FISHING IN THE AM

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AS I SAID I CAN NOT POST PICS IN RI DIAIL UP I WILL ALLWAYS POST WHEN I GET BACK TO JERSEY

[phester]

cap, how big is that fluke ? hard to tell

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LITTLE OVER 6 LB 27 IN :) MY BEST IS 11.6 LB I MADE THE FISHERMAN WITH THAT ONE LAST YEAR

nice doormat bud. fried or baked? did you stuff him with shrimp and crabmeat? wow, i'm getting hungry.

[TheTinMan]

Nice Fluke! It's been a bit slow here on the East End of LI too. I went Monday and got 2 keepers, 1 was 24".

[phester]

my biggest fluke to date was 6lbs. 7 oz. , didn't make the fisherman w/ that one.....only been flukin about 4-5 years. One season a couple years back you couldn't buy a keeper bass so I turned my efforts toward the fluke....good eatin'

[Stinky_Hooker]

What type of technique/tackle and such do you guys use on "fluke" up there?

[TheTinMan]

Most common is a pre-tied rig. Some prefer a hi-lo (2 hooks). They usually have some type of spinner and skirt. Ther's also a sinker clip. Around here, currents are strong, you have to experiment with weight to see how much will "hold" bottom. Spearing or Sand eels with a strip of squid combined for bait. If the drift is not that fast, rare around here except for slack tides, I prefer using a bucktail with a strip of squid. I've recently been tying a teaser about 10-12" above the bucktail with pretty good results. I kind of "bounce" the bucktail off the bottom. Using live Killies is another good choice up here.

Oh, just don't leave the rig dragging on bottom, you need to lift the rod every couple seconds, almost all hits will come on the "lift", sometimes at the top of the lift, then there's no room to lift anymore and you hit your t-top trying to set the hook >:(. Actually, last time out I didn't hit the t-top, getting used to that thing now :) Sometimes the fluke will hit after the lift when rig is going back down.

You'd probably have a good chance at "flounder" using a "fluke" rig with a finger Mullet down in your neck of the woods. :) Or maybe bouncin a bucktail with a dead shrimp on it???

[Stinky_Hooker]

Cool, Tin thanks.

The bait of choice down here is just a light carolina rig with a live bull minnow of shrimp. Or of course a jig with some type of soft plastic bait.

I imagine flounder would hit a rig like that...it just seems so big and bulky....like the stuff they fish for halibut with, but scaled down?

[willy]

I usually have two rigs going at the same time, dependeing on whats happening bait wise, if the sand eels are running heavy I put out a bait rig on a dead stick with a hi lo fluke rig, with bucktail and a spinner blade on it, using a piece of fresh squid and a sand eel or a Killie on the bottom and a strip of fluke belly on the top hook. On the second rig I will alternate with a bucktail jig with fluke belly or a pork rind on it and also a ball jig with same thing on the bottom or ball hook and a teaser tied in a foot or so above with bucktail and a trailer hook tied onto the bend of the main hook about three inches back with a skinny piece of squid on it. Get a lot of hits on that back trailing hook and it is usually a good solid hit too :)