This was originally supposed to be our last open deep water bottom trip of the summer but with ling fishing slowing down we opted to switch the trip to a fluke trip.
Nice west wind early in the morning gave us a nice quick drift and the fluke were chewing pretty good. Only problem is most of them were shorts. We were able to pick a keeper here and there fishing in the sand near a wreck, but this area only produced 5 keepers -- probably had 50 shorts in that time period so we made a move looking for greener pastures.
Went to the area in the rough stuff we've been catching, and the fish were still there and were still hungry. Again lots of short action (???) but we were plucking a keeper or two a drift for a bit. By around noon we lost the drift, so we tried a couple of other areas, and got another keeper or two, but fishing ground to a halt.
We then shot off to where we had the bonito on Sunday just to give it a shot, but that was NG as we tried trolling the area for an hour and we only had 2 frigate mackerel.
Back inside to the fluke grounds on the rough stuff, now with a nice drift again from the SE wind, we again started picking at keepers and shorts. We called it a day around 330 when the drift had gotten too fast.
We finished with 15 or 16 keepers to 5#, and 3 nice seabass. I'd say half of the keepers were 20-23", the rest were from just over 18"-19.5" -- we definitely had some smaller ones in the box today compared to the last few. Bill and Brian both had limits of 5 fish, and Tom and Al each put nice fish in the box as well as Jeff and Dot. We easily caught 80 fluke today, it not more, but some of those shorts were tiny, I'm talking 10". I'm guessing the migration is underway - but I hope I'm wrong
08-19-2014, 05:54 AM
Reel Class Monday 8/18 Fluke Report
Re: Reel Class Monday 8/18 Fluke Report
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