What's Going On With The Fluke?

[njcoastalfisherman]

Unless you are in the bays, northern and southern winds are NOT good for fluke. However, I am fishing in the bays. Some of the storms has helped and hurt this season. The storms provide wind which we hardly got last season in the Raritan Bay. The Southwestern flow is NOT at all for the ocean by great for the Western Sandy Hook bay when there is an outgoing tide. Ocean would be better for West and East winds off the NJ coast. Rain is getting annoying and hope August it will not rain. STOP THE RAIN and we would be better as long as there is wind.

[Pete]

Maybe the billions of gallons of raw sewerage dumped into the estuaries post Sandy? A cooler than normal spring? A wetter than normal June? And, all these variations of a south wind.

In the end, it seems to boil down to time spent on the water, blind squirrel theory. If you happened to be there on the right day, you were successful. Wrong day; well you know. Some long awaited west wind next week week should get things back to normal. That is, if there will be a normal. Time will tell.

Keep your fingers crossed boys! And, keep digging. Still a whole lot of time left in the season. I hope we can all make it out on one of them there RIGHT days.

[AndyS]

It's only July 2nd, you know the best fluking is in August, go back and read the reports from last year. Ask this question again in September.

Keep a log book

[makosnax]

Ive been out maybe ten times this year and only really had one bad day(sunday that just past). The other trips were either boatlimits or damn close to it, but it progressively got more difficult to pull that off with the weather lately. Winds are supposed to turn west Friday into Saturday and stay that way for a week or so, glad im off next week i think its gonna get good again.

[Katie'sKatch]

7 trips out this year total of 24 keepers all in the bay
The keepers are slowing down for us since the start of the season I was just thinking we were in a slump but it seems to be slow for everyone so far this year and we have fished every were in the bay and tried every trick to get more keepers in the boat we just can't get it going for us
Good luck to everyone hope the season gets better for us

[Katie'sKatch]

7 trips out this year total of 24 keepers all in the bay
The keepers are slowing down for us since the start of the season I was just thinking we were in a slump but it seems to be slow for everyone so far this year and we have fished every were in the bay and tried every trick to get more keepers in the boat we just can't get it going for us
Good luck to everyone hope the season gets better for us

[Irish Jigger]

Our early season has sucked as well. All my normal numbers around the bay and channels have been non productive. We even thought our containers of gulp went bad lol but when its a Saturday in late June and there are a dozen party boats fishing 12 feet of water on the knoll something isn't right. Water is cold and dirty so it can only improve!

[njcoastalfisherman]

Originally Posted by Irish Jigger

Our early season has sucked as well. All my normal numbers around the bay and channels have been non productive. We even thought our containers of gulp went bad lol but when its a Saturday in late June and there are a dozen party boats fishing 12 feet of water on the knoll something isn't right. Water is cold and dirty so it can only improve!

Don't worry. We still have the rest of July, August, and some of September. I did bad last season (except when I went up to Rhode Island). That is not like last season when more of the action was earlier in the season. I think the weather conditions will be drier in August. We just have to see. I went out for 5 days and caught 5 keepers so I do not see this season as "bad". We just have to see. Apart of fishing.