Great fluking, super ling & flounder
Saturday morning me and my old man ran out of keyport nice and early for a day of rartain bay fluking. Avoided the fleet in the reach but didn't catch much, so we ran up off the ammo pier and began to catch some fish. We bounded around that area all morning finishing off our limit of 10 at 11 am with a load of shorts in the mix. Bait out fished gulp again, but fish were caught on both. Big blue fish strips were the ticket. No big fish, all fish had full bellies of peanut bunker and rain fish. Biggest fish was 4 pounds.
Saturday afternoon I wanted to run right back out to where we had the hot fishing in the morning. I had a bunch of friends meet me at the dock around 2 and off we went. Conditions were terrible. SE wind against the tide was no good. Drift was 1.5 knots into the tide. Barely had any bites, John was high hook with 4 fish, 2 being keepers. Bay was a bit sporty to say the least.
Sunday morning, I ran out to the bottom fish grounds with Capt Kevin of fish tank sport fishing. Ran out to the edge of the mud hole out in 120ft and began drifting clams and gulp. It was a ling crush for the next few hours. Mostly medium sized with a couple of small ones in the mix. Tossing back 3 pound knuckle head seabass hurt. We would have had 13 keeper seabass, but all were safely released. Winter flounder also made showing, the largest being 15 inches. 1/2 a dozen Nice blackfish to 6 pounds also made an appearance. No cod, but only a handful of eels and no doggies so I'm not complaining. Once the fan turned on we ran inside fluking, but that was a total hack job. Another 1/2 dozen keeper seabass and 2 short fluke and that was it. Called it a day a little earlier with the increasing wind and the mass amount ling we had to cut.
Great weekend of CATCHING and KEEPING if you ask me. Pics to follow
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06-26-2016, 06:54 PM
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