XiaoMuJi
1 minute ago
Well, Sunday, May 18th, 2008, Cody, my wife Nancy and I took a spin out to the south side of Montauk off the Radar Tower in 65' to 70' of water for some fluke fishing. We had a near full moon and high winds that built all day. In the morningthe wind out of the west was around 10-15 knots, and built to near 20+ knots by noon. We had two hours of the end of incoming left for the morning so we drifted from West to East at around 1.5 to 2.0 knots. We iused squid strips on tandem hook fluke rigs with flor. green 4" squid skirts and tipped with large sand eels. Nancy had the 1st throwback at around 19" , then I got a 20.7" keeper and four more shorts in the 18-20" range. Cody finally got going and had four fish all shorts in the same range.

The tide went slack around 10-10:30AM then finally started moving around 11AM changed. Donald Wu fishing abord the "Nice Day Too" a 55' aluminum catamaran party boat run by Tommy . Donald called me and said they had nothing but dogfish and a few keeper Black Sea Bass on a 60' hump of rough bottom just a mile south west of where we were fishing. By the end of the day, they never got a fluke and only managed another couple of keeper bass.

The Lighthouse rips held small keeper size Stripers for those who could take the torture of jigging wire line and bucktails. That's not for me! I'll wait till the night time ell bite is on. In the mean time, we will go North to the Race, Sluiceway and Gut for bass at night on bucktails and three way rigs.

I can't wait till the next Warm Core Eddy comes roaring into the Northeast Canyons so I can go get some fresh tuna for the pallet. Tightlines, Till the next Tide!

By the way, we will be taking our 1st military guess from our participation of "TAKE A VET FISHING" program I joined last year. It should be a good time for all.