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flukeprodigy
Joined: 06 Jun 2007
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Location: New britain
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 Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject: Newport rhode island fluke SUNDAY 7/9/07 |
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Headed out on the frances fleet again today, this time fishing waters btwn 40-60ft outta Newport. It was a light crowd today which was a surprise. We got to the fishing grounds around 9am which I believe was right around low tide. Right off the bat, Cpt. Mike put us into a nice pick of fish. I started off using the usual 2 hook tandem rig w/ white bucktail mylars and throwing 8oz right from the get go. I was using some mackeral strips w/ squid strip on both hooks today and the fluke were pretty aggressive to the point we ran out of mackeral pretty quick. First drop yielded a double header w/in 5 mins of dropping in. 1 keeper in the bag, 1 short (18"). I had a feeling it was going to be a successful day.  To make a long story short(er), I had my limit before 11a.m. ...a new personal best for me. I decided to switch to whole squid and go for doormats and got a couple decent fish. The biggest of the day (for me) was 23.5" and 6lbs 4oz on the boga. I had another couple in the 4-5lb range as well. All totalled, I ended the day (unfortunately b/c the fishing got red hot) with 8 keeper fluke 1 keeper seabass 6 shorty fluke including one at 19 7/8"  and 1 baby seabass which devoured my whole squid  Our group of 4 totalled 20 keeper fluke and 1 seabass which turned out to be around 30lbs of filet which I might add made for a tasty dinner tonight.
I gotta hand it to Cpt. Mike and the mate. As always, we had a great time on the Frances fleet. For those of us who don't have our own boats, it's nice to find a great boat to fish on with a great crew. They always put us on the fish and make the trip to Rhodie worth the drive. |
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SkeeterJim
Joined: 08 May 2007
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Location: Newington, CT
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:14 am Post subject: |
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Congrats on a great trip out Flukeprodigy!
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chuckc
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| Nice Slabs!! |
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JESTERJACKSON
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Location: Central CT
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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Nice George.
Man you go every weekend. Why don't you sack up and buy a boat!!!
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tlapinski
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| nanananananana FLUKIN'! |
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flukeprodigy
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Location: New britain
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| tlapinski wrote: | | nanananananana FLUKIN'! |
hahahah nice toby! Too bad the flukin sucked yesterday. Of course the rookie had to show us both up
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flukeprodigy
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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| JESTERJACKSON wrote: | Nice George.
Man you go every weekend. Why don't you sack up and buy a boat!!! |
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wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too expensive
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