8/8/10
On Sunday I had to be in NJ for a party by 12pm. That means there was plenty of time to fish if I left the dock at 6am. Fished for 3 hours and on the last drift I hooked a nice Flattie. Attached you will find a picture of the almost 24" fluke taken on spearing and squid in Debs Inlet.
Paul S.
8/8/10
Headed out with my son John, and Mike S. on Sunday the 8th. We tried a few drifts at the Tin Can grounds, Ambrose channel and the Rockaway reef. It soon became obvious we would have to anchor up and bottom fish to get some action and a few fillets. Slow pick during the late morning through early afternoon. The best part of the bite was around the time the weather started to kick up and the tide was moving in real good. We picked sea bass and fluke and blackfish along with a stray Trigger fish. The largest of our Sea bass was 4.5 lbs. other keepers went over 2 lbs and the smallest was over 1.75lbs. The blacks were safely released and there were some porgies in the mix that made it into our cooler. The conditions kept getting a little worse each hour so we headed in a bit earlier than I would have liked. Mike did his fillet job during our trip through the no wake zone, so no pictures this time.
M.B.
July 29th:
Joined a group of anglers aboard the Fishark adventures trip aboard the bounty hunter out of Fairhaven Ma. Our targeted specie was large fluke. The fluking started out slow as we had strong tides coming off the moon and a decent breeze early, making the drift too fast. I started out with a whole squid and two hook rig that was smashed by a large fish, evidently a blue, which took me around the boat and was a hot potato up and down until he bit through the snell. We quickly went to our next location with the hope of getting a better drift. It was a bit better, but the fluke weren't as cooperative as the many porgies and a few reel nice seabass . I managed one over 4 1/4 pounds. After a few nice drifts trying to stay with the seabass and away from the porgies., we got to the slack tide and ouir capt made another move. Marc got the barbecue going and we ate well anticipating a better afternoon. Back at our original spot we had a nice pick of fluke, seabass and occasional porgy. My best keeper our of the 2 I kept, was probably over 4 lbs and would have been in strong contention if we had held a pool. (We all agreed to save space and bleed and pool all fish together.) I did have the largest sea bass too, it was an it figures situation of course! LOL. We ended the day with 35 keeper Sea Bass and around 45 Keeper fluke, which up there is 18.5 inches. The boat was nice and quick, and the capt did his darndest for us. The mate cut all kinds of bait and whole squid, mackerel and the best sand eels anyone had ever seen were available . I recommend this boat for groups such as ours up to 10 people. The cabin is a bit limited for all but we still had quite a few of us able to fit in there on the ride home. It was stable and a bit lower to the water than a lot of boats in its class so swinging a fish aboard was a simple task. The only drawback was you should bring aboard boots as waves smacking into the back came through the drainage scuppers at times. You could check out the bottom on the flat screen in the cockpit showing the structure and all the life the capt. was reading inside. There was a lot of great bottom up in Martha's Vineyard Sound. All in all a good time was had by everyone and I would definitely go back. I wish I could have seen the one fluke that would only hang on my mackerel strip , he was on and never pumped until it was gone even though i stuck him, but it was heavy, oh well another fish that got away story! All my seabass were over 1.5 lbs and they put up quite a fight on my seeker inshore stick 15.25lb rating.
M. B.
Here is the link with more photos and the report from the fishark himself make sure to scroll down the page:
6/19/10- fluking
Started the day at the MARINE PARKWAY BRIDGE at the end of the outgoing around 745. Pete B and myself had some quick action on bucktails through the slack. The action ceased and we headed into the bay towards the blue house. A few drifts there showed lots of bait on the screen with no takers on our hooks. On some urging of my crew, i headed towards the inlet. WE tried Roxbury for one short, then hit the channel . To much work to bucktail out there so i stuck with long squid strips and spearing combos with the heavier lead and of course my green octopus skirts on the hook. Got a nice fat 22inch 4lb. 7 oz. fish near the middle of the channel in deeper water. Ended the day back by the bridge, where all hell broke lose on the mid stages of the incoming, lots of action on fish up to 19 inches there, and they took spros white and green and white gulp swimming mullets. Seems the gulp finally had the edge, even had double headers on the artificials also. A load of fun and a lot of action, throw in a dozen searobins and we went through like 3 lbs of canadien spearing. The shame is we only had the one keeper out of around 45 shorts. Got to work to find the larger ones. Definitely improving out there with water temps around 70 at low tide now.
M.B.
