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Kensdock report: Flounder Tournament update

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Grassy Sound marina is holding their annual flounder tournament today also today is Sterling Harbor’s duke of fluke tournament. We started out this morning to fish the Grassy sound tournament unfortunately the steering cable broke ending the day seconds after leaving the dock. The grassy sound tournament is strictly back bay fishing. The heaviest combined weight of three flounder wins the tournament.   Catching keeper flounder from the back bay in July is challenging couple that with the rain today and it will be tough to catch 3 keepers to weigh in. Ed Teise and DR.Gary  had 4 keepers on the boat as of 11:30 am, putting them in the hunt. I will update this post at the end of the grassy sound tournament.
Update: Dr.Gary and Ed Teise won the Grassy Sound flounder tournament Calcutta with a  6 plus pound flounder. They also placed third in the total of 3 heaviest division with a weight of 7 plus pounds. They also caught a 22″ weakfish that they released, due to the fact that they were not in the weakfish Calcutta. The second place flounder weighed 5 lbs and change the third place was 4 lbs and change.  Ed Teise is no stranger to the winners position of fishing tournaments in Cape May co.. He has won numerous weakfish, flounder and speckled trout tournaments. I will post the names of all the winners shortly. We never wet a line today but we won the weakfish Calcutta by luck of the draw. No bragging rights but a great way to make up for a bad start.
Great tournament
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Kensdock report: Back bay flounder update

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 I was tied up this weekend, I only had a short window to fish. I was out for about an hour today, I managed one keeper flounder and three that were just short. The water temperature was 75 degrees,the water clarity was an 8. Note: No fisherman in sight only wave runners and water skiers.
 
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Kensdock report:Back bay Flounder update

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I was able to flounder fish for  2 hours today. The round trip to my fishing spot was 35 minutes. Even with the boat traffic it was  beautiful on the water today. It was slow fishing but I did manage to catch 3 keeper flounder. There was one down side today and that was the greenheads. The water temperature was 64 at the top of the tide.The water clarity was an 8, with 10 being the clearest.
 
I fish for whatever flounder are located in the back bay. 
 If you are looking to fill the cooler with keeper flounder the upper Delaware bay is red hot at this time.
 

 

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Kensdock Report:Quick flounder fishing update

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For those flounder fishermen that possess the ability to find keeper flounder the back bay areas are still producing keeper fluke. Wally  Bockman caught 5 keeper flounder from the back bay yesterday. Although  far from the 39 keepers him and his crew boated last week from the waters of the Delaware Bay, 5 keepers is an excellent catch for July  in the back bay.
 Eric Reeves  caught an 28″ flounder to top off his limit catch. Reeves was also a top finisher in the annual good old boys back bay flounder tournament.  I should have a few reports on weakfish as the tide cycles around.  All of the fishermen that are targeting weakies are releasing the fish due to the condition of the stock.
John C. from Stone harbor caught 5 kingfish from the beach yesterday. The water temperature was 74 degrees at high tide, water clarity was an 8 with 10 being the clearest water.
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Kensdock report: Flounder update/ weakfish

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There is a school of large flounder {6-7 pound fish} in the back bay areas of Cape May co. the school has been moving around from Avalon to Cape May. I have  been unlucky by showing up after the bite. I have seen the fish unfortunately for me they have been in someone else’s cooler.When you limit out with flounder that average 6 pounds in the back bay you have had a special fishing trip. The guy who had the large flounder was using a rig that is common for offshore fluke fishermen,a pink glowing plastic squid combined with bait. The rig is not as important as finding the  school during the bite. Good luck. Wally Bockman and crew boated an impressive 39 keeper flounder yesterday. He was tight lipped as to the location. I am sure he was not fishing the back bay waters. There has been a few weakfish caught in the last week. The top fishermen that are targeting weakfish and catching have been releasing the breeders.  Dr.Gary has caught two weakfish while he was flounder fishing and released both of them. Don  caught a 24″ weakfish  he also released it. A few weakfish were caught and retained by fishermen on rental boats this week. The water temperature at high tide was 64 degrees, the water clarity was a 5.

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Kensdock Report: Short back bay flounder trip

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Just returned from the back waters we fished about 5 minutes before being chased by the thunderstorm. We did manage two keepers before running  home at full throttle, just about making it to the dock before the rain. The water temperature was 61 degrees, clarity was a 4 with ten representing the clearest water.

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Kensdock Report: Flounder fishing update red hot bite

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Yesterday was a good day to be flounder fishing in the back bay areas of Cape May County, NJ. I fished for less than 2 hours and I caught my limit of keeper flounder. I stayed for a few minutes after reaching my limit and caught 3 additional keepers that I released. The area that I was fishing is a remote hole with a sand bottom. This area receives almost no fishing pressure other than the pressure that I apply. I fished along side of Chip Gruff for a minute before moving off, he had three keepers in the box. Ed T. had his best flounder fishing day of the season with him and Harold pulling 7 keepers from  the back bay waters. Jeff P. had 2 keepers to 23″. Wally B. had 89 throw backs and 1 keeper on his last trip. Dr.Gary had 2 keepers on his last trip. The water Temperature was 64 degrees. The water clarity was an 8. The effort to find the fish was a 5.
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Kensdock Report: Quick flounder update

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 Fished from 3:00 to 7:00 pm 38 throw backs and 1 keeper. Chip Gruff had 7 keepers today to 3 pounds. Water clarity was 7 with 10 representing the clearest water. Effort to find the flounder was a 1 with 1 representing the least amount of effort. 
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Kensdock report: Jims’ bait and tackle Mako tournament/flounder fishing update

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We fished Jims’ bait and tackle Mako tournament yesterday. We fished east of the elephants trunk, the area was full of bluefin tuna and bait fish. We had a Mako jump 5 feet out of the ocean just outside of our slick, that however was the only sign of a mako we seen all day. Later we had a giant great white jump close to the boat as he was busy feeding on a school of  bluefin tuna.We  quickly trolled up a 37″ bluefin tuna on the way home. This felt like a well earned bluefin after waiting for hours for a mako that never did show up.
 
The liquidator had a much better day as they won Jims’ tackle mako tournament with a 278.5 pound Mako,  Motivator placed second with a 265 pound mako , Mania weighted a 215.5 for third place Pain Killer also weighed a 157 pound mako. Congratulations to the winners and thanks for letting the rest of us know they are still in the area.
 
 
The flounder bit has been good the last couple of days, everybody I talk with had at least a couple of keepers with Jim from Wildwood crest just missing limiting out with 5 keepers.
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Kensdock report: Tuesday flounder update

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The windy conditions made fishing the best back bay flounder areas out of the question today.Wayne did manage to catch two nice keeper flounder today. Wayne and Jon experienced some great flounder action during the week. The water temperature was 63 degrees on the top of the tide.The water clarity was a 9 in the area we fished, on a scale of 1-10 with 10 representing the clearest water. The amount of effort to find the fish was a 2 on a scale of 1-10 , with 1 representing the least amount of effort.