[Reelman73088]

I agree with flyers, there's been a big drop in other bottom fish as well. I've been fluking once a week or so from SRIs jetties and I have yet to catch a single skate. In fact I can't honestly remember even seeing someone else getting any either. Robbins were thick in early June for me but that only lasted a few weeks and they were spawning at the time. Since probly mid June I could count on one hand how many Robbins I've caught. Fluking was pretty good in the inlet until Arthur passed by then it shut down and now finally seems to be coming back around. Seems like a weird year this year, bluefish, at least the bigger sized ones didn't stick around like normal and now the boats are chasing large snapper size blues and there's been Bonita around since the second week of July. I'm def no expert but I've never heard of Bonita this early in the summer usually not until mid august or September. I'm pretty sure I read a few reports of macks being caught too not that long ago, which again I never heard of in the summer. I'm 25 so im younger than a lot of the members here so maybe that's how it used to be before I started fishing but seems weird to me. No doubt in my mind that there must be a combination of factors that are throwing the fish off this year. Hopefully it only lasts for this year but who knows.