Reel Class Friday 6/28 Flukin'

[Reel Class]

Originally had a marathon trip planned today but with the crappy forecast I gave the guys the option to reschedule or fish the river/bay, so they decided to do the latter.

Left the slip and made the uncharacteristic left hand turn out of clark's and went through the canal to fish Barnegat Bay for the end of the outgoing. Had a good bite at first with mostly keeper sized fluke, and we had a couple of real good flurries, but that dried up once we lost the current. We had 7 in the box by 9 along with a handful of shorts, so we then made the run to the river to get the current again and picked and plucked everywhere.

The closer we got to the inlet the colder the water got, so we stayed in the back and picked away at more shorts and some more keepers.

Fred got his limit of 5, Ryan had 3, Bob had 1 and Kenny and I put a few in the box. Overall, for fishing INSIDE, we had a very good day. Out of around 25 fluke we boated, 12 made it to the box to 21" - most of those fish were in the 18-20" range and only two fell in that 17.5"-18" category. No other by-catch, just some nice scrappy fluke! Real nice day, and it was good using the trout rods to catch fluke!

[vinntastic]

nice report along with pics

[Reel Class]

Thanks Vin

Just an FYI to guys fishing or BOATING N of the Mantoloking bridge and in the squan back to route 70 -- there is still a lot of "debris" on the bottom, especially in Barnegat Bay... We didn't see anything big enough to run over with the boat, and I had the boat in 5' of water a couple of times, but we lost a few bucktails to stuff that simply was not there in prior years. Sheds, roofs, cars, bedroom sets, etc -- so be careful, stay where you should be, and take it SLOW.

I was VERY hesitant to go down there yesterday, but we managed just fine. A buddy of mine hit something the other day in the river and bent up a prop - so again, take it SLOW.