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Well.....June already and not a single post about the 2024 Fluking.

I start us off. Finally got the boat back in the water after a long winter and spring of pain and rehabilitation. I couldn't have done it without my friends and fishing partners John and Dan.
The hauler showed up yesterday as promised at 7:30am and shortly after she was floating. Quick check of everything and she was on her way to her summer slip....set up the dock lines and such and it was off to run her a bit and prospect around in the bay to see what's around. First drift was fairly close to the dock and before Dan and I could wet a line, John had several shorts already in the boat. Fished this location until the tide ran too hard against the wind all but eliminating our drift. Bounced around to several early season places I like and after a few hours we had 4 keepers to 24".

Not a bad wat to start the season.
 
We transitioned from NJ fluking in the Shark River to ocean fluking off Long Branch. Not yet a hot bite but size has been impressive. It's good that u can keep Seabass up to 6/19, they're everywhere. Last Saturday I had quite a thrill while fluking , fish went on numerous runs , turned out to be 5' brown shark,,, a thrill when jigging
 
Start getting serious about fluke this weekend. The spring ocean bass bite was too good.

Messed around early for a couple fish. Nothing great.
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Have run a few charters for clients in the early going with some nice fluke up just under 7 lbs on the scale. All fish caught in the skinny water in moriches bay. Slip gut and weeds were real issues early on but have seemed to get a lot better recently.

Here are some of the pictures from the trips. Note* my fun trip with son he got all three keepers and I got 1 short. He wanted to do a contest this year where we count how many keepers and short we catch when we fish together. He has an early lead on me lol.


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Aqualina II
Charter from 6/8
Heavy SW wind made it challenging but we bounced around and got a few here and there and then found an excellent bite in the skinny.

4 man limit of fat moriches bay fluke to 22 inches.
18 keepers in all ORL.

All caught on light jigs.

The bay bite is starting to really get going.




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Having a tough time culling through all the shorts here on the north side. Fished the Golf course to Asharoken this morning. Plenty of action but nothing for the box. Gulp sand eels were can't miss. Fished a few of my deep drops for the same result. The amount of bait in the water is crazy. I will be back at it in a day or two. Larger fish should be heading this way sooner or later........... I hope.

regards Holty
 
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Having a tough time culling through all the shorts here on the north side. Fished the Golf course to Asharoken this morning. Plenty of action but nothing for the box. Gulp sand eels were can't miss. Fished a few of my deep drops for the same result. The amount of bait in the water is crazy. I will be back at it in a day or two. Larger fish should be heading this way sooner or later........... I hope.

regards Holty
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Head east. There's plenty of fish there. I also saw a fleet working of Callahan's. Good luck and watch the heat!
 
holty said:
Having a tough time culling through all the shorts here on the north side. Fished the Golf course to Asharoken this morning. Plenty of action but nothing for the box. Gulp sand eels were can't miss. Fished a few of my deep drops for the same result. The amount of bait in the water is crazy. I will be back at it in a day or two. Larger fish should be heading this way sooner or later........... I hope.

regards Holty
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Just got in from a quick morning run on the JJ. Lots of short life and sand eels everywhere. Not sure what happened but it died all of a sudden. We had incoming tide, high was 1134. I was going to stay on for the afternoon trip, but I decided to call it a day.
 
First trip of the season

Headed out into a fairly lumpy ocean today with KenScot and Kevin/Longcast. Got to the grounds soon enough and found it quite comfortable, despite the SW swell and wind chop on top. The full moon gave us a wicked undercurrent, forcing us to segue up from 4 oz jigs to the 8oz-sinkered B/S Rigs we finished with.

It was an incoming bite, all over by 11:30 or so. Strange, because this time of the season its the outgoing that is usually the better tide. This 19" limit is cramping my style - a bit anyway, as we would have boat limited by 10:30 with last season's 18.5", 4/man.

So anyway, we ended up with 7 fat keepers to 24", and a bunch of ling fillet, which wifey is turning into "Toaster Oven Ling Oreganata" as I type this. The fishing should be better next weekend off the moon, and hopefully with a better drift. Still, not bad for a first trip. And the boat ran "total aces," which to me is very satisfying, after 2 months of stressful work.

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