no keeper fluke yet for me but

[pequa1]

now up to five keeper weaks, which I vastly prefer to catch and eat, lol. Biggest just 22" but what a fight on my light setup. much less slip gut and weed today with a NW wind but I hit just after the start of the outgo for a change. wonder how all he boats did that blew past to stop just a half mile away off a well known spot which always has fishing boats.

 

[Macks]

now up to five keeper weaks, which I vastly prefer to catch and eat, lol. Biggest just 22" but what a fight on my light setup. much less slip gut and weed today with a NW wind but I hit just after the start of the outgo for a change. wonder how all he boats did that blew past to stop just a half mile away off a well known spot which always has fishing boats.

That’s awesome,hope they work there way east,nothing but blues here so far..

 

[pequa1]

I only got the one blue the other day, a 19" one. Only one short fluke for me . Its been all weakfish and I love it !

 

[george]

With few fluke around the weakfish will be the target. That's great you found them. Personally I'd rather eat a fluke.

 

[pequa1]

To me, fluke have to be embellished. Now their cousin, the flounder, that is another story. So sweet. And the fight from a fluke, if you can call it that, pales by comparison to a weak. Fluke save their fight for the net and yak, no mad dashes, no out of the water jumping, they fight like a skate, lol. JMHO of course boss.

 

[george]

@pequa1 there is some truth in that statement, but there’s no better feeling than your jig feeling stuck on the bottom and then getting that distinctive throb. Then you can't move it and you start to feel those big head shakes . . . I think I need to catch a big fluke ? Already!

 

[captmike28]

To me, fluke have to be embellished. Now their cousin, the flounder, that is another story. So sweet. And the fight from a fluke, if you can call it that, pales by comparison to a weak. Fluke save their fight for the net and yak, no mad dashes, no out of the water jumping, they fight like a skate, lol. JMHO of course boss.

While I must agree that in most cases the fight of a Weakfish will put most Fluke to shame remember, just like people all fish seem to have their own "personality". Some little guys fight way out of their weight class and other jumbos merely follow the line straight to the boat.

I also concur with George that when you think your jig has hung the bottom and then the bottom starts to surge you know you have a real good one and most of those Fluke will give a good accounting of themselves. As far as Fluke never going "airborne" you might have missed my post from a Montauk trip last summer. I had a 6-7# Fluke on my line and one of my charter customers attempted to net the fish and missed on the first pass. That fish freaked out so much that it literally flew out of the water so high it cleared the gunnel, and I have a lot of freeboard! Amazingly, as the fish began it's descent from the sky the customer redeemed himself making a "basket style" catch of this crazy fish!!

 

[Roccus7]

... other jumbos merely follow the line straight to the boat.

So true, while fishing off on Hortons 6 years ago my host hooked up and I asked, "Want me to grab the net?" "Nah, not even a keeper." and then suddenly he dives for the net and scoops up a 6+ fluke, his personal best. "Why didn't you ask me to net it for you?" "I didn't know it was that big until it came up to the boat, it didn't even pull!'

 

[pequa1]

Remind me, is this where the expression or idiom "its a fluke" comes from ?

Just a fluke - phrase meaning and origin

www.phrases.org.uk

 

[pequa1]

I should have added that the majority of the fish that I have taken home so far fell to the hook only no lead white bucktail with a little mylar teaser, tipped with a SMALL pink Gulp. Must be that the backbay bait down there is still quite small.

 

[george]

@captmike28 We had a weird one this past week when a very experienced fisherman decided to try and swing a 20 plus inch fish into the boat by grabbing the like. Snap, so there's the fluke just sitting there on top of the water. Had the net been set in from him he would swim right in. But a not-so-experienced angler tried netting him above and the fish did a quick dive.

It's fishin'

 

[pequa1]

Last year I had a 20" fluke swim backwards out of the net. on a fast drift with the yak, net in one hand rod in the other, I almost had to do a forward somersault to get him back in the net.

 

[Chinacat]

Years ago while fluke fishing the flats in the east cut of Moriches inlet when the size was in the 14-15" range, I was bringing in a fish and another fish was following it. Somehow my wife managed to get both fish into the net for a double header of only one fish that was hooked.

 

[pequa1]

remember how you could sometimes not even eat the skinny belly of those 14"ers ? I just chuckle at the size limits of some of the species south of us...

 

[captmike28]

Last year I had a 20" fluke swim backwards out of the net. on a fast drift with the yak, net in one hand rod in the other, I almost had to do a forward somersault to get him back in the net.

There is no doubt that a Fluke's antics at netting time are some of the most comical parts of fishing for them.
Capt. Neil Faulkner told me he too had experienced on a few occasions the apparent "reverse gear" Fluke possess!