May 11:
Winds: E 10 to 14, Seas: 2 to 3's sloppy & rolly:
I took a trip on the Flamingo 3 today out of Brooklyn for bass and
blues. Left the dock shortly after 6:30 a.m., no life till we got past the
jetty as we were on the slack tide. On the change to outgoing then we had a
good two to 2-1/2 hours or so of action. I had a pair of keepers to 32
inches, 18 anglers had 30 keepers some shorts and plenty of 2 to 5 pound
bluefish and the whole thing died around 10 a.m. with just short pickings of
bluefish. We were back at the dock before 1 p.m. as the fishing just died in
the wind against tide situation as we rolled our asses off in an east wind
sea. Pool winner was 18 pounds. Met lots of fans of the radio and TV show
and it was actually my first full day trip of the season on the ocean. I am
tired.
May 18:
Winds S/SW 10 to 20 down to 10, flat ocean. I took a trip on the Flamingo 3 today out of
Brooklyn for bass and blues. Left the
dock shortly after 6:30 a.m., no life
till we got past the jetty as we were on the slack tide. On the change to
outgoing then we had a good two to 2-1/2 hours or so of action. I had a pair
of keepers to 32 inches, 18 anglers had 30 keepers some shorts and plenty of
2 to 5 pound bluefish and the whole thing died around 10 a.m. with just
short pickings of bluefish. We were back at the dock before 1 p.m. as the
fishing just died in the wind against tide situation as we rolled our asses
off in an east wind sea. Pool winner was 18 pounds. Met lots of fans of the
radio and TV show and it was actually my first full day trip of the season
on the ocean. I am tired.
May 25
: Winds S5, Bright sun outgoing
tide. I hit the Flamingo 3 in Gerritsen Beach Thursday (5/25) and
this is going to be my Thursday party boat from now on. I was going to go to
Greenport for fluke, but with the Thursday night radio show…I wanted to be
close enough to home where an accident, flat tire, traffic jam etc. won’t
cause me to miss my own radio show. Well anyway we had 33 people on the boat
today and it was just too nice. No wind, bright skies and while the bass
were at the jetty and Tin Can again this morning, they were flighty and the
fishing was picky. Every fish caught was a keeper bass for the first couple
of hours but it was a slow pick and getting slower by the quarter hour and
slowing quickly. We headed down the Jersey Shore and did find some schools
of blues mixed with bass and again picky. You get on them and catch, they
break up and it was a game with them. We did see bass chasing rainbait on
the surface a few times and following jigs to the boat but very non
committal. Late morning we found the mother lode of bluefish down around Sea
Bright with fish all over the top and the boat loaded up on the bluefish 2
to 9 pounds with an odd bass once in a while. Super-duper fishing on several
drifts that last 30 minutes sometimes. The day finished with 33 anglers
scoring 43 keeper bass to 23 pounds and I have my limit of two bass to 16
pounds, a short and I stopped bluefishing I was getting
so tired of catching them..
June 5: Winds NE5, Tide: Outgoing:
Seas-Flat: I took a trip to Huntington on the James Joseph today
(6/5) and as always
was
not disappointed by the fluking. This is the time of year where you bring
one-half, three-quarter and 1-ounce bucktails, light tackle of 12 pound test
and the boat hits the shallow waters and humps of the Sound to bucktail
fluke. Fifteen anglers all limited out today with my fish the third largest
on the boat today. Pool winner was John Margaritas with a 7 pounder, Eddie
was second with a 6 pounder and mine topped 5 pounds. I had a limit, threw
back a ton of fish 15 to 18 inches (yes released keepers) and of course a
ton of sea robins. There were times we were sitting on billions of sand eels
all across the surface with diving terns, rolling and jumping cocktail blues
and of course fluke. Good fishing and another great trip.
