How Did You Catch Your Biggest Fluke?

[Bucktailboys.com]

After reading the poll about how big the biggest fluke was I thought this might be an interesting poll. Hope it will help me beat my PB.

[SaltLife1980]

Bucktail tipped with Gulp.. believe 2oz bottom and 1/4oz top.. In my favorite color;) :D

[coltsfan61]

Squid strip with a big live killie ,old school style!

[makokeith]

Dead sticking, on a gulp grub teaser...8 1/2lbs.

[Islander II]

Almost 13lbs on a live snapper. Plenty of big fish on buck tails too. Can't wait!

[hartattack]

Peanut bunker off of the now-closed Keyport pier. Blues were crashing the peanuts, I had to land the 8.5 lb'er with a crab net :eek:

[Canyonfish]

Kind of ashamed to admit it ..... we were trolling Stretch 25's off Sandy Hook Channel and ran to close to the False Hook ... needless to say the Streches were dragging bottom in 18 feet of water ... thats when we hooked up with my biggest Fluke ... just shy of 8 lbs. :o

Wish I was at least targeting fluke when I caught it:p

[Capt. Chappo]

FRESH squid & Killie.

[CadiShackFishing]

Old Schooling before bucktailing got me hooked. But some real nice fish now that i only bucktail. :D

[bunker dunker]

Point Pleasent Side Of The Inlet 1974.live Snapper 10lbs 8oz.

[jlrotary]

My 2 biggest both weighed 8.5 lbs

First one on 1/4 oz bucktail w/ gulp mullet
Second on 4 oz bucktail with whole squid

[GDubya07]

Plain old Dumb - Stupid Googan Luck - That's how I Roll

Better to be Lucky than good

Tee Hee G-:cool:

[Arbutis]

Shot him in the back with a spear at about 20 feet. It was buried under seaweed and shells and I could barely make out that there was the shape of a doormat right in front of my face. Ba-Blamo!

[Squid N Killie]

Had my biggest fluke ever last summer bouncing a 4 ounce spro with a teaser 18 inches above the bucktail. Caught him on the teaser hook that had a 6 inch Gulp grub in new penny color. Was 10 pounds even.

[Reel Class]

~9#

9/2001

Sand Bottom

Live Peanut

Bam :cool:

(this literally contradicts everything we do now - on my boat and how we fish - as fluke fishermen LOL)

Not for nothing, but the other 20 + fish I've taken over 7# have all come on bucktails and teasers :)

[rat"BASS"tard]

First 10LBer came on live bait

but my biggest and $$$ fish a 11.47Lb came on a monster 8oz bucktail in
100' of water took 1st an calcutta !! in a 1 fish tourney. :D

bolth fish were tourney winning fish but 1st one was a 3 fish tourney that won 1st place but missed the calcutatta to a 12Lber.

[007Hookem]

Gulp grub landed me an 8.5 lb flattie. Killer action on the gulps last season.

[thefishermanmechanic]

Whole squid dragging on a ff rig!

[FishingIsFun]

Kroc spoon, tipped with a whole squid :D

[LegalEyes]

Practice, and being out on the water. ;D.

I'm not counting till I catch my mat... and eventually Ill get over the mate who couldn't net what would have been my first.

[Capt Sal]

Bluefish hook with wire line and a bunker chunk.Fishing for bass on Flynns Knoll and the bite slowed down.My father rigged up a 4-0 reel with wire so the kids could catch some blues.I took the rod let it down 17' ft and thump.Up comes a 34'' 14lb fluke.It didn't stand a chance on that rod with 40lb. ande and a wire leader.lolSame thing on Shrewsbury Rocks no current and a 14 plus on a chunk!Pure luck lol:)

[Falcon]

Squid and single Kalli... Flattie was very hungry....:D

[makosnax]

Current was too strong to hold with a 6oz bucktail ( biggest i had with me) so i went old school with 8 oz sinker spearing and squid 11.2#. The rest 9#,8.5#,8.4# all on bucktails.

