First Fluke of the season

peter632 · Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 9:25 am Post subject: First Fluke of the season

Took the boat out on the Sound for the first time this season. My lack of success continues with Stripers. I was out at Westbrook. There were other boats out there, but did not see too much activity.

But, caught our first fluke off of Long Sand Shoal. It was a short, but it did look like there were more fish down there. We are going back tomorrow and will see what we can do. Cool

aqualung · Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 11:21 am Post subject:

At least you broke the ice with the short fluke Peter.
How deep were you fishing? Using spinners? Jigs? tipped with squid?
Better luck next trip

peter632 · Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 7:33 pm Post subject:

Yep. At least we are on the board. We were between 30 - 50 ft using jigs with squid and some sand worms.

Tomorrow looks nice, so we'll see how that goes.

aqualung · Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 9:12 pm Post subject:

Good luck tomorrow, if you come across any bunker or hickory shad strips they have worked very well for me in the past.

peter632 · Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject:

Bunker or shad strips for fluke? I hadn't heard that before. I will give it a shot. The bait shop I went to had fresh bunker, so I guess I could have used that?

I did go out, it was kind of windy, but not too rough. I only caught two fish, one rake fish and one fluke. But, I am not complaining. That fluke was 19 1/2" on the money ( 19 3/4" with his mouth open ).

So as my father says, if you can't be good be lucky!

tbob55 · Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 7:09 pm Post subject:

I am no fluke expert but doesnt squid with a mummy work real good too?????

peter632 · Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 7:57 pm Post subject:

I have used that before and it works pretty well. But, my bait shop had no mummies.

aqualung · Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 10:48 pm Post subject:

carp13 · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:29 am Post subject:

tbob55 · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:54 am Post subject:

I cant do anything here without gettin comments from the freekin Windsor peanut gallery........guess he still upset he got SMOKED a couple weeks ago.

aqualung · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:18 pm Post subject: