Fluke, Snappers and Southerlies
But first, yup, shop news again…
We have added a new line of Inshore/Boat rods to the shop. From Daiwa, called Blackline Inshore rods, the lineup consists of five spinning rods and one conventional. They feature premium cork handles, a FUJI K- guide train, Daiwa Air Sensor reel seat on spinning models, and Daiwa's exclusive SVF Super High-Modulus Low Resin Carbon Graphite as well as Braiding X Daiwa technology. The spinners will cover you for anything from throwing small lures and jigs for backbay stripers and fluke, to dropping jigs in deep water for fluke and blackfish, to casting heavy lures for striped bass or bluefish. The conventional will make a perfect fluke rod for drifting from a boat.
We have added a couple of new colors to Pradco owned lure brands. We now have Silver Flash / Blue Back available in the classic Bomber 16A. We added a very cool color to the 5 inch Cotton Cordell Redfins, Black Chrome AYU. And, we now have Chrome / Black Back available in the 7 inch Cotton Cordell Pencil Poppers. I am not sure why we didn’t have that one all along…
With the water temps rising back to normal, we saw the fishing pick up all around. The surf began producing quality fluke more consistently again, the boats fishing the nearshore reefs and wrecks started to see a good fluke bite form. And the back bay is now littered not only with spot, but snapper bluefish as well. Additionally, the blowfish are making a showing.
The bad news is the south winds are back, and if they blow long enough, they will chill the water again. We suggest if you want to fish try to get out before that happens.
If you can’t get out before the “big chill”, all is not lost. On August 1st, blackfish season opens back up (for one fish at 15 inches or more). They like cooler water, so the bite should be good. We have green crabs in stock if you want to give them a go.
Some recent notable catches:
Our Cover Shot: Shel E Caris with one of 5 fluke taken off the surf.
Fluking is starting to pick up on both the surf and boat. Here is John Lang with a 6lb boat Fluke.
We’re hearing good reports of swimming chicken fingers aka blowfish aka northern pufferfish in the bay. Grab a chum pot, load it with some clam chum, and toss out some clam or fishbites and load up for some excellent table fare. This one is doing a good job of covering Scott’s face. A very fine job indeed…
Shel E Caris reports a seafood combo on the beach. Fluke are in the suds feeding on sand eels, peanut bunker, and smaller fluke.
The blowfish picture above got us thinking. What if Scott always had a blowfish covering his face? What would life be like then? Hmmm probably pretty good…