Just for the record. I too have seen a fluke caught trolling a stretch 25 that was hitting bottom.

[buckfin732]

11.2 pounds in 2008 on some lumps of belmar with a 6 oz bucktail tipped with a whole squid

[hammerin hank]

Sea girt reef, 2006, spearing tipped teaser hook above a 5oz chartreuse buck tail. Location is everything, I was south on the reef at the eastern edge, ate July.....

[NJ219bands]

On the ocean side of the Manasquan Inlet north jetty with fluke belly on a platinum blonde fly as a teaser with a 2 oz white bucktail and hook strip pork rind and fluke belly instead of a sinker 12.5 lb. Also 11.2 lb on whole squid on Captain Paul's boat off IBSP. 9.9 lb on live snapper in Manasquan Inlet.

[Pennsy Guy]

A long time ago(1950) I was 12 using a flounder rig with squid strips...a rig back then looked like a spreader bar with bank sinker in middle and a mono leadered hook attached to either end...don't know how much it weighed but it barely fit in the net and did bend it double...sucker was huge...:) :)

[broken bobber]

Squid and single Kalli... Flattie was very hungry....:D

bwaaaaaahahahahahaha...... :D

[acl1075]

To my surprise I found myself in this months Salt Water Magazine representing NJ in their East Coast Fluke Article. Nick Honaschefsky happened to be on the trip this past Summer and got some good pics. The fluke weighed just under 8lbs and hit the bucktail tipped with a 4" gulp swim mullet and fluke belly strip. Had one year before on bucktail jumbo killie that weighed 8.3lbs. Oh yeah almost forgot both fish were caught aboard The Gambler with Capt. Bob at the helm. Thanks Bob see you soon.

[stevelikes2fish]

August 2012
Manasquan Inlet wall dragging 4" Gulp
12-1/2 #, 32-1/2"

July 2012
Elberon 4oz. bucktail with 6" Gulp
8-1/2#, 26-1/2"

[tilewave]

trolling a chartreusse stretch ( 25?) close to the beach a little south of deal. just under 9 lbs

[jmurr711]

big piece of clam bottom hook while sea bass fishing when I was 10 in july on the D with my dad. I had an 8lbs my dad had an 11lber both on clam.

[Canyonfish]

trolling a chartreusse stretch ( 25?) close to the beach a little south of deal. just under 9 lbs


Ah ha .. so my just South of 8 lb Fluke on a strech off of false hook was not a fluke ..... it happened again ;)

Maybe this is a real technique for big Fluke! :)

[reefsquater]

Dead sticking an old ball and chain with a small whole squid

[JayO]

August 2001 - Live snapper and piece of squid, Sandy Hook Reef... 8.5 lbs :D

[Gremlin2009]

live snapper. fenwick rod, abu garcia 6500 reel loaded with 30lb sufix braid, top shot of 30lb fluorcarbon leader, 6/0 gamakatsu hook

[ryanh908]

Tsunami Squid rig with jumbo smelt - Ambrose Channel 9 lbs

[giantfan]

Early May, Montauk NY. Fluke belly strip on a fish finder rig.

I sure wish the season was open in early May like the old days. There were some big fluke chasin the squid back in the day. A bunch of us would run our boats out there and fish for a long weekend. Yeah.... the good old days!

[HDMarc]

My ex-girlfriend at a bar, 110 pounds using multiple shots of Jack Daniels:D All kidding aside, probably @ 8 pounds on a killie/squid combo inside Sandy Hook

[Pink Avet Girl]

With the Captain Bobby Quinn special "Rig of Death"...

[flyersnfluke]

In Ambrose not far from swinburne island on a killie/squid combo, fish went just shy of 10 lbs. It was a rough day as we couldn't get away from the dogfish and skates, until i felt a good head shake i thought it was a big skate.