7/3: PPD Shark Trip Due to WX!

7/1:  Had George Wilson and Andy S from NJFishing as well as Chris W his son Mike and Butch S with his son Braden on for a FTYP trip. Ran N again and set up where we had them yesterday - most of the crew elected to start by dragging bait and we had immediate action - loads of fluke with some nice keepers in the mix right away. We worked the same general area and kept the pick going until we lost the drift.

We made a few more wiggles and found more, but the steady pick we had slowed a bit. Around lunch time we ran offshore a bit to fish a rockpile in 50' and found some much nicer fish - we had a handful there in the 4-6 # range topped by. 7.5 #er.We then ran back inshore to finish the day where we had the crazy bite yesterday afternoon but the bite was dominated by more shorts but we scratched out 2 more.

By days end we easily boated 150+ fluke if not more and boxed 31. Plus a few seabass. Another excellent day of fluke fishing - ya can't beat this right now! 

6/30:  Had the Saltwater Anglers of Bergen County on today for a FTYP trip. Ran up north and found a brisk NNW wind - started in around 50' off LB and had a steady pick of short fluke. Made 2 more drifts and did the same thing so we made a move further north and offshore. Drift was WICKED fast with a N current coupled w/ the NNW wind, so we shifted in shore to get out of the current and get out of the wind a bit. Found a good pick again in around 30-45' this time we had keepers in the mix. Got 1-2 a drift, which made for a nice steady pick. By lunchtime, the wind dropped out and we switched the guys over to bucktails, and continued to catch.

At 1:30 or so the wind became "light and variable" and we started drifting all over the place, so we shifted offshore to the deep and the S wind started blowing a bit, coupled w/ that N current so we had a dead-on wind against - but we had a few bites topped by Walter's 28" 8.2# mini-doormat, but that was it. Back we went inshore to some #'s we caught fish at last week and it was game on - drop and reel for the next hour with a 50/50 mix of keepers and shorts, several fish over 4#. We stuck with this till it was time to go home - great bite and it was great to leave them biting.

Called it a day just after 3 and when we got back to the dock we had 33 keepers in the box plus 1 seabass. We had 6 fish over 5#, alot of those cookie cutter 3-5#ers to top off the box with the bigger fish and a bunch of 19-21" fish as well.  Congrats to Walter with his 8.2#er - he also had his limit as did Dennis N. Dennis "the breather" had 7 keepers and John T had 6. It was a terrific way to start the summer with a great group of guys - thanks for coming down!!!!