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  1. Leprechaun

    Post your 2019-2025 Fluke Pix & Trip Reports Here!

    Yep, the Maine Lobsta' Boat Races are really something. 500+ cubic inch Chevy big blocks, no real power-limiting rules - just raw torque. Plenty of vids of those boats going airborne and flipping over. That's the price of driving a hull to three and four times their design speed. Don't know if...
  2. Leprechaun

    Post your 2019-2025 Fluke Pix & Trip Reports Here!

    The fluke fishing is less than great, so here's a quick vid that I found amusing. I wonder how much power would be needed to make my boat that fast? 8-)
  3. Leprechaun

    Post your 2019-2025 Fluke Pix & Trip Reports Here!

    Me too. Somewhere in the garage, buried under a pile of Corvette/Shamrock/Ford marine parts/fishing junque. Maybe. 🤷‍♂️
  4. Leprechaun

    Post your 2019-2025 Fluke Pix & Trip Reports Here!

    Those had to be SOME sandeels. Those green bananas were like a foot long. . . :unsure:
  5. Leprechaun

    Post your 2019-2025 Fluke Pix & Trip Reports Here!

    Yes, the green banana was all the rage back then. I don't know what the bluefish thought they were seeing, but it sure worked.
  6. Leprechaun

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    I go back further than that, as do you, I suspect. I remember the night bluefish chumming with cut butters and smelt on Ambrose Ridge and daily daytime slaughters at the old Acid Grounds. The Patchogue Grounds came later. I was a mate on the BlueFin II back then (very late 70's I believe) - and...
  7. Leprechaun

    Post your 2019-2025 Fluke Pix & Trip Reports Here!

    One more season like this and my title will be "former boat owner." True fact. I have a dozen friends with boats. I can go catch the same nothing with them, most anytime. . . and no two months of hard work every Spring.🤕
  8. Leprechaun

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    George - Depends on what you consider "turn on." I've had multiple 40+ fish trips fishing solo - all of those trips coming home with just a single fish in the cooler. Last two trips I would have easily limited, had they left the size at 19". But they didn't - and as you well know, I don't cheat...
  9. Leprechaun

    Post your 2019-2025 Fluke Pix & Trip Reports Here!

    This is getting Monotonous Different day (and week), same result. Sailed solo yday to my "office" for a glorious weather day on the water. Had them coming fast and furious, but not 19.5". The majority were really fat 17.5-19" fish, had to have caught 40+ pcs. Did get one real nice 24" fish...
  10. Leprechaun

    Significant shoaling, Manasquan Inlet

    Just unbelievable. :mad:
  11. Leprechaun

    Significant shoaling, Manasquan Inlet

    Obviously we don't pay enough taxes here on LI. Our senior senator Chuck-U Schumer is the freakin' Majority Leader and HE can't get this done? He sux - plain and simple. If he had a son that transited JI every weekend, it would be done toot-sweet!
  12. Leprechaun

    Post your 2019-2025 Fluke Pix & Trip Reports Here!

    Well, so much for the best laid plans. Broke the inlet this morning with Capt. Mike and KenScot aboard, got off a few miles and made the call to turn around - haven't done that in at least 8 seasons. A really confused ocean, 3-4's, with occasional 5's and the forecast calling for a worsening...
  13. Leprechaun

    Post your 2019-2025 Fluke Pix & Trip Reports Here!

    Yep. Not me though. Not yet anyways. We’ll see what’s what mañana.
  14. Leprechaun

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    My buddy had a very good day yesterday fishing relatively inshore off LI. More than a two man limit to 24". So maybe there's hope for August.
  15. Leprechaun

    Any Opinions On The New Revo Baitcaster?

    Opinion? Of course I have an opinion. It's very pretty. There, that's my opinion. :rolleyes: The above is true, but my actual opinion is: don't buy it for the kind of inshore fishing we do here on LI. But not because it's not a sturdy reel, because it is. It's that ridiculously fast 7.3:1...
  16. Leprechaun

    Jones Inlet Claims its first Boat of the Season

    It's only happened to me once, years ago coming home from a blackfish expedition to the West. I believe Capt. Mike was aboard that day. There was a big roll on, and that, coupled with a brisk SW breeze and strong outgoing tide had them really built up. I mean REALLY built up. Bow fully tabbed...
  17. Leprechaun

    Jones Inlet Claims its first Boat of the Season

  18. Leprechaun

    Jones Inlet Claims its first Boat of the Season

    I used that "jetty channel" for 26 of the 28 years of owning this boat. In more recent years I always stayed 150-200' off to clear the sandbar that built up there. That channel closed up a couple of seasons ago. BUT - I heard that one of the locals with 35' T.Jason still uses it all the time...
  19. Leprechaun

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    Maybe an improvement? If you can call it that. Sailed solo yesterday on a really nice ocean. Tried some open bottom drifts for nothing at all, then over to some rough bottom that I rarely fish for a bunch of short fluke and biscuits - nothing flat over 17", nothing black & blue over 14". Went...
  20. Leprechaun

    Jones Inlet Claims its first Boat of the Season

    Actually, I'm surprised it took this long. Had the VHF off and WFAN-FM on pretty much all day, due to the incessant BS spewed on 68, so I missed all the chatter. Coming home thru JI at 3:30 yesterday, I saw more than a few USCG, Bay Constable and other such governmental boats running around the...

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