June 1

It was a typical Memorial Day weekend, with lots of tourists and traffic.

I took a walk as the half day head boats came in on Sunday and it looked like they carried
pretty good, but I didn’t see much signs of fluke. Nobody carrying a little plastic bag with
fillets. I saw the mate on one of the boats dressing out one fluke and one seabass. I don’t
know that anybody has an explanation of what is going on with the fluke. This time of the
year it should be hot and heavy, with some of the bigger fish, but it’s not. Maybe that’s
why the only head boat that sailed today was the LAZYBONES.

Maybe the fluke boats should switch over to seabass. They are plentiful and on the radio
Saturday I heard more guys talking about them than fluke. And, the doggies are not a
problem, although they are around. Two of us kept around a dozen and a half in two
hours of fishing, not bothering to measure any. If they looked small we just through them
back. We only caught two doggies but they followed us up a couple of times, and I did
mark them about twenty feet down.

Striped bass fishing is continuing to be hot, with limits plus normal on a half day trip,
with a lot of them being taken on the diamond jigs. Most of the fish are just short up to
fifteen pounds or so.

I heard a rumor of some bluefins being sighted by a dragger south of the Point, but I
doubt anyone will follow up on it quite yet, although there may be a shark boat heading
out next weekend.

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