The fluke fishing is pretty good, fluke keeping, maybe not so good. Depending on who you talk to the throwback to keeper ratio is 10, 20 or 30 to 1. The most honest report came from early in the week from one captain who told me they caught around sixty fluke with nine “legal keepers”. You can read what you want into that. Everybody keeps saying that the draggers are catching a lot of big fish, and there have been a couple of fish over ten pounds caught already, so it should be getting better real soon.
There are plenty of bluefish around as well, being caught by flukers as well as a couple of boats that went after stripers. There was one bass caught that I know of, a 30” fish. I’m sure that by next weekend there will be a lot more around.
Nikki Clouse caught this 10 1/2 pound and 4 pound fluke aboard the LazyBones on May 6.
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Capt Gene Kelly
Montauk Sportfishing
Tropical Fishing Adventures
PO Box 2104, Montauk, NY, 11954
631 668 2019
http://www.montauksportfishing.com
