6/23 SURF/BOAT Water temp this partly sunny morning is 71.1. Well - TopicsExpress



          

6/23 SURF/BOAT Water temp this partly sunny morning is 71.1. Well this weekend saw slow stripers fishing as they have moved more north. Some nice dinner sized stripers are being caught but the bigger ones have moved on. Best time to be fishing stripers is early morning and around dusk into dark. There were also bluefish being caught on bunker chunks, poppers, and metals yesterday. The fluke fishing has improved some and more keepers are being caught. Dont forget that IBSP is a special zone for fluke and you can keep 2 16 inch fluke from the beach only. Also they must be tagged at the checking station to be legal. GULP! on a bucktail is the way to go there. Looks like the sharks have moved in and some nice browns are being caught. Some are going as big as 5 foot. Just make sure you have a wire leader and use bunker or bunker chunks to catch them. They must be put back into the water and you can not harm them as they are a protected species. Until the other species of fish such as kingfish, croakers, and spot move in, it will be a bit slow now as we move into summer. A lot of the boats that are catching stripers are fishing way north. Some are going off of Long Island now keeping up with them but that is a long ride. Locally striper fishing has slowed but some are still being caught out of the bunker pods. Snag n drop is what has been catching them. Fluke fishing was ok but it is either good or so so and yesterday was one of the good days. Gulp! is the best bet but jigging is working good now as well. Only thing about fluke in the ocean is the throw back ratio is greater then in the bays. A lot of just under 18 inches or just plain short. I did hear of a few who had limits but they had to really work for it. Bluefishing has been doing pretty good but not gang busters either. Offshore wrecks it is sea bass and ling being caught. If you want sea bass you better get out soon because as of July 1 the limit drops to 3 fish. No word from anybody who went offshore but that could come later today.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:42:17 +0000

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