Had the Dr. Michael Goldberg and son Scott out for a day of fluke fishing. Left the dock at 9:30 am knowing that I wanted to be fishing my area with outgoing water since yesterday (29th) was slow with incoming. Traveling through Sandy Hook Bay was getting water temps around the 62 degree mark and holding which was good. Got to the area I decided we were going to set up shop around10:15 just at slack tide and got out gear ready for the what I thought should have been a bite similar to the 29th.
Once tide started gaining some speed to outgoing, started catching some fish. Contrary to yesterday when bucktailing was the best way to go, a combo squid strip and sandeel was working the best. Although we did catch fish bucktailing, the ratio of fish (tb's and keepers) was much higher with the sandeel/squid combo.
Total count: 11 tb's (throwbacks), 5 keepers with fish in the 18.5" to 20" range.....nothing big like the 24" 6 lb'er we caught yesterday, but pretty steady action while the current was with us. Once the current started to hit 2.0 kts we moved over to the SP buoy for a try.
All in all, not a bad first 2 days to the 2010 fluke season, but still slow by my standards. Give it another week and things will turn on just nice.
Tight Lines,
Capt. John
