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Lots of large fluke were entered in the second day of the Sandy Hook Bay Anglers Tournament, but there was no competition for Joe Fischler's 12-pound  doormat from Saturday. Dave Lilly of Hazlet had a hot bite of fluke from 5 pounds up while jigging with large baits down the beach, but his best catches of 7 and 7.2 pounds just missed out making the top weight places. No official results have been received as yet, but I'll post them when they become available. It was also a big fluke day for Capt. Stan Zagleski on Elaine B. from Bahrs in Highlands as his fares boated 14 between 5 and 9 pounds. Kenneth Calela of Midland Park won the pool with a 9 1/8-pound fluke. Emil Acito of Bogota had a 7 3/16-pounder. Small blues cooperated again for Shore party boats jigging in the ocean -- and the Golden Eagle from Belmar also reported several 2-to-4-pound bonito. Capt. Ryan Bogan said fluking improved om his Jamaica II from Brielle when the waters finally warmed up. Sandra La Rocca of Philadelphia boated an 8 1/8-pounder, but wasn't in the monthly pool. Bogan said bucktails work best on slow drift days, while bait is better during fast drifts. Bob Matthews, at Fisherman's Den in Belmar Marina, said party boats there are catching big fluke in the ocean, while anglers in his rental skiffs hook lots of short fluke in Shark River to boat a few keepers. Jim's Tackle in Cape May reports fluke fishing tailed off a little at the Cape May Reef, where it's mostly short fish with only a few keepers and most of the bigger fish are tight to structure. Delaware Reef Site #11 is still giving up some nice fish along with the Old Grounds, although there are quite a few short fish in these areas as well. They're still getting good reports from the Delaware Bay. The fish are starting to move a little closer, and are showing up by 14 Foot Light in around 20-25 feet of water. Croakers are still biting well in the Cape May Canal on pretty much any kind of cut bait.The inshore troll bite is holding up pretty well, with bluefin and yellowfin coming from the lumps on the inside of the Elephant Trunk. There are also good reports from The Lobster Claw to the north and the Hot Dog to the south of good bluefin action. The crew of the Miss Andrea chunked up several bluefin to the south, but all were big and they could only bring one home. John Briley of Jenkintown was on that charter and boated a 20-pound bull dolphin. Offshore there was a decent bite in the Wilmington on yellowfin Saturday on the troll. John Chadrow and the crew of the Seaveyor boated 2 bigeyes of 178 and 188 pounds on the troll and a 45-pound yellowfin chunking. The Lindenkohl was giving up some bigeyes along with a few white marlin. There were also some white marlin caught in the Baltimore Saturday. The surf is about the same as last week, with croakers being the easiest to catch especially at the Cape May Point jetties.There are still plenty of fluke on the Point as well. Most are small but a few keepers have been caught on the jetties and at Sunset Beach. By the way, the last paragraph of the Jim's Tackle report that appeared in the print version of Friday's Ristori Report was something left over from May, when black drum were being caught. I didn't submit it, and am still trying to figure out how it got printed.

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