captmike28
Well-Known Angler
Three great weather days in a row allowed me to run a string of successful charters and put lots of smiles on my customers faces.
Starting on Friday, the Al party was looking for a mixed bag type trip. We started with the early flood tide at the Race and found very consistent, heavy duty rod bending action. The only down side was it was all Bluefish, really large teen sized Gators and no Bass despite a strong effort by all. Still the young teenage boys, Ethan and Jonah, got quite the workout and were thrilled with the action. Al was happy too as he has a big smoker for such catches. We moved on to fish the balance of the flood on the east side of Gardiners Island hoping to find some Fluke and Sea Bass. On the drops that gave ups a few keepers for me a week ago we found only Porgy. Moving around quite a lot did turn up some Fluke and Sea Bass but unfortunately all were of the short variety. Nevertheless, the entire crew enjoyed the fabulous weather and plenty of action on a variety of species.
Saturday, I had my “A” Team crew of John, Ricky, Sal, and Frank join me for our first Montauk Fluke charter of the season. I had been receiving reports of improved action although it has been somewhat streaky. We hit one of my favorite South side drops to start and never had to move very far for the entire day. The action was amazingly consistent with Fluke and Sea Bass being landed in multiple numbers on every single drift. Although the keeper ratio was a bit low on the fluke side, the quality of the fish made up for it. The foursome decked nearly 50 Fluke with 8 keepers and the top 2 fish going 5.5 and 8.2#. Virtually all the keepers were over 20” in size. The guys also topped off the box with a full boat limit of Sea Bass including a few real nice biscuits in the 3.5# range. Needless to say, they all went home with beautiful fat bags of filet.
Today I had Alan and Amanda and their 3 young children out for a half day bay trip. Starting in the Peconic’s the Porgy bite is still very consistent for a range of sizes from small to medium Scup plus one super-sized 3.5# fish taken by the youngest member of the crew, 7 y/o Hadley! After pounding the Scup for 2 solid hours we finished up the trip with about 90 minutes drifting east of Greenport and Alan’s middle son Jack did manage to find a nice 20” keeper Fluke to add to their catch.
I now have 3 crew members for my spilt Montauk Fluke charter scheduled for Tuesday 8/2 and one more spot remains. Here is your chance at one the to best spots on LI to cash in on some really quality Fluke action. All you have to do is give me a call to sign on!
Capt. Mike
516-317-5423
Starting on Friday, the Al party was looking for a mixed bag type trip. We started with the early flood tide at the Race and found very consistent, heavy duty rod bending action. The only down side was it was all Bluefish, really large teen sized Gators and no Bass despite a strong effort by all. Still the young teenage boys, Ethan and Jonah, got quite the workout and were thrilled with the action. Al was happy too as he has a big smoker for such catches. We moved on to fish the balance of the flood on the east side of Gardiners Island hoping to find some Fluke and Sea Bass. On the drops that gave ups a few keepers for me a week ago we found only Porgy. Moving around quite a lot did turn up some Fluke and Sea Bass but unfortunately all were of the short variety. Nevertheless, the entire crew enjoyed the fabulous weather and plenty of action on a variety of species.
Saturday, I had my “A” Team crew of John, Ricky, Sal, and Frank join me for our first Montauk Fluke charter of the season. I had been receiving reports of improved action although it has been somewhat streaky. We hit one of my favorite South side drops to start and never had to move very far for the entire day. The action was amazingly consistent with Fluke and Sea Bass being landed in multiple numbers on every single drift. Although the keeper ratio was a bit low on the fluke side, the quality of the fish made up for it. The foursome decked nearly 50 Fluke with 8 keepers and the top 2 fish going 5.5 and 8.2#. Virtually all the keepers were over 20” in size. The guys also topped off the box with a full boat limit of Sea Bass including a few real nice biscuits in the 3.5# range. Needless to say, they all went home with beautiful fat bags of filet.
Today I had Alan and Amanda and their 3 young children out for a half day bay trip. Starting in the Peconic’s the Porgy bite is still very consistent for a range of sizes from small to medium Scup plus one super-sized 3.5# fish taken by the youngest member of the crew, 7 y/o Hadley! After pounding the Scup for 2 solid hours we finished up the trip with about 90 minutes drifting east of Greenport and Alan’s middle son Jack did manage to find a nice 20” keeper Fluke to add to their catch.
I now have 3 crew members for my spilt Montauk Fluke charter scheduled for Tuesday 8/2 and one more spot remains. Here is your chance at one the to best spots on LI to cash in on some really quality Fluke action. All you have to do is give me a call to sign on!
Capt. Mike
516-317-5423
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,keeper them comming,, well done,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
