the coast of NJ this past few years have been far and few I have fished NJ twice this year to show nothing for it I have been to Montauk 5 times this year and every trip has produced numerous 7 to 9 pound fish with at least 1 or more DD coming up every time August 10th there were 3 DD's caught with my 10.2 getting beat in the pool by a 12.4 I don't get the reason for this that's all I'm saying