Saturday 6/26:  First fluke trip on the new Reel Class today.. Had an all-star cast of Matt (Avid), Striffler, Bill T (Bill the 5th), Limestone Larry, Doug, and Tom Lefteye. Fished up north all day in the sticky stuff. Early on it was VERY slow as we had no wind or current to push us along. We picked a couple keepers here and there, and Mike was lucky enough to box the first ever keeper on the new boat!

Bounced around until we found a concentration of fish, and once we found em', we started to get some current to push us along so we pieced a nice catch together. Mostly nice keeper fluke, with a few shorts, and some real nice seabass in the mix as well. By 1PM, that bite slowed, so we moved in on the beach.  In 20-35' of water, we put a load of shorts in the boat as well as a few more keepers topped by a 5# fish by Doug.

Everyone bucktailed all day long - lots of fish on the bucktail but also quite a few on the gulp teasers. Everyone also caught fish. Matt wound up with his limit +, Striffler had his limit, and then Tom, Larry, Doug, and Bill each put a few nice fish in the boat.

At day's end we wound up with 18 keepers, I think we had 5 over 5# topped by Matt's 6.25# fish. We also wound up with a dozen nice seabass to 4# - 2 of them were real hogs! Overall, a great day with a SUPERIOR crew -- a fantastic way to start the summer fluke season on the new boat! Thanks for coming down guys!!!

Sunday 6/27:  Had the Todd Jankowski charter on board today for a day of fluking. Went north again, and set up on a few drops in the Elberon-LB area to start out... Zero bites, zero fish.. Continued north, tried in on the beach and caught a few shorts, then off to the deep where we were yesterday for a couple hours with more shorts, a keeper or two, and some nice seabass..

Finished up inshore fishing the stretch from Monmouth beach up to Sea Bright and had a lot more action with the fluke, a few keepers, a load of shorts, and a few seabass..

Overall it was a VERY slow day.. We did have some action with the shorts and the seabass, but it was very picky. We wound up with a total of 6 in the box to 19" - some nice seabass to 3# as well. Again a very tough day, nothing like yesterday...