5/31/10
Got to do some fishing with my boys on Memorial day.Had some slow fishing on the end stages of the incoming tide on the tin can grounds only pulling 2 shorts there. Moved into the bay with some of the aramada at bouy 20 and roxbury. We did better in that area with the fluke, with 7 more shorts up to 18.5 inches., and we dropped a few on the bucktails also, in an hour of fishing. Bucktails had the advantage with green octopus skirts on the hooks with long squid strips and spearing doing well too. The best part of the trip was the 3lb Sea Bass John had. Matt caught a few shorts also. A nice day out with the boys.
MB
5/21/10
HIT J- Bay today. Started at Mill Basin looking for some bass on live bunker. Got out a bit too late for the bass. A few bluefish strikes leaving me with just heads. Then headed to Marine Parkway bridge to start my fluke season. Had some action on white bucktails with spearing, Most fish in the 15-16. 5 inch range. Largest was 20 inches caught with a green octopus skirt, squid spearing combo. Bulk of the action on the last stages of the outgoing and through the slack. Incoming left a lot to be desired. Headed in early to clean up the boat a bit and beat the traffic back to Nassau county. Great to be back on the water with great weather to fish.
M.B.
5/15/10
Due to the WNW winds at about 20MPH and gusting, stayed in the back bays looking for bass. Water temp is coming up as it was now 55 degrees. Water was very dirty, lots of seaweed. Fished a couple of hours of the incoming using skimmers and managed 1 bass at 31". Lots of boats Fluking back there, but I didn't see any fish caught.
G.A.
May 1, 2010
My son and I decided to try the back bays for some bass, hoping the waters in our area (Seaford, Massapequa) had warmed enough. Fished the incoming tide using skimmer clams and fresh bunker. Caught a total of 3 bass, one just short of keeper and the other 2 were keepers. Kept the largest (31.5") for dinner and let the other keeper go.
We could have filled the boat with 2 to 4 pound blues as they were hitting anything we put in the water. Anyway, we had a great day on the water, and brought home dinner.
G.A.
3/10/10
MEMBERS K.BERNOT, P.BARESSI, R.GEYER, R,REEMER, M.BOBETSKY, ALONG WITH GUESTS FORMED A GROUP OF 16 PEOPLE FOR A DAY ON THE MARLIN VI PRINCESS. TO SAY THAT FISHING WAS SLOW WOULD BE A GROSS UNDERSTATEMENT. THE CAPT TRIED HARD BUT BY THE END OF THE DAY THE VERY CROWDED BOAT HAD ONLY LANDED 11 KEEPER CODFISH. WE STAYED OUT LATE AND FISHED UNTIL THE TIDE CHANGED,. THE THREE HORNS SOUNDED AT AROUND 3PM. THE BOAT WAS A HALF HOUR OR SO INTO THE TRIP BACK, WHEN THE FISH TURNED ON AND THE VIKING FLEET HIT THEM HARD, THAT'S FISHING. I'M SURE ANOTHER TRIP WILL BE IN THE PLANS IF THE FISH REMAIN. HOPEFULLY THE TIDE AND THE BITE WILL BE BETTER NEXT TIME.
M.B.
A SMASHING DAY ON THE VIKING
3/6/10:
Keith B just reported a great day on the Viking Superstar as the whole boat limited by 10 am. He was hitting his driveway in Nassau county by 230 this afternoon! Fish averaging 6-12 lbs with a few larger and a 29.5 lb pool fish. Keith and his buddy Scott had fish to 18 lbs. One stop shopping today as dropping the anchor once is all it took. More reports to come as another trip is planned for the 10th. Get out to the end now people!
2/02/10A group of us headed to Montauk today to fish with Capt. Wasserman on the Capt. Lou VI. Members S. Calabrese, R. Gyer, M. Bobetsky, P.Baressi, along with a couple of friends, joined a group headed up by Nor'easter Fisherman George. The morning was slow and at times we had to use a load of lead to hold bottom while the Capt. jockeyed to keep us over fish. In the middle of the day we went off away from the rest of the fleet to try to find some better sized fish. The results weren't what we hoped for. Before heading back in we hit the first area again, and the bite was a bit better. The last move saved the day as Capt. Mike found a school of cod that were hungry and bigger. Pool fish was 25 lbs. and second was around 20 or so. The capt. did right by us and we all thanked him for keeping us out longer to give us a better shot at the fish. Our group definitely wants to do this trip again, members give me an email if you want a call should we plan another weekday trip.
Mike B.
PART OF THE CATCH
Not quite as good as last season yet (proof below taken on the Rosie).
Atlantis Anglers Association
The haul waiting for the knife 
CAPT AMANDA AND LUCIAN TAKING CARE OF BUISNESS 