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Detour66 · #1 07-18-2019, 05:13 PM

So far a lot of reports for Fluke have been pretty much all shorts and a keeper here and there. There are some 4-8 lbers caught also but that seems to be the exception. Now there also have been reports of 10 plus lbers being caught by I would think fisherman that are sharpies. Do you think these fish are caught of the Jersey coast or are they taking a ride east? And if they are being caught off the Jersey coast do you think they are being caught mostly in deeper water or its just the case of really knowing what you are doing and thinking beyond the box or maybe just plan luck? Thanks in advance! Tight lines.

Rich · #2 07-18-2019, 07:40 PM

Even if you know it all, there is always luck involved. Right place at the right time.

Rich · #3 07-18-2019, 07:41 PM

Even if you know it all, there is always luck involved. Right place at the right time.

Pennsy Guy · #4 07-18-2019, 11:04 PM

Truthfully I don't know but for me it was dumb luck...My first ever fluke was a doormat and it's been downhill ever since...that was back in '50 or '51 just north of the Jerome Ave. bridge in Margate...

AndyS · #5 07-19-2019, 12:28 AM

Biggest fluke I ever saw was on a tilefish trip out of Montauk.

bunkatabunka · #6 07-19-2019, 08:20 AM

My biggest fluke ever was 9.5 and was plucked from an ocean reef last summer. I've been donating bucktails to that reef at an alarming pace with no such luck ever since.

Luck is a factor. It is fishing after all.

Gerry Zagorski · #7 07-19-2019, 08:46 AM

A lot of big fish being caught in Montauk and Nantucket shoals right now...Seems to me we have a lot of fish around here but all shorts... Hoping that means those fish will be ready for us next year or the year after...

porgylber · #8 07-19-2019, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by bunkatabunka

My biggest fluke ever was 9.5 and was plucked from an ocean reef last summer. I've been donating bucktails to that reef at an alarming pace with no such luck ever since.

Luck is a factor. It is fishing after all.

Funny that you mention this. It seems that this year I have lost more rigs than in previous years. It’s like my hooks and sinkers are attracted to rocks and wrecks.