{"id":11449,"date":"2017-08-11T00:15:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T04:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=11449"},"modified":"2017-08-11T02:16:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T06:16:02","slug":"fishing-friday-fluke-fishing-finally-hits-its-stride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/08\/fishing-friday-fluke-fishing-finally-hits-its-stride\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing Friday: Fluke Fishing Finally Hits its Stride"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Fluke<\/a>

Fluke caught the first week of August on board the Gambler party boat. (Photo: Gambler Crew)<\/p><\/div>\n

With less than a month to go for the 2017 fluke season, the fishery began to produce some of its most consistent catches of the year as the water warmed up and the winds calmed down this week.<\/p>\n

The on-and-off bite was strong in the Manasquan River and Barnegat Inlet areas, and grew in consistency at the artificial reefs off Ocean County.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur half day fluke trips overall have been pretty good this past week,\u201d a report from the Gambler<\/a> party boat, out of Point Pleasant Beach, said. \u201cQuite a few fish coming in over 5-pounds and two fish over 7-pounds that came in this past week. We are also getting keeper sea bass in the mix and the action has been pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome nice fluke are being caught near the jetty and along the beach,\u201d a report from Grumpy\u2019s Tackle<\/a> in Seaside Park said. \u201cYou don\u2032t have to cast far. A lot of the fluke are right in front of you. Gulp or live snappers are the baits.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Axel Carlson Reef, off Mantoloking, has been a hit with anglers this past week, as well as the channels near Manasquan Inlet in the river. There\u2019s also been some decent fluke fishing at \u201cthe tires\u201d off Barnegat Inlet, for those who access the ocean to the south.<\/p>\n

Speaking of snappers, they\u2019re \u201call over,\u201d said a report from The Dock Outfitters<\/a> in Seaside Heights.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNot those tiny guys \u2013 some good eating ones,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

Snappers were abundant essentially everywhere, from the surf to the Toms River, where they\u2019ve been hooked at Island Heights as well as in the lagoons.<\/p>\n

As is often the case in August, some more elusive species have been showing up on anglers\u2019 hooks over the past week. Blowfish began to appear in Barnegat Bay between the BI and BB buoys, as well as the channels closer to the inlet, and kingfish have been nabbed at Island Beach State Park from the suds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe heard of some anglers doing very well on small pieces of clams, squid, and fishbites,\u201d the Grumpy\u2019s report said, referring to the kings.<\/p>\n

Just a reminder \u2013 show off your catch! Send in your photos to daniel@shorebeat.com to have them shared here with our readers.<\/p>\n

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With less than a month to go for the 2017 fluke season, the fishery began to produce some of its most consistent catches of the year as the water warmed up and the winds calmed down this week. The on-and-off bite was strong in the Manasquan River and Barnegat Inlet areas, and grew in consistency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[923,1583,24,255,273,182,3030,234,3031],"class_list":["post-11449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boating-fishing","tag-axel-carlson-reef","tag-bluefish","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-fishing-report","tag-fluke","tag-jersey-shore","tag-kingfish","tag-manasquan-river","tag-snapper-bluefish"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20708104_1557983637555380_677702121216893547_n.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2YF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}