| Written by Capt.Allen   |
| Thursday, 04 August 2011 19:20 |
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8/4: Had Dan Newman and his son Eric come all the way down from Boston to fish with Dan's dad Dick who is from Point - the guys were heading back to Beantown tomorrow AM to catch the Red Sox/Yankees series @ Fenway. Yes, we had a boat full of Red Sox fans today!!Ocean was nasty due to the hard NE wind, and we were forced to stick to the river, so we broke out the trout rods, gulp, and little jig heads/bucktails to target the feisty river flatties. We fished the end of the incoming, slack high and outgoing, and had some very good action at the end of the incoming and slack water. Bites were almost constant, and we usually had 1-2 fish on at a time. Most of the fish however were 14-17", with some smaller, but with the 4-6# line everyone had a blast. 8/3: Had Ray Linfante on with his regular crew for their annual 1/2 day fluke trip today. Ran back out to where we had them yesterday, and found NOTHING. Worked the area over, and caught a total of 3 skates and 1 short fluke. Off to the south, to fish some areas we had some life at a couple of weeks ago, and found more of the same. We finally found a small patch a few miles south on a lump, and worked it over picking a few here and there. Only problem was that most of the fish we picked were in the 16-17.5" range, but we were able to pick 3 keepers to 3# there.
Made a few more moves, and found a couple more shorts, but it was very slow. At noon time we decided to head inside to give the river a quick shot before we called it a day, and boated ~30 shorts nothing bigger than 16". Lots of action for the guys as we boated upwards of 50 fluke, but the keeping part wasn't good at all as we only had the 3 keepers in the 4 hrs we fished. I think the NE breeze today did something to shut the bite off outside as something simply wasn't right with the flukes on the ocean side today. As always Ray's crew was great, and they were a pleasure to have on the boat! |
