Today (7-21) on the bay

[bay bee]

Left Bay Point around 7:45 in my comrades boat. Noticed lotsa boats east of the elbow, in the vicinity of the wreck bouy. We gave that area a try. Nothing exciting. A few "shorts". Moved in about a couple miles and had more action. Still, the "throw-back-keeper ratio was as high as the temperature. We must have caught at least 40 flounder and wound up with only 4. The four ranged from 18 1/4 to 19 3/4. The tide was slack around 1:00 PM and the wind was very light. Needless to say our drift was almost nil. We went in shortly after 1:00.

There are decent sized flounder still out there, but their numbers seem to be on the wane. Never the less, if you can get a decent drift, 1 to 2 MPH, you can have very good flounder catching action.

[Skip M]

Good report Bob .

[Captblock]

Thanks for the report!:thumbsup: I think the fish are on the move and don't like the warm water. This heat is just killing us.:D

[emilio528]

Thanks for the report. I'll be giving it a go tomorrow

[EMPTY NET]

4 fish is not bad considering the reports that have been coming in. :thumbsup: Thanks for the report

[Bill22jack]

Thanks for the report, do you think the warm water temps are pushing them deeper or out front?

[Shawn K]

We decided to make a run out front to C.M. Reef instead of runnig up the bay yest figuring they were movin out. We didn't get 1 flounder just a bunch of sea bass n only 1 keeper. Tried a drift in the rips with no luck. We then decided to run up by 1 to try to get a flounder before we had to quit or storm came in and that was a good call. 3 drifts we got 5 n only 1 kept. Nice 23" 4 n half pounder in 14 ft.
Was totaly opposite of what i thought would happen.I figured for sure with these temps Flounder would be more movin out front, but that wasn't case.1 other boat we know was up the bay n did well yest too so??

[Hooker]

Thanks for the report, do you think the warm water temps are pushing them deeper or out front?


Pushing them out...The fish are still in close..I found them in 16 to 23 ft....Thats where the food is im guessing as they are sliding out...:thumbsup:

Nice job on the 4:thumbsup:

[mako184]

Nice, glad the fish are still around. Great report and good job finding them. 4 in the box with this heat! THANKS, still looking forward to flounder fishing.