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JustinSolak · Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 245 Location: East Hartford, CT

Alright, last sunday was the first fluke trip of the season for me. I gotta few keepers the week before in buzzards bay, but that was a seabass trip, so i dont count that. Anyway, I slaughtered the fish. Managed 3 blues and 9 keeper sized fluke myself, plus a handful of shorts. Oh, and a squid! This was what we brought home:

So, with that takin place last week, and the weather forecast bein so nice for today, I figured I'd have a pretty good day of fishin. 530 My buddy mike and I left, 630 we launched and headed straight over to millstone. To say the blues were stacked in there is an understatement. So we had some fun for a bit nailin blues on light tackle before i heard mike screamin and yellin about something. I look over in front of him to see an ENOURMOUS striper chasin his 17in bluefish. We actually measured it afterward. Eventually another striper of equal size joined in the chase but never hit. My heaviest setup in the boat was a 6 1/2ft medium heavy rod with 30lb power pro... my biggest hooks 4/0 gamakatsu octopus hooks... needless to say i was ill prepared when i livelined the blue, got the hit, and didn't hook up... still kickin myself in the ass.
Movin on, we tried for fluke. Much more shorts this weekend. Mike hooked up with two right off the bat. 18 1/2 and 19in then the tide stopped and so did our drifts. We figured head out to bartletts in hopes of some current to get us driftin, but all we found comin in with the tide was a black wall of water... This was maybe 10am. And we soon realized that this wall of coffee colored water would slowly take over not only bartletts, but two tree channel, jordan's cove, niantic bay, millstone, and working its way to black point when we left... Killin the fishing everywhere it went.

As this brown tide was movin in, the weather was changin, winds shifted. Just got really odd out there... Couldn't make a decent drift. Can't really explain it. And it got a bit too rough for my little 14ft sylvan classic. So we headed in about 130 only to wait for the clowns at the launch to take a half hour to get their boat out. Funny to watch, annoying to have to wait for.
All in all, I suppose I can't complain much about the day. Though i didn't personally get to catch any keeper fluke this weekend, I got my fair share last weekend, Happy that mike got three on his first fluke trip of the season, and hey, I still get to eat em.

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Michael · Joined: 28 Jan 2012 Posts: 3823 Location: Bridgeport

Nice job!

Jeff · Joined: 06 Jul 2012 Posts: 167

Sounds like a productive day. That's a pretty big sea robin you got there.

predator1 · Joined: 19 Jun 2012 Posts: 28

congrats,looks like you had a very good day,nice fish