Fluke 2015

[Scoundrel]

Is a disaster. Party boats catching little, charter boats doing poorly. Since when on a six pack charter is 6 keepers a good day?

[Capt Joe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQWTgzTj_0g

:D

[Cuz]

The man is telling the truth. It can be frustrating for everyone. There's not one captain I know who said it was a good season, SO FAR. I believe it will get better before they leave inshore waters. Then the commercial boats can clean up on all the undersize fish we threw back. Vicious circle to say the lease.

[Fluken-Around]

With the bigger size limit now in effect for quite a few years and proven the majority of fish 18" and up are females. Maybe we starting to feel the effects of killing mostly mommy's that make are future stock!!!:mad:

[Bucktailboys.com]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQWTgzTj_0g

:D

Funny stuff!

[makosnax]

With the bigger size limit now in effect for quite a few years and proven the majority of fish 18" and up are females. Maybe we starting to feel the effects of killing mostly mommy's that make are future stock!!!:mad:

I totally agree with this. It was only a matter of time.

[Fisherman120]

Areas north of us are having terrific years, the stocks are fine. New Jersey was never as good as up north as is, and on top of that we have so many more boats fishing the same areas daily. The same areas daily get drifted over and drifted over again and again. These fluke out here have no time to breathe without seeing another presentation in their line of sight.

[Flukemeister1]

Areas north of us are having terrific years, the stocks are fine. New Jersey was never as good as up north as is, and on top of that we have so many more boats fishing the same areas daily. The same areas daily get drifted over and drifted over again and again. These fluke out here have no time to breathe without seeing another presentation in their line of sight.

I agree that the spots take a pounding but the number of boats out there are down dramatically since Sandy.

[GDubya07]

Areas north of us are having terrific years, the stocks are fine. New Jersey was never as good as up north as is, and on top of that we have so many more boats fishing the same areas daily. The same areas daily get drifted over and drifted over again and again. These fluke out here have no time to breathe without seeing another presentation in their line of sight.
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The bottom still hasn't really warmed up yet like it should and the fish are there you just need the right conditions. I also believe Sandy screwed up alot and it will take a few years to come back.

Funny also as the regs changed so did the fishing ,up north there sizes went down and there fishing went up , here our sizes are going up and the catching is going down ???? Coincidence I think not - it will eventually balance itself out once the regs stay @ 18 for a couple of years. We were spoiled with really good fishing for a while and we all knew this would happen with the size increase

Wait till the end of the season and it will get better

Good Luck - Be Well - Fish On

GDubs-:cool:

[HUTCH #1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQWTgzTj_0g

:D

What does this have to
do with fishing

[NoLimit]

If you plot a 70' party boat on a map of Raritan Bay, 100 of them would still be infinitesimal to the total area.

There are lots and lots of square miles of flats for those fluke and there just are not the numbers that there used to be.

You can thank the commercial fishery for that.

[rumster]

You can blame it on whatever you would like, water temps and the like, but bottom line is the fluke fishery sucks. Pick some fish here and pick some fish there, but for the most part the fishery is far from good. I have no idea how the Fishing Industry is going to survive. It`s scary.

[DMac]

Some things we had in nj area we haven't had previous years. Massive beach replenishment project stirring up water. How many clean water days have you seen. Fluke don't see your bait and follow from distance. Then you had lack of bait in area up north they had acres of sandeel etc. North of new jersey had some great fluke fishing. Drift conditions were either non existent or flying. Then what if any did seismic blasting off our coast did the fluke migrate away from that. I don't buy size limit stuff. It just was an off year due to maybe some of the above factors.