The water has warmed into the mid seventies and the ocean fluking is finally under way. This is my favorite time of the year to fish. The fluke are now moving out of the bays and onto the ocean lumps. We had a great weekend fishing around the reefs and had a steady pick of fluke and sea bass. The sea bass fishery is generally slow from July to early August due to the fact that the fish are spawning. The fish are still there, however, they have other things on their minds. Luckily the fluke fishing this weekend was outstanding. As we get closer towards the end of the month and into September, I will move the trips away from the reef areas and closer to the lumps off the beach. Every year, the fish pile up on the lumps in about 30 to 50 ft of water and this makes for a very fun fishery. We have missed this the last few years because the state has cut the fluke season short before the fluke made their migration to the lump area off our beaches. This year, the season goes until the end of September and we will once again have the opportunity to target this historic fishery.
