Sun, 25 Jul 2010

Lots of Fluke, Sea Bass















Yesterday was not the best day to have back to back trips because the heat was pretty close to unbearable. We left the dock at 7am to compete in the Fluke Derby at my marina in Belmar. The fishing was as good as we've had all season, at one point it was absolutely on fire. Unfortunately (as it always seems to be) most of the fish were a half an inch short of keeper size. We did manage to bring 7 fish to the scale, not a bad ratio for this summer but the big doormat sized fish we were looking for never hit our lines. The interesting thing was the lack of Sea Bass on the morning trip, where we've had a ratio of about 5 to 1 bass to fluke, yesterday was all Fluke action. All in all the fishing was tremendous though with about 75 to 80 fish coming over the rail.

In the evening I hosted Scott Knyper and crew for a Saturday night surprise birthday party. I booked this trip onto Captain Steve Spinelli's Skylarker II and we hit the wrecks to fish for Sea Bass. These guys came to party and fish and they did a tremendous job at both. Again, the heat was unbearable and we lost a man due to heat stroke--he didn't actually die, but for a second there I thought he might. I included his picture with this email. The fishing was awesome with a lot of nice fish over 3 lbs. We also had Blackfish, Ling, Conger Eels, Pout, and the usual suspects you find while fishing the wrecks.

I'll bet I drank 25 bottles of water yesterday, if you're going out there in this heat please make sure you stay hydrated, it is brutal out there. If anyone wants to fish I have Tuesday available before the band leaves on tour for a week.

-Mickey

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Wed, 21 Jul 2010

Good Bottom Fishing Today











We're eating fish for dinner tonight. We finally put together a consistent bite of keeper Fluke today, along with a cooler filled with Sea Bass and Ling. With the Shark River Yacht Club Fluke Tournament on Saturday we wanted to do a little bit of recon and look for some doormats. While we didn't find any Fluke above 3 or 4 lbs. we all had keepers; I had 4 which is about 3 more than I've managed on my previous outings this summer. We were surrounded by Bunker schools all day too, which was nice to see with all of the people complaining about the commercial guys netting up around the Hook. It was a beautiful day on the water and the action was non-stop--all this in 3 1/2 hours of catching. I counted 26 fish in the box with at least as many released.

Wed, 14 Jul 2010

Sharks are Back!