6/3 Early Summer Action

Couple trips past week. Made it out on a friends boat one morning to fish the beaches off Point Judith for Fluke and Seabass. Also made a trip one evening on another boat to try for Stripers off Newport. Both trips were pretty mediocre.

The Evening Striper trip off Newport started off with some Fluke fishing inside Narragansett Bay. We gave that a couple hours and resulted in just a few short Fluke. Not much else, some shore seabass, pretty poor. We pushed out front closer to evening and the Striper fishing was very slow to start. In the last hour of the day we started to get some action, I caught 2 fish one about 20" one about 27" on Zoom Flukes on 3/4oz jigheads. Buddy caught one on an SP Minnow that was a little over slot, 32". We had 4 eels with us, and I eventually deployed one on one of our last drifts of the evening and stuck a nice Bass about 30lbs. It wasn't anything concentrated or fast action. Quite the opposite... 4 fish, 3 anglers, in several hours.

The morning Fluke trip also didn't produce a whole lot. We caught Fluke and Seabass, but none were keepers. Well, a couple of the Seabass were keepers. The Fluke however were mostly all 14"-17" with a couple maybe being last year keepers around 18". No legal size fish. We gave it 4 or 5 hours and called it a day. 30'-50' depths with a slow steady pick in most places we tried. We never went more than a few miles from the breakwalls. Every rig or jig we tried caught fish, nothing stood out as being more productive than the other. The Fluke were hungry and cooperative, they were just small.

30lb Bass that ate an eel at dusk. Lucky to catch this one, otherwise it would have been a very tough trip.