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The fluke season is drawing to a close, but the ocean fishery for them is holding up nicely. Capt. Ron Santee said the forecast scared some people off, but there was no rain on the Fishermen from Atlantic Highlands and the wind was no more than 15 mph. Indeed, the morning problem was a lack of drift -- though the pool winner of 7.2 pounds was boated then. The top afternoon fluke was 6 pounds, 10 ounces. Capt. Stan Zagleski had a similar trip Tuesday with his Elaine B. II from Bahrs in Highlands his fares worked hard for some fluke and lots of sea bass until they finally got some wind and movement later in the morning.  The improved drift was the ticket for both keepers and shorts.  Jim Fells, Midland Park took the pool with a 7 pound 7 ounce fluke. The Golden Eagle from Belmar had a slow start to chumming offshore today, but a shift to the south produced chub mackerel, sea bass, blues and fluke. The Jamaica from Brielle sent in a late report on Tuesday after they moved out near the Mud Hole for lots of chumming action with blues, bonito, chub mackerel and a few sea bass. As noted in last night's late blog, there was finally a bigeye tuna boated in a tournament this year. The Big Dog boated a 126-pounder to take a big lead over a lot of yellowfin tuna in the MidAtlanric Tournament at Cape May and Ocean City, Md.  A 23-pound dolphin on Speculator took over that lead, but Taylor Jean from Brielle hung onto first in white marlin with a 72-pounder that could be worth $1,196,009. There was still no blue marlin making the 400-pound minimum. Only a few boats fished today, but if there's any change I'll add a late blog after the scales close at 9 p.m.

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