SLOW SUNDAY FLUKIN

Headed out with Tracey today to do some fluking.
bounced around a bunch of different sticky spots looking for a big fish.
Found very little looking to chew, more shorts than keepers.
I had four keepers and tracey had one.

was surprised the bite was so slow with pretty decent drifting conditions

cool colors 

Ozarks fluke tourney

Fished the Ozarks fluke tourney today , with Tracey , John , and Matt.
Hit a few places on good intel today. and Had good fishing at all of them, but no Jumbos for us today.
had well over a Boat limit ( only retaining our legal limit)
.
most of the fish weighing between 2-4.5 pounds.
Had to catch a hundred shorts, that were aggressively chewing today.


Crazy amount of current from the moon tide, made for fishing heavy jigs to

FSOS and SWABC fluke tourneys

Fished both tourneys today with Tracey and John.
Had quality fish everywhere we stopped today. only keeping fish over 3 pounds today.
I had over limit of keepers by 730.
we threw back everything under 3 pounds today. to fill our boat limit with quality fluke , but no jumbos, as the biggest was 7.5#
ended up 4th in both tourneys, making some money in the FSOS tourney, missing the dough by 1 in the SWABC tourney.

was a tough day weather wise , heat was just insane, even before the sun came up I felt like I was melting quicker than the ice in the Engel Coolers lol.

Great tourney that had good money even to 6th place.
And the after party food was good.

definetly one of the better tourneys for the season.

Feast or famine fluking

Headed out with Tracey and Eddie to try and put some fluke on ice for Eddie.
Was supposed to be a meat trip.

Left the dock with good expectations after the beating the crew put on them yesterday.
But after bouncing around a bunch of local spots. we had a tough time finding anything that wanted to chew except shorts.
I had the only three keeper fluke caught, and we had a few sea bass to add to the mix.
But while we had OK action , the amount of bites today turned up as shorts.
Thankfully I had a good bunch of fillets from yesterday I can add to the pile for him.

We did have some excitement with 1 very large flattie , that ended up winning the fight againt Eddie as I tried to coach him through what will be a fight he is sure to remember for a LONG time.

Good thing is with a few more tourneys Hopefully that fish will turn into some $$$$$$$

Leonardo Flukemasters 2016

Headed out with Tracey. Scott, Anthony and John today to fish the Leonardo flukemasters tourney.
Weather held off all day, with ok conditions. actually got better as the winds picked up and it got a little sportier out.
Had caught well over a boat limit by 1130, possibly over a double limit by weigh in time ( only retaining our limit bag at the end of the day).
throwing back alot of quality fluke for almost 3 hours.
Didnt catch any big fish, but with each member adding a decent fish to the 5 fish tourney got us to 26.8 # with Johns 6.9 being our biggest of the day. placing us 2nd in the tourney.

was nice to finally hit the pay window again , even if it was once again in the Bridesmaid spot

Congrats to the winners and others who placed