RJ's Boat Fishing Log 2005
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April 13
:
I took a last minute flounder trip on
last Wednesday (4/13) on the
Angler in Howard Beach. Weather started off perfect with sunny warm skies
and great company. Bill and his son from Levittown spent both trips on the
Angler today celebrating young Bill's 16th birthday and they were rewarded
with the pool winner on the morning trip along with some keepers as well.
I The morning trip had 20 flounder with a dozen of them keepers on
the boat. I sailed the afternoon trip with Ken from the Bayside Anglers and
Grover Howell of Freeport along with some other great guys and Capt. Ken
Tokar of the angler also sailed along with Capt. Tony Negron and mate Artie.
I caught three flounder on my afternoon excursion, one was a keeper and
there were probably eight keepers on the afternoon trip with as many shorts.
The winds came out of the south at 3 p.m. and it got COLD again. Check out
the pics.
April 17: J-Bay Flounder
:
I got
to Smitty’s Sunday (4/17) around 8 a.m. and while
I was getting ready for a boat, a local bucktailing fluke sharpie Steve LeFlure came in and after a brief conversation ended up fishing together in
his 23 foot Hydra-Sport. A little more comfortable I’ll say, but the wind
was a non factor, it was bright, sunny, and warm and a rental skiff would
have worked just as well. This way Delores got to rent the skiff to someone
else. Steve was a super guy and it was the first time we fished together and
we worked well as a team double anchoring broadside with the current etc,
etc.. The fishing was slow with two fish on each drop and all within the
first 25 minutes, a peck or two after that and then nothing for the next 30
minutes. It was a game of hopscotch as each drop produced no more than two
fish in the boat.
The flounder are not ganged up yet or in a hurry to move. No schoolie bass
caught so there is not reason for them to start hi-tailing it out of J-Bay.
We ended up with nine flounder, two were shorts and one or two near 2 pounds
and all on the sandworms. I used the five gallon chum pot and even that was
not enough to convince them to turn the feedbag on. We had a fish or two on
the end of the outgoing and the better action was had on the first 1-1/2
hours of the incoming. One old time had one flounder and skate on the
incoming and eight flounder in this 1-1/2 window of the incoming. The
average catches on the Smitty’s rental skiffs were one to four fish but
nothing more than that today. All in all a GREAT day, I have flounder for
dinner and I met a great new fishing buddy!
June 9 / Moriches Flounder:
SW10 to 16 knots, 88 degrees inland, 78 on the water. Water Clean and clear:
I hit the flounder at Moriches Bay today (6/9) as we filmed an
episode of The Fishing Line with Gary Grunseich of Silly Lily Fishing
Station. This June flounder bite is incredible every year and we got in on
it with the film crew. We finished with 20 keeper flounder to 2 pounds and
saw many 3 pounders caught around us. Sandworms and mussels did the trick
but they really wanted the sandworms. This was all on the incoming tide with
the last 1-1/2 hours of this tide producing 12 fish alone with numerous
throwbacks and legitimate keepers we also threw back.
August 3: Winds SW10, Air 94,
Water 73-79: I sailed Wednesday (8/3) night with Capt. Al Ristori
of
the
NJ Star Ledger newspaper and we hit the Sandy Hook rips aboard his good
friend Gene’s boat. We went worming the rips with three way rigs armed with
2/0 hooks and sandworms. We scored quite a few fluke before dark, some to 21
inches and then it was all bass from 24 to 32 inches on almost every drift
off the Gateway area of the Sandy Hook beaches. You could have hit us with a
good cast on some drifts as the rips set up close to the beach. The bite was
great and we filmed this for a TV show to air in the coming weeks. Excellent
action and we were done by 11 p.m. with over 20 bass caught!
