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This little guy actually caught this fish!  (The big guy helped him land it.)  Amos Yen, college buddy of the Director, with his nephew (and his first fish, a large fluke caught from inside the diesel launch while tied to the dock).  The fish was landed on a snapper pole!  The next day, they caught a 30-inch striped bass, again from the launch.

Species known to have been caught from our docks: flounder, fluke, blackfish, bluefish, striped bass, bonito and false albacore.

Fluke are also called summer flounder.  They get substantially larger than their cool-weather cousins - larger specimens are called "doormats" and get well up into the teens.  They also have much larger mouths and more formidable teeth, using them on various bait fish.

 
Here's Mark Weeks with a bluefish of nearly 14 pounds as weighed on a Boga-Grip (fish holder with built-in scale).  Mark fooled it with a fly rod while blues were harassing a large school of bunker (also called menhaden).  This is hard to do!

The second shot is of the same fish on the aft platform of Mark's Sea Ray 240.  Mark landed several others, and lost still more that trip, in October of '01.

The "Dockmaster" managed one on a fly-rod popper, then lost another two on that day.

All the blues were released.

All this fishing was in and around the Sailing Center's mooring field.  We've also seen some bonito or false abacore this fall but didn't manage to hook up.

 
Dockmaster here, with a fish of my own.  This was one of 5 hooked (3 landed) on a late Sunday afternoon in October '01.

Similar circumstances: blues on bunker, and aggressive enough to hit flies if fished near but not in the schools of baitfish.

A few evenings afterward, I got one more and lost another on a medium bunker fly, again right in the anchorage.

We could be rowing the club dinks out for these fish and getting a Nantucket Sleigh Ride!

 


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