The Fluke are Coming!

[Blackfish Doug]

When I lived in NY 10 years ago one of my favorite spots was the Cholera Banks in late July & early August. You needed perfect drifting conditions being the debt of water. But I had fantastic trips there when the conditions were right. A odd big Codfish or ling or Sea Bass was not uncommon in that area as well. If you wanted to bucktail out there you needed the heavy bucktails 6 to 8 oz. But that area was a great drag bait area if you liked fishing for fluke out there that way. I also caught Fluke in the 3 sisters area,Yankee wreck & G&D wreck area as well all very deep areas that hold fluke in the summer. Just bring your heavy gear if you fish there it's not uncommon to run into something other then big Fluke out there. I also one time while Codfishing out in Montauk in mid February had a trip on the Viking where the Cod were not cooperating somebody on board caught what we thought was a odd Fluke. This was well over 20 years ago before we had seasons on Fluke so keeping the Fluke was not a problem. What happened that day was it was a perfect day for drifting & the Fluke wanted to bite. Quite a few Fluke were caught that day all real big ones as well there were quite a few in the 10lb plus category. We were fishing Cox's Ledge that day but it was one of those rare days when everything was perfect conditions for fishing that area that day. They went back the next day & the fish were gone but it can happen.