Had a FTYP marathon trip today with NJ Bob, Art B, Cool Hand Al, Tom K, and Jeremiah. Ran up north.
Found some real clean water, and the first few drifts were just short seabass. A little move further north got is in on the fish, and we worked this area all day long. We would pick anywhere from 1-3 keepers per drift along with loads of shorts, as well as a few seabass.
We had a lull around mid-day when the NW dropped out and we were just spinning around in circles. Once we got that little wind from the E and SE, we had a couple of good drifts where we picked a few more keepers.
Called it a day at 4 and left them biting. We easily boated over 100 fluke, with 27 nice keepers going in the box. Tom led the way with 5 keepers and the big fish which was just under 6#. We also wound up with 13 nice chunky seabass - biggest one was about 2.5#. All fish were taken on bucktail + teaser combos.
Finally, a good day where we had a box full of fluke!! This was a great crew, and yep, NJ Bob's yearly magic of producing the best day of the fluke season on Reel Class continues - out of 7 seasons he's been on for 5 of the season's best trips!! He's our good luck charm of the fluke season!
