the Full Sedge take two

Well, actually lots of fishing has happened between the last blog post and this one.  So before getting into what Steve and I did yesterday, here's a brief sum up of August so far.
I think it went something like this:

Steve - Susquehanna Flats (with family)
Steve and Alexi - Susquehanna flats
Alexi - crabbing, fishing in Barnegat bay (family)
Steve and Alexi - Corson's inlet

    So, as you can see we've been busy fishing, but due to lack of pictures, or just that our lives have been extra busy there haven't been posts.

    Now, for today's post about yesterdays fishing. First off, my apparent lack of excitement about this trip may be due to the fact that i was unable to use one of reels due to a serious tangle in the line.  That really started me off in a bad frame of mind.  Although the one rod one reel sitiuation proved to be not so bad.
    Steve was determined to catch a keeper Fluke as he has not done so yet this season.  I wanted a keeper Fluke and enough Bluefish filets for the smoker.
     We left Philly early, like 6:30 A.M.  We stopped at Grumpy's and bled money on the counter.  We were fishing by 9:30
     Steve caught a wide variety of species and a great number of (small) fish and some larger fish. Here's the list; Blackfish, Bluefish, Fluke, Sea Robins, Puffer-fish, and Striped Bass.   Jigging for Fluke by buoy 28 he had double headers (teaser and bucktail) of Sea Robins and Blackfish and some small fluke.
Also he and I both caught short Stripers there.  Mine was caught trolling a floating swimmer and his was on a bucktail.
   There were many small fish biting off our Gulp constantly.  Steve had hooked up with what was close to a keeper Fluke but it came undone at the side of the boat.  After trying at buoy 28 for quite a while we moved to the inlet.  The current had switched to move us that way and so it was an easy decision.  Trolling around where Snake Ditch meets the inlet I picked up a small, (maybe one pound) Bluefish.  Then we jigged for fluke in the inlet itself.  I gave it a few passes and really felt like my best chance at catching what I set out for was to target Blues, so I switched to trolling and found a sweet spot by a rip that was holding fish.  I had a total of 6 one pounders, plenty for smoking.  Meanwhile Steve was over by the green bouy in the inlet and his determination paid off.  He caught his keeper Fluke. satisfied we made our way back via Snake ditch, and there Steve picked up a Blue on a Bass Assassin.  It was bigger than the ones I was catching, 2 to 3 pounds.

Puffer Fish (in the cooler) MMMM! (not poisonous)

    So once again The Sedges really prove to be great fishing grounds.

Striper Release