Tues 8/2:  Back from vacation!  Had the Saltwater Anglers of Bergen County on again for their second fluke trip of the summer. Their fearless leader, John T led the group along with Jim Z, Steve, and get ready, Dennis, Dennis, and Dennis.  Wow :)

Ran out to the east and north where we were catching them and found crappy conditions with the NW wind and wacky current. We were able to pick a few shorts, sea robins, and skates but there was no reason to stay there. Ran a bit further north to fish the real sticky stuff - found the same conditions but did get one nice keeper of 22".

I decided to take a gamble and run up north thinking we'd have good conditions up there w/ the NW wind, and we did, but every drop we made we were COVERED UP by 12-15" fluke - it was truly drop and reel fishing but the only problem was they were all river-size fish. We made 3 drops off LB, and 2 up at the rocks, and it was all the same with just one more nice keeper coming out.

At 12 I got a call from a buddy who "hung around" locally by our inlet and said he was doing well, so I decided to take another gamble and double back to the south. This move saved the day as we had a good pick of mostly nice fish the first 2 drifts, and after our drift crapped out, we still had a slow "keeping it interesting" kinda pick going.

We wound up boating ~150 fluke, if not more, with 10 being keepers. Jim led the way with 5 nice keepers to 5#. We covered A LOT of ocean today, caught a load of fish, and the guys each had enough for a dinner at day's end, and as always the SWABC guys were great and we'll be seeing them again soon!

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