Fluking sucks

[SkunkBoat]

"Go to Axel Carlson reef, hot bite at south end"..."my buddy got 13 keepers there..."

Perfect NW wind.
4 hours... drifting over many square miles...

3 skates and 2 short fluke and a short seabass.

Anybody wanna buy a boat with slip for season and a bunch of rods?v1

[step up here]

Better then running 100 or miles for the skunk.

[Giorgio]

Fluke fishing has been terrible so far, this season. You see the P/B's post pictures but they have a 65' boat or larger with maybe 30 lines in the water, they have to drift over something. The good thing, the season isn't over yet and with the water warming up as fast as it is they will be heading to the deep water, at least around here. Ambrose here we come!!

[bradford]

Still better than another day at the salt mine.

[bgreene]

"Go to Axel Carlson reef, hot bite at south end"..."my buddy got 13 keepers there..."

Perfect NW wind.
4 hours... drifting over many square miles...

3 skates and 2 short fluke and a short seabass.

Anybody wanna buy a boat with slip for season and a bunch of rods?v1

Maybe you're just a horribly, lousy fisherman........
We loaded up there, same location, same day with 9 keepers to 11lbs, the smallest being 4lbs.

[bgreene]

Kidding man... yeh, I heard that report too, then you find the complete opposite.

It's very tough to put together more than a couple of keepers.
I know it was good fishing in Raritan bay weeks ago, but now slower......

Have you tried along the beach in 20-40' depths as you mark assorted rough bottom ?
We've been picking some keepers this way, and it's often calm water, short rides.

[fish]

Might wanna try end rocks

[bgreene]

Might wanna try end rocks

What's end Rocks ? You talking the outer edge of the Shrewsbury Rocks / Rattlesnake area ?
Hasn't been good there yet......

[Giorgio]

Start working the edges of the Ambrose.

[SkunkBoat]

I run out of Manasquan. Ambrose is too far for me for fluking and stripers. My north limit is the Shrewbury rocks and they have never paid off in any big way.

I think FISH meant EnRocks thats the Red Church/Elberon. In my glory days of fluking I caught the crap out of big fluke in that stretch from Asbury Park to Long Branch. Last few years have added credence to the name SkunkBoat.

[bgreene]

Agreed........that stretch gets fished HARD, so we started finding our own spots.....off the usual hit grid and take a few keepers.

Sometimes, just fish off the beach at first drop off from 20-30 feet....... ANY drop off along any stretch of beach, especially where no one else is fishing.

Use the light weight rods, and continually twitch small jigs with a minnow or gulp. We get a few 18"-19" keepers this way.

[SkunkBoat]

Hey, I took a kid fishing Sunday and he caught this....I told him it was a mermaid cuz we don't catch fluke on the SkunkBoat..