06/23/2012 - Fluke Fishing on OOAL4

06/23/2012 - Fluke Fishing on OOAL4

Quick little report from this past weekend!

After a night at the Revel in AC watching the UFC fights and throwing some money down on RED playing a spin at roulette...I headed home just in time to get pulled over for running a red...fortunately I got off...it was yellow anyway! haha  Alright perfect!  Back home for a solid ONE hour of sleep before departing my place to meet up with Doug, Vongas, Ron, Mike (Garone Custom Rods), and JR for a little fun on the fluking grounds!

I was a smidge tired, so my pic taking effort was rather minimal...and I only fell asleep at the rod once...ok twice!  Don't worry, my catch for the day reflected it!  Fortunately the rest of the crew picked up my slack! ;)


Here's a few pics from the day...


On the way to gas up...JR sporting his SJ Shark Tourney T...and Ron, not looking too pumped up yet!  C'mon Ron...get in the game buddy!



Sooooooo we're gassin up and Doug is doing his thing...smoking artifical smoke vapor like a chimney...



And here's Doug explaining, "It's not a real cigarette" when the gas attendant freaks out saying "I HOPE YOU'RE NOT SMOKING AT THE GAS DOCK!!!"
I think Doug should have totally played it off like it was real...



Joe Jigs, Vongas, Mike G, JR, and Ron in the background...waiting...BIG gas bill...



Not sure what happened here, Mike's acting pretty innocent over something...which is usually a sign you're 100% guilty! haha



Alright, we're off!  A little scenery in the inlet on the way out...



Doug peering off in the distance, reflecting on life and fluke fishing...while Joe Jigs is in some serious thought over what color bucktail he should start with!



We break the inlet to a nice sunrise...



As we ride north...it looks like a storm is brewing...



Pretty dark and ominous over the Highlands...



The sun is trying to break through though...and burns off the clouds a short while later!



We're on to some fishing, where Ron starts us off!



And so it starts...the day Doug destroys the fluke!  This was his first of many that day...I think he caught a limit...or 4...



JR is like a rainbow of color!



The boys, workin it!



My reel is working fine...but there was definitely some operator error that day!



Doug, doing the low hold, secret fluke picture holding technique!



Joe lands a nice one later in the day...no secrets here...he's a photo ham!!!  Nice fish dude!



And our final catch of the day!  Boat limit plus!



Real nice day on the water with some great fishing!  Fish were there, just had to pick our way through the bite to fill the box with a boat limit and released a bunch of other keepers for another day.  I'd say we had to have 50+ keepers on the day, most not even needing a measure...lots of 3-4# fish mixed in with a couple in the 6-7# range...even a few sea bass mixed in!  What more can ya ask for? :)


Until next time...