Slow afternoon fluking (Please read to end)

[O'Connor]

Mates count the fish out here everyday, report number to captain, captain calls report into landing, landing posts online. I have never been on a boat in So-Cal where I thought the numbers were inflated. Example of yesterdays run in Oxnard, Ca. This system works well.




Channel Islands Sportfishing Center Fish Counts
as of July 21, 2013

Boat Trip Type Anglers Fish Counts

Speed Twin 1/2 Day Twilight 40 36 Barracuda

Pacific Islander Overnight 26 260 Rockfish, 2 Lingcod

Sea Jay Full Day 10 3 Yellowtail, 3 White Seabass, 8 Barracuda, 10 Rockfish, 5 Calico Bass

Aloha Spirit Full Day 21 1 Calico Bass, 15 Sheephead, 1 Whitefish, 2 Cabezon, 35 Lingcod, 3 Halfmoon, 208 Rockfish

Mirage Overnight 24 1 Calico Bass, 5 Sheephead, 7 Lingcod, 167 Whitefish, 240 Rockfish

Cobra Full Day 11 50 Rockfish, 1 Lingcod, 7 Opaleye, 4 Sheephead, 3 Calico Bass, 1 Sculpin

Speed Twin 1/2 Day AM 58 1 Sand Bass, 310 Rockfish, 1 Halfmoon, 1 Sculpin, 1 Whitefish

Island Tak Full Day 8 1 Halibut, 2 White Seabass, 18 Barracuda, 21 Calico Bass

Gentleman 3/4 Day 53 3 Sculpin, 10 Opaleye, 300 Rockfish

Erna B 3/4 Day 17 1 Lingcod, 170 Rockfish
Seabiscuit Overnight 24 52 Whitefish, 5 Lingcod, 162 Rockfish

Coral Sea 2 Day 16 225 Rockfish, 54 Lingcod, 8 White Seabass
Boats Anglers Dock Total

12 Boats 308 62 Barracuda, 1935 Rockfish, 105 Lingcod, 3 Yellowtail, 13 White Seabass, 31 Calico Bass, 24 Sheephead, 221 Whitefish, 2 Cabezon, 4 Halfmoon, 17 Opaleye, 5 Sculpin, 1 Sand Bass, 1 Halibut

[emcjim]

See Cliff's report on the wmidotorg website. Accurate report, I was there. Sea Hunter, AM trip, 7/21. Cliff: 4 keepers out of 17, yours truly: 1 keeper (pool winner) out of 8. All bucktail and teaser w/ Gulp. Best action was oceanside, down the beach w/ light N wind with the outgoing tide. When the wind switched, the next drift was not nearly as good.

It is not unusual for the AM and PM trips to have entirely different wind and tide conditions. For 7/21, AM was outgoing tide, PM basically incoming.

[Flukinator]

Originally Posted by Cuz

Jumped on the Sea Tiger, AH, this afternoon. The fishing was incredably sloooow. The last drift, not far from the TC bouy, yeilded quite a few bites. Mostly shorts. I caught five fish the last 15 minutes at this spot. Seven total for the trip. One 18 inch keeper.
I read all the other bay area fluke reports this evening which were not very truthful. The morning bite was even worse today than the afternoon trips according to other fellow fishermen I know that fished other boats from the same marina. Several private boat owner friends told me this evening it was one of the worse days this year. Anyone who is saying different on this web-site should be castrated. I hope this doesn't become the norm on this web-site because I rely on it for some of my information.
We do not blame the captain, mates, or boat if the fish don't co-operate. Keep the BS on the dock. Nothing worse than reading how great the fishing is than finding out from the people who are down at the docks everyday that the fishings really off.
Honesty is the best policy in the long run. Keep NJ Fishing.com real or the web-site will suffer like a few before it. Look what happened to Assbarn. No one believes anything coming off that web-site. And that was once a bigger web-site. Thank you for understanding.

I was on a boat that fished areas that "Bay Area" headboats frequently fish (even saw one or 2 in that general area while we were there), and we got our boat limit of big fluke. I guess you could come castrate me or the captain or whoever posted the report, but it's not BS. Just because you and the guys you know didn't have a good day doesn't mean no one had a good day. You can try to read between the lines, and you can go out and fish hard and learn some tips that might help you catch when no one else is catching (I've seen it enough times to know fishing is not all luck). Otherwise, you're just whining and threatening to cut people's privates off. That doesn't help anyone.

[Fisherman120]

You gotta read inbetween the lines with reports. I was out yesterday too, and the fishing all around was "slow", but a lot of keepers and nice sized fish were still caught, from sharpies to weekend warrior's. Still is a good day to me.

[MrAC1980]

You have to really do your homework and put all the reports from the head boats, charter guys, and private boats together in order to really see how the fishing is. If everyone is catching then you know the fishing is good. If only one boat caught good, then fishing is slow/sucks. Like bass fishing this spring, it was easy to see fishing was awesome from all the guys fishing up north and reporting and posting pics, etc.

[Urban Angler]

Reports read'em between the lines...but fluking has picked up and its all about the time, place, position and the guy holding the rod...Saw lots of big fish last week... 11 solid from Darren while I'm standing next to him holding my Co**..just keep plugging..you'll get'em

[NoLimit]

You want to know when the fishing is red hot so you don't waste your time?

Wait till Johnny Bucktail gets slammed for two pages for keeping too many fish

[Joey Dah Fish]

The hottest day of fishing is always yesterday. Oh you should have been out yesterday. Here's the deal the boat next to me yesterday was banging fish most of the day in fact the guy standing right next to me was banging the fish yesterday. But not me!!! This is why they call it fishing. I was fishing and other guys were catching. So please done feel offended because you sucked as bad as I did yesterday. Hey man shit happens. Chin up and keep on fishing. You just have to put your time in.

[unclegary47]

One of the best stories I can remember happened years back when a picture of a Brielle boat appeared in Star Ledger with everyone holding giant fluke when fluking was VERY slow for everyone else. I looked at the picture a few times and then realized my uncle was in it holding 2 very big fluke. So I called the boat and asked when the picture was taken and I was informed it was yesterday. Well that was really funny because my uncle died 2 years before!

Good Luck ALL Unc

[Flukemeister1]

I once was anchored on Shrewsbury Rocks fishing for blues. A party boat from Belmar anchored near us. Fishing was picky but if you worked at it you could catch some fish. Report comes out in NJ Fishing Mag. that they had fished south of the inlet that day and slammed them. I just laughed.

I have been out on a couple of party boats and a charter and some days were very good and others I could not buy a keeper. Fact is it's fishing and there are guys that are VERY VERY good at it and there are guys that are like many, average fishermen. Even the great fishermen have off days where it just does not happen despite trying everything that should work. The captains I respect the most are the ones that will tell you that it was terrible when it was and will tell you it's hot when it is. I can tell you there are days when I just did not have it and others when I could do no wrong. My reports will tell you either way.