| Written by Capt.Allen   |
| Sunday, 05 August 2012 05:59 |
 Fished the JCSA fluke tournament today w/ a 4 man crew. Decided to run up the beach to some snags and rough stuff that we haven't fished in around a month.Left the dock @ 545 - First piece we hit we picked a few keepers and shorts, but it wasn't really that good so we moved on. Next piece was more life, more shorts and more keepers. Pounded that area hard for over an hour picking keepers w/ some nice 3-5# cookie cutters mixed in, hoping to find that "one" fish there. Didn't happen. Ran off to a deeper snag, more of the same: Keepers n shorts, w/ some cookie cutters thrown in topped by a couple of bigger fish just shy of 5#. Still couldn't find that one. Ran off even further to a high spot/snag and was by ourselves - got a real nice pick going topping off our limit by 10:15AM - we then started culling. Just after that, I had a real WEIRD bite and the fish burst up to the top - it was a nice thesher 100-150# or so that hit the bucktail and made 2 crazy jumps right behind the boat, the crazy beast pealed line like there was no tomorrow, then I gained a little, then another jump got the leader wrapped on the tail and popped off. Great little battle and nice surprise, but we didn't get the fish. Back to flukin', more of the same, nice fish culling out smaller ones but just couldn't find that one. By 12:30 the south wind and S current together made for a real fast drift in the deep, so we bounced around inshore picking a few more would-be keepers but again couldn't find a big fish. Called it a day around 330. We wound up with 36 keeper fluke to 4 3/4#, only keeping our legal limit. We also had about 6 keeper seabass. Fred was high hook with 12 keepers, and Brian had the 2 top fish both around 4 3/4#. Out of the fish we kept, about half were in that "cookie cutter" range. It was a great day of fluking - just couldn't find that one fish that would've put us in the $$$. Thems are the breaks!! |
