Friday

The weather is finally getting nice and it is time to find the herds of fluke. I put some extra fuel in the boat and if anyone is interested in going Friday, give me a call.

Grinding it Out

No way to sugar coat it, fishing is slow. The regulars fishing hard with jigs and gulp have been rewarded with some nice fish. Ken the Legend has set the mark with his 10lber. Evelyn had a 8lb 2oz, St. Pete 7lb 8oz, Roger 7lb, Capt Fred 6lb 11oz, Joe N 6lb. 3oz, Bob Baines 6lb 1oz. A few nice sized weakfish showed the past few days but we spend a lot of time drifting and dreaming(of better days ahead). This fishing is not for bait draggers, beer drinkers, or sun seekers.

Weather

The weather is messing up the fishing. We don't usually miss many days in June but the past week has been terrible. The only day we fished this week was Wednesday and the wind gusted to thirty knots! Some nice fluke were caught in the rough waters, along with our first weakfish of the spring and the striped bass bite was insane. It was a fish every cast for over an hour but they were all 22 to 27 inches. It looks like a nice weekend and we will try to find some more big fluke.

Bass and Fluke

Fishing has been changing like the weather. Some stripers up to thirty pounds this week. Ken K. from PA , and his buddy Capt Fred had a great day Friday with Bass to 25lbs. and loads of blues and a few keeper fluke. There were so many blues around the party boats from Belmar and Brielle were fishing at Coney Island. Saturday was a bump in the road for St. Pete as the fluke bite shut down, but thanks to Jerry and Frankie , we ended up with six bass and some blues in the box. Sunday was rough and raining and I thought the bass would bite but that turned out to be a slow pick. The surprise was the fluke turned on and it was nice to see the bottom of the cooler covered in slabs. Thanks Ken H. for donating a nice fluke to us for dinner.

Hot and Cold

Just like the weather, the fishing changes with each tide. Some real nice ones around now, twenty to twenty-five pound class.

Weekend Report

The hot fishing during the week backed off a little this weekend. We had to deal with cold east and south winds everyday and it was quite chilly out on the bay. Still a bunch of small fish around but enough 12 to 15lbers. to make for some fillets. The main body of fish should pass through the bay in the next two weeks. We tried for fluke in less then ideal conditions and I could not fish where I wanted due to the wind, but we saw about twenty shorts on a few drifts.

Striped Bass

They are here! Limit catches and plenty of action.