Fluke Fishing Report - Long Island South Shore - 8-20-08
August 20th, 2008Right now, we have been hearing about some of the best Fluking EVER, with fish in the 6 to 10 pound range being caught every day! Similar to last week, the deal is to find the HARD BOTTOM such as a reef or a wreck for example. The Hempstead Reef, Atlantic Beach Reef, McAllister and Cholera have been outstanding around the outsides of the hard bottom.
Larger baits like whole Squid, Peruvian Smelts, large strip baits and LIVE SNAPPERS have been hard to beat either on a jig or simply on a plain old Fluke rig. However, sounds like the jigs and teasers are producing more fish but fewer keepers and the MEAT is producing the slobs.
Joe, from the shop, fished Sunday aboard the Tradewinds in Captree for a decent day with 2 keepers. On Monday he fished aboard the Superhawk in Point Lookout and “had the best Fluking of his life”! He had a limit of Fluke up to 7 pounds and just missed out on the pool! Joe was fishing with small Butterfish for bait (he cast netted them himself) and other people on the boat had great success with whole Squid too.
Yesterday we weighed a couple fish for Joe Mistretta and his partner Tim Luckas fishing on Joe’s boat the “Sea Cat”. They were fishing with live Snappers on Fin Strike Bucktail rigs on the deeper side of Hempstead Reef when they caught their limit of Fluke up to 9 plus pounds!!! Below is a picture of their catch from yeaterday.
Mike Sculley, fishing with Richy “Crazy Legs” outside the Hemstead Reef, brought a nice 7 lb 9 oz Fluke to our scale on 8-14-08… picture below.
Dick Mermon, outdoor writer / photographer, was fishing with one of his own hand tied white Bucktail and Berkley Gulp 4″ Swimming Mullet in 50 feet of water south west of Jones Inlet when he caught a 7lb 6oz Fluke.
As we mentioned… if you like Fluking… NOW IS THE TIME TO GO!!!





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