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Offline crabcake

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Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« on: May 19, 2008, 09:17:09 PM »
Was lucky enough to get out on a 1/2 day split charter aboard the Lori C from Stony Brook to get into the early season fluke action in the LI Sound.  I managed 2 keepers up to #5.5, while releasing 7 or 8 "jumbo shorts" in the 18-20 inch range.  Marshall, the gentleman sharing this photo with me, bagged 3 keepers, including a #6.75 which I didn't have a chance to photograph.    This 20.5 inch limit is ridiculous, but we still managed to have a blast catching these fish on light tackle consisting of 3/8-3/4 oz spros, and lead heads dressed with pink curly tail gulps that were tipped with spearing.  Sea robins were also prevalent and only one bluefish made an appearance :)
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2008, 09:19:18 PM »
Nice!
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2008, 09:29:11 PM »
nice catch
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2008, 09:41:37 PM »
Great start to the flukie season! ;D
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2008, 09:48:42 PM »
great catch t^
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2008, 09:51:30 PM »
Niiiiice!! So good to see a Fluke Report TT^
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2008, 09:54:53 PM »
Great job!
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2008, 11:09:49 PM »
 TT^ grtn TT^
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2008, 11:38:09 PM »
Nice report Crabcake. These regs are a real killer. It would be easier to swallow if there was a REAL reason for them to be as stringent as they are.
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2008, 12:03:23 AM »
Nice catch of fluke there gentlemen can't wait till next Sat. to go get them here in Jersey
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2008, 07:19:16 AM »
Thats great  TT^  nice report
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2008, 07:20:22 AM »
 t^
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2008, 07:21:15 AM »
Great job!  t^
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2008, 07:38:30 AM »
Nice catch......can't wait to get out there myself.  t^
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2008, 07:41:53 AM »
Quote from: Sam3 on May 20, 2008, 07:38:30 AM
Nice catch......can't wait to get out there myself.  t^
gonna be all over them come sunrise saterday
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2008, 08:16:35 PM »
Thanks for all of the positive feedback.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you guys have the same numbers of nice fish that we have here right now. I can't begin to tell you how many 18"-19" fish we had to throw back.

One thing for sure is that I'm gonna come down to NJ to fluke fish more than once this Summer.  Can't wait!
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2008, 10:19:21 PM »
nice catch TT^ it sure must have been tough releasing those 18 to 20 inchers,201/2 one tough size limit :'(
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #17 on: May 22, 2008, 10:21:17 AM »
Nice job Chris
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2008, 04:37:09 PM »
good catch and pix

summer is here

be careful if you come down to NJ dont assidentally cross into NY with a 20" fluke you'd be flucked  :'(
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Re: Long Island Fluke 5/18 (late report)
« Reply #19 on: May 22, 2008, 09:51:48 PM »
hope they start to bite in jersey
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