I hit the water around 1 p.m. I wanted to get one or two fluke and a couple of med size bluefish for the smoker. I started by trolling and casting in the small channel directly at the kayak launch. My efforts were immediately thwarted by the seaweed. I tried never the less, and after about an hour and a half was at Oyster Creek channel.
This is where I was decidedly setting up a drift for fluking. I tried for a little bit, but the current was a little strong, and the seaweed still bad, so I tried some fishing from land. That also proved fruitless. I decided to make my move to Snake Ditch. The current was slow, and despite lots of bait, not much action. Because of time issues, I didn't stay long at Snake ditch, maybe half an hour, then I headed straight for the inlet. That was my best chance at a keeper fluke. It took about 45 minutes, but then I was in 30 feet of water. I had to at least get a short, but instead I got a snag and lost a rig. On my drift back to the mouth of snake ditch I did manage to hook into a Houndfish.
Back at Snake ditch, and at the end of my day as the sun was setting and I was giving up I hooked into another fish. About 20 inches of striped bass that I was actually hoping was a bluefish.
There was a ton of bait, and occasionally it would explode with a big fish underneath. They were there, I just couldn't seem to get the right presentation in the right place. I even saw from about 100 yards away, in the flats part of the bay, a pretty large fish splashing around in what looked to be about one foot or less of water.
when I got home I read reports of lots of 2 to 5 pound bluefish, and lots of short bass. AND, I've been there before myself, just not this day.
A. Flats fishing for bluefish
B. Oyster Creek Channel, for fluke and bluefish
C. Snake Ditch
D. The inlet
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