I fished today with Norman and Julia of Queens, NY and Mark Epstein. We fished out of Saltaire and started the day with some fluke fishing. We caught some great fish and had a great time on the most beautiful of days. We had 8 keepers to 7 pounds and the rest were all good and over 3 pounds. 

All fish were on bucktails and Berkley Gulp. They were smashing the baits. 

Bass fishing is slow right now in our area with a fish here and there.  We hunted for bass but came up empty. Lots of bait around and just waiting for the next body of fish to show up. It could be tomorrow I hope. There are bass schools at Debs Inlet and off New Jersey so any day it could happen with the bait living in our area.

Another excellent day on the water.

Captain Al Lorenzetti

This is the rig that has worked real well on the Fluke.

With no wind and the tide right where I like it (ebbing) I decided to take my wife out fishing for an hour or so. We fished the west end of the east west channel and within an hour we had 8 Fluke including a 22" keeper that I released. Spro Bucktail tipped with Gulp and a traditional Fluke rig with a 4" mullet curly tail was the key.

Tim C. Smith

I received word that the fluke regulations for 2011 will be 3 fish per day at 20.5 inches which is better but the best news is that the season will run from May 1 to September 30th. Personally I would have liked to see a 19.5 size fish in there somewhere, maybe one per day per angler slot size but this is certainly better by far than last year. The longer season is a real plus for the East end where they have a good run of big fish early and also a plus for Fire Island where the big fish show in the ocean in September. At least there will be something else besides striped bass to fish for in September and take some of the pressure off them.

Captain Al Lorenzetti