FLUKE season ?????????

[Scrubby]

I didn't get out all that much and I had zero trips in September.. so...I'm not much help..

[hammer4reel]

Question I asked was not how good your fluke season was, it was how well you did the 3 extended weeks of the season . since we lost over 2 of those to weather, , causing a mass exodus of the fish .

WE had a boat limit every trip plus on 95% of trips in July and August.


after the first week in September we didn't get to fish a fishable day due to weather .

I would have rathered a 4 fish bag limit while the fish were here.


glad to see some guys did have fish in September.


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[TerriMc223]

I caught 3 keepers in the ocean on Labor Day but only a handful of juvenile doormats ( aka Shorts!) for the rest of the season.

I had a couple trips with no fluke at all. The Bay was slow and the ocean was not much better after the crummy weather.

[Detour66]

Sept was pretty much a strike out for me.

[Joey Dah Fish]

I believe I had a limit every trip but one I Sept and also 1 at 12# in fact one trip I had 14 keepers ORL

[dales529]

Originally Posted by hammer4reel

Question I asked was not how good your fluke season was, it was how well you did the 3 extended weeks of the season . since we lost over 2 of those to weather, , causing a mass exodus of the fish .

WE had a boat limit every trip plus on 95% of trips in July and August.


after the first week in September we didn't get to fish a fishable day due to weather .

I would have rathered a 4 fish bag limit while the fish were here.


glad to see some guys did have fish in September.


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Dan
Can you explain how the 4 fish bag would have related to the season opening / closing dates? In that option what dates would our season have been?

i suspect if a 4 fish bag was an option we would have been shut down by a minimum of 3 weeks from last years Sept 5th closure so say closure would have been Aug 15 but my guess is much earlier as an increased bag limit typically equates to many more weeks of quota than a 3 week extension to the season. Unless you can tell me different we would have missed the best fluking of the year

[Blind Archer]

Burned more fuel for fewer fish than any time I can remember. Stayed in the rivers and limited 90 % of the time.

[hartattack]

Originally Posted by Blind Archer

Burned more fuel for fewer fish than any time I can remember. Stayed in the rivers and limited 90 % of the time.

Agreed ^^ , ocean Sept. fluking was poor for me (even in Ambrose) but on Friday b4 season ended we did very well in Shark River. Saved fuel that day

[Irish Jigger]

Sucked!!!

[hammer4reel]

Originally Posted by dales529

Dan
Can you explain how the 4 fish bag would have related to the season opening / closing dates? In that option what dates would our season have been?

i suspect if a 4 fish bag was an option we would have been shut down by a minimum of 3 weeks from last years Sept 5th closure so say closure would have been Aug 15 but my guess is much earlier as an increased bag limit typically equates to many more weeks of quota than a 3 week extension to the season. Unless you can tell me different we would have missed the best fluking of the year

Four fish bag limit would have had you fishing until just after labor day.
would have allowed you an extra fish on every trip you had from May until that closing date.
Gave that up so we could fish three extra weeks longer.
You didn't get to fish three weeks longer, you actually got a little over a week extra to fish .

IF you got out during that week and caught a limit of three fish once or twice that week, I think that is a lot less fish than you could have had during the previous 3 months .

best fluking of the year is ALWAYS in august, and the fish always leave with the first hard storm after Labor day.

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Dave what looked to be a good money tournament the last weekend of the season , had 22 entrees

we get more than that in our marina tourneys.

Average tourneys usually get 150 PLUS , whats that tell you about the confidence guys had in catching fish the last few weeks;


Maybe the correct question would have been How many of the extra 17 days were we really able to fish ???

Thinking most guys unless had weekdays to fish didn't fish after Labor day due to the weather



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