Fluke Options Poll

[jigman90]

Originally Posted by Oasis

Not everytime I go fishing I get even close to limit out. I'm for shorter size.

I agree!!

[Life's A Beach]

It's completely dependent on what the alternate specie's seasons are going to be.

We used to be gearing up for flounder NOW then jump right into stripers and slide into fluke. After fluke we could sea bass and tog and porgy along with Fall stripers until November 15th. December was tog and off-shore porgy and January finished up the tog and off-shore sea bass. With all the closures and changes to the seasons, I'm not sure WHEN would be the best fluke season anymore.

I do know certain things to be true:
1. If you don't take the largest creel limit, you'll never get it back.
2. The keeper size will be split, and rightfully so. Party boats NEED a smaller size so more fares can keep fish. They just can't fish the same as charter or private boats.
3. We USED to catch a shyte-load of keeper fluke well into October but in the past couple years, early season hurricanes/tropical storms seems to have killed the season right around Labor Day.
4. I can't wait to be fishing in shorts and a T shirt!

[arat]

Originally Posted by NoWorries

I voted for Option 2 May5-Oct 21 for the longest season

but option two is not the longest season........ option 3 is.

the biggest fish arrive first and leave last. gotta go option with april 21 to oct 8.

[Jigsmith]

Seeing how the water never got too cold, and will probably warm up faster than usual option 3 may be better than you think. I'm okay with option 2 or 3.

[kurtisb]

Originally Posted by Life's A Beach

It's completely dependent on what the alternate specie's seasons are going to be.

We used to be gearing up for flounder NOW then jump right into stripers and slide into fluke. After fluke we could sea bass and tog and porgy along with Fall stripers until November 15th. December was tog and off-shore porgy and January finished up the tog and off-shore sea bass. With all the closures and changes to the seasons, I'm not sure WHEN would be the best fluke season anymore.

I do know certain things to be true:
1. If you don't take the largest creel limit, you'll never get it back.
2. The keeper size will be split, and rightfully so. Party boats NEED a smaller size so more fares can keep fish. They just can't fish the same as charter or private boats.
3. We USED to catch a shyte-load of keeper fluke well into October but in the past couple years, early season hurricanes/tropical storms seems to have killed the season right around Labor Day.
4. I can't wait to be fishing in shorts and a T shirt!

Couldn't agree with you more, Mike.
Except we did get two more fish last year than 2010.

[Scoundrel]

As I don't get to get out as much as I would like, I would like the 5 fish 17.5 inch regulation. As has been said, Mid September on it always seems as if a storm kills the Fluke fishing. 17.5 would also make a lot more kids smile as their fish gets thrown in the keeper box.
Another factor is fuel prices. It is alot easier to justify my fishing expenses when I come home with a bag full(hopefully) of fillets. I don't need 8. 20 fillets on a limit trip would be great.

[hammer4reel]

like option 2,From looking at my logs , we used to be winter flounder fishing until almost May, so I see no reason for us guys up north to want to have an early season start.
might be becuase I bass fish much more but I see the third week and later as the earliest I started to fluke fish , and def caught WAY more fish in the channels in October than I ever caught fishing even the last wek in May
be nice to fish the dep channels on October like we used to . Was a little less traffic then but LOTS of nice quality fish. only thing that hurts that time of the year is unstable weather can push the fish out quick.

but would give us something to still fish for till the fall bass run gets underway
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[Sharkyispy]

I voted for #2, solely for the period it would be open and hoping that the other species target dates would back up to this and allow fluking later into the season when the bigger fish actually do show up (sometimes). Anyway, the longer I can experiment with my bucktails the better!

[Poppa Devil]

# 2 longer is better

[Blackfish Doug]

Originally Posted by snowbank104

oct 21 is a little cold in my book for fluke

Some of the best Fluking was going on then. I know if the season was open then there would have been quite a few limits.