This years weather!

[WhaleFart]

Hands down the worst ocean fluke year I can remember in 25 years. Yes temps and wind have been down, but still the fishing just has been god awful.

I was out on a number of party boats on fair weather weekends this summer and the crowds felt like it was a weekday, not packed as you normally see on summer weekends. Def feel for the guys who make a living in the industry.

Even if the next two weeks are great fishing, it will still go down as the worst year I can remember.


Pretty sad too when you hear about full day bottom trips having great long fishing of high hooks do 20 ling.. 20 ling would be considered a bad day 20 years ago.

[NJ219bands]

Caught, tagged and released 4 fluke to 20” on a plain hook Ava A-17 in Manasquan Inlet soon after the fluke season started, then stopped salt water fishing until after Labor Day because of the crowds of beach people, surfers, spear fishermen, fishermen, tourists, graffiti artists and boaters that make long cast fishing 🎣 in the inlet impossible. Went fresh fishing 🎣 every evening since early June. Fishing 🎣 in the rain 🌧️ 7 of the last 8 evenings really sucked. All of my spots are flooded and mosquitoes 🦟 are biting.