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Title: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: gottog on April 07, 2008, 01:34:12 PM
Fished aboard the Sea Hawk out of Perth Amboy.  Light crowd, maybe 10 anglers including my uncle and I.

Got to the first near-by spot and had the fish starting to chew all around the boat.  I quickly put three over the rail and others were as well.  Wind and clouds moved in causing the fish to turn off.  Picked away at fish for the rest of the day with another quick flurry right before we headed in.

Early on the seemed to want plain old juicy sandworms, while later in the day the nod went to a fresh piece of snot aka mussels.

Did catch two on the old "ham-n-eggs" aka sand/clam strip combo.

Used plain old sinkers, non-dipped, lead colored t^
1.5-2.5ozs.  Majority of bites were light and had to work them to get em to swallow.  Did miss about three bites though bngh

Uncle had one that took both hooks down deep  rofla Think he let that one chew a long time. hhppy

He and I ended up with 13 caught by us with another 1 added by the mate caught on my rod I had deadsticked while in the cabin.

Only had one skate with a few making an appearnce overall.
Not great, but not bad at all.  Everyone onboard left with some fillets, with most catching between 3-5 keepers.

No bass bites at all as we even deadsticked a rod with clam just in case... 5hrug

Did get the report for sunday with 30 keepers for about a dozen anglers.  They even had their first FLUKE of the season come and visit chrz
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: mboy on April 07, 2008, 01:42:18 PM
Nice
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: IrishAyes on April 07, 2008, 01:54:05 PM
Fine catch there.  t^
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: ped579 on April 07, 2008, 02:06:58 PM
 TT^
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: wb on April 07, 2008, 02:14:35 PM
Nice report and good catching thanks.
Can't wait to get out there myself- weather looks good for later in the week.
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: Hunter 2 on April 07, 2008, 03:06:28 PM
thanks for the report. chrz chrz
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: mgm on April 07, 2008, 06:56:38 PM
Nice report....weather looks good later in the week for me to take another shot at the flundies.  Got to bust out soon.
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: CapBob on April 07, 2008, 07:04:24 PM
Good catch and great report, thanks TT^
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: Fishonw/Ron on April 07, 2008, 07:40:16 PM
Nice report ....way to work it t^
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: Luna Sea 5 on April 07, 2008, 07:41:01 PM
 t^
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: PeggyLee on April 07, 2008, 07:55:41 PM
weather will break,sun will shine and it will happen.Still working on the boat for me,however.
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: Pops Soul on April 08, 2008, 01:09:39 PM
 t^
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: ReelErIn on April 09, 2008, 10:58:16 AM
 t^
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: gottog on April 10, 2008, 12:53:37 PM
SeaHawk sailed yesterday with 7 fares and had 35 keepers.

Today they have 31 fares out and was told it seemed everyone had a keeper just about and some had 2-4. TT^

Was a bit busy so not sure if the captain said he was done drifting or about to start...
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: mboy on April 10, 2008, 12:54:42 PM
Nice.
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: wb on April 10, 2008, 01:18:33 PM
Nice.

Sure seems it out there when I poked my head out.
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: gottog on April 10, 2008, 01:39:07 PM
I'd pop outside the office myself but they're putting out mulch/fertilizer/stink nuggets around the complex :P

Of course the weekend forecast looks a bit dreary... bngh
Title: Re: Sea Hawk Raritan Bay Flounder 4/05
Post by: mboy on April 10, 2008, 01:42:27 PM
I do not want to get aggravated so I ain't goin' outside.