{"id":4433,"date":"2017-08-18T00:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T04:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2017-08-18T01:58:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T05:58:02","slug":"fishing-friday-fluke-sea-bass-remain-steady-in-local-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2017\/08\/fishing-friday-fluke-sea-bass-remain-steady-in-local-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing Friday: Fluke, Sea Bass Remain Steady in Local Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Local resident Mick Martino and his doormat fluke, caught off Lavallette, Aug. 2017. (Photo: Mick Martino)<\/p><\/div>\n

After getting off to a somewhat later start than usual, fluke fishing in the ocean continues to be steady, with local party and charter boat captains reporting several keepers per trip and surf anglers reeling in the occasional fish for the table.<\/p>\n

\u201cFluke fishing has been decent most trips,\u201d a report from the Gambler party boat<\/a>, out of Point Pleasant, said. \u201cCatching a fair amount of keeper fluke with some short fish. Also, seeing plenty of sea bass but only a few of them are keepers. Our pool winners have been around 5 lbs most trips.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drift conditions have played a major role in determining whether keeper fluke would be boated during recent trips, the Gambler crew said. If the drift is too fast, sinkers won\u2019t hold bottom, but if it\u2019s too slow, the boat won\u2019t cover enough ground to place anglers on the fish \u2013 \u201ca 10 to 15 knot wind seems to be best,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

Surf fishing for fluke has been decent at Island Beach State Park and other local beaches, according to the staff at Murphy\u2019s Hook House<\/a> in Toms River.<\/p>\n

\u201cBucktails tipped with Gulp\u00a0and Jetty Ghost Mullnuts with a teaser in front did the trick for a couple guys,\u201d Mario from the shop said. \u201cAlready heard of a few decent keepers today off of IBSP.\u00a0Plenty of snappers in the wash hitting small metals so if you catch one try live lining it.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those fishing from local piers and bulkheads in the back bay, snapper blues have provided the bulk of the action. According to Mario,\u00a0using spearing on a snapper rig, metals and snapper poppers have attracted the fish. There have also been a few small striped bass to be found in the Toms River.<\/p>\n

Surf anglers began tangling with sharks again after some foul weather earlier in the week, the folks at Grumpy\u2019s Tackle<\/a> in Seaside Park said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe swell has pretty much died and the sharks have made a come back after two days of pretty tough conditions,\u201d the shop\u2019s report said. \u201cWe heard of several caught and a bunch of hook-ups. Most of our reports came after dark and from IBSP. We also heard of more cownose and butterfly rays.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bunker is the bait of choice for nighttime shark fishing.<\/p>\n

For those who have yet to catch a keeper fluke, perhaps this week\u2019s photo attached to this article can serve as some motivation. Pictured is\u00a0Mick Martino and his massive, 27-inch, 8.6 pound doormat. The fish was caught off Lavallette on board the Fire Escape<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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After getting off to a somewhat later start than usual, fluke fishing in the ocean continues to be steady, with local party and charter boat captains reporting several keepers per trip and surf anglers reeling in the occasional fish for the table. \u201cFluke fishing has been decent most trips,\u201d a report from the Gambler party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-ocean-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mick_fish.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-19v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}