Author Topic: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip  (Read 4623 times)

Offline Skolmann

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07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« on: July 06, 2008, 07:05:25 PM »
Jason and I gathered about 4-5 quarters of fiddler crabs yesterday with the intention of dropping them off today with Capt. Frank Tenore of the Fins On Feathers in Leonardo.

We meet him at his slip alittle before 1 PM this afternoon and he says to us, "hop onboard & let's go kill them something." I turn to my wife who came for the ride and said to her, "it's your call." She must have been feeling gracious because she said go ahead. I definitely owe her one because she drove home and came back at 5 to pick us up.

On to the fishing. Not sure if it was because of the weather, overcast with a NE wind or because of fuel prices but I was shocked to see how empty the bay was on a summer Sunday on a holiday weekend no less. Tried a piece over by Romer's for sea bass but after 20 minutes with not even a bite for any us we decided to go fluking. Repeated the same drift atop the Knoll and were into fluke everytime. From micros up to 22"s (which I caught  ;D). Hot bait was Peruvian spearing. The fluke just jumped all over them. Once those ran out we used just belly strips (sea robin & shark) and continued to catch. By 4:30 we (4 anglers total) had 17 keepers on ice and probably released twice as many released.


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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2008, 07:16:49 PM »
Excellent job! Nothing better than an impromptu trip. Gotta love them.  t^
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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2008, 07:33:30 PM »
thats great, remember all those spots for next weekend.
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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2008, 07:35:45 PM »
remember all those spots for next weekend.

That should be very easy, we repeated the same drift all afternoon.....


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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2008, 07:37:43 PM »
last week we hit some nice fish in the SH channel, deep water and only on the slope
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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2008, 07:55:34 PM »
Great day, Congrats

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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2008, 08:06:26 PM »
Nice report and trip

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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2008, 08:24:50 PM »
Nice unexpected catch! t^

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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2008, 09:17:41 PM »
Nice, we had similar results in the same area but no spearing.


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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2008, 09:42:49 PM »
nice one

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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2008, 09:56:25 PM »
Inpromptu sometimes is the best way to go.Nice catch !

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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2008, 11:01:28 PM »
Sounds like a good trip, and a good keeper ratio to boot, good report too.

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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2008, 11:36:41 PM »
I love doing things spontaneously, those are the best.  Nice catch as well good going... t^
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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2008, 12:01:01 AM »
Good job skol better get those spearing for next sat. nice catch  TT^
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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2008, 03:14:55 PM »
Where did you pick up the Peruvian spearing?
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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #15 on: July 07, 2008, 03:21:45 PM »
nice report and a good catch for a trip that just happened to pop up unexpectedly. t^
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Re: 07/06-Impromptu Fluke Trip
« Reply #16 on: July 07, 2008, 06:06:13 PM »
Where did you pick up the Peruvian spearing?

They were onboard the boat when I got there....so no idea.

 

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